Mad Dog! A Sudden Shock!

Amid rain as cold as the curtain of heaven.

Chen Chou'er lay on the icy ground, as if every bone in his body had been shattered, unable to move in the slightest.

Just moments ago, he had watched with his own eyes as that overbearing Chen Zhaosheng was struck down from high in the air by Third Young Master Chen Zhixing, who normally never showed his mountains or revealed his waters, with just a single blow, like rotten wood collapsing under crushing force. Whether he lived or died was unknown.

Originally, after being defeated by Chen Zhaosheng, his heart had turned to dead ash. Yet at this moment, amid his shock, a tremendous longing somehow ignited within him.

So Chen Zhaosheng was not undefeatable.

As long as one was powerful—powerful like Third Young Master!

If he could become that powerful, perhaps even that Chen Tianxiong... might not be completely impossible to overturn!!

Hiss.

In his heart, which had already fallen into deathly stillness, a raging flame called longing suddenly blazed up!

Therefore.

When Chen Zhixing took out the "Path of Pain" and asked him whether he was willing to hand over his life to him.

"I am. I'm willing!" Chen Chou'er's throat bobbed, and he forced out the words with difficulty, yet with incomparable firmness.

He strained to roll his eyes, looking at Chen Zhixing with boundless pleading. "Save... save me, Third Young Master."

He wanted to live! There were still far too many things he had not done!

"Good."

Chen Zhixing smiled faintly, and his fair, slender hand gently rested on the top of Chen Chou'er's head.

Boom—!!! In an instant, an incomparably vast surge of Mental Power transformed into fine strands, like venomous snakes flickering with cold light, and drilled into Chen Chou'er's body.

Then those strands of divine sense snakes drilled through his extraordinary meridians and eight vessels, swiftly boring toward his Sea of Consciousness.

"Open your Sea of Consciousness," Chen Zhixing said.

Hiss hiss hiss! A heart-piercing pain surged in. Chen Chou'er could not help trembling violently all over; his face instantly turned deathly pale, and a great sheet of cold sweat appeared on his forehead.

"Yes!"

He did not speak. Instead, he clenched his teeth and swiftly opened his Sea of Consciousness, allowing those divine sense snakes to break into its deepest depths and attach themselves to his divine soul and Dao Foundation.

He knew what this meant.

From this day on, his life would rest within a single thought from Chen Zhixing.

But he did not regret it in the slightest.

In this world, there had never been charity without cause, only exchanges of equal value.

He saw it very clearly.

"Well done."

Chen Zhixing withdrew his hand and nodded slightly.

He intended to turn Chen Chou'er into one of his mad dogs.

But no matter how mad a mad dog was, he still had to fasten a chain to it so it would not bite its master.

Those divine sense snakes just now were the hinge chain he had fastened around Chen Chou'er's neck! The next moment.

Chen Zhixing stuffed the "Path of Pain" in his hand into Chen Chou'er's chest, then casually tossed a pill that could turn the Living Dead to flesh and regrow bones into his mouth.

He waited briefly and saw that the Sky Covering Grand Formation was slowly disappearing.

Immediately, he gently lifted his right hand upward.

Chen Chou'er was instantly raised by a soft force and slowly fell into the lake.

"Remember, Chen Chou'er of the Chen Family died today."

"From now on, forget this name. Take on another identity and live anew."

"Go to the Qingzhou Meng Family and find someone called Meng Hedong."

"I don't care what method you use. I want you and him to become intimate friends close enough to entrust your lives to each other."

Chen Zhixing's calm voice drifted over.

Immediately afterward, a surging current pushed Chen Chou'er along, carrying him swiftly downstream.

"Qingzhou... Meng Hedong!"

Chen Chou'er etched this name firmly into his heart.

Boom! A blazing-white bolt of lightning pierced through heaven and earth.

The instant pallid light flashed across Chen Zhixing's face, which showed neither joy nor sorrow.

