MTL - Apocalypse Summoner - Chapter 1553 Negotiation breaks!

Once upon a time, there was a makeup artist who possessed outstanding skills and top-notch aesthetic judgement. When he did makeup for various stars, he could embellish sharpness onto the smooth vases that lacked edges, and he could make models who exceeded the boundaries of aesthetics to appear delicate and soft, more approachable to people.

Male stars loved to request him, for he had a thorough understanding of masculine charm in particular, and the makeup he did was never garishly slathered in oils or powders, instead exuding a natural, dashing air of elegance.

Female stars loved to request him, because not only was he excellent in his skills, he was also everyone’s closest confidant; when they chatted, he could easily hold any conversation, and his mouth would be tightly sealed, never allowing anyone’s privacy to slip out.

Although this person was quite young, after getting by in the makeup industry the past few years, he was virtually considered as a distinguished personality in his profession, and would be referred to as a ‘master’ wherever he went.

But he had a terrifying secret. He needed to carefully tread on thin ice and couldn’t expose even the slightest traces; otherwise, nobody would invite him to work ever again, and nobody would apply to the classes he led anymore.

—He was a straight man.

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Su Zhou was a natural-born superhuman. To him, crushing bones was as effortless as crumbling butter cookies.Sometimes, being too special isn’t exactly a good thing. For many years, he searched this seemingly ordinary world for others of his kind, but his efforts always ended in vain…That was, until the sudden advent of the Spiritual Revival drew back the curtain on a vast, magnificent new era.In a world now teeming with monsters, wicked fiends, and countless demonic entities—Within a multiverse teetering on the brink of shattering and on the eve of absolute destruction—Su Zhou still harbors a heart that yearns for justice and pursues the righteous path.Drawing his blade in the face of injustice, he has but one rule:“Any monster that dares to appear before him… must die!”

Qi Condensation. Foundation Establishment. Core Formation. In the current world, only these three realms are known to be achievable. Nascent Soul is but a legend and the realms above it lost to the the long river of time. The modern era is known as Cultivation Civilization, a balance of power and civility, excess and moderation. While cultivation remains a secret practice, it has long since exposed itself to the mundane world, quietly intertwined with each facet of society. While the world appears to be at peace, what lies underneath is a conflict between human, cultivator, and demon, brewing for ages and waiting to implode. Yet in the wake of humanity’s rapid industrialization, qi—and consequently cultivation—is dying.