Enough chatter. From now on, the four of you are my employees

"Friend."

Zhou Zheng lowered his voice, trying to make his tone sound calm, "Everyone came in here to improve their Soul Spirit, there's no need to go to extremes. Although two of us have been killed, Qingping and I are still here. If it really comes down to a fight, you might not come out on top."

As he spoke, he secretly gestured to Liu Qingping with his hand behind his back.

Liu Qingping understood immediately. The Jade Wave Water Lotus in her palm slowly rotated, and the pale green light silently spread towards Zhao Tieshan and Yuan Ming, who were lying on the ground. If she could just buy a few more seconds and stabilize her two teammates' injuries, they might have a chance to turn the tide in a four-on-one situation.

"Can't win favor?"

Bai Yushan tilted his head, his narrow eyes slightly narrowed, and a half-smile curled at the corner of his mouth. "Are you mistaken about something?"

The moment he finished speaking, he transformed into a blinding bolt of lightning once again.

This time, it was even faster than before.

Zhou Zheng's pupils contracted sharply. Before he could even shout "Be careful!", the lightning bolt had vanished from its spot and reappeared in front of Liu Qingping in the next instant.

Liu Qingping only felt a blur before her eyes, and a slender, fair hand had already gripped her wrist.

Click.

A crisp sound of bones dislocating rang out.

Liu Qingping's right arm drooped limply at an odd angle, her shoulder joint cleanly dislocated. She was stunned for half a second before she felt the excruciating pain. Her face turned deathly pale, and before she could even let out a scream, Bai Yushan had already released her wrist and struck her left shoulder in the same spot with his backhand.

Another click.

Liu Qingping's legs went weak, and she collapsed to her knees, her arms dangling like a puppet with its strings cut. A fine layer of cold sweat instantly beaded on her forehead. She gritted her teeth and managed not to scream, but her whole body was trembling with pain.

"Qingping!"

Zhou Zheng Zheng's eyes were bloodshot, and he swung out the feather blades on his arms. Two cyan Wind Blade crossed and slashed towards Bai Yushan's back. He attacked in anger, pouring almost all of his Soul Power into the blow. The Wind Blade even brought a sharp sonic boom when they cut through the air.

Bai Yushan didn't even turn his head.

His body, pivoting at his waist, twisted his upper body at an eerie 45-degree angle to the left. Two Wind Blade grazed his chest and back with such precision that it was as if they had been measured with a ruler, slashing into the ground behind him and carving out two half-meter-deep furrows.

In the Electromagnetic Clarity state, Zhou Zheng's attack trajectory appeared to him as slow as a snail's crawl.

"Too slow."

Bai Yushan turned around and took a step towards Zhou Zheng.

Just one step.

He pushed his Lightning Flash Step to its limit, leaving a trail of fading lightning afterimages in his wake, while his true form closed to within an arm's length of Zhou Zheng.

Zhou Zheng's heart skipped a beat. He wanted to back away, but before he could even put his feet down, Bai Yushan's hand was already on his right shoulder.

The hand wasn't very strong, it could even be described as gentle, but Zhou Zheng felt as if a ten- Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast was pressing down on his shoulder, making him unable to move.

Then, Bai Yushan clenched his five fingers and twisted them.

Click.

Right shoulder dislocated.

Zhou Zheng grunted, but he held his nerve and didn't cry out. Before he could process the excruciating pain, Bai Yushan's left hand had already gripped his left shoulder, the same technique, the same swift and decisive action.

Click.

Left shoulder dislocated.

Immediately afterwards, Bai Yushan moved his hands down and precisely gripped Zhou Zheng's knee joints on both sides, his thumbs wedged into the bone gaps, and twisted and pulled outwards.

Two clicking sounds.

With both knees dislocated at the same time, Zhou Zheng finally couldn't hold on any longer and fell backward onto the ground, his limbs hanging limply at twisted angles. The back of his head hit the ground, and the pain made his vision go black.

"Team leader!"

As soon as Zhao Tieshan got up from the ground, he saw Zhou Zheng with his limbs dislocated. A surge of anger rushed to his head, and he grabbed the black iron hammer and was about to charge forward, but Bai Yushan didn't even give him a chance to charge.

A flash of electricity.

Zhao Tieshan felt a numbness in his waist, and then his shoulders were dislocated by twisting his arms backward. He was then kicked twice behind his knees and fell to his knees with a thud. The heavy iron hammer flew out of his hand and hit the ground with a dull thud.

Finally, there's Yuan Ming.

The thin, Control System Soul Elder was already badly injured and was slumped against the tree trunk, not yet recovered. When Bai Yushan walked over, he didn't even have time to beg for mercy before his limbs were swiftly dislocated.

From start to finish, it should take no more than five seconds.

All four Three-Ring Soul Elder were lying down.

Bai Yushan patted non-existent dust off his hands, glanced down at the four people lying haphazardly on the ground, his expression indifferent, as if he were looking at four pieces of luggage casually tossed on the ground.

The feeling of having your limbs dislocated is unpleasant. The dull, aching, numb pain caused by bone misalignment makes even breathing difficult.

But what followed was even harder to endure.

Bai Yushan crouched down, reached into Zhou Zheng, and quickly pulled out the palm-sized silver signal device. He weighed the device in his hand, then casually tossed it into a roughly woven vine bag at his waist.

Then there's Liu Qingping.

When Bai Yushan reached into the hidden pocket at her waist, Liu Qingping bit her lip and turned her head away, her eyes red-rimmed, whether from pain or anger, or perhaps both.

Zhao Tieshan's signaler was hidden in the lining of his soul-guided wristband. Bai Yushan searched for it but couldn't find it, so he simply tore off the wristband's strap, shook it, and the signaler fell out.

Yuan Ming's signal device was easy to find; it was hanging around his neck, tied with a leather cord, and Bai Yushan easily pulled it off.

All four signal transmitters were put into the bag.

Zhou Zheng lay on the ground, struggling to lift his head, his eyes almost spitting fire.

Humiliating! Utterly humiliating!

Don't get too cocky...

Zhou Zheng gritted his teeth, his voice squeezed out from between them, his eyes seemingly spitting fire.

Bai Yushan straightened up and glanced down at him.

Then he grinned and smiled.

That smile was excessively bright, revealing a set of perfectly white teeth, which, combined with his handsome and refined face, could even be described as sunny and dashing. But when Zhou Zheng met those eyes, he felt a chill run down his spine.

Because there was no smile in those eyes.

There was only a bottomless indifference.

"Enough with the small talk, from now on, the four of you are my employees."

Bai Yushan tied the vine bag around his waist, put his hands in his pockets, and said in a relaxed tone as if he were just saying that the weather was nice, "I need you to do something for me. It's very simple—in this Primary Spirit Ascension Platform, help me search for every Soul Beast I encounter, and then transfer all the Spirit Power auras you get to me."

Upon hearing this, the four people on the ground were all stunned.