On Mount Changqing in Chengping Prefecture.
Atop the mountain, an old man opened his eyes.
In mortal dynasties, some officials possessed spiritual roots and could cultivate.
Those cultivating officials who did many good deeds during their lifetimes and were revered by the people could, after death, be worshipped by the people in temples and be canonized by the emperor as mount...
2025-08-16 09:47:49 +0000 UTC View PostThese twenty-plus rogue cultivators had originally been searching for opportunities in a nearby ruin but when they had just emerged from the cave, they felt that surge of towering demonic energy.
They looked toward the place where thunder clouds were densely gathered, not expecting that there would actually be a snake clan undergoing tribulation.
Moreover, the opponent had just begu...
2025-08-16 09:47:14 +0000 UTC View Post"Rumble!"
Thunder after thunder echoed from the sky, as if it would shatter the entire firmament.
Dark clouds continuously gathered above Ganyue Lake, as if the thick black clouds might press down from the heavens at any moment.
The daylight had already been obscured by the dark clouds.
Each bolt of lightning that tore through the sky was like a dagger slicing through th...
2025-08-16 09:46:44 +0000 UTC View PostXiao Mo did not immediately rush to Ganzhou where Ganyue Lake was located.
He clearly understood that once he left, he could never return.
So Xiao Mo went to the tombstones of the village chief and Aunt Chen, and for the last time helped clean the weeds in front of their graves, placed some fruits and fresh flowers before the tombstones, lit incense, and bowed to the village chief a...
2025-08-16 09:46:02 +0000 UTC View PostAt the same time, she pulled out a compact Ruger LCP pistol from under the sofa and decisively returned fire in the motorcycle man's direction!
The bullet hit the wall next to the motorcycle man, sending wood chips flying!
The motorcycle man was also startled by this sudden counterattack and immediately dodged behind a large bookshelf.
"You damn bitch!"
He cursed angrily...
2025-08-16 09:40:38 +0000 UTC View Post"Hello?"
Emily took the initiative to speak, her voice clear and confident. She stood about ten meters away from Lin Yu'an, maintaining a safe social distance.
"Hello, Emily. I know about you."
Lin Yu'an didn't immediately approach, but remained where he was, responding in a friendly manner.
"I'm Lin Yu'an."
"Lin Yu'an..."
Emily's gaze quickly swept over the ...
2025-08-16 09:39:53 +0000 UTC View PostAfter returning to the forest land, a construction routine that belonged to him alone officially began.
He first filled professional seedling trays with substrate soil, then carefully opened several seed packages, placing cucumber and tomato seeds one by one into the holes of the seedling trays.
After completing the sowing, he used a spray bottle to thoroughly moisten the substrate,...
2025-08-16 09:39:10 +0000 UTC View PostAfter enjoying a victory-celebrating Chinese meal, the exhausted group drank ice-cold beer, savoring this hard-won tranquility.
The midnight sun had already tilted to a very low angle, but the sky remained bright.
Old George looked at those twenty-one concrete pile columns that had just begun to set, his eyes full of craftsman's pride! He stood up, preparing to bid farewell.
"...
2025-08-16 09:38:38 +0000 UTC View PostEarly the next morning, a foundation engineering team officially assembled at Wood Forest Land.
Old George drove his well-maintained old Ford, with his precious concrete mixer loaded in the truck bed, arriving as promised.
Lin Yu'an had already equipped his XCMG loader with the spiral drilling attachment rented from Fairbanks.
David and Mike stood ready in formation, knowing t...
2025-08-16 09:38:03 +0000 UTC View PostLin Yu'an brought them to his vehicle.
This was a 2020 Ford Explorer Limited edition he had ordered online through Fairbanks' used car trading website a few days ago.
Mid-level 8-seat version with added FX4 off-road package, 3.5T V6 engine, maximum output 446 horsepower. Everything cost a bit over $60,000, about $20,000 cheaper than a new car.
He also took stock of his recent ...
2025-08-16 09:37:23 +0000 UTC View PostLin Yu'an used his XCMG loader to steadily place a four-meter-long debarked log on the band saw's tracks and secured it firmly with specialized clamps.
Then he started the Honda GX390 engine, and the massive band saw blade instantly reached extremely high speed, emitting a "buzzing" sound!
He gripped the main head's control lever and pushed it forward steadily along the tracks.
<... 2025-08-16 09:36:49 +0000 UTC View Post"How is it?"
Old George proudly patted the solid body of the band saw, his eyes looking at it like he was looking at his own child.
"This guy has been with me for almost ten years. I gave it a more powerful Honda GX390 engine and installed an automatic lubrication system myself."
"As long as you feed it wood, it can spit out lumber of any size you want, with an error no more t...
2025-08-16 09:36:16 +0000 UTC View PostLin Yu'an immediately took action, putting on his Arcteryx down parka and starting up his Zongshen three-wheeler.
Stan mounted his snowmobile, while David and Mike sat in the cargo bed, experiencing their first ride in this vehicle from China.
The group formed an unusual convoy and drove toward the depths of Wiseman town.
Old George's log cabin was larger and tidier than Stan'...
2025-08-16 09:35:31 +0000 UTC View PostLin Yu'an showed no panic at all. He released the clutch, and the winch stopped pulling.
He quickly walked to a previously positioned turning pulley, disconnected the steel cable from its original straight-line route, and hooked it into the pulley fixed to a large tree on the side.
He started the winch again. This time, the steel cable exerted force from the side, and the front end ...
2025-08-16 09:34:54 +0000 UTC View PostWitch Kitchen, table number 5.
Locke thought for a moment. He could divide the Crystal Palm Fire Lotus into three batches and deliver them in three installments.
