Xing Tie: Wait a minute! How come Weng Xing has two saviors?

Its thick, heavy, and gritty texture is like chewing a lump of cheap putty mixed with sand and gravel!

Large amounts of red clay stubbornly adhered to the inner walls of the mouth, gums, and crevices of the teeth, forming a suffocating and extremely uncomfortable film. Every chew and swallow felt like fighting against a constantly growing, sticky lump of slime!

Bai Mo's brows furrowed more and more, his elegant eating posture vanished, leaving only an awkwardness and discomfort as if his mouth had been forcibly filled with foreign objects.

Seeing Bai Mo's miserable state, tormented by the taste, Bai E and Wan Di managed to squeeze out a twisted smile, a smile of vengeful pleasure, from their faces, which were numb with bitterness!

The two exchanged a glance, seeing the same message in each other's eyes: It was worth it! Even if they ate dirt until their stomachs ruptured, seeing Bai Mo like this was a victory in itself!

A desperate, suicidal madness burned fiercely in their hearts!

"Bai Mo!" Bai E opened his mouth, which was covered in red mud so thick it was unrecognizable, and roared incoherently, "Get ready... to embrace the... bond between me and Medemos!!!"

"Hmph! Don't think... I'm afraid of you!" Bai Mo was annoyed by the sticky texture and provoked by her brother's provocation. She glared back defiantly, temporarily forgetting the discomfort in her mouth.

Thus... a "dirt-eating contest" concerning dignity (?), face (?), and who can endure inhuman torture (√) officially entered its white-hot stage!

Three humans, as if possessed, began a frenzied "feeding" around the earth beast's feeding trough. The sounds of swallowing, gagging, and indistinct shouts rose and fell.

Exhausted, Professor Xia finally finished his reasoning about the nature of the world, leaving only the verification to be carried out.

He rubbed his throbbing temples and, using the Hundred Realms Gate left by Bai Mo, teleported to Ohema, arriving at the outskirts of the Earth Beast Breeding Grounds.

He took a deep breath of the unique air of the farm, filled with the fragrance of grass and earth, and a relaxed smile appeared on his face. He prepared to receive the warm greetings from the earth beasts and soothe his weary soul...

His smile froze.

His pupils... It's like an earthquake!

In the soft golden glow of the setting sun, on that familiar, tranquil open space of the breeding farm, he witnessed a scene he would never forget, a scene powerful enough to shatter all his understanding and reason:

Three humans! They were lying in an extremely undignified posture beside the feeding trough of his beloved earth beasts!

Are they frantically... fighting over the red soil in the feeding trough?!

Meanwhile, his poor, docile, and beloved earth beasts were pacing anxiously around him, letting out aggrieved and angry cries. Their huge hooves were pawing the ground restlessly, trying to push away the "robbers," but they were afraid of hurting them. They were so anxious that they were almost spitting out human words!

Their clear, large eyes were filled with incomprehension, grievance, and accusation.

"Hey! You three over there! What are you doing?!" Professor Xia's voice trembled with shock and anger.

"Has no one ever taught you Earth Beasts that the red soil is specially made and that humans shouldn't eat too much of it?! Stop...stop...how...how is it you?! Bai E?! Bai Mo?!!"

When Professor Xia finally saw the faces of those three "earth-eating maniacs," he felt as if his world had collapsed!

Although he didn't want to admit it, Bai E was his "prized student"! He remembered Bai Mo as someone who was abnormally lazy!

And then there's Crown Prince Wan Di, who seems pretty reliable! The three of them...they're actually...eating Red Stone?!

He glanced at the earth beast, which was stamping its feet anxiously and looking like it was about to cry, and then at the three students whose mouths were full of red mud, whose expressions were painful and ferocious, and who were still stuffing dirt into their mouths...

In my mind, a woman's face became clear.

"Ha...haha...hahahaha!" At that moment, Xia suddenly burst into a hysterical, almost manic laugh, pointing at the absurd scene before him and roaring at the sky:

"Hahahaha! Aglaia! You won! You won!!! I had just finished thinking and stepped into the Holy City!!!"

His voice was filled with despair and self-mockery, "You actually...you actually let my student! And my most beloved Earth Beast!...steal red soil from right in front of me?!?"

At that moment, Professor Xia, as one of the most intelligent scholars in the Divine Enlightenment Tree Court and a future rational demigod, was completely unable to be rational at all!

When Aglaia finally had a brief respite from her daily dealings with the Senate and could catch her breath,

She suddenly realized, belatedly, that the message Xia sent through the communication stone slab today seemed a little... too "lively".

It wasn't that the language suddenly became particularly vulgar; if it had, Aglaia would have simply coldly mocked the other person's incompetence.

Rather, it's the statements themselves that... lack the most basic logical chain!

