Open up and break into another world

Boom!

Xue Xi was kicked flying, severely injured, but he didn't dare to utter a sound, not even a groan of pain.

Those familiar with Liang Hui knew that he appeared dignified on the surface, but was ruthless underneath; within the sect, quite a few had been secretly tortured to death by him.

Xue Xi knew he had made a grave mistake, and with Liang Hui's fury at its peak, he dared not make a sound.

Deng Yuan and Yang Jiu, standing to the side, were also as quiet as cicadas in winter, making their breathing as light as possible.

"The ore vein was stolen, a loss of over two million low-grade Xuan Stones! How dare you still be alive?" Liang Hui, still not appeased, stepped forward and gave Xue Xi several more heavy kicks, almost kicking him to death, "How dare you still be alive? How dare you still be alive!? Damn it!"

Xue Xi felt wronged—I diligently guarded the mine every day, never neglecting my duty, so how could the ore vein suddenly become like this… This is truly an unexpected disaster!

After kicking him a few more times, Liang Hui finally kicked the half-dead Xue Xi aside, then walked with a gloomy face to the center of the empty ruins.

"These sand fragments…" Liang Hui looked at the sand fragments on the ground with suspicion.

Originally, this was a Xuan Stone mine, so why has it turned into sand fragments? What could possibly destroy the hard Xuan Stone mine like this?

Liang Hui picked up a handful of sand fragments, filled with doubts.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck him: "Domain?"

Could it be that a master who controlled a domain came to steal the mine?

But, aren't domain masters supposed to be noble? Why would they condescend to come to a mine and do something as lowly as stealing ore?

"Could it be…" A figure flashed through Liang Hui's mind, "Xu Ming?—He controls a domain, and he certainly has a 'record' of stealing ore!"

After a moment of thought.

Liang Hui suddenly asked, "Still not dead, are you?"

Xue Xi weakly replied, "Not dead, not dead!"

"Good that you're not dead!" Liang Hui said, "From now on, you continue to manage the mine, as if nothing here ever happened!—Understand?"

Act as if nothing happened?

Xue Xi and the others immediately understood that Elder Liang Hui didn't want to alert the enemy!

"Yes, yes, yes!" Xue Xi nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, "We know what to do!"

"Mm!" Liang Hui grunted expressionlessly and turned to leave.

However, in his heart, Liang Hui had already begun to plan how to lie in wait for the rabbit to come.

…

November 27th, night.

"At home?" Xu Ming asked via transmission.

"Yes! Tomorrow is the coming-of-age ceremony, so of course I can't stay in the Comprehension Tower tonight," Gu Hanmo's reply came immediately from the other end of the transmission.

"Wait for me, I'll come to you right away!"

"You're coming over?" Gu Hanmo was startled, and said, "Coming over so late at night, wouldn't it be bad if people saw you?"

The focus of Gu Hanmo's words was not "Don't come over", but "It would be bad if people saw you so late at night".

"Don't worry! No one will see me!" Xu Ming smiled mysteriously, "Keep the door open, and I'll be there!"

"Hi, what are you looking at? I'm here!" Gu Hanmo suddenly heard Xu Ming's voice behind her.

"You… when did you come in? How did you come in?"

The windows were tightly closed, and Gu Hanmo had been staring at the door the whole time. She didn't see anything, yet Xu Ming had appeared behind her.

"That's a secret for now!" Xu Ming smiled mysteriously.

Invisibility was something that was hard to explain, so it was best not to bring it up casually.

Fortunately, Gu Hanmo's focus was not on how Xu Ming had come in, but on…

"What are you doing here so late at night? I was about to go to sleep!"

Xu Ming chuckled, "Tomorrow you'll be sixteen years old, so I'm here to give you your coming-of-age gift in advance—oh no, not tomorrow, but right now!"

"Gift?" Gu Hanmo's eyes lit up.

As the only daughter of the sect leader, Gu Hanmo would inevitably receive all kinds of gifts at her coming-of-age ceremony.

But…

Gu Hanmo didn't have much expectation for other people's gifts; the only thing she was looking forward to was what Xu Ming would give her.

She didn't expect that "tomorrow" hadn't even arrived yet, and Xu Ming had rushed over to give her a gift.

"Hurry up and take it out to see what it is!" Gu Hanmo said impatiently.

"Wait…" Xu Ming timed it, "Five! Four! Three! Two! One… Look!"

When Xu Ming finished counting down, the time had just reached midnight; Gu Hanmo had just turned sixteen!

At this moment, Xu Ming's storage ring lit up.

"What will it be?" Gu Hanmo was full of anticipation.

Gu Hanmo wasn't expecting any precious treasures; what she was more anticipating was Xu Ming's feelings.

The first "little trinket" flew out of Xu Ming's storage ring.

This was a little trinket in the shape of a bird, but the texture seemed to be just ordinary paper.

Gu Hanmo watched curiously, she had never seen such a thing before.

Immediately afterwards, the second, third, fourth… ten, a hundred, a thousand paper birds flew out of the storage ring one after another, and without any control, they would hover and fly in the room by themselves.

The colorful paper birds hovered in the room, making Gu Hanmo's heart spin.

"What is this?"

"Paper Cranes!" Xu Ming said.

The paper cranes in the storage ring were still flying out continuously.

"Paper Cranes?" Gu Hanmo murmured, she had really never heard of or seen them before.

In this world, other aspects besides martial arts are very weak.

Paper folding, a skill that is of no help to strength, is rarely seen, let alone "high-end paper folding" like paper cranes.

"What a great idea! How novel!"

Watching the paper cranes flying around the room, Gu Hanmo's face was full of surprise and delight.

She didn't expect that Xu Ming would prepare such a unique gift for her.

Moreover, although Gu Hanmo had never seen paper cranes and didn't know the meaning of paper cranes; but at this moment, she felt the love that Xu Ming conveyed through the paper cranes.

"A total of… nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine!" When the last paper crane flew out of the storage ring, Xu Ming said, "I saw a kind of paper folding in miscellaneous books before…"

"Mm!" Gu Hanmo was full of sweetness.

"I have engraved runes on each paper crane. After they are released, they will automatically fly in the sky without any control."

"Mm!" For some reason, Gu Hanmo's IQ seemed to have suddenly become very low, and she couldn't even speak for a while, she just knew how to 'mm mm mm mm mm'…

"Do you like it?"

"Mm!"

"A coming-of-age gift for you!" Xu Ming suddenly felt that he was really good at picking up girls!

Paper cranes are inherently a weapon to "deceive" innocent girls. What's more, this world has never seen paper cranes, so the lethality is naturally doubled.

Just like the always rational Gu Hanmo, she was already dizzy at this time.

"Okay, the gift has been delivered, I'm leaving!" Xu Ming said.

Just as Xu Ming was about to leave, Gu Hanmo suddenly shouted: "Wait!"