After entering the residence, they found themselves in an elegant yet unadorned courtyard of the Guan Zizai Realm, alive with birdsong and fragrant flowers. Yue Li Lian and Yang Xu were beneath a pavilion, where numerous jade slips lay spread across the stone table—likely personnel and unit records following the military residence's expansion.
Even when Li Tianming arrived, they were still busy.
For the military residence to successfully expand, for the Primordial Chaos Military Residence to rise in status and wash away the humiliating label of "watchdogs," these middle-ranking officers were the ones truly pouring their hearts into it, running themselves ragged from dawn to dusk.
"Sit wherever."
Yue Li Lian greeted him without looking up, still comparing data with Yang Xu.
"What did you have in mind, coming here in person?"
After Li Tianming sat down, Yue Li Lian glanced up at him. Her gaze was indulgent; clearly, she had grown increasingly accustomed to a role overflowing with maternal affection.
"I want to make a trip to the Source of Ten Thousand Evil Dreams." Li Tianming got straight to the point.
"The Source of Ten Thousand Evil Dreams?"
At those words, even Yang Xu beside her froze for a moment and looked up at Li Tianming.
Yue Li Lian was equally surprised. "What are you going there for? That place is a complete mess, beyond anyone's control. It's like an Asura battlefield—killing carries no crime, dragons and fish mingle together, every kind of person is there... and there are quite a few experts in the Fate-Defying Realm."
"To make money." Li Tianming paused, then explained, "I'm broke enough to jingle! I don't have a single Mo Starcloud Sacrifice left."
"Damn." Yue Li Lian's eyes widened. "You brat really know how to spend, huh? Why are you always either borrowing