"But even eating an unripe fruit is still better than giving it to someone else."
Her voice cold, Elder Shouhe's withered palm slowly stroked Huang Ying's face. Under Huang Ying's terrified gaze, with a soft pff, she drove her blackened nails into Huang Ying's skin.
Then both her hands pierced inside. Her shriveled finger bones wriggled incessantly beneath the flesh, like venomous worms.
There were no restraints, and the old woman did not even employ any Foundation Establishment might, yet Huang Ying did not dare move at all. She could only look at Shouhe with a face full of misery.
"Disciple—this disciple Huang Ying begs Master to spare this worthless life. From this day onward, Huang Ying is willing to abandon everything and serve at Master's side for life."
"Why go to such trouble?"
With a cold laugh, Shouhe looked at the constantly begging Huang Ying and merely said, "Just give this body of skin and flesh back to me."
As her words fell, she exerted a little force, and Huang Ying's entire facial skin was peeled away.
Removing Huang Ying's storage pouch, she looked at the trembling Huang Ying, then unhurriedly took out a jade box from within. After opening layer upon layer of restrictions, she retrieved a Mora Fruit.
Clenching the fruit tightly in her right hand, with a pff, she directly crushed this fundamental Foundation Establishment spiritual object.
In an instant, pulp, juice, and baleful spiritual energy so dense it could not dissolve all splashed over Huang Ying's body, scalding her until white smoke rose from her entire body.
"I've raised you for years now. Your master here has long wanted a taste."
After saying this sinisterly, the old woman's limbs suddenly twisted. Then, as if torn apart by some immense force, her entire body distorted in