Master Tian's words went round and round, but in the end, he specifically added a supplementary remark. However, Cheng Ye understood the meaning in his words perfectly clearly.
Getting in and out of sanctuary cities was too difficult. One could only struggle in this small patch of land, with pitifully narrow paths for development.
But this point was fundamentally unsolvable. Once the speed of population flow accelerated, the proportion of infection bodies appearing would rise acco...
2025-08-07 06:19:55 +0000 UTC
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After Yu Hong left with his people, only Liu Kun and Ding Yishan remained sitting across from each other in the conference room.
Silence swept over the mahogany table like a tide, until the sunlight outside the window had shifted another inch or so diagonally. Only then did the two men successively stand up and walk out with heavy steps.
At the entrance, Achuan had already prepared the supplies for visiting the injured, with four bulging packages piled at his feet.
Seeing bo...
2025-08-07 05:30:18 +0000 UTC
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The old scribe's work was very solid. He had fished out an eleven-person team of excellent quality from the prisoner camp for Chen Mo.
This was another industry insider tip that only someone well-versed in the unspoken rules could grasp.
The military systems of the southern nations all inherited the traditions of the Sky Empire from its peak period. That is, twelve people formed a basic squad unit, one hundred twenty people formed a company, and so on.
Of course, each countr...
2025-08-07 02:17:35 +0000 UTC
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Although Cloudmist Domain had, due to certain political considerations, essentially "erased" Chen Mo's achievements on the surface, privately, Earl Liuyun had provided sufficient compensation.
Not only did he give the green light for the territory application procedures, but when Chen Mo needed to recruit some private armed forces to maintain his territory, the earl sent his most trusted old scribe to assist.
"It's best not to hire people from the mercenary guild, especially durin...
2025-08-07 02:16:45 +0000 UTC
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Little Chen, who was being fondly remembered by the family heads back home, was at this moment standing before a distant and vast sky screen, completely dumbfounded.
This was the location of the Emerald Duchy coalition's western headquarters. In front of the central command tent, a flag bearing the emerald vine sword that symbolized the duchy's highest authority pointed straight toward the sky.
Around the main flag, more than twenty colorful banners with different emblems, lord fl...
2025-08-07 02:16:00 +0000 UTC
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Whether it could be transmitted to people in the future or not, it would still require a long and distant process.
Before that, East Xia would have to continue exchanging materials and products through this slow, inefficient, and painful method.
The reporter from the Life Sciences Research Center sat down, and immediately after, the representative from the Undead Science Research Center stood up.
Well, although it sounded absurd, East Xia had indeed established such an insti...
2025-08-07 02:15:07 +0000 UTC
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After briefly reporting on the Starry Continent situation, the monthly meeting began reviewing East Xia's gains and progress.
First was the latest progress on [Everchant Essence].
Technically, there wasn't much to say about this thing. The research path had reached its end. Components, mechanisms, principles, and effects were all analyzed clearly, they just lacked raw materials.
Scarce in quantity, outstanding in effect, it counted as a national treasure in East Xia.
T...
2025-08-07 02:11:49 +0000 UTC
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As a renowned big shot in East Xia's fishing world, known as the "Fishing King," Old Deng was currently utterly bewildered.
He had just finished dominating a fishing spot during the day, putting on quite a technical display in front of the cameras.
Returning home triumphantly to enjoy the overflowing likes and comments, a series of knocks interrupted his self-indulgence.
The knocks were crisp and steady, three knocks with consistent intervals and volume, a brief pause, then ...
2025-08-07 02:10:18 +0000 UTC
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The territorial documents were sent to the Emerald Duchy, awaiting the sovereign's approval and proclamation to all kingdoms, which would take some time.
Chen Mo took this opportunity to handle several important matters in Emerald City. For this, Chen Mo once again activated the Sacrificial Altar, setting up an eight-channel split.
Let me organize the main problems that currently needed solving.
First, the Earl showed some interest in modern weapons, so a small trade could b...
2025-08-07 02:09:43 +0000 UTC
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The Marquis smiled and nodded at Chen Mo, then opened Captain Paven's handwritten letter.
The parchment edges showed some damage, and the handwriting appeared somewhat hurried, clearly written in haste, but the meaning maintained Paven's characteristically meticulous style as always.
"Respectfully presented to the honored Earl:
If the bearer of this letter who delivers it before you is Mr. Chen Mo himself, Paven humbly requests that the Earl grant him courtesy befitting a kn...
2025-08-07 02:08:36 +0000 UTC
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The [Shuttle], as an amphibious electric motorcycle, displayed its versatility to the Starry Continent for the first time.
