You're Not Allowed to Die Yet, or I'll Kill You

"It's my turn, it's my turn."

After Titan Giant Ape threw a few punches at Su Sheng, Chaos Demon Bull rubbed his hands together, eager to have a go.

An interrogation had somehow been turned by the two of them into a game of who could make Su Sheng talk first...

If this continued, Su Sheng might really die, so Sky Swallowing Python hurriedly stopped them.

"Enough. If you keep hitting him, he'll die."

"If you beat him to death, that lord won't spare us!"

"I've already sent word to that lord."

"That lord should be here soon. We'll decide how to deal with him after that lord arrives."

Hearing this, Chaos Demon Bull and Titan Giant Ape shuddered in fright and reluctantly stopped.

Instead, they began worrying about Su Sheng's injuries, terrified that he might accidentally breathe his last. If that happened, they would be finished...

Chaos Demon Bull grabbed Su Sheng by the collar, glaring with his huge bull eyes like bronze bells as he threatened sternly.

"I'm telling you, you're not allowed to die yet, or I'll kill you!"

"Did you hear me?!"

As he spoke, Chaos Demon Bull gave Su Sheng two more resounding slaps across the face, waking him from the brink of death.

With his swollen, unrecognizable face, Su Sheng nodded tearfully. He could not help but begin guessing who the lord mentioned by the three Demon Kings might be.

These three Demon Kings were all at the peak of the Heavenly God Realm, just like him. None of them was weaker than he was; each could be considered among the world's foremost experts.

He had long heard that several Demon Kings of terrifying strength resided within Demon Realm Forest.

Yet he had never expected them to obediently heed another's orders...?

Just who could command such powerful Demon Kings?

And why had they attacked him for no reason?

The first person Su Sheng thought of was the mysterious black-robed elder who had killed Ghost Husband and Lu Jian in a single strike. Terror made his heart tremble.

If it was that mysterious person, then everything made sense.

Only he could make these three Demon Kings bow their heads obediently!

Just then, Ning Yechen slowly walked into the cave with his hands behind his back.

This time, he no longer deliberately concealed his identity. He appeared before everyone openly in his original appearance.

When Chaos Demon Bull and the others saw Ning Yechen arrive, they hurriedly fell to their knees and bowed their heads in respectful greeting.

"Greetings, my lord!"

Su Sheng stared fixedly at Ning Yechen, his expression filled with both curiosity and fear.

The man before him looked barely over twenty. His features were exceptionally handsome and refined, yet Su Sheng could not sense the slightest cultivation from him!

And yet, Ning Yechen exuded an aloof, prideful aura that looked down upon the entire world!

If he had not been tied to the pillar, Su Sheng might have been unable to stop himself from kneeling as well!

Looking at the nearly dead Su Sheng, Ning Yechen frowned and asked Chaos Demon Bull and the others.

"Why does he look like he's about to die?"

"Did you use torture on him?"

"N-No!"

"My lord, this fellow resisted desperately when we captured him, so we accidentally used a little too much strength."

"We absolutely didn't hit him even once!"

Chaos Demon Bull trembled as he gave his solemn assurance, his face unreddened and his breath unlabored.

Sky Swallowing Python and Titan Giant Ape could not help glancing at Chaos Demon Bull in surprise.

He made it sound so real...

Seeing that Su Sheng still had a breath left in him, Ning Yechen did not pursue the matter further. He strode up to Su Sheng, fixed him with an icy gaze, removed the wooden stick stuffed in his mouth, and asked.

"Speak. Who are you people, and who sent you here?"

"Senior... this junior is called Su Sheng. I am the current Palace Master of Tianxia Confucian Palace..."

"I entered this place by accident and had no intention of offending you, my lord. I hope you can spare this junior."

"On another day, this junior will certainly offer generous gifts to apologize to you...!"

"I asked who sent you here. Can't you understand?"

Ning Yechen's gaze turned cold. He grabbed one of Su Sheng's arms and gave it a light squeeze. The entire arm instantly burst apart!

"AAAAARGH!"

Having lost an arm, Su Sheng let out a bloodcurdling scream of agony as blood gushed forth!

Chaos Demon Bull and the other two, kneeling nearby, could not help but shudder and lower their heads even further...

Compared to their lord, they had been quite gentle...

"I'll ask one more time. Who sent you here?"

Ning Yechen asked coldly again.

"It was... it was some lord from the upper realm!"

"He concealed his identity. I never saw what he looked like!"

"I only heard him say that if we brought the mother and daughter named Luo Ruying and Luo Hongye to him, he would help us ascend to the Immortal Realm!"

"That's all I know!"

"Please, Senior, forgive me this once!"

Su Sheng endured the excruciating pain and shouted with a deathly pale face.

He understood that the man before him was no kind soul. This time, he did not dare hesitate in the slightest.

"How do you contact that person?"

Ning Yechen asked coldly.

"We have no way of contacting him. He was always the one who came to find us..."

Su Sheng replied weakly.

Ning Yechen frowned in dissatisfaction.

He had been thinking of capturing that person directly.

As expected, it would not be so easy...

"Tell me about your backgrounds."

Ning Yechen then asked about Su Sheng and the identities of the other three men he had killed.

Only then did Su Sheng learn that Wu Kuang had also long since died at Ning Yechen's hands. Not daring to conceal anything, he explained everything one by one.

He, Su Sheng, was the Palace Master of Tianxia Confucian Palace.

Lu Jian was the Sect Master of Azure Peak Sword Sect.

Wu Kuang was the Hall Master of Martial God Hall.

Ghost Husband was the Den Master of Human Puppet Ghost Den.

The sects to which the four belonged were all top-tier first-rate sects in the world, standing shoulder to shoulder as the four great sects of the age.

Three days ago, all four of them had, without prior agreement, received a visit from a mysterious person.

The other party had demanded that they join forces to bring Luo Ruying and Luo Hongye back. So long as they succeeded, the other party would lend them a hand in ascending to the Immortal Realm!

Afterward, the other party would even recommend them into first-rate sects within the Immortal Realm!

Faced with such temptation, and hearing that they merely needed to capture a woman from the Immortal Realm at the Human-Celestial Realm, they readily accepted.

Afterward, following Ghost Husband's tracking, they came to Demon Realm Forest, and what followed happened...

"Senior, I've already told you everything I know..."

"Please spare me. My Tianxia Confucian Palace is willing to serve you!"

Su Sheng pleaded fearfully.

Ning Yechen smiled faintly. The shadow beneath his feet spread to Su Sheng's feet, and a swarm of dark golden insects crawled out from the shadows and climbed onto his body!

"W-What are these things...?!"

"AAARGH! S-Stop!"

"Senior! I beg you, stop! AAAARGH!"

Su Sheng only felt his entire body being constantly gnawed apart. Countless insects burrowed into his body and bit by bit devoured every part of him!

The piercing agony and terror made him howl and beg for mercy without end.

Before long, Su Sheng was completely submerged beneath the insects. His cries quickly vanished, and his body stopped struggling...

When the insects withdrew from the stone pillar, nothing remained upon it!

For laying hands on his wife and child, Ning Yechen had never intended to spare a single one of them from the very beginning!

Not even the sects they belonged to!