"Dad! Dad, how are you? Don't give up on life! Why have you stopped resisting?"
"Snap out of it! That thing will suck you dry!"
Tie Zhu hopped anxiously beside him. After agonizing for a long while, he seemed to steel himself and opened his mouth to bite the slender, pale jade hand, only for Jiang Chen to slap him aside.
"Don't worry about your old man."
"Even Heaven itself couldn't take your dad's life. This thing wants it? It's nowhere near qualified."
He was almost excessively calm. Even the hand holding his cigarette did not tremble in the slightest.
The suction grew more and more terrifying.
Jiang Chen's body shriveled, his power dwindling until it had all but vanished, while a trace of rosy color appeared on the jade hand.
The sight made the young man nearby widen his eyes in disbelief.
"This... this, how is this possible?"
"To restore color to that esteemed one's hand, even draining a Heavenly Sacrifice Item or swallowing a Supreme Powerhouse alive probably wouldn't be enough, would it?"
"What kind of monster is this man?!"
A moment later, delighted surprise appeared on his face, and he could barely contain his excitement.
"Wonderful! Once she's eaten him, that esteemed one should be full for now. She won't demand much more for a while, and then I'll be able to keep borrowing her power without paying any other price!"
"Hahaha, Heaven really is on my side."
Yet as he laughed, his expression suddenly began to stiffen.
The young man saw an eerie black line begin spreading across the pale jade hand, brimming with an extremely sinister aura.
Moreover, the jade hand began to tremble slightly. It seemed to have noticed the problem too and wanted to pull free of the man's body.
Unfortunately, the man