After rushing down the riverbank, the [Shuttle]'s sides deployed two inflatable airtight membranes. The spinning motors pumped air into them, causing the airtight membranes to puff up like life vests, steadily supporting the heavy vehicle body.
On the sides of the wheels, pop-out paddles served as oars. Though the paddle blades were a bit small, they made up f...
2025-08-07 02:07:38 +0000 UTC
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To surround such a large area, the sentry posts arranged by Zircon Family were already spread extremely wide.
After Frost took out one with a single shot, the distance between two sentry posts now had enough space to fit a whole train through sideways. Naturally, there was no possibility of interfering with the [Shuttle]'s passage through the encirclement.
This was also their last chance. At this moment, Chen Mo's driving skills weren't quite proficient yet since he couldn't pract...
2025-08-07 02:06:57 +0000 UTC
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Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems — Chapters 75 to 82
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2025-08-06 03:16:00 +0000 UTC
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Not long after, the others also got up one by one.
They each came to the hall, ordered different foods, and gathered in small groups to chat.
Fu Chen first found Cai Zhiyuan.
After Cai Zhiyuan thought briefly for a moment, he got up and called Li Renshu and Cao Haichuan, bringing them into a small conference room to the side of the hall.
This building had many small compartments of different sizes, each with different layouts, seemingly encouraging people to use them f...
2025-08-06 03:12:19 +0000 UTC
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Li Renshu explained, "Because this game actually simulates the distribution mechanisms of the real world.
"The ways to obtain huge profits are often accompanied by huge risks.
"While following the crowd can avoid risks, it also greatly reduces the upper limit of profits.
"Besides that, there may also be different situations like cooperation or deception between players and between communities.
"If you can be the first to find loopholes or bugs hidden in the rules, you ...
2025-08-06 03:11:50 +0000 UTC
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Wang Yongxin paused slightly and continued, "In this world, visa time is life.
"Quantifying life's value to earn visa time is essentially trading life for life.
"As for whether this exchange is worthwhile, we must consider specific risks, benefits, and probabilities.
"Of course, this brings up another trap in this game, which is the 'chip exchange machine.'
"Players are thrown into a gambling match with the chip exchange machine from the start, and the rules clearly st...
2025-08-06 03:11:11 +0000 UTC
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Wang Yongxin nodded, "Exactly, that's the sentence!
"This actually hinted to us that the goal of this game was not 'judgment' but 'allocation', distributing visa time to us collectively according to certain game rules."
Qin Yao was somewhat confused, "Visa time... wasn't it already allocated? Each of us has it, about a month's worth."
Wang Yongxin shook his head slightly, "Obviously, according to the New World's rules, the visa time we initially received wasn't 'allocated' b...
2025-08-06 03:10:38 +0000 UTC
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"Internal strife?" Li Renshu was somewhat surprised.
Yang Yuting nodded, "That's right. After we left the chip exchange area, we also started discussing strategy.
"But very quickly, Brother Wang and Uncle Ding got into an argument.
"Because Brother Wang disagreed with our plan. He didn't want to gamble with people from other communities, he just wanted to go back and continue studying the chip exchange machine.
"Of course, I don't think this was a matter of who was rig...
2025-08-06 03:10:02 +0000 UTC
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The moment the countdown reached zero, Lin Sizhi realized he had returned to the lobby of his original community.
The other community members also appeared at almost the same time.
"One, two, three... twelve." Fu Chen immediately counted heads, and after discovering that no one was missing, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Although they had returned to the 'community', this absolutely safe place, it was obvious that many people had not yet recovered from the dangerous en...
2025-08-06 03:09:14 +0000 UTC
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Lu Xinyi's expression was somewhat ugly, because just as Lin Sizhi said, she and Lü Mingxuan had been kidnapped.
As long as Lin Sizhi and Qin Yao raised against each other, each taking a minute of thinking time, after a few rounds they could easily exhaust all the remaining game time.
This had no meaning for Lin Sizhi and Qin Yao, but it could prevent Lu Xinyi and Lü Mingxuan from leaving the gambling table, naturally making it impossible for them to find the chip exchange machi...
2025-08-06 03:08:41 +0000 UTC
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"Gulp."
Lü Mingxuan swallowed in shock.
So far, the betting amount from these three players in this round had exceeded the sum of all previous games.
On the gambling table, chips were piled like mountains. A rough glance suggested there were no fewer than sixty thousand.
What shocked Lü Mingxuan even more was that from the start of this game until now, Lin Sizhi had cumulatively thrown nearly seventy thousand chips.
