Desolate Era: Hatching a Phoenix at the Beginning - Chapter 205 - The Third Stone Pillar

Who will judge right and wrong, and who will comment on merits and demerits?

In this life, I don’t want to follow the rules, I just want to do whatever I want.

Hold the secret in your hand, watch me domineering.

————I am Zuo Xiaoduo, and I do not take the usual path.

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On Blue Sea Star, there is an extraordinary group of people who control all kinds of incredible power through armed cards. They are called Star Card Masters.

Su Yuan came across, and he also carried a system that can strengthen his own star card.

Transformation Realm Enlightenment Soul Card Complete Awakening = Top Qualification Soul Card [Phoenix of the Blue Sky]

Consummation-level popular walking step: avoid certain long-range attacks!

Perfect level Cang Yan Strike: double Cang Yan Strike!

Consummation-level metamagnetic heavy pressure: heavy pressure field!

Consummation level air cut: break the boundary line!

Perfect rigid flame finger + perfect hardened iron coat = golden hand!

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Su Yuan started from strengthening the initial soul-initiating card, step by step to the ultimate realm of Star Card Master!

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Yuan Xi had been the secretary for Gu Hanchen for five years, working tirelessly without a single day off. Not only was she overworked like a horse, but she was also slandered by Gu Hanchen's fiancee and her friend, Miss Chu, who accused Secretary Yuan of delusionally hoping to turn from a sparrow into a phoenix and become the wife of President Gu. No longer able to tolerate the treatment, Yuan Xi handed in her resignation letter. After resigning, the once overburdened secretary surprisingly turned out to be the legitimate heiress of the wealthiest family in Jiangcheng, the Chu family! Back at the Chu household, Yuan Xi discovered that the family had taken in an adopted daughter, Chu Yan, who had been standing in for her. The false heiress was bright and unrestrained, rightfully considered the unrivaled young mistress of Jiangcheng. Even after the return of the true heiress, Chu Yan remained the celebrated young mistress while Yuan Xi was invariably seen as a mere shadow when compared to Chu Yan's splendid life. Yuan Xi's husband did not even own a house in the center of Jiangcheng. In contrast, the impostor Chu Yan was set to marry into one of Jiangcheng's top four wealthy families, the Bo family. Everyone in Jiangcheng ridiculed Yuan Xi for not having a life as fortunate as the false heiress, nor a discerning eye. That was until the day when Mi Chen was listed on the stock market, and Yuan Xi swiftly rose above her own father to become the new wealthiest person in Jiangcheng. On the day Yuan Xi's child was born, the established noble Huo family from A City announced with great fanfare the joy of welcoming a new grandson... Yuan Xi had always thought that her marriage to Huo Shiyen was merely a shotgun wedding, and that Huo Shiyen had someone else he considered his childhood sweetheart and sweetheart under the moonlight. Only later did she realize that she was, in fact, his cherished childhood love.

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