Chapter 27: Borrowing a Knife to Kill

Upon entering unit 702, the bald man sitting on the sofa drinking shot a cold, piercing glance their way.

"Well? Did you get it?"

The woman looked away sheepishly. "No. Fang Zhaoyu said the rice has already been distributed."

"Hmph—he’s just looking to keep it all for himself."

"Even if we know that, what can we do? If they don't want to share, we can't exactly rob them, can we?"

"Why not?"

The man's retort made the woman look up in surprise.

Chu Ming was utterly bewildered, but now was not the time to ponder such things. Since his senior sister was in trouble, as her junior fellow apprentice, he could hardly stand idly by or watch from the sidelines.

Fenglin Mountain was not large, but with only one thousand people in Yan Guixing, it was impossible to surround the entire mountain. He only stationed men at the few locations where one might emerge.

The Oxer that appeared before Su Yang looked exactly like the boss from the game: short, straight white hair, a bare upper body revealing muscles that made Su Yang envious, and most strikingly, a left hand that looked as though it had undergone a mutation, transforming into a dark red, razor-sharp claw.

Yet, within his Heavenly Heart consciousness, the young man opposite him appeared as vast as the starry sky and as resplendent as the Milky Way.

With a simple swipe, the void began to tremble. As Ning Yue withdrew his hand, a massive fissure tore open in the void. A deafening roar erupted from within, and endless, violent winds surged forth—winds so powerful that they seemed to shake the very soul, as if it were about to be torn from the body at any moment.

"There hasn't been any movement for the time being, though they did send out a siege party earlier, which my men drove back," Hertz said proudly.

They were not only aware of the beginning of all this, but also that the most crucial link was Ning Yue. Nothing could be allowed to happen to him now, yet they were unable to assist him; he had to rely on himself.

At night, the fires in the Xuzhou military camp gradually died down, and the soldiers retired as usual. Only the commander’s tent remained brightly lit.

At the instant the blade flew forth, Ning Yue seemed to see the departed ancestors of the Great Wilderness, sensing their expectations—the hope that this strike might end the entanglement with the Celestial Clan, that the Great Wilderness might no longer endure a life of fleeing, and that the human race of the Great Wilderness would never again be enslaved.

Although Li Ying and Li Fengshe held the same rank of General of the Right Xiaowei Guard—a third-rank senior post equivalent to Wu Sansi’s position as General of the Left Xiaowei Guard—as the heads of the inner imperial guards surrounding the Emperor, their authority was far greater than the latter, who was responsible for the outer guards. After all, they were descendants of the Li imperial family.

Jiang Kailan wiped his face with both hands. For some reason, he felt uneasy—anxious and uncomfortable, as if some major event were about to unfold. Although nothing had happened yet, the premonition made him deeply unsettled. If something had to happen, he would rather it occur now just to set his mind at ease.

After midnight, Su Wu and the guide led the group forward. Suddenly, through the haze, a troop of horsemen came shouting from the opposite direction. Hu Tuli immediately had Su Wu command the column to halt, then mounted his horse to ride out and meet them.

When they discovered that Apple, one of the thirty cornerstone companies of the Dow Jones, had plummeted by 42 percent, all the consortiums and tycoons who had been hoping for a healthy bull market were no longer able to stay calm.

Just leaving it there without signing—what exactly was Xu Yaotian’s intention? Or had Yanzang not yet made up his mind? But having said those words, surely he wouldn't go back on them?

"The Young Master is currently undergoing his tribulation. Although Shangguan Jin is of the Saint Realm, he dare not touch the Young Master’s lightning tribulation, so he had no choice but to flee!" Leng Tu understood the reason clearly.

Even the other European nations possessing nuclear submarines were puzzled and intended to dispatch their deep-sea units to join in the spectacle. Had China not been so far from the Atlantic, they likely would have gotten involved as well.