Chapter Eighty-One: Qiang Yuan Dan

There was barely any wine left in the bottle to begin with, and it was clear he had already finished it off. Yet he kept licking the mouth of the bottle, as if still unsatisfied.

"Chang Yu, what are you doing?!" I exclaimed in astonishment.

Startled by my voice, Chang Yu turned around. Panic flashed across his face. He dropped the bottle and suddenly bolted.

But he had just drunk something laced with "Three Steps Down"...

Just as beast cores are the source of a demon beast's power, and spirit crystals are the source for cultivators, spirit marrow is the source of power for earth and mountains.

Yan Feixue wanted to speak, but a cloud of dizzying smoke blew straight at her. She immediately fell unconscious.

"You can play the cassette tape—it contains recordings of him and that Mr. Wu, as well as Mr. Wu's conversations with others. On the surface, nothing seems amiss, but it's obvious they're speaking in code. Your Majesty, this matter truly deserves your attention!" Ma Xiongjing said as he sat, opening the discussion.

Seated atop Beast King Peak, Ji Zilong held in his hands the Beast Source left behind by the savage creature slain by the black dragon. He hesitated for a long while, then finally gritted his teeth and swallowed it.

Guiguzi reproached himself a little. He had promised to keep Lou Yun's secret, yet today he had let it slip.

"Understood!" The staff officers immediately got to work, preparing the conference room for Hu Hao to record the video.

"Can't you just tear open space? What's there to be afraid of?" Ji Zilong scoffed, though despite his words he didn't act rashly—he knew the space element was not one to be trifled with.

Liu Shi was shaken. She looked toward Wu Yue and Wang Ying, only to see them covered in blood—clearly, they were in the midst of carving out hearts.

She slowly picked up the black cloth, bit by bit draping it over the man on the chair, then gently settled it on the chair's back. Glancing down at the man's hands, still exposed, she picked them up and tucked them under the cloth as well.

A surge of powerful Asura energy condensed into a blade and slashed toward the divine formation. To her disappointment, even the mighty Asura Sword could not break through it.

Following the key principles of the "Ice Thread Technique" spell, Kaikai used different ratios of ice crystals to craft a sugar sculpture, then solidified it into the tribe's emblem, revealing a grinning face.

The disciples of the Nakamura family nodded rapidly, not daring to delay for a second. Inside, they breathed a sigh of relief; they had thought Ye Longyuan would never spare them, but now that he was letting them go, their joy at surviving was palpable.

If the lowest insects were already so terrifying, then the ferocious beasts higher up the food chain must be unimaginably dreadful. The Book of Ten Thousand Beasts was entirely useless here—every beast Yin Feng encountered was unrecorded.

Only Xiao Potao, a grandmaster-level warrior, managed to endure—his vitality surged, blood roared in his veins, and his formidable life force kept him hanging on.

"Who are you trying to scare? Do you think we were raised on fright?" The man's face darkened at once, his eyes wide, emboldening his brothers behind him.

Chen Cheng fastened his helmet, secured his armor, then set down the crossbow at his waist and accepted an iron spear from the guard.

As the caravan wound through a narrow river valley amid wild mountain plateaus, they saw green mountains standing in standoff, a lone peak thrusting skyward. A wedge of wild geese flew north between the twin summits, their calls echoing through the secluded valley, answered by birds and beasts alike.

Kaikai stiffened at her words, having just received an urgent message—an emergency invitation from an "important figure."

It felt like an interrogation. The concubines all froze, each shivering involuntarily.

A server carrying a fruit tray had just approached when a flat-topped man suddenly stuck out his foot and tripped him, sending fruit scattering everywhere.

Mo Yanxi thought when Yuan Huaisheng said "let's take a look," he meant hiding in the shadows and quietly observing the situation.