Chapter 160: Uncompromising

Xu Lanmei kept her head bowed, making it impossible to read her expression or tell whether she had taken the words in.

Gu Zhuo glanced at her, feeling no emotional ripples within.

She was the only person from her past life who had left her completely speechless.

Xu Lanmei was the quintessential brother-obsessed parasite. Not only did she sacrifice everything for her brother, but she also forced her own daughter to do the same. When Gu Dajia was still alive, his suppression kept her from stirring up any trouble. But after Gu Dajia died, she was like a monkey finally escaping the Buddha's palm.

Operating with impressive efficiency, once they had calmed down, Jecalio stepped onto the stone slab. Beautiful runes lit up upon it, and the four-star array reappeared once more.

Clang... To Jian Chenzi's utter disbelief, the full-force sword strike he landed on the evil avatar of the Primordial Dao Sovereign felt as though it had hit a slab of stubborn steel. A chip broke off his jade sword, while not even a single hair on the Primordial Dao Sovereign's evil avatar was harmed.

"No, absolutely not. What you said is very right, completely reasonable," Xika said, crossing her arms with a remarkably calm expression. Yet Xiuying could seemingly detect not a shred of guilt on her face; instead, it was brimming with playful mockery, as if she had already discovered something.

A piercing hiss of swords suddenly rang out, and countless intertwined black and white sword qi crisscrossed the void. Whether the giant black sword had been affected by the intrusion of the sword spirit, or Duan Yitian had been provoked by Mu Hao's actions, the baleful qi surged through the entire void in towering billows with an astonishing momentum.

The surrounding air, violently buffeted by the aftermath of the two forces, was instantly compressed into a vacuum state, though it lasted for merely a single moment.

Upon hearing that the expeditionary force heading toward Snow Maple City had suffered a crushing defeat, and that the scattered remnants fleeing back did not even amount to ten thousand cavalry, Fire King Visuna, a man of illustrious military achievements in the past, was thoroughly enraged. The sound of him smashing things could be heard from every corner.

Chaozi gave a dry laugh. "No one who holds it ever meets a good end. I saw that sentence in the manuscripts left behind by my father," he added.

The card-using methods in the Outer Realms were somewhat different. They did not require card instruments; instead, they integrated the cards directly into their bodies through a blood sacrifice. Humans had also attempted this route in the beginning, but human physical constitutions were simply incapable of performing a blood sacrifice on multiple cards simultaneously. An ordinary person's body could only accommodate one or two cards.

During the day, their expressions solemn, they immediately gathered their respective factions to hold an emergency meeting, each voicing their opinions and discussing countermeasures.

"Son of Thunder, your divine and demonic power cannot last. That is your greatest flaw. Now, take this attack from me and see how you fare!" Ye Xuan laughed heartily.

Helen said, "Of course it's fine for me to name it. Let's use your name—how about calling it Liu Huixing?"

Was an array of that scale something that could be easily broken? If anything was going to happen, it would have happened twenty years ago; would it have waited until now?

Hearing Wu Peining's words, I crawled up from the ground and stepped out of Chen Xueishan's office. The battlefield outside still needed to be cleaned up; otherwise, it would be hard to explain things once everyone woke up.

Panting heavily as I ran to the camp, before I could even raise my head, Wang Yao was startled by a salute.

A bone spur suddenly pierced through the air toward them. Liefeng hastily dodged, and the bone spur grazed his insect armor, embedding itself deeply into the ground. The bone spur was exceptionally fierce, causing the earth to fracture and crack.

With those words, I flipped Chen Xueishan onto my back, but she was unwilling and embraced me, rolling me over to the top once more.

Parked behind was a BMW. A blond, blue-eyed man over 1.8 meters tall stepped out from the front passenger seat and chattered away at great length.

As Chen Xueishan spoke, she guided herself down onto my rod. The movement was executed with utmost precision. If not for the sight of the white cushion stained red beside us, I would never have believed this was Chen Xueishan's first time.

"You're so annoying! Why are you always like this?!" Realizing she had been teased by Wang Yao yet again, Luna instantly puffed out her rosy cheeks in anger.

"Just before I came here, I received some news. They said the generals of the two armies heading north suddenly died of illness. To steady the morale of the troops, they only claimed it was illness, but the morale of those two northern-bound armies has always been unstable and restless," Guo Sheng said, alternating between a sip of wine and a peanut, which didn't hinder his speech in the slightest.