Chu Tian's gaze turned cold to the extreme. Tangible killing intent brewed wildly within him, and his dark-gold bones let out a series of bone-chilling cracks. He even wanted to spring up and smash the entire VIP seating area to pieces with one punch!
But he forcibly suppressed that killing intent.
He could not act rashly. The Lord of Taichu was sitting right there, and his strength was unfathomable—absolutely beyond that of an ordinary Creation Realm cultivator. More importantly, when Chu Tian secretly probed with the Hongmeng Heavenly Path, he discovered in horror that Starry Son's sea of consciousness was densely entwined with ninety-nine Five-Spirit Soul-Tethering Threads that radiated a gray-black glow!
The other end of every soul-tethering thread was firmly connected to the palace-robed woman's fingertips. With a single thought from her, Starry Son's soul would be shredded into ashes in an instant, not even granted the right to enter the Six Paths of Reincarnation!
Moreover, Chu Tian keenly sensed that Starry Son had not completely lost consciousness. Deep within those hollow eyes, a faint glimmer of starlight was struggling and resisting with all its might. That was his unyielding Dao heart fighting a desperate battle against those evil soul-tethering threads.
As though she had sensed Chu Tian's probing, the palace-robed woman in the VIP seating area suddenly turned her head and looked directly at him across tens of thousands of feet of empty space.
An incomparably gentle yet hair-raising smile blossomed across her face.
The next second, a cold, mocking divine-sense transmission ignored the barriers of space and exploded within Chu Tian's sea of consciousness. "Crown Prince Chu, long time no see. Want to save your dog? Then trade the Taichu Dao Stone for him."
Crack!
The hard stone chair beneath Chu Tian was crushed into powder by