The Lecherous Demon Ping Weihaxiong

Thunder rumbled across the sky. Huang Tieyi stared at the dark clouds that had yet to disperse and said in a trembling voice, "There's more?"

He drew a breath and rose. Activating his Martial Soul Avatar, he became a golden giant, countless flying swords circling him as he stared gravely at the sky.

Whoosh. Just as Huang Tieyi braced himself for death, a wisp of purple lightning descended from the sky and struck him without warning. It carried no destructive force. Instead, it coursed through his body, widening his meridians, strengthening his bones, and purging impurities from within him.

Huang Tieyi withdrew his Martial Soul Avatar and stood still, stunned by the changes the third bolt of heavenly lightning had brought. His body's foundation had improved by a great measure, and the compressed Soul Power within him had grown as well.

The dark clouds dispersed. Stars filled the sky, seeming to blink down at Douluo Continent. Only then did Ling Yuan Douluo and the other three come over from the distance.

Huang Batian stepped up to Huang Tieyi, patted his shoulder, then circled behind him and rapped on his back. "Grandson, what was that third bolt of heavenly lightning? It went right into you. Are you all right?"

"I'm fine, Grandpa. The third bolt was my reward for enduring the first two. It transformed my body and made me sturdier and stronger." Huang Tieyi raised his right arm. "My biceps are bursting with strength."

"That's good, that's good. Now I'll have something else to brag about when I get back..." Huang Batian said, his voice brimming with pride.

"A Yi, here's the Left Arm Soul Bone the Titan Giant Ape dropped." Ling Yuan Douluo took a Soul Bone from her Space Ring.

"Revered Ling Yuan, that Soul Beast dropped a Soul Bone? How did I miss it?" Huang Batian asked, staring at the Soul Bone in her hand.

"What did you notice? The moment that lightning came down, you spouted a few useless words and ran." Ling Yuan Douluo shot him an irritated look. "As if you'd have spotted a Soul Bone."

Huang Batian scratched his head in embarrassment.

Huang Tieyi took the Soul Bone and held it out to Huang Batian. "Grandpa, you absorb it."

"Grandson, wouldn't that be a waste? You absorbed the Titan Giant Ape's Soul Ring. With this Soul Bone too, your moves would be even stronger!" Huang Batian sounded polite, but his hand had already closed around it.

"If you don't want it, take your hand off it! Honestly..." Ling Yuan Douluo said, at a loss for words.

"Heh, when my grandson's being so filial, I have to put on a show!" Huang Batian grinned nearly from ear to ear, clutching the Soul Bone with no intention of letting go.

"Go ahead and absorb it, Grandpa. This Soul Bone won't help me much," Huang Tieyi said calmly. "If I can't absorb all the Soul Bones except the head bone in one go, it'll throw off my balance. But at your age, Grandpa, it won't matter if one shoulder ends up higher than the other and you veer off course when you walk."

"You little brat. You sure know how to talk!" Huang Batian grumbled. Then he sat cross-legged and began fusing with the Left Arm Soul Bone.

Once his grandfather started absorbing the Soul Bone, Huang Tieyi drew a Longsword from his Space Ring and began carving up the Crab-Claw Demon Spider's corpse. He cut off and gathered a heap of claws, then brought out a pot, lit a fire, filled the pot with water, and added seasonings. After cracking the claws open, he dropped the tender meat inside to cook.

"Brat, eating a midnight snack instead of sleeping? Careful you don't get fat!" Lei Zhenyun teased.

"Grandpa Yun, don't eat any later, then," Huang Tieyi shot back.

"No chance. I was planning on having a couple of drinks with it," Lei Zhenyun said with a laugh.

Huang Tieyi could only shake his head as he focused on the fire. The crab meat was tender and needed to simmer over low heat, putting his fire control to the test.

Before long, Huang Tieyi put out the fire. The tender crab meat was ready. He scooped it out with a slotted spoon, drained it, and arranged it on a plate. Ling Yuan Douluo promptly took the first plate. Watching her, Lei Zhenyun could only sigh inwardly: One rank higher, and she can crush you to death!

Bibi Dong took the second plate. The third finally went to Lei Zhenyun. He carried it straight to a tree, leaned against the trunk, and pulled wine from his Space Ring. Crab meat in one hand and wine in the other—what a pleasure.

Just as Huang Tieyi was about to serve himself a plate, a dark figure streaked across the sky.

The figure shot toward Bibi Dong, who was sitting on a hammock woven from spider silk and eating. Lei Zhenyun reacted fastest. Lightning flashed before Huang Tieyi's eyes, and Lei appeared behind the figure, driving a Thunder-Piercing Hand strike toward his back.

The figure reacted just as swiftly. He sprang upward, twisted in midair, and landed beside Huang Tieyi. He placed a hand on Huang Tieyi's head and said coldly, "If you don't want him dead, don't move. It's been ages since this lord had a woman. I happened to find one today, so just let me have her. Why do you have to force my hand...?"

"Ping Weihaxiong, you lecherous fiend. I never thought you'd be bold enough to show yourself before Spirit Hall," Ling Yuan Douluo said, her voice thick with killing intent.

"I've always been bold, Ling Yuan Douluo. You know that better than anyone, don't you?" Ping Weihaxiong said mockingly. "Have you forgotten how your mother and sister died? I fucked them to death. Their drawn-out, wanton cries—the way they begged in despair beneath me—were beautiful.

"If you hadn't chased me so relentlessly back then, I never would've known your mother and sister made such fine vessels for cultivation. I do have one regret, though. If I hadn't cut them in half, I could've drained them and become even stronger..."

Huang Tieyi stood there, his gaze icy as he looked at the humanoid, ghost-faced Martial Soul behind Ping Weihaxiong, its obscene member jutting out. Spirit Hall had more than the Library Pavilion; it also had the Archives of Sin. The archives held every case file Spirit Hall had compiled since its founding, covering both those it had succeeded in eliminating and those it had failed to destroy.

In his seventh life, Huang Tieyi had been reborn as Qian Xunye, brother of Spirit Hall's pope, and had read the case files in the Archives of Sin. In his eighth, he had been reborn as Bibi Zan, Bibi Dong's elder brother, and returned to read the files he had not finished in his seventh life.

In this ninth life, he had been reborn as the grandson of Huang Batian, the Heavenly Tyrant Douluo of Spirit Hall's Council of Elders. He had gone back to the Archives of Sin and finished every case file he had not managed to read in his seventh and eighth lives.

So when Ling Yuan Douluo spoke the name of the dark figure with his hand on Huang Tieyi's head, Huang Tieyi knew exactly what atrocities the man before him had committed—deeds that drew the wrath of gods and men alike...