Volume One, Chapter 48: I Chose These Clothes, So I’ll Pay

“How am I shameless?” Gu Yubai looked utterly unconcerned. His thin lips curved into a faintly roguish smile. “Don’t forget—we used to be husband and wife.”

Si Tang bristled like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. “We’re divorced!”

She practically ground out those four words through clenched teeth, as though she wanted to carve the fact into Gu Yubai’s very bones.

Yet he did not withdraw the Black Gate. Instead, he continued observing it, only to discover that it remained intact until one minute and fifteen seconds had passed before finally collapsing.

Half an hour later, Zhou Tian finished refining the energy contained in the spirit-beast meat. He could clearly feel the strength of every cell in his body increasing to some degree. The true essence in his dantian had reached saturation as well, as though it could no longer contain even the slightest excess.

After a brief uproar, several sharp sounds of air being split rang out. In the next instant, several figures appeared, leaping or vaulting through the air before landing on the arena in spectacular fashion.

Cheng Chen let out an impatient breath, unsure whether he truly had not understood what she meant or was merely pretending to be foolish.

Still spinning through the air, Victreebel hit the ground and swiftly extended two vine whips from either side, binding Machamp tightly.

At the time, she had already told Yan Canglan that she would only deal with the poison masters and would not personally stand at the forefront of the war. Yan Canglan had been uneasy about it, which was why this arrangement had been made.

Shi Xu’s heart pounded wildly. He had no idea how much resolve it had taken to make himself say those words.

But Zhou Tian paid no attention to any of this. He merely stared at the black-and-white yin-yang diagram on his right arm and lowered his head in deep thought.

Clang!

At that critical moment, Xia Yi, blasted away by the explosion, appeared here. A frost sword in his hand blocked Kangjin Dragon’s attack.

Drapion raised its right claw, glowing with white light, and brought it viciously down upon the Wartortle caught in its tail. Wartortle swiftly withdrew its head and all four limbs into its shell, reducing the damage to a minimum.

If you have strength, you can travel the world without fear, and you need not fear anyone’s schemes or machinations. But if you lack strength, you will truly find yourself unable to take even a single step, understand?

“Of course. You can discuss how to handle this matter among yourselves and give me an answer the day after tomorrow or the day thereafter.” Chen Ke was quite easygoing.

In fact, under ordinary circumstances, during the national college entrance examination, unless it was the opening ceremony, having more than three billion people present would already have been extraordinarily rare.

“What? The Crown Prince saved me?”

Yang Duanhe looked bewildered. When he glanced around, the Crown Prince, Zhao Yi, whom he had seen only moments earlier, had already vanished without a trace.

“Sister, what are you embarrassed about? Is there anything of yours I haven’t seen? Besides, Sister, you look so adorable when you’re shy.”

Naturally, he could never voice such thoughts. He could not even allow them to show on his face.

A delicate face streaked with tears and carrying a playful smile gazed at him. Yang Xu stared in astonishment, feeling a chill sweep down his back.

In his previous life, the polar bears had been starving until they were little more than skin and bones. But this was the Tang Dynasty. The Arctic was still an untouched wilderness, and the polar bears should have been exceptionally ferocious.

Unlike the crises they had faced before, this time there had been no direct or indirect conflict at all.

Lady Fang had actually known the Emperor’s intentions long ago. The Emperor had deliberately kept her in the capital to reside permanently at Prince Sheng’s residence, while sending people to Xie Prefecture with an imperial decree. He had been worried that the journey would exhaust Lady Fang. After all, traveling back and forth was no easy task for someone of her age. It was better for her to remain in the capital.

When Wang Silang said this, his heart was filled with unease. He was deeply anxious, terrified that he might truly be caught and thrown into a cage. How could a plain, honest farmer dare oppose people from a government office?

The third-grade Star Emperor realm. It seems there should be no great difficulty in reaching the advanced Star Emperor realm within a hundred years, Lin Xiao thought to himself.