Chapter 63: Divergence

She snapped upright, every trace of melancholy and sentimentality vanishing instantly. "Why on earth should I treat you?"

Jiang Tang set down her chopsticks and gracefully dabbed her mouth with a napkin. "Didn't you say you were congratulating me? Show a little sincerity and pay the bill."

"Who do you even take orders from..." Leah grumbled as she paid, then shooed Jiang Tang away. "Get lost! A single meal just cost me three hours of wages!"

"Hey, if you treat a customer with this kind of attitude, why hasn't your boss fired you yet?" Jiang Tang asked...

Due to municipal regulations, no firecrackers were set off during the opening ceremony. Amid the cheers of the crowd, Duan Yun and Hao Jia jointly performed the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

As a professional player, and currently the one with the highest domestic transfer fee, it stood to reason that he was required to participate in the season's opening match.

Most of the children in the welfare institute were those with physical disabilities who had been abandoned by their families, along with others rescued from child traffickers. Finding adoptive families for these children was extremely difficult.

The group walked through a somewhat dim alleyway and emerged onto a fairly spacious street. Here, seven or eight cultivators were locked in a fierce battle with two underworld soldiers, the sound of continuous explosions echoing without stop.

X Academy was located quite far from the coastal cities, nestled in a remote suburb, so they didn't need to worry about monsters invading their territory anytime soon.

In truth, even without Jiang Chengdong's reminder, Duan Yun would certainly have spoken well of him. After all, Jiang Chengdong was the highest-status celebrity he had come to know in academic circles after arriving in the capital, and such a precious connection was undoubtedly well worth cultivating.

Witnessing the scene before him and feeling his own posture, to be honest, the demon at that moment truly began to feel panic, completely unable to fathom what kind of fate awaited him.

The consumption standards at the Fallen Night Bar were a grade higher than most bars on this planet. A single patron would often spend several hundred star coins in a single night here, and if a few friends came along to have fun, they would need to prepare several thousand star coins in advance, lest they end up drunk and broke after a night of revelry without enough money to pay the bill.

Yufeng rushed forward, preparing for battle. At that moment, he suddenly noticed a figure running from a distance toward the backs of Xing Xuan and his companion. As the figure drew closer, he recognized the newcomer's face—it was Ao Ying, who had just arrived here from the back mountain.

"Could it be? No way! Muchue!" Fan Xueyi struck out, attempting to shatter the barrier set up by Gu Zhu Muchue right before her eyes, but after trying twice, the barrier remained completely unresponsive.

"Call me husband!" Nangong Shanyu's low, slightly breathless voice sounded right beside Su Huanhuan's ear.

About four years ago, the Lord of Kangqing City retired due to advanced age, and shortly thereafter, a new city lord arrived. He was Xun Yu, none other than Xun Xiang's father.

Du Yuesong had long since sent word for the students on Yeluan Island to return by sunset. Just as the setting sun cast its light upon the array, the formation suddenly flared with brilliant light, and two youths stepped out from within. Both wore smug expressions, seemingly quite satisfied with their performance during this trial.

"Why are you pouting your lips so high?" Yun Ze sensed that 'Guai Guai' was trying to attract someone's attention, shifted his gaze, and caught sight of Tong Guai Guai pouting her lips, making a bizarre expression reflected in the window.

Bi Feng was one of the ancient beasts of the spirit realm, with a lifespan typically ranging between fifteen hundred and two thousand years. The Bi Feng on Qingxia Peak was encountered and tamed by Yao Jingnan, a founding hero of the Heavenly Spirit nation, near a mountain peak close to a coastline in the Western Spirit realm. By now, it had lived for over a thousand years.

Tong Guai Guai believed that coincidences in this world were exceedingly rare, so she had simply resigned herself to coming out for a meal.

"Utsunomiya Seiji!" Hu Shuntang shouted sharply, but it was too late. Utsunomiya Seiji had already leaped down, and all that could be heard was his excited laughter.

"Am I late?" Lin Mohanyue spoke softly, almost as if talking to herself, her expression gradually turning cold.

As Ren Ruyi spoke, Jingting's ears twitched slightly, and the Daoist caught the rustling sound of grass stirring outside the window.

The Super Heavenly Dao Emperor refused to admit defeat and wanted to try his luck, seeing if he could take down his opponent relying on his own rich combat experience.

For the entire day, Xia Lingxuan was on tenterhooks, feeling as though some terrible misfortune was bound to happen.

The two classmates who lodged outside, along with the few others who had visited the classroom during this period, had already left.

Fox Xiang'er finally shattered the iron cage. As a Dao King who had mastered nearly twenty Great Paths, how could she possibly perish so easily?

After that incident, the leaders of the three realms never dared to casually send their own people into the secret realm again. Later on, as conflicts among the three realms grew increasingly irreconcilable, driven by the mindset that if their own people couldn't enter the secret realm, no one else's people would either, they practically never joined forces to open it again.

Unable to catch his breath, the old man finally gave out entirely. The final dose of medicine was forcibly poured down his throat, and his corpse was carried off to find Jiang Feng.

Nanyue originally intended to show off that she had won the recognition of the Jin family, unaware that it was merely the fire pit from which I longed to escape.

During the period when she was trapped in the Immortal Alliance, Shi Yi was one of the very few who did not display intense hostility toward Sheng Qing.

Early the next morning, Ke Hua woke up precisely on time. She looked at the dark circles under her eyes in the mirror and smiled helplessly. She hadn't expected the recoil of her first kiss to be this severe, resulting in severe insomnia.

With that, he produced an object, and moments later, a celestial spirit fluttered out from inside it.

Chuang looked at Bai Sen's broad smile and the fleeting trace of worry in his eyes. Instead, she calmed down, raised her arms to wrap them around Bai Sen's neck, and pressed her lips to his in a deep kiss.

"What are you talking about?!" roared the ape in battle armor. It feared nothing in heaven or earth, and had even wreaked havoc in the upper realm before; who dared to show it disrespect?

A year slipped away in the blink of an eye, and the Yunpeng Secret Realm recognized no four seasons. However, Xu Ningbing, Meng Qiusheng, and others all came to visit Zhang Yuanhao at Qingyou Marsh during the year, seemingly wishing to invite him to share watch duty, only to learn that Zhang Yuanhao was in secluded cultivation, forcing them to depart with regret.

Driven by an explosive burst of fifteen points of agility, Bai Sen's speed flashed past the eyes of onlookers like a streak of light.

A golden-yellow claw descended, blotting out the sun and vast as a mountain, radiating an undying aura as it seized the Golden Crow directly. It functioned like an iron cage, and no matter how desperately Jin Qiyang struggled, he could not escape the pincer-like dragon claw.

Qin Yuanjiang's eyebrows twitched as he began to count aloud. The golden halberd behind him, exuding a terrifying aura, rose and fell with the heaving of his chest, as though it would shoot forth at any second.

It seemed that although the Song and Liao dynasties had nominally declared a truce after the Treaty of Shanyuan, both sides were actually secretly massing heavy troops along the border.

At some unknown point, the conversation between the two had drifted far from its main thread, unexpectedly veering into a discussion of ethnic policies.