Are you out of your mind?

While cooperating with Xiao Qi to beat back the flailing, chaotic branches, Ye Qingqing cast a glance toward the Spark Squad.

Then she saw the water-attribute esper condensing moisture into razor-sharp water blades. With a graceful flick of her hand, the blades flew out, cleanly severing the branches blocking her path.

Heavens! Water-attribute abilities could actually be used for combat!

It was as if a door to a brand-new world had been swung open before Ye Qingqing's eyes.

She had always believed her water ability was only good for providing a bit of water.

At the critical moment, Lu Xuan could only rely on the footwork of the Fish-Dragon Technique to preserve his life. His figure moved like a ghost, shifting east and west, left and right. After barely dodging dozens of sword glimmers, his momentum began to flag.

Perhaps it was at this moment that they truly felt the fragility of life—a vibrant, living soul, just like that, passing away forever.

During this mission, only Ye Wei sustained a minor injury. Fortunately, it was not severe, limited only to a wound on his thigh that made movement slightly difficult. Song Jin and Feng Baochuan carried him into the vehicle, and the group departed from the place.

As long as she was safe and sound, everything else was fine. At the very least, she was still alive. Watching her receding figure, he felt a wave of regret—regret for treating her the way he did back then, which had ultimately led to her amnesia.

"Director, that thing has turned around and is flying toward the moon at high speed..." a staff member cried out in panic.

No one knew what he had done within the Hidden Realm, but when Lu Xuan walked out of it, his face was wreathed in smiles.

"What—what are you talking about? What did you do to my mother?" Aragaki Saori seemed to suddenly realize something. She had always listened to her mother recount the events of those years, yet she had never once considered whether the man who used to hide in seclusion to shed his skin day after day, and later broke her mother's heart with grief, could possibly be the legendary Yamata no Orochi.

When members of the other squads saw this, their eyes turned green with envy. These team members looked pathetic as they worked themselves to the bone all day just to be allocated one or two energy crystals, whereas look at the other side—they were eating them like candy! They practically flattened the thresholds of the other three squad leaders, leaving the three captains to offer wry, helpless smiles in response.

From the moment he made his move until now, not even two breaths of time had passed, yet the opponent had managed to sense it instantly, devised a countermeasure, withstood his palm strike, and escaped to the outside.

Yet this state did not last, appearing merely like a fleeting vision. Immediately afterward, Xu Mo lost consciousness, captured defenseless by the figure in black.

To Chen Yufan's utter astonishment, at this crucial juncture, Nicotine actually gathered his own wings directly in front of Chen Yufan.

Before Xue Yinghai could finish speaking, merely hearing that name caused the pupils of the refined gentleman from the Gongye clan and his companions to constrict in unison, their hearts shaken.

Guan Feng's mouth, which had been open to offer persuasion, stiffened. The words hovering on the tips of his tongue could not be forced out no matter what, leaving him feeling intensely stifled and aggrieved. Whether he wanted children or not, nothing could change the inevitable outcome of having to marry Chi Qingcheng.

Just as Li Lin was debating whether to feign weakness to see if he could extract some intelligence regarding Caster, the bracelet on the opponent's left hand began to glow. It appeared to be some kind of mystic code.

Upon hearing the waitress's words, the previously amiable-looking boss's expression instantly darkened. From his gloomy countenance, it was easy to tell that this unfortunate, unruly child had apparently uttered something he shouldn't have.

"There are a few, um, for instance, she is followed by Isayama Yomi in a spiritual state. That's just insanely awesome. How did he pull that off?!" Bei Bei said, her face inevitably tinged with envy, jealousy, and resentment.

"I will give everything I have to protect them! No one is allowed to hurt them—not even the men in black or the four-dimensional beings!" he vowed inwardly.

"No way," Bao Bei forced a weak smile. "It's like this: I urgently need to see Mr. Lanca right now, there are some matters..." Before she could ask further, Bao Bei made no attempt to conceal anything, directly recounting what had happened over at the repair shop, leaving out not even the situation regarding Master Jiang.