Chapter 51: The Calm Before the Storm

Although she knew her family was safe, Lianfei still felt a flutter of anxiety. She decided to say goodbye to Lilith and head straight home.

Entering the infirmary, she pushed open the door to find Lilith lying on the bed, wrapped up from the head down like a mummy.

At that moment, Lilith was arguing with the infirmary's sole doctor about the complete lack of medical pods.

Hearing someone enter at the door, the two of them stopped arguing.

"Lianfei! You're ba—"

Unlike ordinary standard or single rooms, a suite typically contained two rooms, one being the bedroom and the other a living room.

Throughout the world, the only thing capable of directly upgrading a magical artifact was perhaps this Stone of Haotian. Major clans and sects would likely tear each other apart in a bloody scramble to seize it.

"The dark elves have already gathered on the south side of the Abel Bridge and will arrive in half a day at most." Mu received Park Chang-gi's magical message during the battle and relayed it to Sword.

That was why he had laid down the Blazing Sun Stone as a hidden card, though encountering the Daoist of Heavenly Fire later on inspired him with yet another strategy.

Looking down at his severed wrist with lingering fear, and then glancing at Mu and Ernest as they emerged from the lake water, a deep sense of dread crept into Sphinx's eyes.

The Flower Monarch and the others also arrived by Qin Yan's side at this moment. Upon hearing Qin Aotian's words, the Flower Monarch felt terribly awkward and even somewhat guilty; had it not been for her, Qin Yan would have been able to see Qin Aotian days ago.

"We finally won! Is this the damn Chunin Exams? This must be the Jonin Exams!" Grumbling inwardly, Yan thought that the exceptional quality of this year's Chunin Exams was likely due to the accumulation of several years.

"I understand, rest assured. I won't joke with your lives," Meng Chao smiled faintly, speaking to the Seventh Princess.

"What did you say? Drugged!" Yang Yang turned pale with fright, finally realizing what had happened.

A smile now surfaced on Chen Yilin's face. Although the nurse had already taken away the recording when he woke up, the one thing he was certain of was what the flower sprite had said to him.

Zhang San felt a surge of inner delight. Upon careful calculation, he realized that he had already mastered quite a few ways to make money—enough to support a couple of hundred people without any problem. A strong urge to spread his wings and make a grand display of his abilities welled up inside him.

In the first month of the third quarter, the first batch of immigrants from Sea Shark Island arrived. Zhang San assigned all five thousand of them to Freshwater City, finally making it resemble a real town, complete with various livelihood-related supporting facilities established alongside them.

Chen Yi teleported back and immediately stumbled toward Swain's office. Because of his status as an esteemed guest, others needed to announce their visits, but he did not; he could enter directly, a special privilege granted to him by Swain.

"Then why do you think there should be birds here?" Zixuan asked in mild surprise before countering, "Could it be that Your Highness is also feeling lonely?" The final remark was merely a jest; she had no desire to discuss whether her heart was lonely, or if she truly felt lonely—something she herself wasn't even sure of.

Leveraging his forward momentum, Hao Yu braced his hands against the snow and did a somersault, barely managing to avoid an ungraceful tumble. However, the cramping pain in his abdomen seemed to have worsened, making him grit his teeth in agony. Clutching his stomach with one hand, he stumbled forward as he ran.

The taste was decent; it was more fragrant than ordinary dried fish, likely because the meat of ocean fish was firmer and yielded a better texture after being roasted.

The moment the artifact spirit's voice ceased, Hao Yu hurriedly reined in his focus and concentrated his attention.

Because this involved not just copper mining, but iron ore, coal mining, stone quarrying, brick-making, road paving, and much more, all of which required a massive number of slaves, nearly all of the hundred-plus thousand savages on the island had now been captured.

Yet, in just a few short minutes, the seasoned Captain Ji Yong had driven the large bus right up in front of everyone.