Chu Tianyou sneered, his eyes gleefully wild as he dropped the writhing, black parasite directly into Long Jingchen’s open mouth. The creature twisted and turned on his tongue, its slippery skin pulsing with a dark, toxic fluid. Before Jingchen could even try to spit it out, Tianyou slammed his heavy leather heel right onto the boy's chin, forcing his jaw shut with a sickening thud."Swallow it down, you worthless dog!" Tianyou screamed, grinding his boot harder into the floorboards until the wood groaned underneath the weight. "Let’s see if your dead father's bloodline can save you from this!"Jingchen didn't fight the pressure at all, letting his body cave in completely as he rolled across the polished mahogany floorboards. He let out a series of wet, violent, choking coughs, his hands clawing desperately at his throat to simulate extreme, unendurable agony. His back arched off the ground, and his pale face turned a deep, suffocating shade of red that looked completely authentic to

Out of the pitch-black corridor stepped Chu Kuang, a three-meter-tall mountain of a man whose flesh was permanently fused with rusted, black iron plates. The metal was welded directly into his grey, dead skin, held together by thick silver rivets that leaked dark fluid.He was the Chu family’s secret executioner, a mindless, bloodthirsty monster who had spent thirty years in the dark eating the bones of failed disciples. The dense pressure radiating from his frame turned the wet air into ice, making the ground beneath his feet crack with a heavy, hollow thud.His empty, milky-white eyes instantly locked onto the group, his massive, two-hundred-kilogram iron halberd scraping against the stone floorboards with a deafening, metallic screech. The jagged blade carried decades of old, dried blood that had turned into a thick crust of black soot."Intruders... bleed... for the master..." Chu Kuang roared, his voice sounding like a deep, guttural vibration that threatened to shatter the grand

"The old man is coming! We need to leave this room right now!" Ji Qingwu urged frantically, her porcelain face turning bone-white under the flashing red light beams.She stepped backward toward the open entryway, her hands trembling with a sudden, deep panic as her starlight sword flared into a brilliant blue fire. "The sensory tracking lines are already reconstructing the spatial fracture from the outer courtyard! I will stand at the front line and cover our retreat!""Stand your ground, Saintess. A panicked general only breeds a fast execution," Long Jingchen commanded, his face remaining as perfectly still as a carved block of cold mountain stone.He didn't move a single muscle, and his breathing remained entirely steady as he looked down at his own bare feet in the dirt. His vertical gold-violet irises focused intensely on the small pile of grey ash where the three-meter iron giant had been completely vaporized."But the Grandfather's compass can trace the exact scent of your ance

Ji Qingwu stepped into the very center of the giant hall, her white starlight silk robes moving like soft water. A very cold, freezing pressure came out from her body, spreading fast across the wide floorboards.The loud, mean laughter of the rich nobles stopped instantly, turning the whole room into a dead, quiet zone. The air became so chilly that people could see their own breath in front of their faces."The private attendants of the Starlight Manor are under my personal jurisdiction," Ji Qingwu declared, her voice like winter frost. "Their lineage is not a game for your common amusement, and I will not allow this disrespect."Chu Tianyou’s broad smile narrowed into an ugly, dark scowl, his face turning red with a very bad anger. His aristocratic pride burned like hot coal because the Saintess was publicly protecting the trash heir once again."Why do you always speak for this garbage, Saintess Ji?" Tianyou retorts sharply, his voice snapping across the quiet hall. "This is the Ch

The Chu Grandfather stood up slowly from his giant jade throne, his old hands shaking with a very bad, scary anger. Thick, black veins popped out all over his face, turning his skin into an ugly mask as his precious obsidian ring shattered into tiny pieces."My ring! My spatial vault!" the old man screamed out so loudly that his voice made the giant palace floorboards shake like a big leaf. "The layout map of the inner vault is gone! Someone stole it!""Grandfather, help me up!" Chu Tianyou cried out from the floor, crawling around in the wet mud like a sad worm. "My chest hurts so bad! Everything is turning black!"Blegh!Tianyou vomited a huge fountain of fresh, hot red blood straight onto the clean silk carpet as his broken gold core completely implodes into total emptiness. Every single drop of his stolen magic was disappearing into a deep, dark void, leaving him a total cripple."Get away from me, you incompetent parasite!" the Grandfather roared, his eyes wide with a pure, tyrann