Volume 1, Chapter 67: Empress Changsun's Overbearing Manner

Through clenched teeth, Emperor Qian declared, "Guards! Her Majesty has contracted a chill today and is delirious; everything she just said was sheer nonsense. Escort the Empress back to her chambers to rest at once!"

However, if they failed to deploy the demons, the ultimate outcome would undoubtedly be the defeat and death of both the fugitive and Sally. Moreover, before perishing in battle, Sally might very well expose Doro.

Seeing the worry and fear revealed in the center of her brows and the depths of her eyes, Mo Ziyu felt an immediate pang of deep discomfort, yet he masked his own anxiety flawlessly on the surface.

Taking advantage of this momentary pause, a distorted canine face materialized before it, its razor-sharp fangs protruding beyond its jaws and gleaming with a piercing, chilling light.

Consequently, before the young man could even react or utter a single scream, he was sent flying through the air, crashing heavily onto the ground where he convulsed, utterly unable to rise.

"Tianxing, we have reached the designated coordinates, but there is no trace of any human activity," Black Kill reported while maintaining a vigilant posture alongside Smile.

"Wow, Boss, you are simply a genius! The few of us have unanimously decided to follow your lead. Don't forsake the entire forest for just a single tree, you know—we need sunshine and rain as well!" Having refrained from interrupting earlier, Lin Jing and the others chimed in with laughter and chatter.

Had Doro's initial psionic ability been mind control, defeat would have been inevitable. Once the avatar of Lapati appeared, no spell-like abilities of the control category could possibly affect Ankara. Only a combination of psionic blast and mind control could have taken Ankara down in one fell swoop.

Alice had once been a follower of Lan Chengtian, and even Lan Chengtian had never found fault with her. As such an ordinary person, what qualification did she have to put on airs of arrogance before them?

"External martial arts? The peak of the Xiantian realm? At eighteen?" Several generals stared in utter astonishment. Since ancient times, no one in the Hidden Dragon Continent had ever cultivated external martial arts to the Xiantian realm. Hearing now of an eighteen-year-old youth who had attained that very realm, they naturally found it hard to believe.

"Some say that keeping ornamental fish is a neglect of proper duties, so I am a man who neglects his proper duties," Luo Yuan said, narrowing his bubbly eyes with a self-deprecating smile that caused the plump flesh on his cheeks to tremble slightly.

He hurriedly tried to control the countless transparent threads manifesting beneath his feet, but the speed at which the threads moved simply was not fast enough.

"Then why didn't you just lay your cards on the table?" Ran Sinian could not comprehend Zhao Guozhong's self-deception and ostrich mentality. He believed that a situation like this undoubtedly called for calling it out and getting a divorce.

After Xiao Nan went home, I also returned to the fortune-telling parlor. By then, dawn had broken, and Old Tang was already snoring loudly in his deep sleep, not waking until noon. I told him I had to return to the village, and Old Tang nodded, telling me to contact him whenever there was business.

"Master, do you mean that the third trial, and perhaps the other trials as well, will undergo such changes? Doesn't that mean all players will perish within them? This—this—" I did not know how to continue, for I was completely powerless.

The traps within the passage of the imperial tomb had indeed been cleared out on the way in. As we bypassed them section by section toward the outermost perimeter, no further danger occurred. Yet the closer we got to the outermost exit, the more uneasy my heart felt, and my old habit of suspicious paranoia flared up once again.

"She belongs to herself, so she doesn't need you guys discussing her!" Clearly failing to grasp the intricacies of the situation, Black Rabbit retorted with immediate dissatisfaction.

We grabbed our belongings and got out of the car, only to find three beach buggies waiting for us. Clearly acquainted with Jiang Zhao, they ushered us directly aboard and transferred us to a yacht, after which those men simply drove our previous vehicle away.