Sea Capture Order, Marquis's Mansion

Without a word exchanged, Lin Qi returned to Warm Jade Pavilion.

As for how the Hu family, Long family, Xing family, and the other factions that had sent letters to Dragon City should cooperate; how they should build mutual trust; how they should hold each other's leverage and seize each other by the pigtails; how they should coordinate and command; what needed to be done first, and what should follow after—that sort of headache-inducing matter held no interest for Lin Qi.

Hu Xinzhu was a fox through and through, while Long Qiantú and Xing Lengmo were no kindhearted figures either. With the three of them gathered together, there would be no shortage of spectacle. Lin Qi had his own purpose for returning to Warm Jade Pavilion.

Since Barrel's size was far too eye-catching, Lin Qi had not brought him along when he paid his visit to the palace city. Upon returning to Warm Jade Pavilion, he heard a thunderous racket from Barrel's massive suite, like people wrestling. Lin Qi froze for a moment, then instinctively released his spiritual power to peek into Barrel's room.

One look, and Lin Qi turned around and left.

At least twenty dwarf maidens who could be considered peerless beauties among their kind lay sprawled across the floor, snoring away with "huff, huff" sounds. Stark naked, they had sturdy bodies and powerful arms and legs, each one solid as an iron stake.

Barrel was hugging a dwarf maiden barely half his height, carrying out the great endeavor of producing offspring with the ferocity of bulls in combat. He pumped away with fervent "heave-ho" motions, as if he meant to vent every bit of fire he had accumulated over all those years in the Black Abyss Divine Prison. Before him were bona fide dwarf beauties, nothing like