Kill Me Too If You Keep Talking!

Xia He looked at Lin Ming nervously. She knew his character: proud, aloof, with an unyielding defiance in his bones that refused to be controlled by anyone.

Gao Bancheng's high-handed recruitment, like he was handing alms to a beggar, was probably the greatest insult to him.

Sure enough, Lin Ming did not even wait to hear Gao Bancheng's remaining terms. The moment Gao Bancheng said, "Serve my Gao Household for twenty years," his eyes turned completely cold, like ice that had endured for ten thousand years.

He did not look at Gao Bancheng. Instead, he turned to Xia He beside him and said flatly, "Our agreement is complete. Go in yourself."

With that, he lifted the Silver Frost Spear, turned around, and actually started walking back toward the Wilderness they had come from without even glancing at Gao Bancheng or the two terrifying Tier Four guards behind him.

He was returning to the Wilderness.

The people here, the air here, made him feel... disgusted.

Xia He froze, her heart filled with mixed emotions. On one hand, she admired Lin Ming's decisiveness and pride; on the other, she worried for him and could not bear to see him enter the perilous Wilderness alone once more.

"Stop!" Gao Bancheng's face instantly darkened, as though water could drip from it. His voice turned shrill with extreme rage and the humiliation of being slapped in the face.

"Lin Ming! Don't refuse a favor when it's offered! I, Gao Bancheng, personally recruited you, and you dare reject me?! You even turned around and walked away? What do you take my Gao Household for? A place you can come and go as you please?!"

He felt humiliation unlike anything he had ever experienced! In East Forest Base City, who would not show Gao Bancheng some respect?

Who would dare ignore him so completely, even treating his "goodwill" like a worn-out shoe? This mud-legged country bumpkin who had crawled out of the Wilderness actually dared?!

Lin Ming did not stop walking, as though he had not heard him.

"Stop him!" Gao Bancheng barked at the two gray-robed elders behind him.

The two elders did not move, but terrifying Tier Four pressure crashed down like something tangible, like two mountains bearing down upon Lin Ming's back!

At the same time, the other six guards instantly spread out, faintly forming an encirclement. Their weapons left their sheaths, killing intent blazing.

Yet at this tense moment, when a battle could erupt at any instant—

BOOM!!!

An even more terrifying and violent surge of blood and vitality, seemingly carrying a sea of blood and boundless killing intent, crashed down from the distant horizon like a falling meteor without warning! Its target was Lin Ming, who was about to leave!

That blood and vitality far surpassed Tier Four! Like a crimson ocean, it instantly enveloped the area for miles around! Even the sky seemed to be stained with a faint shade of red!

The dreadful pressure made the two Tier Four guards of the Gao Household change expression. They instinctively withdrew the pressure they had aimed at Lin Ming and stared gravely toward its source.

Xia He let out a muffled groan under the pressure, stumbling backward with a face as pale as paper.

Lin Ming finally stopped. Slowly, he turned around and looked up toward where the blood and vitality were coming from. For the first time, clear solemnity appeared in his eyes.

In the distant sky, a crimson streak shot through the air at astonishing speed like a burning meteor!

Within that streak was a figure with wild hair and beard, blood-red eyes, and terrifying crimson flames swirling around his body. He looked like a demon god from hell!

"LIN! MING! YOU LITTLE BASTARD! GIVE ME BACK MY SON'S LIFE!!!"

A roar filled with endless grief, fury, and killing intent exploded above the wilderness like thunder from the Ninth Heaven, making everyone's eardrums ache and their blood churn!

Chen Haidong! A Fifth Tier powerhouse, head of the Chen Household, and Chen Dabiao's father! He had actually come after him himself! And he had arrived so quickly, so suddenly!

Gao Bancheng was startled at first, then a glint of amusement and schadenfreude flashed through his eyes.

He waved a hand, signaling his men to remain calm. Then he leisurely crossed his arms, the look of someone enjoying a show returning to his face.

"Oh, the real deal is here." Gao Bancheng spoke slowly to the solemn-faced Lin Ming, his voice low enough for only those nearby to hear. His tone carried mockery and pressure.

"Well, Lin Ming? It's not too late to change your mind. As long as you nod and join my Gao Household, I'll vouch for you in the Gao Household's name at once. Chen Haidong would not dare act recklessly before my Gao Household. This is your last chance. Will you be a 'good dog' protected by an owner, with a bright future ahead of you, or a 'stray dog' crushed into pulp by a Fifth Tier powerhouse? You choose."

He believed that before the threat of death, any backbone or pride was a joke.

Lin Ming had only refused because he had not been driven into a corner. Now that Chen Haidong had come in person, his killing intent soaring to the heavens, this brat would surely be scared out of his wits and kneel to beg for shelter!

However, Lin Ming's reaction once again exceeded Gao Bancheng's expectations.

Lin Ming did not look at him at all, as though he had not even heard what he said.

His gaze remained fixed on the crimson streak drawing ever closer, its pressure growing ever more terrifying. The knuckles of the hand gripping the Silver Frost Spear whitened slightly from the force, but the solemnity in his eyes was swiftly replaced by an icy, almost insane calm.

The Indestructible Asura Body's passive ability, Boiling War Blood, began to boil on its own as never before under the stimulation of this mortal danger and terrifying pressure!

A scorching battle intent carrying a savage aura surged from the depths of his heart, swiftly overwhelming his instinctive wariness toward a Fifth Tier powerhouse.

Run? With a Fifth Tier powerhouse locking onto his aura and hunting him down, where could he flee across this open wilderness?

Beg for mercy? Become the Gao Household's dog? Trade it for a miserable, lingering existence?

A curve slowly formed at the corner of Lin Ming's lips, one cold to the extreme and sharp to the extreme.

There was no fear in that curve, no compromise—only an almost indifferent... killing intent.

Just as Chen Haidong's enraged roar had not yet faded, and Gao Bancheng stood with his arms crossed, grinning as he waited for Lin Ming to kneel and beg for mercy—

Lin Ming moved.

He did not turn and run. He did not submit to Gao Bancheng. He did not even look at Chen Haidong, who was drawing closer with heaven-shaking might.

The Silver Frost Spear in his hand transformed without warning into a silver bolt of lightning that tore through the air. Carrying every ounce of his current essence, energy, and spirit, as well as the boiling battle intent of the Indestructible Asura Body, it shot toward a direction no one had expected—Gao Bancheng!

The spear struck without a sound, yet it was fast to the extreme! Ruthless to the extreme! Its target was Gao Bancheng's endlessly chattering, nauseating mouth!

There was no martial skill behind this strike. It was merely the simplest, most direct, purest Thrust! Yet the killing intent and resolve contained within made everyone's hearts turn cold!

"Yap, yap..."

A cold, calm voice rang clearly in everyone's ears along with the spear strike.

"Keep talking..."

The spear tip had already reached within inches of Gao Bancheng's face! He could even feel the icy sharpness and terrifying killing intent from its tip. The mocking smile on his face instantly froze, turning into boundless shock and terror!

He had never imagined that, trapped in a certain death situation while being hunted by a Fifth Tier powerhouse, the first person Lin Ming would attack would be him! And that he would act so decisively, so ruthlessly!