Chapter 1228: The Third Path of the Void Refining Stage: Being an Official in the Red Dust

The Grand Xia Imperial Palace.

"Huangzhou wants to exceptionally promote Mangu to commandery governor?" The Emperor of Xia stared at the memorial, his expression turning peculiar. At first glance of the two characters for Mangu, he had assumed it was merely someone sharing the same name.

Yet upon closer reflection, that made no sense. Only the Barbarians bore the surname Man, and in the past millennium, Mangu was the sole Barbarian to ever become an official.

Looking further down at the detailed personal biography, it truly was Mangu, the top scholar of Grand Xia.

The previous three commandery governors had submitted the list to the imperial court, requiring only a routine processing by the Minister of Personnel.

Likely never anticipating that Yu You would ask so directly, the staff member was caught somewhat off guard, their words stumbling and hesitant.

The stadium hosting the competition could accommodate over ten thousand people, and positioned at its center were numerous gaming capsules dedicated entirely to the match, leaving absolutely no possibility for cheating.

Su Yi had certainly never imagined that upon waking up, there would come a day when she would actively sneak into a single man's room in the dead of night.

Within this Imperial City of Southern Liang, there were likely over a hundred thousand people counting soldiers, commoners, court officials, and their families; with the city so full, how could Li Guangyan dare to defy the mandate of heaven by truly slaughtering every last one of them.

Because he had encountered the calamity of the eunuchs in Luoyang this time, Xun Yu had been sent back to Yingchuan during the New Year. He was the child of his father Xun Gun's old age, separated from his elder brothers by more than a decade, and thus everyone doted on him. Xun Yan, a brother utterly obsessed with spoiling him, had even brought him along to Xun Shuang's classroom, and Xun Shuang had not been overly harsh.

Trembling, Yao Lili gently took Zhang Jialiang's hand and placed it upon the towering contour of her chest.

Platinum-blonde cropped hair peeked out from beneath the hat, and a cold, rigid expression remained upon that porcelain-white skin, yet the high, swelling breasts and slender stature left no doubt as to the newcomer's charm.

The host stared blankly for a moment, having originally expected another humorous, mocking reply, never anticipating something so serious.

With a faint smile, Yu Kailiang did not offer his wife much of an explanation—he neither wished to explain, nor could it be explained clearly.

For his grandfather's sake, he had tolerated them for so long, to the point where they had grown bold enough to participate in Gu Xiaojun's kidnapping. Since it had come to this, there was truly no longer any need for him to keep playing along with them.

An Ning did not understand until Shen Nuo explained to her the agreement between herself and Shen Huai: if the project incurred a loss, she would have to use her own money to make up for the deficit.

The efficacy of the brainwave amplification potion had already waned, and the once-agile mind began to grow sluggish and depressed; under these circumstances, even the All-Knowing Eye seemed unable to offer much help.

Even so, a starved camel is still bigger than a horse, so they still had to grant him a modicum of respect, though it seemed their President Fu had no intention of showing them any face lately, and one wondered if something had happened last night to offend someone.

The Espada were undoubtedly the ten strongest Arrancar under Aizen's command, but it was not as though there were none capable of contending against them.

"Say whatever you have to say all at once! Quit being so wishy-washy." Beneath the Mask of Lust, the voice sounded thoroughly displeased with Yu Yanhong's words.

A violent explosion rang out, accompanied by the flashing blue arcs of thunder and lightning that filled the air behind them.

That was because he had failed to bring back the "shredded pork with garlic sauce," causing the patient inside the room, Long Liu, to claw fragments of stone directly out of the floor to hurl at him.

As it turned out, that idiot Qi Hong had kept streaming until now without ever making things clear, losing a great deal of traffic in the process.

Once it goes live on the paid tier, the chapters should start releasing in a massive flood; I hope everyone can chip in for a first-day subscription, as the number of extra chapters will be decided based on that initial count.

Yet, the reality was that he was indeed very much at peace, because there was still Donghuang Taiyi who would manage the Yin-Yang Sect exceedingly well. Even if Xiao Fu were to die today, he would not worry for the Yin-Yang Sect.

Suddenly, he let out a soft, barely perceptible sigh, and then his figure flashed as he slipped inside.

An elderly person has diabetes, and their blood sugar control is not quite ideal; they can wait until the blood sugar is well-managed before undergoing surgery.

And so, the two who were already birds of a feather hit it off instantly, trying every possible method to kill Situ Haoyu, which was why Situ Haoyu suffered those few "accidents" every single year, yet managed to survive them all by the sheer luck of his fate.