This was a gap of a truly different order of magnitude!

There was no trick, no clever stratagem, that could possibly bridge it.

Confident as Wei Zhao had always been, never one to belittle himself, he still possessed at least that much self-awareness.

Facing an opponent of that caliber head-on, with only his present strength, he had not the slightest chance of victory.

Seeing Yun Wushuang descend, Lin Hongchou, who had already been beside herself...

Yet behind these Nine Palace Sect disciples stood men wielding leather whips, flogging them at will—plainly disciples of the Seven Luminaries Sect.

A tremendous boom erupted—the fireball burst beside the orc warrior; the shockwave instantly hurled him to the ground and blasted several orcs standing nearby into nothing but pulp.

Waiting here for Luo Bei and the others to arrive, then acting in concert—that was the best approach, and it did not prevent him from going ahead to get a feel for the horrors of White Bone Mountain.

As a result, the greatest movement Steve could currently manage was a single step to the left.

Still, she had keenly caught hold of certain words—for instance, "playing mid lane for the first time," "not quite used to it." Dai Li slowly dissected the meaning of that sentence.

Wu Yingxiong opened his mouth and spat; nine souls swirled and seethed along the Divine Realm Codex, ceaselessly consuming its mana.

"Jinshi, are you all right?" Liu Mengying stepped forward and looked Jinshi up and down, plainly worried that the great battle atop the peak earlier might have caught up Jinshi, who had no cultivation at all.

The yellow weasel spirit's face turned savage in an instant; the demonic qi throughout its body surged violently into its palms, and then it struck at the Five Elements Talisman Array, roaring, "Break!" Two streams of exceedingly dense demonic qi shot from its palms straight at the array.

But Wang Fan had no time to check his stock of energy coins either; by now he had already charged into the midst of the bull-headed demons, spinning at high speed as he swung Dragon Flame, conjuring a whirlwind of blades that swept savagely through their ranks.

"You even know about Nine Dragon Island?" Ning Hao said in astonishment, suddenly sensing that the Yanhuang Ten Group was somewhat terrifying. He had not expected Xu Feng to know even of matters like Nine Dragon Island—truly no simple character.

When the door opened, he saw four mercenaries dragging Tang Na toward the elevator, all four wearing hoods and carrying weapons, with Leader Gu following behind them.

So that his own side might gain solid defense and offense in future battles against the government troops and, later, the foreign tribes, Li Ren racked his brains, losing all appetite for food and drink. The dishes set on the table went cold and were replaced again and again; over four days, only when Chen Lin had a spare moment to urge him did he finally eat a little.

Hearing this, Li Shan praised him inwardly: a minister's head truly worked differently from an ordinary worker's—he took everything into account in fine detail. He answered and went off to follow Chen Xinghai as a security guard.

"It's Master and the others!" Tu Lage suddenly cried out in excitement. Yadong recognized at a glance that the two elders were Dugu Xunbai and Wang Chaoxiao, and that the young man was Changsheng Tian. As Yadong smiled, the three golden skeletons instantly dissolved into three streaks of golden light and vanished without a trace.

The brothers chatted and laughed among themselves; before long, fearing they might miss Garilo's match, Yadong and the others paid the bill and left the lounge, heading back to the venue.

"Fellow Daoist Yao, are we leaving this ancient land?" Teng Yilang and the others came flying toward them from afar, shouting the question from a great distance—they had truly had more than enough of this place.

Returning once more to the cave dwelling, Lang Hongxiang continued to recover from his injuries. This time, with Ximing You standing guard, he felt considerably more at ease.

Just as Li Ren charged forward, the human-shaped bat vanished in an instant. His blade struck nothing but air; Li Ren immediately reined in his contempt and spun around to slash behind him. "Wah—" came a sound, and several dark yellow hairs drifted down to the ground. Li Ren hurriedly withdrew his blade and guarded his stance.