The speech was incoherent, filled with meaningless laughing symbols and broken interjections, like the ramblings of someone who had suffered a major mental shock.

This is definitely not the style of Xia Ping, who is known for his rigor, rationality, and occasional harshness!

An ominous premonition crept into Aglaia's heart.

She frowned, shifting her weary gaze from the complex government documents, and with a hint of doubt and a touch of irritation, turned her attention to the gold threads that covered Ohmma.

Boom! It was as if a silent thunderclap exploded in her mind!

Aglaia felt a sudden darkness before her eyes, and a surge of blood rushed from the soles of her feet to the top of her head!

What did she see? !

The live video feed transmitted to her by Jin Si was like a heavy hammer, shattering all her cognition and remaining rationality!

In the scene, she saw the Holy City's proudest and most elite young warriors—the two saviors Bai E and Bai Mo, on whom they placed their hopes, and the valiant Crown Prince Wan Di—lying haphazardly on the muddy ground of the Ohema Earth Beast Breeding Ground, as if they had experienced some terrible defeat!

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Therefore, after careful consideration, starting tomorrow, the daily update schedule will be adjusted to 3 chapters per day.

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Chapter 72 Xi Lian: Bai E, Bai Mo, I want to have some heartfelt words with you.

The three of them had ashen faces, lifeless eyes, and suspicious, dark red, mud-like stains on their mouths and even their clothes. Their bodies would occasionally twitch due to discomfort!

What made her even more human was that Xia, who had always been at odds with her, not only showed no concern or intention to help, but instead acted like a madwoman, dancing wildly and laughing hysterically in the scene!

He laughed wildly while frantically poking at the stone slab with his finger, bombarding her with messages!

Those incoherent words, interspersed with symbols of maniacal laughter, kept crashing against Aglaia's communication stone tablet!

When Aglaia arrived at the farm at breakneck speed, almost dragging Xilian, whose face was ashen and who was radiating a low-pressure aura, she was stunned.

The scene before them was even more impactful than they had imagined.

The air was thick with the earthy smell. Bai E, Bai Mo, and Wan Di lay sprawled on the ground near the feeding trough, like three salted fish washed ashore by the waves. Their faces were pale, their eyes were vacant, their bellies were swollen, and they looked utterly hopeless.

Xi Lian felt an overwhelming sense of powerlessness and absurdity instantly engulf her.

She took a deep breath, trying to suppress the urge to strangle the twins, and quickly walked to Bai E and Bai Mo's side.

She bent down, reached out impatiently, and tried to pull the two brothers, who were limp as mud, up from the ground, one in each hand.

"Get up!" Xi Lian pulled hard.

...Not moving at all?!

She paused for a moment, then, refusing to believe it, she put in even more effort, even using a bit of cleverness.

Bai E and Bai Mo's bodies only swayed symbolically, remaining firmly stuck to the ground like two heavy, water-soaked puddles of mud.

Xi Lian: “…”

She looked down at her hands, which were slightly red from exerting force, and then at the two "human-shaped weights" on the ground.

An indescribable mix of despair, absurdity, and the thought that "I must have had the worst luck to run into you guys" instantly overwhelmed her.

She gave up on physically pulling them, instead squatting down, stretching out her hands, one in each hand, grabbing their collars and shaking Bai E and Bai Mo's heads wildly!

"Bai E! Bai Mo!" Xi Lian's voice was filled with heartache and indignation at Bai Mo's disappointment, as if she were conducting a desperate soul-searching interrogation.

"You two! Listen up! I, Xilian, am going to have something to say to you from the bottom of my heart today! From the bottom of my heart!"

Her shaking was so forceful that the brothers' heads bobbed in the air, leaving afterimages: "Just a few more days! Just a few more days! It'll be your twentieth birthday! Twenty years old!!!"

Xi Lian's voice trembled with tears: "That's my coming-of-age ceremony! It's a new chapter in my life!"

This is an age when you should be mature, reliable, and responsible! Look at you all! Look at the mess you've made of!!!

She abruptly stopped shaking, pointed to the red mud remaining at the corners of their mouths, then to Wan Di, who was also seemingly out of his body, and to the earth beast that was still rubbing against Na Ke Xia with a pitiful expression, as if complaining. Her voice was sharp and shrill with excitement:

"Eating—dirt—?! Or are you going to gang up and steal dirt from the Earth Beasts to eat?! Can't you guys have some self-respect?! Can't you act like 'saviors' for once?! Huh?! Tell me! Can't you?!!"

"Xi...Xi Lian (sister)...stop...stop shaking!" Bai E and Bai Mo were so shaken that they saw stars. Their stomachs were already churning, and now they felt like they had been thrown into a blender.

Their faces turned from pale to white, then from white to green, their features contorted in agony, and they emitted dying whimpers.

