Chapter 53: Bitter Disappointment

The chaotic battle among the bugs would continue for a while yet, likely until the higher-tier bug-men emerged to quell it, assuming Ainan simply stood by and watched.

Kuang Tu and the shadow resembling an "old broom" locked eyes for a moment, before the shadow suddenly turned and fled into the distance.

General Boque was shocked by the Ming army's decisive counterattack and plagued by remorse over his own negligence. Had he not withdrawn the garrison troops from the Roztoki region, had he not committed all his reserves to the bridgehead position, the current situation would never have turned out so disastrously.

What could they do? The three of them had no weapons, and even if they did, it would be useless—could they possibly fight off several hundred men?

Uttering this final sound of his life, accompanied by a piercing scream, Luohuo’s body shattered violently, scattering a sky full of blood-red stardust across the ground.

"How could there be no postmark?" A postmark represented the origin of a letter; the local post office would stamp it upon receiving it, and only stamped letters entered the circulation process, otherwise the post office would not allow them to be delivered.

The reason they chose to launch a desperate final charge at nightfall was precisely to evade the Ming army's formidable aerial forces.

His pace was uniformly steady, every single step executed with the exact same rhythm. With a man who even calculated his own footsteps, what else could possibly escape her planning?

Inside the golden basin, one half was blood-red liquid, and the other half was white liquid. The two liquids rotated at a uniform speed without disturbing one another, forming a rotating Taiji diagram.

"Now then, the Scourge Moon is missing only the final Sun God Bead. The Moon God's Blood and the Demon Emperor's Soul have already been acquired. Among the four elements, there is one that was originally difficult, but is now simpler than ever: the Tears of Shura. So, shall we go ahead and obtain the Tears of Shura now?" Qiyue asked softly, her beautiful eyes rippling with alluring waves.

Of course, such a life-and-death contract was not without a solution; every problem had a remedy. The solution to a life-and-death contract was to find someone with a sufficiently profound understanding of heaven, earth, and moral principles, or someone with high enough cultivation, to forcefully sever the bond between the master and the contract.

Nan He turned her head, fixing her gaze firmly on the door, yet the person knocking showed no intention of speaking whatsoever. Almost instantly, she guessed who was standing outside.

Xiong Ti felt dizzy and disoriented; it seemed this Uncle Ghost still had not gotten to the point. He had spent all this time spouting nonsense, rambling incoherently, chattering endlessly, making it feel as though he were truly a madman.

Fan Chouyun was startled, angrily shaking off Ye Tianyi's hand before looking around at the others. Feeling somewhat embarrassed, Ye Tianyi coughed lightly a few times and retreated back into the ranks of the examinees.

Yao Xi had just told him that she was the one who had entered his room again earlier, but Di He still found it hard to believe.

"Alright, enough idle chatter. Instead of envying and praising the two of them, we'd better discuss how to get upstairs, don't you think?" Xu Dao interrupted the commentary and said coldly.

"Very well, in that case, I'll make arrangements once we return. Then I'll see you in the Xiaoyao Empire!" After saying this and exchanging farewells with the others, Zuoqiu Lingyun also left the Hongmen stronghold. Now that the blueprints were in his hands, he had no intention of lingering outside; safely bringing the blueprints back to the imperial capital was what truly mattered.

Ji Ziming turned around, looked at the sky beyond the sheer cliff, and sat down cross-legged with a frown to regulate his breath and heal his injuries.

"That's right, how did you end up in this Ape Stone City?" Setting aside the discussion regarding cultivation realms, Li Hai asked the question that concerned him.

Yefeng adopted a swift and decisive combat strategy. From the very beginning of the battle, he deployed heavy weaponry—such as magic crystal cannons, crossbows, and giant stone-throwers—to bombard the enemy, while ordering his warriors to launch massive, fierce assaults.

On Earth, Dangdang's pre-sale record was held by an author named Da Bing, who sold one hundred thousand copies in ten minutes.

Trainees were relatively young, mostly around the age of twenty or even younger. Someone twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old like this was absolute "old monster" territory among trainees.

Yet for Xiao Chen and Luo Ling, this path was not nearly so difficult, because they had begun constructing such a world within their own minds long ago.

This was a masterpiece among Hotan jades, and without a single peer, Thomas thought to himself with immediate disbelief.

Last night, he got into a verbal dispute with two guests, was knocked to the ground by them, and lay there for the entire night. Fearing trouble, Baihua Xuan sent someone to fetch Xu Mo to pick him up.

Why ask questions that had to touch upon national character and state dignity? Did they not know that hot-blooded young men like them lacked nothing more than patriotic fervor and male valor? If things accidentally sparked into conflict, who would bear the responsibility?

Truth be told, China possessed no shortage of talented individuals, with hidden masters among the common folk; quite a few internet singers were exceptionally gifted.

Naturally, because Faye Wong's voice possessed such a distinct characteristic, those who loved her loved her dearly, while those who disliked her remained utterly indifferent.

At first, Zhang Wuji had reservations and dared not unleash his true martial arts, getting beaten like a dog by Wei Bi. Eventually, taunted by the two maidens, he displayed his true prowess and thoroughly thrashed Wei Bi. Yet in the end, he was still kicked mercilessly to death by the two maidens, cowering on the ground and not daring to fight back.

"This is within your own mind," the voice sounded once more, only this time, it was not merely a voice without a visible presence.

Centered around this transformation, Altaria, Ninetales, and Gardevoir re-explored other applications of the Fairy Aura. Meanwhile, the Rotom Dex reconfigured the Ice Moon Tactic and the Fairy Domain based on Altaria's improvements.

Two voices arrived simultaneously. Tang Ning saw the earlier Centaur leader appear behind the thin, dark old man; the latter sentence had clearly come from him.