Chapter 381: Destroy All Experimental Equipment

"Yeah, they're a hell of a lot tougher to handle than those Black Blood mercenaries from before!"

Han Ruoxi nodded in agreement.

"Alright, mission accomplished!"

Li Chang'an declared, sheathing his chain-sword.

"Destroy all the experimental equipment, then we fall back!"

Li Chang'an commanded.

"Understood!"

The squad replied in unison, setting about the destruction of the apparatus within the subterranean expanse.

A series of explosions rang out, the experimental equipment

Tang Xiao followed the crowd out of the arena, his eyes falling upon Huo Yiming, who stood waiting quietly outside the main gates.

No matter how reluctant he was to admit it, the youth he had once looked down upon had already outpaced him.

Initially, she thought nothing of it, but the invitations came with such relentless frequency—as if they would never cease until she relented—and though the dates were repeatedly pushed back by Cary's silent refusals, the persistence never wavered, finally forcing Cary to realize the gravity of the situation.

Shangguan Zisu tenderly wiped down Lin Meimian's battered body, gently applying medicine before dressing her, then sat by her side with a hand resting upon her forehead, continuously replenishing her spiritual energy.

The moon hung cold, the wind blew high, and the dead of winter gripped the land; where on earth could a penniless, drifting Taoist with no home to call his own possibly go? Clad only in a tattered robe, if he were to spend the night freezing in the open wilds, would he even survive to see tomorrow?

Trust between human beings was fundamentally naught but this. It never depended on what you said, whether your words were extravagantly flowery or utterly mundane. What mattered was what was done. In this world, action is forever the profoundest proof.

Deimos shifted his gaze, peering through the translucent outer wall of the crystal ball, focusing his entire attention onto a single pinpoint within the gemstone inside.

Yet the Empress Dowager remained lukewarm, her words cutting straight to the bone: "Neither you nor I are newcomers to this palace. Do I still need to teach you what to say, and how to say it?" The Empress Dowager had heard more than enough formal pleasantries over the years; she far preferred plain speaking.

"Um...!" Seeing Ding Huo downing the priceless alchemical potion as though it were mere cough syrup, A'mi felt a twinge of heartache; he did not yet know how to brew the red alchemical waters capable of healing wounds, and these had all been stolen from the mad priest.

"Creak!" Amidst a flash of brilliant light, a faint sound echoed as the massive iron gates before Zhao Wushuang slowly ground open.

Just as Zhang Rang and the others fretted anxiously, knowing that Empress Dowager He and the Grand Empress Dowager had long been at odds, one could well imagine what the atmosphere would be like if they were to meet face-to-face.

Gradually, all of this began to drift away from me, leaving a faint ache in my chest. I sat up and glanced at the emblem belonging to Meng Tian upon my shoulder, and the ache deepened into a sudden surge of fury; I ripped it away, slammed it violently to the ground, and shattered it to pieces.

"Are... are you from the Wang family?" Looking at Guan Yu's appearance, Jiang Qi's heart skipped a beat as he asked coldly. Ever since entering Handan, Jiang Qi had done his utmost to avoid dealing with the Wang family, but it seemed there was no escaping them now.

In that instant, the Earth Demon God King's gaze turned ice-cold; ignoring his injuries, he manifested a great hand to clutch at Tie Zhan's soul crystal, refusing to allow his enemy any chance of escape.

Whether a star beast grew to look majestic or utterly hideous, their defining trait was their colossal scale; bodies exceeding ten thousand meters were commonplace, and within the same tier, they were universally vaster than both spiritual and ferocious beasts.

"Don't even bring it up, Ming Lie. I told you before, that brother from the elemental fire group was designated by Chairman Xiu to be the messenger, and we were assigned as his escorts. Now we can't even make it back in time for the fight." Yang De's face was a picture of grief and indignation.

As a direct blood descendant of the patriarch, he possessed the right to establish a private faction, though limitations applied: inner disciples could not exceed one hundred, and outer disciples were capped at four hundred.

"It shouldn't be completely dark yet when we get off work nowadays, to think something like this could still happen." A flicker of mild surprise surfaced on Zhou Ying's face.

"Andrew, find the locations of Hao Xin and Hao Meng for me." The voice was slightly raspy.