Son's Body, Father's Soul; Ill Fortune (5k, Please Subscribe)

Gong Shulan alone was not enough to make him, a quasi-Spirit Transformation powerhouse, so afraid.

What he truly feared was the person behind Gong Shulan.

Back then, it was because Wei Tu had wanted to save Gong Shulan that he had been saddled with the charge of "patricide."

Now that Gong Shulan had suddenly appeared here, did that not mean Wei Tu—the man he feared beyond measure—was here as well...?

At this thought, Chen Tan swiftly realized something. A vicious look crossed his face, and he immediately activated his escape technique, charging at Gong Shulan, who sat in the cavern dwelling's main hall at breakneck speed.

Before Wei Tu could act against him, he had to seize Gong Shulan first and make Wei Tu wary of smashing the rat for fear of breaking the vase. Only then would he have a chance to escape with his life.

By now, no matter how foolish he was, he had realized that Wen Tianqi, the friend beside him whom he had considered worth befriending, was the enemy he had long avoided at all costs—Wei Tu.

It was simply that he had no chance whatsoever against Wei Tu. Breaking through from Nascent Soul Late Stage to quasi-Spirit Transformation was indeed a tremendous improvement for him, but before Wei Tu, it merely meant he had grown into a somewhat larger ant.

Unfortunately.

Though he had made the most precise judgment amid this sudden upheaval, it was nothing more than a cornered beast's last struggle.

Just as he was about to shoot forward, a sheet of golden radiance and a dense gray glow surged from Wei Tu's body, directly "fixing" him in place.

His mana and fleshly body, at that instant, seemed crushed beneath towering mountains. He could not move in the slightest.

The spiritual-body strength