He could first open one hundred acres of magical fields, then plant the first batch of Crystal Palm Fire Lotus. With the magic stones paid by the academy, he could easily make full use of the plantation in his hands.
...
2025-08-16 09:29:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe bustling Chimera Trading Market, Witch Kitchen.
Seasoning chefs proficient in the taste modification magic sub-category of the Enchantment School were in the kitchen, adding finishing touches to the dishes they had made themselves.
Adding many specific Enchantment School magical effects to adjust the taste of dishes, creating delicious flavors that ordinary people could never pr...
2025-08-16 09:28:49 +0000 UTC View PostLocke also understood why they needed to recruit so many students from outside their network of relationships.
Nothing else.
Just finding people to take the blame.
By recruiting so many second-class wizard apprentice helpers who could ostensibly be called assistants, even if experiments really went wrong, when the White Wizard Association and academy higher-ups came to investi...
2025-08-16 09:28:14 +0000 UTC View Post"Next." Locke sat on the sofa in the reception room, coldly watching these second-class wizard apprentices leave or enter the house.
He held their submitted materials in his hands.
Most of their resumes left him somewhat unsatisfied.
Although the main purpose of recruiting this second-class wizard apprentice was to meet the standard requirements for the personal pharmaceutical...
2025-08-16 09:27:33 +0000 UTC View PostNext, Locke spent the entire morning busy at the Healing Hand Treatment Center, and after returning in the afternoon, he studied Minor Viridian Potion for three hours.
In the evening, Locke began using the advanced meditation method for his practice.
To take advantage of the first month's benefit period, Locke directly maximized all resources, consuming a bottle of Stardust Tears Po...
2025-08-16 09:27:00 +0000 UTC View PostWizard Edwin, Witch Sophia, an elderly female formal wizard, and a middle-aged male formal wizard all arrived at the second floor together.
The middle-aged male formal wizard swept his gaze over the office that had become a complete mess and said expressionlessly, "That wizard seed from the Blood Curse Court went too far. Under our very noses, he made a complete mess of the treatment cent...
2025-08-16 09:26:26 +0000 UTC View PostHussein's blood claws were enhanced with numerous curses. These curses penetrated Locke's surface magic resistance through the blood line on his scratched skin and entered his body.
They caused status effects on him.
The Thousand Sores Curse made wounds appear across Locke's body surface, the Bleeding Curse made Locke bleed continuously with even small wounds bleeding heavily, and t...
2025-08-16 09:25:38 +0000 UTC View PostMassive light prisms shot toward that Frozen Tower wizard apprentice, but in that instant, the wizard apprentice's pupils suddenly transformed, becoming multiple pupils, each connected to the others, all turning bright red in color.
Then, this Frozen Tower student's body was instantly transformed by the curse magic upon him into a semi-vampire body. He leaped into mid-air.
In this o...
2025-08-16 09:24:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe first characteristic was typical consciousness jumping, where if you spoke about the east, he would talk about the west, without any logic.
The second characteristic was that the person would lose mobility, lying on the ground unable to move. This was probably why this patient was brought here, as this condition could easily be mistaken for a paralysis curse.
But there should al...
2025-08-16 09:24:14 +0000 UTC View PostLocke followed the treatment center workers into a large office on the second floor prepared for first-class wizard apprentices.
In this office, there were six first-class wizard apprentices, and they all wore potion master assistant certification badges on their wizard robes. Several of the first-class wizard apprentices even had honor badges for developing new potion formulas on the hem...
2025-08-16 09:23:36 +0000 UTC View PostFor Pledged Members:
Necromancer, What the Hell Is A Type 055 Summon? — Chapters 111 to 120
Wasteland Border Inspector — Chapters 101 to 106
My Father Is Superman, But I'm Just An NPC? — Chapters 91 to 96
I Run A Prison In Americ...
[Angelina Castro]
[Identity: CIA Senior Agent]
[Rating: 55 (Level A)]
[Loyalty: 30 (Initial Value)]
[Skills: Advanced Driving, Intermediate Marksmanship, Intermediate Disguise, Intermediate Judo, Expert-Level Network Technology]
[Weakness: Likes cosmetics]
"What the hell?" Lind was very surprised after reading the panel.
At first, seeing A-level, he tho...
2025-08-15 08:22:05 +0000 UTC View PostBorder Prison had lost one guard and two prisoners.
By all rights, this should have been a big deal. Even in America, where shootouts happened every day, it should at least have made state headlines.
After all, a riot in a private prison could serve as evidence for many people to attack state government officials.
However, everything that happened at Border Prison didn't cause...
2025-08-15 08:21:31 +0000 UTC View PostIn fact, on the very day George and Casas were conspiring, Lind had already received the news.
Because Andy had reported to him about all of George's activities.
Including his meeting with Casas in the exercise yard, his back-and-forth movements between the central monitoring area and the cell block, as well as his desire to replace the duty guards.
Lind truly hadn't expected ...
2025-08-15 08:20:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe guards on night duty generally stayed in the central monitoring area.
Because patrols weren't constant, but rather every three hours.
From the cell block to the prison cells, then from the cells turning to the bathroom and other places.
So when George and Cookwa weren't patrolling, they stayed in the monitoring room chatting.
Until midnight at 12 o'clock.
"Tap ...
2025-08-15 08:20:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe day after the state corrections search was completed, at noon.
Avery bid farewell to Lind with his special team.
After the two police armored vehicles left, Lind returned to the prison building.
At this time, his task list had been updated.
[Task 1: Earn $500,000 within 30 days to repay the first loan installment. Reward: Random assembly line blueprint]
[Task 2...
2025-08-15 08:19:54 +0000 UTC View Post