"Stop...stop! Xi Lian (Sister)! Quick...hurry up and throw up! You really need to...vomit...throw it out!!!"

The next morning, Bai Mo quietly left Feng Jin's dimly lit courtyard, which was filled with the fragrance of herbs.

He didn't need to be treated like those two unlucky guys, Bai E and Wan Di, who were "served" to the point of near death by Feng Jin's vomiting and diarrhea medicine, and had to vomit up all that damned red soil from their stomachs.

Thanks to the folder with the Arabi, his body already possessed the ability to digest the Earth Beast's specially made red soil.

According to Feng Jin's diagnosis, he was simply...overeating, um...plus a little bit of indigestion.

Bai Mo rubbed his still slightly bloated stomach, feeling the power of the Wild Flute within him slowly and steadily breaking down those inhuman "foods," and an indescribable sense of absurdity welled up in his heart.

As he walked, he couldn't help but think, "I never expected that the ability of the Wild Flute that has helped me the most right now is actually digesting the red soil of the Earth Beast?"

(Arabi: I should have just let it rot in the ground)

Back at the Golden Grand Hotel, which was gradually getting back on track and beginning to exude an enticing aroma of food, Bai Mo took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the discomfort in his stomach.

Tomorrow is his and Bai E's twentieth birthday. Sister Xi Lian's heartfelt words are still ringing in his ears. At least... at least when it comes to preparing for the banquet, he has to act a little more "mature".

He went into the kitchen, picked up a pen and paper, and began to carefully plan the menu, trying to dispel the lingering gloom with the warmth of the food.

"Hmm... Sister Xilian likes to eat sweets."

“Saifei’er likes to eat fish, although I don’t like the taste of fish… Hmm… I’ll make a few plates especially for her. Just put them in a place where they’re easy to ‘snatch’.”

"Earth Beast Meat Steak? This should be kept away from Teacher Xia, put it in a corner."

"The Suspended Peak Cuisine... well, let's leave that to Wan Di. Didn't he say he can cook too?"

"Feng Jin prefers light medicinal soups... Xia Die favors delicate tea snacks..."

He wrote down each item carefully, the pen scratching softly, and a warm, homely feeling, filled with anticipation, gradually filled the kitchen.

"Boss..." A cautious voice interrupted Bai Mo's thoughts. Evelyn gently knocked on the kitchen door, poked half her head in, her face a little pale, "Someone outside... is looking for you."

Bai Mo, whose thoughts were interrupted, looked up, a hint of displeasure flashing across his brows.

However, he still tried to ask calmly and gently, "Who?"

“It’s…it’s those elders…” Evelyn’s voice was even lower, filled with obvious fear.

Bai Mo's brows furrowed instantly, and the gentleness in his eyes vanished, replaced by cold vigilance and impatience.

"Okay, I'll go take a look." He put down his pen, and the warmth that had just begun to build up instantly froze.

Inside the most luxurious private room at the Golden Grand Hotel, heavy velvet curtains blocked out most of the light, leaving only the dim glow of the wall lamps, creating an atmosphere as oppressive as the deathly stillness before a storm.

Bai Mo stood facing the doorway, his hands behind his back, radiating a chilling aura that kept strangers at bay.

Chapter 73 Bai Mo: Senate, it's almost time~

As the door to the private room was pushed open, and that familiar, repulsive figure—Elder Katniss—was about to step in with her usual arrogant demeanor, Bai Mo's icy voice, like a poisoned ice pick, pierced the silence without warning:

"Stop." His voice wasn't loud, but it carried an undeniable penetrating power.

Katniss stopped abruptly, a look of surprise flashing across her face.

Bai Mo slowly turned around, his eyes sharp as knives, a hint of undisguised sarcasm on his lips: "At your age, and with your legs not so nimble, you shouldn't come in."

"If you were to slip and fall on this carpet, I'm afraid the carpet in my private room would wipe away the grime you're so proud of from scrubbing the pool." Every word was like poison coated in sugar, outwardly respectful but inwardly utterly contemptuous.

Bai Mo took a step forward, his gaze pressing down on Katniss as if it were a physical object, and questioned her without any politeness:

"Tell me, what brings you here this time? Just like always, to hypocritically hand over money and bestow your pitiful, empty power that can be taken back at any time?"

Or will they resort to the same old tricks, sending over some shoddy artwork that no one can understand, supposedly highbrow but ultimately worthless?

He scoffed, his eyes growing even colder. "Or perhaps... they're sending over some so-called 'top-tier beauties' to infiltrate my restaurant as spies?"

Katniss's arrogance was somewhat overwhelmed by Bai Mo's barrage of sarcasm. She took a deep breath, a hint of resentment flashing in her cloudy old eyes, which then transformed into an almost insane smugness.

"Neither, Bai Mo." Her voice trembled slightly with excitement, yet carried a twisted sense of pleasure.