The Terrifying Deterrent Power of the Twin Vine Demonic Pearl

"Miss Zhuo, the Zhuo Family has fallen into such ruin. You're the only woman left struggling to hold it together—why can't you see reason?

"At this point, not even immortals can save you... If you obediently submit to me, you'll become the wife of a Black Tiger Gang steward. Why would you need to work so hard refining pills to earn money?" Zhang Wu swayed as he spoke, staring at the woman's chest and swallowing repeatedly.

"Pah! Did you think I didn't know you were after the Zhuo Family's pill-refining arts? No matter how far the Zhuo Family has fallen, our pill-refining arts will never be handed to you or the Black Tiger Gang!

"I warn you—if you dare touch me, the Zhuo Family's pill-refining arts will vanish from this world forever along with my corpse!" The beautiful woman glared at Zhang Wu, her eyes brimming with hatred.

"It seems Miss Zhuo still doesn't know what I, Zhang Wu, am capable of. Don't worry. After I enjoy you tonight, you'll naturally tell me everything with a sweet smile!

"And how could I bear to let such a delicate Little Alchemist die by my hand?" As he spoke, Zhang Wu raised his wine cup to his lips.

Just then,

Boom!

A huge hole was blasted through the wall of the bridal chamber.

Brick fragments flew everywhere, and dust billowed through the air. The thunderous crash had come too suddenly; Zhang Wu jolted in fright, nearly splashing the wine all over his face.

As the dust rose, Lin Xuankong—wearing a bamboo hat and mask—stepped into the bridal chamber through the gaping hole.

Lin Xuankong looked at Zhang Wu, who had leapt to his feet in alarm, his voice icy. "You filthy thing. You'll never have another chance to enjoy a beautiful woman!"

Zhang Wu stared at the Hat Guest who had entered. Hearing Lin Xuankong's strange voice, altered by channeling his blood energy into his throat, he seemed to realize something. His face changed drastically, and he spun around to flee outside while shouting, "It's that Hat Guest! Get the hell over here and chop him up!"

Over the past ten-odd days, Zhang Wu had already entered the Early Second Layer, and his strength had greatly increased.

Yet to his surprise, just as he thought his strength had soared to the heavens and that he could escape the bridal chamber in a single step, before his feet could even exert force, thick vines suddenly appeared and wound tightly around both his legs.

A massive number of vines spread madly, ceaselessly wrapping around Zhang Wu's abdomen.

With the Demonic Vine coiling around him, Zhang Wu sobered up by more than half. He shook both hands, and his silver nails abruptly extended as he slashed at the vines.

Unfortunately, he discovered in despair that while he cut quickly, the vines grew even faster.

As an Early Second Layer expert, he slashed hundreds of times within only a few breaths, yet he could not break free at all!

Meanwhile, the vines already coiled around his legs and abdomen kept tightening. Zhang Wu could clearly feel the flesh of his legs rapidly deforming under the crushing pressure. His leg bones, foot bones, pelvis, and knees all erupted with terrifying pain.

It was the nearly unbearable agony that could only arise when bones cracked and shattered!

Had such pain been inflicted on an ordinary person, they would likely have fainted long ago. Fortunately, Zhang Wu was no ordinary person.

He was a dignified Early Second Layer expert. Thus, no matter how unbearable the pain was, he could only endure it, showing no sign of passing out!

At last, Zhang Wu could bear it no longer. He let out a shrill, miserable howl like a pig being slaughtered.

The scream was chilling beyond measure.

The Black Tiger Gang Members and higher-ups who had rushed toward the room after hearing the blast and the command saw the vine monster surging with Demonic Energy and heard Zhang Wu's screams. Their faces filled with horror as they stopped in their tracks. Not a single one dared charge into the room.

Not only that,

Those Black Tiger Gang Members who ran rampant through streets like Qingshui Street, those Black Tiger Gang leaders who strutted arrogantly before countless Rogue Cultivators—at this moment, when faced with the Hat Guest and the black Demonic Vine, every one of them broke out in cold sweat, their drunkenness more than half gone!

The Hat Guest, invincible hidden weapons, and the Twin Vine Demonic Pearl did not sound frightening when merely heard of. What was frightening was that the Hat Guest and the Twin Vine Demonic Pearl had appeared before their very eyes!

