Chapter 65: The Nightingale

"Bad news, Old Madam! People from the General's Estate have thrown the eldest and second misses into the pond, and they are even making their personal maids slap their own mouths as punishment!"

"What? That wretched woman of the Yun clan! If Lian'er and Zhu'er suffer even the slightest harm, I will never forgive her!"

Lady Lian turned and hurried back to the estate. From afar, she saw Xiang Lian'er and Xiang Zhu'er, soaked and flailing about in the mud-filled lotus pond.

"Stop this instant! Someone pull the eldest and second misses up right now!"

"Grandmother, save Lian'er..."

Back then, Tian Shouheng was very busy, but he would always accompany her when he returned home. After Tian Diewu was born, he felt she seemed somewhat different, yet she remained as quiet as ever, so he did not think much of it.

"Indeed, this is General Lin Xiao, who is also the advisory consultant for the Capital's Weapon Research Center," Su Luo began with a cold sneer.

After everyone had taken their seats, Li Huan and Old Man Liu drank freely and chatted heartily, while Liu Su and Song Chan sat to the side, eating happily.

Li Huan walked out of the bedroom, gazing up at the distant sky, wishing to let the sorrow in his heart drift and float away with his gaze into the vault of the heavens. Yet, tears still blurred his eyes and obscured the scenery. Everything remained just as it was in the very beginning.

"Jing'er, go call all the children here. I have something to say," Xu Jian said weakly, gently raising his hand to wipe away the tears of the closest one, Song Jing.

It was night, yet the sky remained brilliantly illuminated. Below the city walls, an army of tens of thousands held high torches, lighting the path for the next charge; atop the walls, the common folk carried steaming-hot meals, weaving busily among the soldiers.

What Ding Hao said so casually was actually part of a long-laid plan. His overt strength was currently at the sixth stage of the Innate Realm, but in truth, he had nothing to fear even when facing cultivators of the Foundation Establishment stage. Even if he could not defeat them, escaping posed no problem at all.

Su Luo scolded in annoyance, "Even so, you shouldn't have made that kind of expression! Oh, it's so embarrassing," though she did not dare to turn her head and look at him.

After the span of a single incense stick, Ding Hao slowly began to gather the flames into the palms of both hands. The fire on his body gradually died away, and looking at the ball of golden-yellow blaze between his palms, he grinned and smiled faintly.

Immediately following that, Senju Tatsumura joined the encirclement and suppression of the Rain ninja forces. A vast number of explosive tags flew out from his scrolls, surging toward the enemy.

Relying on the barricade of piled-up horse corpses, a few soldiers from the Yuntong Prairie tribe ultimately managed to survive, yet they became isolated troops trapped in the nomansland between the two armies.

"I say, is there some sort of misunderstanding between us?" Mo Chen stretched out a single finger, gesturing back and forth between himself, Ren Qiu, and Xia Hengyi. Honestly, he had never once thought about joining the Crystal Craft Association, let alone becoming the Grand Master, enticing though that position might be.

At this impatient roar, Gong Qianyu's consciousness cleared slightly, and she nodded hurriedly in agreement.

Slowly drinking down the recovery potion, Kirito felt his mind grow much clearer.

As for how to unlock new functions of the system? Senju Tatsumura believed the crucial point must still lie in negative emotion points. As long as he accumulated enough of them, the system would likely function like a fully charged machine, activating its capabilities across all aspects.

Those powerful nanobots had very distinct divisions of labor; they digested, devoured, and continuously self-replicated. Once their numbers were sufficient, they would gather together once more to contribute to production.

Such a situation was actually well understood by the leaders present, especially He Changyuan and the others.

Step two: use the flooded U.S. dollars to drive up global asset prices—particularly assets in developing countries, such as real estate and commodity prices—because these nations absorbed the highest volume of U.S. dollars.

However, Yu Kun naturally still kept a few raw materials aside for any emergency needs, which included several fruits of the Great Sun Heavenly Phoenix clan left behind by Huang Wuyin.

As Zhong Chen expounded on the Dao, even the most unruly Calabash Brothers began to listen with rapt attention. Whether they understood it or not didn't matter; committing it to memory came first.