"You..."
Faced with Lin Chuan's naked threat, the Fourth Elder's face turned deathly pale, and he could barely speak.
He had never expected Lin Chuan's methods to be so terrifying. Lin Chuan had not even spared him the status of a Bu Clan elder and had attacked outright. With the gray bone dagger pressed against his neck, he believed that if he uttered a single word of refusal, Lin Chuan would truly kill him.
Bu Lin glanced at Bu Fan in the distance, hoping that Bu Fan would speak up for him. When he received no response, he understood that there was no way out today.
"I... I'm willing to accept the Caged Bird Curse Mark," Bu Lin said with an ugly expression.
He did not know what level Lin Chuan's cultivation had reached, but he knew that Lin Chuan now absolutely had the ability to kill him. That was enough.
"Wouldn't it have been better if you'd agreed from the start?" Lin Chuan chuckled, without the slightest hint of threat in his voice.
Without wasting any more words on Bu Lin, he directly circulated his chakra and tapped a finger against Bu Lin's brow, forming the Caged Bird Curse Mark.
At the same time, the five Bu Clan elders who had been blasted away by Lin Chuan's furious shout climbed up from the ground with ashen faces. Though all five were only in the early or middle Great Ascension stage, no one had expected Lin Chuan's aura alone to send them flying.
Moreover, in that instant, the aura they sensed from Lin Chuan had filled them with terror from the depths of their bones.
It felt as though they were not facing a person, but confronting the entire world. In that instant, Lin Chuan's aura had become as unfathomable