After Chen Chou'er's figure gradually drifted far away, until it had completely vanished from sight.

Chen Zhixing let out a long breath, his gaze flickering slightly.

The card that was Chen Chou'er was one he had played on a sudden impulse.

For one, Chen Chou'er's mind and will were resilient. If he died here today, it would be something of a pity.

Second, he very much wanted to see it—if Chen Chou'er truly became the closest of friends with that Meng Hedong.

Then one day in the future, Meng Hedong would bring Chen Chou'er along to kill his way up to Chen Zhixing.

And just when Meng Hedong was beside himself with joy, thinking victory was already in his grasp, Chen Chou'er would suddenly drive a blade into Meng Hedong's heart, then say through painful tears, "You're my closest friend. This hurts me so much!"

When the time came, wouldn't that be very interesting? Just as Chen Zhixing was thinking this over—

Boom boom boom boom boom! From the sky above, five sonic booms suddenly rang out, produced by speed so great it tore through the air.

"Mm?"

Chen Zhixing abruptly raised his head and looked.

High in the sky, five figures in loose black robes, their faces covered by Golden Spider Masks, were sweeping rapidly across the heights in a fan formation.

Their speed had reached an extreme, dragging long trails of flame behind them as they dove down from high above.

The next instant—

Boom—!!! The three figures at the front slammed violently into the Chen Family's Flying Boat suspended in the void.

Bang!!! Billowing black smoke, accompanied by surging flames, instantly shot into the sky from the Chen Family's Flying Boat.

Immediately after—

"Who dares trespass on the Chen Family's Flying Boat? You're courting death!!!"

Chen Tianchen's voice, filled with both shock and fury, instantly resounded across the entire high sky.

"The upheaval has begun."

Chen Zhixing drew in a deep breath, his expression turning grave.

The next instant—

Whoosh, whoosh!

The other two Black-Robed Figures dove swiftly down toward Chen Zhixing's direction.

Hiss! The two Black-Robed Figures instantly landed on the lake surface where Chen Zhaosheng was.

The two lowered their heads and looked at Chen Zhaosheng, then their brows furrowed slightly.

One of them, an emaciated black-robed man, quickly took out a Communication Talisman and spoke in a low voice:

"Kindling Number Thirty-Nine. Physical body state: deceased. Should it be brought back to the organization for sacrifice and turned into a Reincarnation Vessel?"

A flash of light passed over the Communication Talisman.

Emaciated Black Robe immediately nodded.

He grabbed Chen Zhaosheng, who was floating on the lake surface, then looked toward Chen Zhixing and said coldly to his companion:

"Deal with him!"

Hiss.

In an instant, Emaciated Black Robe formed a hand seal with his right hand.

On the water beneath his feet, a swirling vortex immediately appeared.

Emaciated Black Robe grabbed Chen Zhaosheng and slowly sank into the vortex, swallowed and submerged by the lake water, vanishing from sight.

The other black-robed figure, meanwhile, was a person three zhang tall, with a body as fat as a ball.

It was as though four short stumps of limbs had grown out of a gigantic sphere.

The skin of this person's hands, exposed from within the sleeves, was actually a bizarre purple.

Even more terrifying was that the center of each palm was like an octopus sucker, densely covered with wriggling tendrils.

"Little thing, you look so delicious..."

The Strange Black Robed Figure looked at Chen Zhixing, and from her throat came a voice so coquettish and enchanting it had reached an extreme.

Bang!!

The next instant, the Strange Black Robed Figure stepped down, sending heaven-toppling waves splashing up beneath her feet.

Her entire body had already shot toward Chen Zhixing like a cannonball, charging into him at high speed.

"Come here. Come into Mommy's belly!"

As the Strange Black Robed Figure ran, she slapped her bloated belly, her throat releasing a sharp, greedy, mad cackle pushed to the extreme.

Strands of turbid, foul-smelling saliva kept dripping from the corners of her mouth behind the mask.

"Let Mommy eat you!!!"

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