These chips, he had brought with him from the...
2025-08-06 03:08:08 +0000 UTC
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Seeing Sister Liu go all-in, Lin Sizhi and Qin Yao naturally had no reason to continue raising, each choosing to call and reveal cards.
Sister Liu had King-high with mixed suits.
Qin Yao had a pair of Queens.
Lin Sizhi had Jack-high with mixed suits.
[Player chips depleted, please leave the table.]
Watching the mechanical arm sweep all the chips on the table to Qin Yao, Sister Liu left the gambling table somewhat dejectedly.
But she didn't have any complain...
2025-08-06 03:07:30 +0000 UTC
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Accumulated quite a bit of character?
Luck turning around?
Lu Xinyi felt somewhat amused and further confirmed her suspicions.
Unlike the other three conservative players in Community 17, Lin Sizhi should be a gambler who likes to go all-in.
Most likely, he had just gotten a taste of success in gambling against the chip exchange machine, got carried away, and then lost many consecutive rounds.
Many gamblers always have strange obsessions with luck, such as believ...
2025-08-06 03:06:56 +0000 UTC
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"I won't go!"
Upon hearing that Xiao Mo wanted her to go cultivate at the Tianxuan Sect, Bai Ruxue immediately stood up.
"Ruxue, you have talent for cultivation. You shouldn't be confined to such a small place. You have a much broader world ahead of you."
"But I like it here!"
"Ruxue, listen to me..."
"I won't listen, I won't listen! I refuse to listen!"
The young woman covered her ears and kept shaking her head.
"Xiao Mo! You're a big stinky egg!"
2025-08-06 03:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Ever since Bai Ruxue learned that Xiao Mo wouldn't marry the county magistrate's daughter, she had returned to being a carefree little girl.
Bai Ruxue was lively and energetic every day, even humming little tunes while cooking.
Actually, for Xiao Mo, he had never planned to marry the county magistrate's daughter in the first place.
At the time, Xiao Mo had wanted to politely decline County Magistrate Sun's kind offer, but County Magistrate Sun had interrupted Xiao Mo's words...
2025-08-06 02:59:27 +0000 UTC
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With light, joyful steps, Bai Ruxue ran down from She Mountain and returned to the village.
As soon as Bai Ruxue entered the village, a group of aunties and older women surrounded her.
"Ruxue, congratulations! Your Xiao Mo passed the provincial examination!"
"Ruxue, you'll be a provincial graduate's wife from now on."
"When Xiao Mo becomes a high official later, you mustn't let him forget us aunties!"
The aunties chattered one after another.
Bai Ruxue's eye...
2025-08-06 02:58:42 +0000 UTC
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Stone Bridge Village, Xiao Mo's courtyard.
Xiao Mo, who had returned from taking the provincial examination, was having tea with the village chief.
After returning to the village, Bai Ruxue had first gone up the mountain to see her little sister.
However, at noon and evening, Bai Ruxue would still come down the mountain to cook and wash clothes for Xiao Mo.
"You're saying the last question of the policy essay was about discussing vassal kings?"
The village chief ...
2025-08-06 02:58:04 +0000 UTC
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After Xiao Mo entered his examination cell, he waited for the official start of the examination.
The Qi Kingdom's provincial examination was divided into three sessions.
The first session tested classical interpretation.
The Four Books usually had three questions.
Candidates were required to select passages from "The Great Learning," "The Doctrine of the Mean," "The Analects," and "Mencius" for interpretation.
The Five Classics corresponded to "The Book of Songs,...
2025-08-06 02:57:28 +0000 UTC
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There were still half a month left before the provincial examination.
Xiao Mo and Bai Ruxue stood at the village entrance, both carrying small bundles on their backs.
In front of them was the village chief's family.
"Village Chief, are you really not going to try this time?" Xiao Mo asked the village chief.
The village chief was also a scholar, so naturally he could participate in the provincial examination.
"Forget it, forget it," the village chief shook his hea...
2025-08-06 02:56:56 +0000 UTC
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The girl's first attempt at cooking ended in disastrous failure.
And she nearly burned down the kitchen in the process.
Fortunately, Xiao Mo reacted quickly and put out the kitchen fire.
Actually, even if there hadn't been a fire, Xiao Mo felt that what Bai Ruxue had cooked this time was not fit for human consumption.
Because in Bai Ruxue's understanding, the so-called "cooking" really just meant cooking until done.
Bai Ruxue's original plan was to boil water, th...
2025-08-06 02:56:23 +0000 UTC
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