Volume One, Chapter 72: She, Too, Is a Member of the Yuan Family

Yet Yuan Yanzhou showed not the slightest fear, meeting his gaze unwaveringly.

After a minute, the man withdrew his eyes, raised his hand to the insignia on Yuan’s shoulder, brushed it softly, and turned to leave.

In an instant, the officers in the conference room filed out one after another. Yuan Jianghe lagged two steps behind, then stopped in front of Yuan Yanzhou, his brow furrowed into a tight knot.

“Yanzhou, you’ve worked so hard to get to this position—why put yourself through this?”

“That’s right. Although it’s just a feeling, sometimes that instinct when facing danger can be invaluable. At a crucial moment, it might even save your life,” Ye Yuan said.

Xia Lei pulled out his phone for a glance, then rose and walked to the door. At the threshold, he swiped to answer the call.

A faint sense of alertness rose in Xia Lei’s heart. His gaze shifted toward the mouth of the valley. The entrance, stripped of vegetation, looked desolate and empty. Yelena should have been there, but he saw no sign of her.

Qin Feng promptly swallowed a handful of elixirs to stabilize the chaotic energy within him, but his eyes remained fixed on his surroundings. He had no idea where Ling Jiutian had escaped to.

In the face of adversity, you actually thought of running away just now! Is that the composure and courage a Buddhist cultivator should possess?

Now, with another fragment in hand, though the stone tablet was still incomplete, Ling Fan knew that only one more piece was needed to restore it fully.

Some things ought to be spoken openly; if left unsaid and kept buried in the heart, it would only make everyone unhappy. Speaking out like this, in fact, is for the best.

“True Might” is neither a spell nor a form of spiritual assault; it is simply the aura of a master—straightforward and unmistakable.

The soft words stirred tumultuous waves in Meng Yun’er’s heart. Before she could calm herself, she felt Ling Fan’s body suddenly tremble, vanishing from the spot in an instant.

But the shock did not end there. As Fan Gongming’s words fell, the spiritual energy around them, previously restless, suddenly surged violently. While everyone was still uncertain what this meant, the energy began converging toward Ling Fan’s room.

Hua Mulan could not sleep, perhaps because of the coming battles. Whenever she closed her eyes, the bloody battlefield returned to haunt her.

The dossier contained not only the origins of the steam engine in actual history and the story of its continual improvement, but also explanations and diagrams of several different steam engine structures and models—it was truly comprehensive.

Borsalino didn’t try to block it head-on; he knew this opponent was someone who could contend with that brute, Sakazuki. In a flash, his form appeared behind him, and the light sword cleaved down without reserve.

In the real world, there’s no such thing as battle without injury; scrapes and bruises are inevitable. Even this suit of armor was now battered and scarred.

After a while, he sat on the sofa, holding the family portrait, staring at it blankly. His thoughts drifted far, far away.

Clearly, the Empress Dowager suspected something unclean about these people, fearing they might bring trouble to His Majesty. On this matter, Chen Qing would see to the arrangements.

Shi Xiangyun sighed helplessly. After bidding her sisters farewell, she left through the side gate of the Rongguo Mansion and saw the Shi family’s sedan chair waiting for her outside.

Just as he handed Alice her device, the apparatus in his own hand unexpectedly activated itself, assembling a set of lightweight auxiliary armor around him through a digital construction process, complete with a fully enclosed helmet.

Honestly, if one could connect to the “WiFi” on the boss, even for just a moment, it would be worth more than those ten Qi-Gathering Pills.

Chen Feng hadn’t even answered yet when the surroundings suddenly began to twist and distort. A wave of vertigo swept over him, and when he came to, he found himself lying on a hospital bed.