Volume 1, Chapter 47: The Hand of God

At this moment, the outer door slammed shut with a loud bang.

Everyone was so startled that they jumped.

The eerie atmosphere felt even more terrifying.

Shen Qingran couldn't help frowning. What on earth was this Doctor Qin up to?

The man standing in the innermost part, whose features were indistinct, spoke in a very stern voice.

"All of you, come further inside."

With that, the feet of the two boys in the front seemed glued to the floor.

They hesitated.

Shen Qingran chose not to stick her neck out first.

Then she heard the man opposite say sternly, "Those who don't come over will be eliminated."

Only then did the two boys in front shuffle forward.

As they drew closer, they finally saw what was in front of the man.

Instantly...

The man remained silent, his expression utterly indifferent as he watched Su Yuqing being harassed, while he himself sat elegantly and unmoved in the back seat. The surrounding air plummeted rapidly, and a chilling, oppressive aura filled the carriage.

The two of them then moved elsewhere. Before leaving, fearing that the sleeping person might catch a cold, the Seventh Elder quietly closed the bedroom door.

Tang Tian glared and shouted, "Hey! That's my older brother, and I'm your second uncle. How can you cry louder than me?"

Big Brother and Second Brother looked at the Glowing Fox with dissatisfaction, saying, "You can have the scorpion, but you're even trying to grab our business capital, and that is simply unforgivable."

The Japanese punk rushed to the end of the alley, only to find it blocked by the van he had driven there. Finally breaking under the terror of death, he dropped to his knees with a heavy thud.

The first ray of light directly pierced the thick darkness that had accumulated over the earthly world, slicing through the night sky like a sword aura.

Jin Hanyuan knew well that Gu Debai loved a lively atmosphere. Although everyone joked around normally, her own temperament was cold, leaving Gu Debai quite lonely.

Just as Bai Ling's voice trailed off, her shoulders were suddenly gripped, and a warm kiss fell gently upon her lips through her veil.

When Lü Yinghao woke up, he found himself in a pitch-black place. The terrifying, eerie silence around him was broken only by the sound of his own heartbeat and breathing.

"Lord Windsor, let's settle the score for you abducting my wife." Ye Xin suddenly teleported from the window to stand right before Lord Windsor.

In the "City Guardian Mansion," which originally served as the office for Jing Yuan and other officials, the Jade Poison Mirror had now completely commandeered the greater half of the estate. Tied up inside the two largest stone rooms were over thirty robust young men—all captured soldiers of the Chu-Qi army.

The three of them were deeply aware of the terrifying power of that evil figure. Although they knew the opponent was a Realm Master powerhouse, the fury burning in their eyes was completely unmasked.

As golden lightning surged throughout Ling Yunxiao's body, he could clearly feel his injuries recovering rapidly. Those wounds were gradually closing, and his fractured bones were beginning to mend and grow back.

Unawares, the two of them found themselves arriving once again in front of the Situ Family Auction House, and Situ Tianxing finally snapped out of his daze.

True to his reputation as a professor and great scholar of the antique trade, Long Duabao used the stewed pork dish to regale Tong Baobao and Zheng Feifei with legends surrounding the delicacy.

"What?! You've already broken through to the Condensing Spirit Realm?!" Ling Yunxiao asked in surprise. Spreading out his spiritual sense to carefully sense the soul power fluctuations within Hou Yuan's body, he realized that Hou Yuan's strength indeed far exceeded the Transformation Realm.

"This, your subject truly does not know," Yi Tianzheng replied. "Moreover, Emperor Long possesses the Imperial Astral Will. The only way we were able to deduce that he was still alive was through the process of him refining the Eastern Territory. If we want to find any further news about him, the only way is to find the Heavenly Divine Artifact—the Heavenly Mystery Inkstone."

In the next second, everyone was back in the original house, and Kayako was inside with them. Time ticked away second by second, and no one went anywhere. Jinchen knew this was a test; if they passed, everyone could live, and if they failed, they would die.

This was a tunnel with no visible end in sight. About half an hour passed, yet aside from the tunnel, there was still only tunnel.

"Thank you, Young Master. This subordinate is fine; I just used a secret technique of our sect and suffered a backlash, that's all."

"I'm on a server that lags endlessly every single day, and its world channel allows chatting, but I can't remember the server's name," Lu Ling mumbled vaguely.

Thinking that there might still be other powerhouses from the Scorpion and Snake Valley waiting to ambush Yun Qingwan, Ye Lan, and the others on their return journey, just eliminating Leng Fengdian was not enough to solve the problem.

The final outcome was obvious: Hongmeng lost. Thus, the Chaotic Sacred Body of our universe ceased to exist. Without the protection of a Universe Master, the entire universe grew weaker and weaker. In the end, as practitioners dwindled, it became what it is today.

Moreover, based on the experience left from the first task, Gu Chaoyan was well aware that these tasks usually came with hidden sub-tasks. Just like the first task, which actually consisted of two parts, this task probably harbored other tasks as well.

Lin Tian frowned with some surprise. He only knew that the physical education department had come to challenge the Meiling High School Taekwondo Club.

"You're not a court minister, so just call me Chaoyan. Calling me Empress Dowager feels unnatural," Gu Chaoyan said directly.

"This chick is hot," the leader, a man nicknamed Brother Qiang, said with a burning gaze and a nod.

"If I'm not mistaken, this formation should be a spell from Mount Longhu. I've seen it before and know how to break it; we just need his blood," Xue Mengmeng pointed at Chen Zhitao nearby and smiled with a chuckle.

Meanwhile, the dozen green-named onlookers unceremoniously looted the scattered silver and goods dropped by the deceased.

First there were people from Dragon Weeping City, then came a Golden Core Supreme senior, and now another existence had arrived whom they, just like Cold Mountain Valley, could not afford to provoke in the slightest.

Once upstairs and inside his bedroom, Mu Yuqing realized a very serious problem: they could have spoken about those few words anywhere, so why come all the way up here? Could he be harboring malicious intentions?

She anxiously lowered the curtain, her mind gripped by sudden, terrified thoughts in the darkness: Could this be a run-in with bandits? Where had Nangong Nuo gone?

"Then how does Your Imperial Brother plan to deal with him?" Fang Zhongyan asked, not minding his attitude, and pressed on.

The abbot held the letter. The neat yet unfamiliar handwriting differed vastly from the original Mei Shuang's handwriting, prompting him to sigh: Indeed, she was no longer the former Mei Shuang.