Chapter 95: The Competition

She bowed deeply and pleaded, “May Your Majesty permit this humble woman to speak in her own defense.”

The emperor frowned. “Granted.”

Still kneeling, she straightened her back. “Your Majesty, the Bai family’s string of first-place victories over the past five years did indeed owe much to the Dragon Saliva incense.”

The hall fell abruptly silent.

Dong Yi looked down at her.

Her tone remained calm, neither hurried nor flustered. “But even without Dragon Saliva incense, one can still produce top-tier medicinal fragrance. There is a saying I have kept in my heart for a very long time, and today I wish to speak it aloud.”

It turned out that this had once been a secret base of the Japanese Kwantung Army, where people were captured and brought back for experiments, much like the infamous Unit 731. The only difference was that Unit 731 used fellow countrymen to conduct biological weapons tests.

Night Shadow was amused by Wang Yuankui’s words. Yet, upon reflection, crude as they sounded, the point was not wrong: while the green hills remain, there will be no fear of lacking firewood. It could hardly be called incorrect.

After glancing at the draw results, Ze Qian on the commentary platform announced them at once. The members of both teams then quickly entered the competition area for the final ten minutes of equipment adjustments before the match.

At that moment, Feng Xiaoxiao finally realized that the reporters’ fighting strength was no less formidable than that of the old ladies who stormed supermarkets in the morning to snatch up discounted eggs.

So this diversion was the solution Qi Tianyang had come up with. At last, they could subdue this demonized wandering soul.

The two fought again. The young man’s leg techniques were exceptionally powerful, and with the enhancement of two secret treasures, his true combat strength was enough to reach the peak of the Rising Origin stage. So long as he did not encounter one of the top ten young prodigies, he had the confidence to remain undefeated. Unfortunately for him, he had met Jiang Dong today, and even with secret treasures and top-tier techniques, it still was not enough.

Ma Jinlong looked at the screen and said to the others that EBF had already successfully taken down BF’s bottom-lane outer turret.

Although the Roman monks outnumbered them, they simply could not kill those ten. On the contrary, their own side was losing cultivators one after another. Many of the weaker factions fell to their knees in midair, crying out and pleading for the divine man in the cave to intervene.

The people who had once hurt her in the country had basically been dealt with cleanly by now. Perhaps she should spare some time to deal with those who had left her with a deep psychological shadow.

Nuo roared, “Humans, come and die!” and then came a thunderous bellow that shook the heavens and the earth.

Ye Feng and the others, hearing the uproar outside, immediately focused their senses. Tang Ling and Su Yuan found nothing unusual, but Ye Feng stood up, his expression somewhat odd.

Although it was not yet time to depart, the people of the Great White Divine Sword Sect had already boarded the flying sword long ago.

Sure enough, two people traveling together stepped forward at once. Lin Yu took one look and was slightly surprised. “Aren’t those the two brothers from the other day? Weren’t they here setting up a stall?” he wondered.

“What?” Seeing Modo recover, Zuo Nan was still somewhat pleased, but those last words sounded utterly baffling.

By then, the northern kingdom had also been effectively divided by Shan City: north of Shan City was controlled by the people of the Jing Kingdom and by certain “pro-Jing” figures within the northern kingdom, while south of Shan City was held by the long-established forces of the northern kingdom, with the Beast Taming Sect at their core.

“As for me, I’m merely a wandering cultivator. Today, I happened upon this wondrous place and thought I might spread the teaching and enlighten all beings!” Liansheng said, mixing jest with his words.

After yet another discussion ended, Yulang walked outside the castle. He bent over, bracing himself on a carved railing, gazing ahead as though lost in thought. Just then, a voice came from behind him.

“Liansheng!” Chi Yuan’er ran up to him in delight, throwing herself into his arms without regard for her drenched clothes. A Chai and the others, seeing this, had long since slipped aside to give them space of their own.

“As you suspected, she has already been executed by the Chief Judge Daron, charged with harboring and training murderers, and with withholding knowledge of it.” Behind the imperial knight, Wood began moving off to one side; from that angle, he could already strike Avi.