Chapter 170: I Must Surely Be On Your Side

Within Henei, the great encampment of General Er Zhu Rong's army.

Li Shuang met General Er Zhu Rong once again, with Hearing Yuan Tianmu as company.

From a nearby military camp, the sounds of troops drilling still drifted over. General Er Zhu Rong was a man of military matters; even now, with no war at hand, he had not slackened in the slightest.

By a still pond, a long pavilion stood. Li Shuang raised his cup and offered a toast to General Er Zhu Rong and Yuan Tianmu.

"The mountains are high and the road is long. This time I go to Guanzhong to quell the rebellion, and I know not when I shall see the two of you, my elder brothers, again.

Otherwise, if Chen Yuan keeps avoiding me like this, carrying a promise he cannot fulfill, in time that promise will turn into a burden, and the guilt will curdle into resentment. When that day comes, I will truly and forever lose Chen Yuan as a friend.

Concubine Jiang clenched her fists, longing to swat the irritating Die'er aside with a single slap, but in the end gritted her teeth and held back.

I suppose no one would know what it feels like to have a camera pointed at you, the house deathly silent, lying on the bed like that?

Of course, the most direct cause of a star fading into obscurity because of scandal is not the haters themselves, but those who do not wish to see public opinion concentrated too heavily in one place.

"Three matchmakers and six witnesses, an eight-bearer bridal sedan, proper and in good faith—that will suffice." Yin Ningbo spoke each word out, unhurried and measured.

Hearing this exchange, Ru Huan could not help but secretly pinch Leng Xiuze's arm. The same doubt rose in both their hearts: could this so-called "prominent noble house within the Imperial Capital" with the surname Liu possibly be the nephew of the late Liu Chengru?

"While the few of you are all here, let us settle the matter of the Pill Duel." Venerable Xuan Hu's face had gone black as ink at this point. Having lost three bouts in a row, were it not for needing to stay and preside over the situation, he would have liked to simply fling up his sleeves and walk off. Stuck with such a rotten business—truly bad luck.

"If Director Xiang's Qianbai were to meet this Brother Lin, I wonder what she would think—surely she would be willing to marry him," Bai Tianming said deliberately, his words hiding a needle within the silk.

"Fang Yiwei and I actually didn't…" Liu Ningbo tried to explain. Between her and Fang Yiwei there had only been a one-night stand, a far cry from love by a hundred thousand miles.

"Of course it's because I treat you as a rival; otherwise, how would I come to understand you?" Ling Qingcheng turned her head to look at Leng Jianchen. "You should understand that as the top decision-maker of a company, I am always at the eye of the storm.

Since everyone had already experienced the head-exploding scene in advance, head explosions no longer affected anyone's nausea.

Mu Lianzi recited the incantation with frantic urgency, but the barrier Sibiyi had laid could hardly be broken so easily. No matter how hard she pushed, she still could not budge it in the slightest.

Because ever since she had opened her True Marrow, she had only studied defensive Cultivation Methods, and had never touched any offensive ones.

Moreover, even with the method in hand, the cultivation itself was extremely perilous, and so success required a great deal of fortune.

He told himself that in this life, he would never again let the people he cared about suffer that kind of persecution.

If they were imprisoned in a world not yet under the control of the Main Realm's Heaven's Dao, such danger might still exist. But within the Main Realm there was no need to worry—unless heaven and earth collapsed and the Dao itself crumbled, these people would never have any chance of escape.

Ao Zhi was still putting on his lordly airs and inspecting things with a stern face. Mu Lianzi walked up behind him with a smile and made a silencing gesture to the guards below.

This Master has only so much Heaven and Earth Origin Liquid. If you could have, like the other peaks, a great abundance of resources for your cultivation, you would certainly be no weaker than that child, the Holy Son Jiang Shenzi.

No wonder Lin Yuanyuan said she was leaving but never actually left—turns out she was waiting right here. The whole setup made it obvious she had already become the RD's spokesperson.

A few students still lingered here and there in the basketball gym. Qin Yu knew his limits and directed Song Tang to help move some of the equipment on the court to the storage room at the back.

Chen Tianyi spoke in disagreement, and even swept his gaze around the surroundings, his cold eyes warning all those nearby.