130. The Oath-Taking Ceremony, Subduing Ten Thousand Troops with a Single Word

As the Yuan army approached Ye City, Cao Xin stood upon a twenty-foot-high platform in the central plaza, facing over eight thousand surrendering soldiers to lead an oath-taking ceremony.

"Brothers of Hebei!"

Cao Xin shouted through a large iron megaphone to the nearly ten thousand men gathered in the square.

"I have a question for you!"

"What is it that you are actually fighting for?!"

Below the platform, Niu Jin and a group of twenty men held iron buckets...

Liu Juyong of Goryeo and Cui Zhongjiu of Baekje were both former bodyguards to the "Great King of Divine Merit." They were of high standing and formidable martial prowess. At that moment, Cui Fengxian had no strength left to resist; given Liu Juyong’s swordsmanship, he could not possibly have missed had he intended to take his life. It seemed the man had truly meant to spare him.

To achieve "subtlety" means, specifically, that one's true essence is no longer confined to the energy sea but can be channeled throughout the meridians of the entire body. Once this step is completed, the true essence a cultivator can mobilize is incomparably stronger than that of the "Intuition" realm.

With a pull, a drag, and a sharp change of direction, Jin Yuan executed a series of movements with dazzling speed before kicking the ball forward, finally shaking off Li Xinyu’s sticky defense. Just as he broke through with the ball, van der Wiel filled the gap and slid, tackling the ball out of bounds.

Yet, if their "arrows" could not even come within two yards of Feng Wu earlier, what chance did they have of closing in now with blade and spear in hand?

But since she knew her nine arrows could not stop "The Unrelenting Heart," why did she still force herself to block this extinction-level strike?

Mannone was about to secure the ball when an uninvited guest arrived, launching himself into a sliding shot directly in front of the goal! Mannone was just a fraction of a second too late; Manchester City had scored.

"If that old blind man from the Li family hadn't stepped in, I would have taken Shanghai in one fell swoop today and brought it entirely under the control of our Nangong family," Nangong Qingcheng said, a stubborn glint showing on her face behind her mask.

It turned out the man who had stopped Qin Zhonghai was a boatman. That day, he had seen a riderless horse wandering the ferry crossing and found it quite strange. Upon closer inspection, he was shocked to see a man hanging half-dead across the horse's back and hurried to intercept them, which was how he found Qin Zhonghai.

With everything arranged, they rested soundly for half the night. The next day, they rose, tidied up, wiped away any incriminating traces, and set off on their journey again, bold and at ease.

He turned around and saw Jacqueline looking pitiful. She was wearing only a long yellow wool coat over a dress, shivering in the cold wind.

This Lotus Lantern was no ordinary object; no one knew exactly what it was. Once the correct method of activation was mastered and true energy was infused into it, it would emit beams of light.

The members of the Dream-Falling Gang had no idea that their leader had already decided to purge them, and they were all still secretly gloating over the money they had just earned.

"Hmm!" Duanmu Youjia followed Leng Yueming, though her intentions were clearly different from the three before her.

"If we could know when he came over in the past, we could probably deduce what kind of person he is," Zhou Fan said, his eyes fixed on the screen, though the remark sounded quite strange.

Moreover, their cultivation methods were extremely rare. Unless they reached the Spirit Origin realm, they could never amount to much.

By the time Li Yan received the news, Heng Qi had already led his men into the forest to begin the search.

There was no doubt that the marvelous footwork Mei Qingfu displayed in the Plum Blossom Formation today was the hallmark of the Mei family's martial arts.

After a long while, once his heart had calmed, Liu Wancheng slowly said to Jacqueline, "Jacqueline, I know you aren't asleep. Now that your mother is away, I want to have a heart-to-heart with you."

For jobs like welding, there were few locals willing to do the work. The government had no choice but to recruit from abroad, offering incentives such as citizenship and the same benefits as local workers.