Please, Spare Me! I'll Do Anything!!

"Do it, Hu Wanshan! Move! Use your full strength and kill him for me!!"

Hu Xin cried out in terror.

The smugness on her face had vanished, replaced entirely by fear.

Emotionless as ever, Hu Wanshan was unaffected. The moment he received the order, he changed.

He let out a hoarse, inhuman growl, and crimson light began to flicker across his mountain-like body.

Like burning charcoal, red and glowing.

As the red light grew brighter, the surrounding air became scorching and dry.

Even stranger, Hu Wanshan's mountainous body began to gradually shrink.

This was the strongest move of the Swine-Elephant Technique—Elephant Ignition!

By burning the special fat he had accumulated throughout his life, he could obtain berserk Blood Qi and strength far beyond his limits.

After using it, his cultivation could decline, and his muscles and bones might even suffer permanent damage.

But in exchange, an ordinary Blood-Marrow Realm Perfection martial artist could gain nearly three times his usual strength for a short time.

"Kill!!"

With his body reduced in size, Hu Wanshan became even faster. As the stone slabs beneath his feet cracked apart, he lunged at Mu Yang like a burning meteor, carrying a scorching gale with him.

The tremendous force of over thirty thousand jin in one arm made the wind beneath Hu Wanshan's palm erupt with a deafening sonic boom.

Faced with such a terrifying strike, Mu Yang merely stood where he was and raised his eyes.

Only when the massive hand drew close did he step like lightning, raise his arm, and spread his fingers.

"Bang!!"

Before Hu Xin's expectant eyes, giant palm and hand collided with an earth-shaking muffled boom.

Yet the sight she expected—Mu Yang being sent flying—never came.

That force, enough to smash through a city wall, struck Mu Yang's hand without even making him take half a step back.

Instead, Hu Wanshan's berserk Blood Qi stalled for an instant, and his outstretched palm was clamped tightly in Mu Yang's grip.

"Is that all the strength you have?"

Mu Yang's voice was calm, as though he had not stopped a crazed Hu Wanshan, but merely restrained a mischievous fat orange cat.

Hu Xin could even hear the faintest trace of disappointment in his voice.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! How could you catch Hu Wanshan's palm? Fake! It's all fake! You can't fool me!"

Hu Xin shrieked, "Hu Wanshan, what are you doing? Hurry up and attack him!!"

Yet no matter how Hu Xin screamed, Hu Wanshan could not break free from Mu Yang's grasp.

Instead, Mu Yang raised his other hand. His long fingers clenched, the distinct knuckles of his fist cutting through the air before smashing heavily into Hu Wanshan's shrunken Swine-Skin.

"Bang!!!"

The Swine-Skin that could withstand the Feather-Command Broadblade's strikes was torn apart as easily as rotten cloth beneath Mu Yang's fist.

Fat and blood exploded outward.

Hu Wanshan's massive body jolted violently. Strange rasping sounds came from his throat, as though he wanted to struggle.

But Mu Yang gave him no chance.

A second punch, a third punch, a fourth punch...

One fist after another crashed into Hu Wanshan's body.

Every punch blasted a huge hole through Hu Wanshan, weakening his struggles bit by bit.

The berserk Blood Qi produced by burning his fat also began to plummet at a terrifying speed.

His bloated body shrank visibly, while blood and shredded flesh rained down over the ground, tables, and chairs around them.

In only a few breaths, Hu Wanshan, whose ferocious aura had just soared to the heavens, had been blasted into scattered chunks, completely merging with the courtyard.

Only then did Mu Yang slowly let out a breath and shake the blood and bits of flesh from his hands.

Standing atop stone slabs dyed crimson, he turned to look at Hu Xin, who stood frozen in place as though she had gone stupid.

His gaze was clearly calm, yet Hu Xin felt Sha Qi rushing straight at her. It was as if she had fallen beneath the ice of a winter lake, and even breathing became difficult.

