Volume One, Chapter 35: I Heard You Want to Bear Me a Son?

The night had grown deep, yet Ping'er was still rambling on about how it wasn't until Xiao Qin had dragged her along for a distance that day that she realized the ghost was actually Yuan Chan.

"What is this massive surge of chakra?!" Sasuke’s heart skipped a beat, a vague, ominous premonition washing over him.

Shi Qing furrowed his brows, hesitant for a moment before steadying his resolve. He summoned Zuo Jingting and commanded, "Take your men, seize Shi Qi’s family, interrogate them, and then..." He trailed off, his eyes filled with a chilling, icy glare.

With eight hundred students and over a hundred teachers, every single one of them enjoyed the treatment of a graduate student. This was exactly why everyone was so envious and desperate to squeeze their way in.

In domestic programs, if you dared to do something like that, you would be shut down without negotiation. With the influence of so many powerful figures here, a slight whisper was enough to force all the major television stations below to operate according to their demands.

The state could tolerate the embezzlement of state assets, and could tolerate minor transgressions as long as they didn't go too far. But during wartime, any attempt to hinder the nation was absolutely out of the question; it would be met with swift and total destruction.

Once recruited, they would become part of the force consolidating the United Government’s power.

Shouting the name that represented their hope, they resolutely swung their fists against the sensors.

The mixed cavalry unit pursued for a stretch, slaughtering over a thousand retreating Yan soldiers before finally stopping. They turned back to rejoin the main infantry force, and together, the vast army marched toward Lixian.

At dusk on the twenty-first, this detachment disembarked on the upper reaches of the Pishui River, one hundred and twenty li northwest of Hefei. It was then that an unexpected turn of events occurred: the eight thousand troops led by the Imperial Father-in-law, Chu Shuai, happened to arrive at the riverbank, stumbling right into Wang Jia’s detachment.

"Is it the navy from Baoying Lake?" Chu Shuai staggered back, his heart shattered; he knew such news could not be false.

Even so, only a few could reach the plaza. Many others had secured spots in the high-rise buildings near the square in advance, or had paid for their positions.

In truth, Luo Peipei had been there all along; Shi Fan simply hadn't noticed her. It was precisely because she saw Shi Fan enter the dormitory that Officer Luo appeared there.

His mind was filled with an abundance of dance pieces; he could pluck one out effortlessly whenever he chose.

Lu Minghua immediately raised his right hand, keeping it far from the service pistol at his waist. He no longer harbored any intention of resorting to force against Xu Yifan—though, of course, he had only intended to draw his weapon to intimidate Xu Yifan and save face.

"Brother Nan, we were ambushed the moment we got off the car. If the information didn't leak, then we were definitely set up," cried a guy named Liang Er. He must have felt his name wasn't ridiculous enough, as he had given himself the nickname: "Big Sky Two."

The night before last, when Ning Qianqian returned home, she discovered that the sparrow hairpin was missing from her shoulder bag. She was instantly terrified; her family had pinned all their hopes on her, and if the secret manual were lost, the burden of responsibility would be far too great for her to bear.

Many believed that the Second Young Master Han would win. However, the First Young Master Han had been in charge of the Han family for so many years; how could the Second Young Master hope to rival such deep-seated foundations?

Yet that was not all. The next moment, a massive amount of black blood spewed from Gao Yulou’s mouth, and as he stumbled backward, he traced a vivid, sweeping rainbow across the air.

Everyone knew that the Temple appeared whenever the Continent emerged, yet for hundreds of millions of years, no one had ever been able to gain its recognition.