Lin Xuankong ignored Zhang Wu's screams, and he also ignored the Black Tiger Gang higher-ups surrounding the room, all of whom had gone limp with fear.

He looked toward the woman on the wooden bed. For some reason, the sight of her suddenly reminded him of the woman who had died tragically in that Wooden Building. He frowned slightly and walked over. With a gentle tug, the ropes—so tough that Zhuo Yunbing had been unable to break them—immediately snapped into several pieces.

Zhuo Yunbing's expression shifted as she stared at the Hat Guest before her. Her heart held both the joy of surviving a narrow escape and fear of the unknown.

Lin Xuankong then walked over to Zhang Wu, whose foot bones, leg bones, and pelvis had all been pulverized. With his pelvis smashed to pieces, Zhang Wu truly would never have another chance to enjoy any beautiful women!

Looking at Zhang Wu, who lay completely motionless, Lin Xuankong could not help thinking of those two months when he had walked as if treading on thin ice. His eyes narrowed slightly.

For scum Martial Cultivators like Zhang Wu, being crippled was more painful than being killed. And for the living, waiting to die was countless times more terrifying than dying immediately... Zhang Wu did not deserve such a quick death!

"Zhang Wu, stop playing dead. I won't kill you now. Of course, I won't let you go either. Any day from now on, I might come here and kill you—perhaps tomorrow, perhaps the day after tomorrow, perhaps any random day!"

Zhang Wu shuddered and opened his eyes from his state of playing dead. The terrible pain and hatred made the muscles in his face twitch wildly. "Who the hell are you? Don't you know I'm with the Black Tiger Gang? I'm a Black Tiger Gang steward! The entire Black Tiger Gang stands behind me! You don't dare kill me. You absolutely don't dare kill me!"

"Is that so? Xu Zhongxiong and his subordinates should all have been Black Tiger Gang members, right?"

Lin Xuankong ignored Zhang Wu no longer. He glanced at Zhuo Yunbing. "You, come with me!"

With that, Lin Xuankong led Zhuo Yunbing and strode toward the more than one hundred Black Tiger Gang Members.

At that moment, driven by his vast blood energy, thick, nimble black Demonic Vines resembling tentacles filled the surrounding area.

The black Demonic Vines followed his steps, constantly advancing, twisting, and extending. From time to time, the tips of the vines lifted and swayed faintly, like enormous black pythons that seemed ready to choose someone and devour them. The sight possessed a strange, savage beauty, as though Lin Xuankong had suddenly transformed into a terrifying monster himself!

At this moment,

The Black Tiger Gang, which had shaken Great Marsh Prefecture, had more than a hundred elite Mortal Transformation Realm disciples here, along with seven late first layer higher-ups—yet not one dared block him, and not one dared stand in his way.

The Black Tiger Gang's elite disciples and higher-ups scrambled back to both sides of the courtyard, opening a broad path. They could only watch helplessly as Lin Xuankong and Zhuo Yunbing walked out of the courtyard!

Afterward, not one of them dared follow!

At the entrance to Sishui Street,

Zhuo Yunbing looked at Lin Xuankong. "Thank you for saving me!"

Following beside this Hat Guest who controlled Demonic Vines, goosebumps constantly rose on her arms without her realizing it, and her heart kept tightening, even though she knew the person before her was her lifesaver!

"Now that I've saved your life, how will you thank me?" Lin Xuankong asked coldly.

I'm not some savior. Why should I save people for nothing? So what if Zhuo Yunbing is beautiful? Does she think she can just say a few nice words, pat her backside, and leave?

Moreover, Lin Xuankong very much wanted to know whether, if he could obtain the Zhuo Family's so-called pill-refining arts, his [Old and Vigorous] Destiny would have any effect on such pill-refining techniques!

"You...?" Zhuo Yunbing was somewhat surprised.

After pondering briefly, Zhuo Yunbing furrowed her beautiful brows. "Such a life-saving kindness naturally must be repaid. But the Zhuo Family has already fallen into ruin, and I have no money on me. I truly have nothing with which to thank you!"

Lin Xuankong did his best to put on an appearance of being coldhearted and merciless, a man who killed without blinking.

"Either give me the recipe manual for refining the Guardian Spirit Pill, or I'll take back this life of yours!"

After saying that, I should look just like an emotionless killing machine. She shouldn't be able to tell I'm acting!

"You?" Zhuo Yunbing looked at Lin Xuankong in surprise.