"Thud—"

Hu Xin collapsed to the ground, trembling all over like chaff in a sieve.

She no longer had the strength to flee. She could only watch helplessly as Mu Yang, covered in blood, walked toward her step by step.

She swore she had never feared anyone so deeply before. Or rather, she had never seen anything as horrifying as this—something that chilled her courage to the marrow.

"Don't... don't kill me. Please, don't kill me..."

Hu Xin's voice carried a sobbing tremor, her pale and pitiful face filled with pleading.

"I shouldn't have attacked you. I'm willing to give you all of the Hu Family's property, and I can help you gather every servant of the Hu Family!"

"As long as you spare me, I'll do anything! I can be your concubine, your pet, anything at all! Whatever you tell me to do, I'll do it! Please!"

Suddenly, Mu Yang halted and stopped before Hu Xin.

Looking down at her from above, Mu Yang curled his lips into a grim smile. "Oh? You're willing to do anything?"

Hearing that, Hu Xin seemed to see a glimmer of hope for survival. Overjoyed, she immediately rose and nodded again and again. "Yes, yes! This servant is willing to do anything!"

She even began impatiently tearing at her red dress, wanting to prove herself.

But just then—

"Splurt!!"

A bloodstained arm pierced through her chest without warning, gripping her heart in its palm.

Hu Xin stared blankly at Mu Yang. He grinned, revealing a mouthful of snow-white teeth. "In that case, I'll be taking your body!"

As his words fell, Mu Yang clenched his hand and crushed Hu Xin's heart like a water balloon.

[ Ding! Detected that the host has slain a Third Rank Fox Demon. The equipment Demon Blood External Method has met the conditions for permanent solidification and has been permanently solidified! ]

[ Ding! Detected that the host has slain a Third Rank Fox Demon. The equipment Century-Old Ginseng has met the conditions for permanent solidification and has been permanently solidified! ]

[ Ding! Detected that the host has slain a Third Rank Fox Demon. Equipment... ]

[ Current number of empty Equipment Slots: 4 ]

"Only two lives? You're no good either."

Seeing the prompt on the panel, Mu Yang casually tossed Hu Xin's corpse onto the ground and muttered to himself.

He had thought that even if Hu Xin did not have nine lives, she would at least have seven or eight. Yet on only the second time, she was already completely finished.

After finally getting to use his full strength once, it had ended far too quickly.

"What a pity. Such a table full of fine food and wine, and I didn't get a single bite."

Mu Yang looked at the shattered redwood round table and the mess covering the floor, shook his head, and withdrew his gaze.

He entered the main bedroom, casually tore off a clean piece of cloth, and wiped the bloodstains from his body while turning his attention to Hu Xin's corpse, which no longer looked human and had reverted to a Fox Demon.

A semi-transparent panel haloed in ink-like colors slowly appeared.

[ Equippable Item: Fox Demon Corpse (Complete) ]

[ Rank: Third Rank ]

[ Equipment Effects: ]

[ ① Soul Strengthening (White): The soul receives a slight enhancement (mental strength, resistance to mental abilities, and neural reaction speed are all improved). ]

[ ② Qi-Blood Abundance (Blue): Total Blood Qi is greatly increased. ]

[ ③ Calamity Heart (Blue): Can impose mental suggestions upon those with weak minds, causing them to gradually lose consciousness and become mindless puppets. Ineffective against those with powerful souls or unwavering will. ]

[ ④ Heart-Sync Life-Substitute (Purple): By consuming permanently solidified equipment of the same rank as oneself, a life-substitute heart can be condensed to block one fatal injury and restore one's condition to its peak. (After one's martial cultivation improves, it must be condensed again. The maximum number of life-substitute hearts that can exist simultaneously is equal to one's current martial cultivation level. Current limit: 3.) ]

[ Permanent Solidification Condition: Equip this item for seventy days, or while equipping this item, slay any demonic beast of Third Rank or above. ]