Hearing those words, Chen Tong's face below twitched repeatedly. At the same time, fury welled in his heart. Damn it! If you want to argue, or whatever, can't you go somewhere else? Why start right under my nose? Are you doing this on purpose?!
"Hmph!" Bing Lin pointed her sword fingers at the three men in black and said coldly, "Even though I'm only a True Immortal and can't beat you, I can still destroy myself. You can't stop me."
"Oh... is that so?" The man in black in the middle spoke with a faintly mocking smile, his gaze sizing her up like a hungry wolf eyeing its prey. "Go ahead and try."
As soon as he finished speaking, his body shuddered, and a ripple spread out, sealing the space around them. Chen Tong's face darkened below. "This is bad. He's sealed the space."
As a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, he naturally knew what a spatial seal was. It was a technique only Grand Unity Golden Immortals could use. This beauty was done for. She couldn't even kill herself now! What a tragic fate.
"Ha ha ha ha! Fairy Bing Lin, go on and destroy yourself. Let's see it!"
The three of them strode through the air with leering grins. Chen Tong was getting anxious just watching from below. "What do I do? Should I step in? Should I?"
Fairy Bing Lin's eyes were calm. Since realizing she could no longer move, she hadn't been as afraid as she'd expected. Perhaps it was simply her nature, or perhaps it had something to do with the cultivation technique she practiced. Whatever the reason, her heart was utterly calm. She even felt a faint, ridiculous sense of security, though she had no idea where it came from.
With a soft, distant sigh, she slowly closed her eyes, as if surrendering to fate—or helpless before it. A tear, carrying a faint fragrance of ice, slipped from her beautiful eyes and fell onto Chen Tong's face below.
"Oh, Fairy Bing Lin, you're so beautiful we can hardly control ourselves! We're already going crazy, and we haven't even touched you yet."
"Big brother, what are we waiting for? Let's get her!"
Like ravenous wolves, the three men lunged from dozens of meters away. It was easy to imagine what would happen to such an icy beauty in the next instant.
"Hmph, how despicable and shameless." A crisp voice tinged with anger rang out. A deep-blue curtain of water then appeared three meters in front of the woman.
The three men in black were already overcome by their bestial lust, and the sudden attack caught them completely off guard. They were sent flying dozens of meters back, staring at the curtain of water in terror.
Chen Tong stood beside the woman. Sensing someone there, she slowly opened her beautiful eyes. Seeing the unfamiliar man who had appeared out of nowhere, her heart stirred. Could that inexplicable sense of security have come from him?
"You three!" Chen Tong turned his face away and shut his eyes, too lazy to look at them. With his right arm across his chest, he pointed at them with his left hand. "Get lost before I lose my temper."
He hadn't wanted to meddle in other people's business, but this damnable scene had happened right under his nose, stirring his sense of justice. He had no choice but to intervene.
The three men across from him froze. Then one of the thin men asked in a soft voice, "Big brother, I can't tell what level he's at. What do we do?"
"What?" The other two were startled. Of the three, the thin man was the one with the highest cultivation, at the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm. If even he couldn't see through the newcomer, could this young man be someone above the Great Unity Golden Immortal realm?
The man they called Big Brother took a deep breath and stepped forward. "Fellow Daoist, we're immortals from the Western Isles, under the jurisdiction of Buddha Tathagata in the Western World. May I ask who you are?"
"Tathagata?" Chen Tong murmured with a cold laugh. No wonder they had such repulsive faces. They were Tathagata's people. Hmph, did they think bringing up Tathagata would scare him? What a joke.
"If you hadn't mentioned Tathagata, you might have been fine. But since you did, you can die!"
Chen Tong's voice was icy, laced with deep malice. With a thought, he pulled the Death Underworld Dragon out of his Sea of Consciousness. Its enormous body radiated a chilling, sinister aura as it coiled above them all.
"Kid, what are you doing?" The Death Underworld Dragon's deep voice was full of discontent.
"Eat those three." Chen Tong ignored its complaints and pointed straight at the three trembling middle-aged men.
"Hmph! Don't forget our agreement." The Death Underworld Dragon clearly had no intention of obeying. It didn't even spare the three men a glance.
"And you'd better not forget that your life is in my hands. If I die, you won't survive either," Chen Tong replied unhurriedly.
"You... Hmph!"
The Death Underworld Dragon finally raised its enormous, blood-red eyes and glanced at the three men. "With your strength, even if you can't beat them, you can easily protect yourself. I, the venerable one, won't bother with such insignificant shrimp."
"Then I'll just stand here and let them beat me to death." Chen Tong looked completely unbothered, like a dead pig that wasn't afraid of boiling water.
"You... Hmph. Just pretend I owed you in my previous life." The Death Underworld Dragon reluctantly swept its massive body through the air. Its terrifying aura of death and overwhelming draconic might bore down on the three middle-aged men, forcing them to their knees. They trembled so badly they nearly wet themselves.
"G-g-great... Unity... Golden Immortal... peak!"
"Hmph. They may be a little scrawny, but meat is meat!" The enormous dragon head, sinister fangs, and blood-red eyes swept over the three men.
"N-no! Senior, we're people of Tathagata in the Western World! You-you-you can't eat us!"
"Tathagata? You mean that fellow? Hmph, then I have even more reason to eat you." The Death Underworld Dragon wrapped itself in death and shot its huge head skyward. Then it plunged down, opening its enormous jaws toward the three men.
"No! Ah! Ah!"
"I thought I'd get to enjoy a gruesome spectacle, but it was over just like that. How boring." Chen Tong muttered to himself, then glanced at the woman beside him, whose expression was still full of shock. With a thought, he broke the spatial seal at once.
"Ah... huff... huff..."
As her tense body relaxed, the woman gasped for breath.
Seeing her like that, Chen Tong furrowed his brow. Then a faint wisp of energy flowed into her body, restoring her weakened state.
"Th... thank you!"
"Don't mention it." Chen Tong clasped his hands behind his back. "I just have a habit of meddling in other people's business."
The woman had recovered by then, but the fear the Death Underworld Dragon had inspired in her hadn't yet faded.
"Th-that evil dragon... is it yours?" The woman pointed at the Death Underworld Dragon with her slender finger.
The Death Underworld Dragon's spiritual senses were immense. Hearing a mere True Immortal call it an evil dragon, on top of the frustration Chen Tong had just caused it, sent it into a rage. "You're asking for death!" It swung its head around and lunged straight at the woman!
"How dare you!"
A breeze kicked up by a wave of force swept across her face, lifting a few strands of her hair and stirring her icy garments. Before she could react, Chen Tong's back was already between her and the dragon.
"Kid, get out of the way. Let me eat her."
"Stupid dragon, I had to practically force you to eat those three. How come you're so eager now?"
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