Chapter 144: White Eyes

Two days later.

Chen Shulong and Zhou Chen returned, weary and travel-stained.

The moment they arrived, they immediately reported their findings to Ye Cheng.

They had written everything they had seen and heard in Jiangbei Province into a memorial.

After reading its contents, Ye Cheng found the situation utterly alarming.

From the provincial governor and financial commissioner to the pacification commissioner, and down to the prefects and county magistrates, every one of them was suspected of embezzlement...

It had already been nearly a full month since he began slaughtering the Li clan’s strongholds in Guangxi. All this time, he had hovered on the brink of death, scarcely managing to sleep in a bed for even a single day. At best, he could doze briefly on horseback.

A day later, Zhong Zihao felt somewhat less uncomfortable, though the chill remained bone-deep. Two days later, he was able to return to the surface, walk about, and meditate.

But… “dark” hardly began to describe it! Sifeng knew which way was forward and which way was backward, but in her present dazed and muddled state, without someone to support her, “direction” seemed not to exist at all.

The Guancheng incident, meanwhile, had been caused by the Liu clan’s attempt to seize the Qi kingdom’s market and reorganize the salt trade throughout Qingzhou. That was what had sparked the upheaval. The former Chancellor of Beihai had not dared intervene on behalf of the three families or oppose Guancheng, for he feared the power of the Liu clan. He Bai’s interference, however, had ruined his plans.

He Bai galloped across the wilderness, the bitter wind driving snow against his face until it grew red and painful. Before long, the skin split into numerous cracks, leaving his face streaked with blood. It seemed that abandoning Anova and returning to Han territory had indeed been the right decision. The Han people were standing at a tremendous turning point in their history; one misstep, and they would fall into a century of darkness—the age of the Five Barbarians ravaging China.

“That’s wonderful. I was worried that…” Kirishima Mana had only reached the middle of her sentence when her foot slipped, and with a splash, she tumbled into the swimming pool.

In Emerald Valley, upon the vast plaza before the Absolute God Alliance, an astonishing battle was unfolding.

After returning to Konoha Village, Sarutobi Hiruzen did not rest either. He immediately summoned the supervising jonin instructors. Since he had already reached an agreement with Uchiha Fugaku to hold the Chunin Exams jointly in Konoha Village on the fifteenth of that month, he needed to notify them in advance and have them make the necessary preparations.

“Eh…” At his words, everyone’s gaze instantly converged on him. They could not help drawing in a sharp breath as their eyes traveled up and down his body.

This was… When this appearance of Sifeng entered Empress Dowager Zhang’s line of sight, it startled her so badly that several deep wrinkles immediately appeared across her aged face.

Although, back then, in that world, one of the many belts he had worn had indeed been the Kamen Rider Build Driver—and at the time, he had also been holding Pandora’s Box, filled with Full Bottles.

According to the memories provided by his cheat ability, the acquired power within his body began to circulate slowly. It was like strands of drifting silver thread, which, under his control, twisted and coiled together like ropes.

She had loved Lin Fan for so many years that even without anyone’s support, she would find every possible way to remain at his side. She had even stayed beside him while studying abroad.

By then, only five or six seconds remained of the twenty-four-second shot clock. With no other choice, Francis dribbled the ball and rose for a pull-up jumper.

At that moment, Shen Minghao, Shen Changfeng, and the rest of the Shen family all looked toward Ye Tian with icy eyes.

How could Huo Heng fail to see through them? They were merely putting on an act for the occasion, each of them doing their best not to reveal any flaws.

Still, tonight, “Jordan” had finally run into the dreaded “rookie wall,” and the Rockets’ defense gave him a merciless beating.

Although the assassin had displayed inhuman brutality when dealing with Hoffman and the others, when faced with the pursuit of the mercury needles, he was clearly exercising the greatest restraint possible.

The instant his voice fell, the eyes of everyone in the Brave Warriors Company lost their light and became hollow. Then their eyelids began to droop, and their heads hung limply.