Volume 1, Chapter 42: President Wan Has It So Easy Being a Kept Son-in-Law

Foreigners view love as free and unrestrained, so Barron saw nothing wrong with it, considering it instead as a way of expressing love.

However, Wanyan only saw her distress.

For a moment, Yue Chen completely lost control, violently bounced back and forth by a powerful force. This indestructible wall possessed such immense elasticity that Yue Chen, despite his cultivation at the Divine Extension Realm, was rendered utterly helpless and could only let himself be repelled.

Mu Sanqian was the first to jump down from the stone cliff. Landing on the valley floor, he found the snow was only a thin layer. Although biting cold winds howled through the valley, the temperature was noticeably much higher than up above.

Yet this time, Steward Wang of Wealthy Landlord Wang announced that the land rent would be increased by ten percent, shifting to a sixty-forty split—the landlord taking sixty percent and the tenant fourty percent. This ratio was somewhat excessive; even in a county with abundant arable land like Qianfeng County, such a rent was exceptionally high.

The destination of their journey was the border of the Mermaid Tribe in the Valley of the Sunset, and this Valley of the Sunset was merely one of the places they passed through along the way.

In another world, as a member of the internet keyboard-warrior political bureau, it had become an instinctive habit to analyze any major event from a macro perspective, playing the armchair strategist and pointing fingers.

The direction in which the giant eagle hurled the object to the ground was right beside Nangong Yunyao and the others, not very far away.

Things, however, turned out contrary to their wishes. The further inward they walked, the more feathers they encountered. At the final bend, they actually discovered feathers arranged in the shape of a nest, which appeared to be the lair of that demonic beast.

Just as the nine thousand paths of force from the three individuals suppressed the center and instantly annihilated Jiang Xiao, within the spiritual void in the middle ground of existence and non-existence, Jiang Xiao was already munching on a Dragon-Gall Fruit. This Dragon-Gall Fruit was a rare treasure from the Herb Garden; when refined into the Dragon-Gall Pill, it could allow a mortal to instantly achieve the status of a Golden Immortal, making it a top-tier spiritual material.

Li Rizhi nodded, estimating that the Jiang family estate must be in complete chaos by now, entirely devoid of any useful clues.

The elites of the seven sects simultaneously unleashed their formation arrays, backed by divine artifacts, possessing a might capable of shaking the heavens and earth. Under the continuous onslaught of such a formidable formation, the miasma of death hovering over the piled corpses gradually dissipated, exposing the mysterious specter hidden within to the public eye.

"Village Chief Zhao, can you still hold on?" Even Wang Dong now felt that his actions might have been a bit too cruel. Had he known, he would have just called Zhao Kai over to identify the person, sparing him from being scared out of his wits like this.

Lie Tong secretly cursed herself for not sitting next to Liu Shuang. She had just felt a moment of shyness and chose to sit behind Liu Shuang, and now look—someone else had taken the spot. The pressure Liu Shuang exerted on her was so overwhelming that her primal instinct had driven her to keep a little distance from him.

"It matters not. If I were to be assassinated at this moment, the Second Imperial Younger Brother would not ascend to the throne either." Emperor Zhaoqi's expression remained as gentle and benevolent as ever, yet it exuded an inexplicable murderous intent.

Upon first entering the room, a cloud of dust rushed toward her, causing Yunyao to cough involuntarily. She waved her hand in front of her face to fan away the dust near her mouth and nose before continuing forward to stand before Lu Yingquan.

Ever since coming to the Hall of Joy, Yunyao had racked her brains to cheer Rongya up and keep her happy every day. Coupled with the fact that Yunyao had repeatedly helped Rongya thwart the harassment of various imperial concubines, Zhuzhi had always held deep respect and gratitude toward Yunyao. She obeyed virtually every command Yunyao gave and could truly be considered one of Rongya's most trusted confidantes.

"Yesterday while hunting, I happened to rescue an unconscious wounded man. Before dawn today, the man regained consciousness and informed Your Younger Brother of a most troublesome matter." The Prince of Jin wore a solemn expression, and an oppressive atmosphere instantly filled the entire imperial court.