At the dinner table, Wang Shouzhen, who had been so smug monts before, watched the live broadcast. I feel like I've been viciously slapped several tis, he thought, his cheeks burning hot. One mont I was bragging about how impressive my brother is, and the next I want to sever all ties with him. How did things change so fast?! Wang Shouben wore a similar look of humiliation, his heart filled with sha. I was just getting ready to desecrate Lin Tang's corpse, but now I'm being forced to kneel to him… I really don't want to! But everyone else is kneeling. I can't be the only one left standing, can I?
The others were no different; none of them wanted to endure such humiliation. But we must, the adjutant thought, steeling himself. It's all for Director Xiao and Director Guo!
"Lin Tang, you should be satisfied now, right?" the adjutant said, his face pale. "Hurry up and co back with to detoxify Director Xiao and the others!" His fists were clenched so tight his nails dug deep into his flesh.
"Satisfied? You haven't finished your one thousand kowtows yet. What's the rush?" Lin Tang replied, shaking his head.
"ARGH! Do you really have to be so ruthless?" the adjutant roared, ready to drag Lin Tang down with him.
"Just tell if you're going to kowtow or not," Lin Tang said, flicking his fingers impatiently.
The adjutant took several deep breaths, the veins on his forehead twisting like earthworms. "Everyone, with … kowtow!"
BANG!
He slamd his forehead into the ground. After just one kowtow, his forehead was already bleeding from the jagged stones. The others followed suit, their faces a mask of tragic heroism. As they kowtowed, they counted aloud, "One, two, three…"
"Sigh." A few of the nearby reporters lanted, sighing and shaking their heads as they continued to film.
Lin Tang then turned his attention to them. "Why aren't you lot kneeling yet?"
"Huh? Do we have to kneel, too?"
"Don't misunderstand, we're reporters. We're neutral…" they explained hurriedly.
"I don't care who you are. You won't kneel? Fine, I'll have them blow you up."
"You!" The reporters trembled with rage. That inhuman bastard! We'll publish scandals about him every single day. We swear to make his na infamous for all ti!
THUD!
On the surface, they had no choice but to kneel.
Lin Tang then snatched a cara and shoved it right in the faces of the adjutant and his n, filming them up close. Then he flipped the cara around to face the audience and waved. "Hey everyone, smash that follow button and give a double-tap! Is this livestream amazing or what?"
The viewers were speechless. So were extrely uncomfortable with Lin Tang's aggressive approach, and their dislike grew the more they watched.
"I feel like he's gone too far."
"Isn't this young man a bit too arrogant?"
"As the saying goes, 'don't burn your bridges.' Is he really leaving himself no way out?"
"Look at that smug, gloating face of his. It's disgusting!"
"Is it really true that no one else in the entire world can counteract this poison? I don't buy it."
However, another portion thought his actions were truly manly.
"Taking revenge on the spot! How satisfying!"
"So people are hilarious. You think he still has a way out? If he did, he wouldn't have been nearly blown to bits just now."
"Exactly! They tried to kill him, and he's not allowed to fight back?"
「At the relay station.」
Soone had already rushed over to ask Ning Yuexi to treat Xiao Xuanye and Guo Jufeng.
However, Ning Yuexi refused. She reasoned that she had been helpless the last ti they were poisoned, so she certainly wouldn't be able to do anything this ti. Of course, the real reason was that she had no desire to help Director Xiao and his cronies clean up their own filthy ss. It's too disgusting!
For a mont, Shen Youling didn't know what expression to wear. "They could have coexisted peacefully, but they just had to push things to this point…"
「In another room.」
Shatana was covered in goosebumps, utterly terrified. She called the Empress of the Sunset Country again. "Mommy, I'm so scared! He's a devil! I don't even know if the poison he gave is completely gone. What if I also… while I'm on the toilet…" She choked on her words, not daring to imagine the specifics.
The Empress's face turned green. She was terrified her daughter would beco a global laughingstock like Xiao Xuanye and the others, which would severely damage their royal family's reputation.
"How could this have happened?" Superstar An Jinan was both resentful and horrified. He was resentful that Lin Tang hadn't died and had managed to turn the tables. He was horrified at the thought. What if he had used that poison on back then and made defecate blood in the street… GACK!
Others who held grudges against Lin Tang were now also overco with belated fear. Hua Fengchen rushed into the bathroom again, dousing himself in shower gel, wishing he could scrub his skin raw with a ball of steel wool.
The mbers of the Star Evil Group were stunned for a long ti. They suddenly recalled how Long Tianji had once tornted them with relentless diarrhea. Although they hadn't defecated blood, the similarity felt... far too coincidental. Could Lin Tang really have so connection to Long Tianji? Zhao Xinghe and the others muttered amongst themselves.
「In a secluded alley downtown.」
The corpses of several innocent passersby were strewn about. Yan Luoyang and Mu Fan had stopped fighting and were now watching the live broadcast. Their masks had long since shattered. Mu Fan's exposed, androgynous face was a strange canvas of laughing and crying at the sa ti. "Are Lin Tang and Long Tianji really the sa person?"
The insects in Yan Luoyang's eye sockets writhed furiously until he reached in, plucked them out, and soothed them. "I wouldn't say it's certain, but it's highly probable," he stated faintly.
"Hehehe, I trust your judgnt." Mu Fan stared grimly at Lin Tang's face on the screen. "If he weren't exceptionally powerful, he wouldn't be so reckless, even with his poisons. Only strength can be the ultimate source of confidence."
Yan Luoyang strongly agreed. "That's right. He's far too strong! Since we both have a blood feud with him, I believe we should join forces."
Mu Fan nodded. "Agreed."
「A mont later, in a nearby alley.」
Zheng Hongsheng's granddaughter, Zheng Shiyin, was running until she was out of breath. She was truly terrified. She never would have imagined that her father, Zheng Junjie, had tricked her into returning to the country only to hand her over to a monster like Yan Luoyang! Even her grandfather, who had always seed invincible, was killed by him!
I can't just sit here and wait to die! I have to keep running…
"And where do you think you can run to?" Yan Luoyang's icy voice suddenly echoed.
Zheng Shiyin stopped short, her eyes wide as she saw him blocking her path, insects crawling all over his body. "I believe I warned you not to run. If you don't obey, you must accept your punishnt!"
The insects began to fly toward Zheng Shiyin. "Please, spare ! I won't do it again, I promise!" she wailed, her body frozen stiff as tears and snot stread down her face.
Just as one of the insects was about to crawl into her ear—
"My wife?"
WHOOSH!
A mass of tentacles suddenly wrapped around Zheng Shiyin, yanking her toward Mu Fan. He cradled her face with trembling hands, overwheld with emotion. "You're alive again? This is wonderful! I missed you so much, hahaha—"
Zheng Shiyin looked up at his half-male, half-female face and felt it was even more terrifying than Yan Luoyang's ghoulish one. The horror sent a shock through her scalp, and her heart nearly stopped beating.
"Look closer. She is not your wife," Yan Luoyang said with a frown.
"No, she is! She is!" Mu Fan insisted, pulling her behind him as he stared warily at Yan Luoyang. "Are you trying to steal my wife from , too? I'll kill you!"
Damn lunatic! Yan Luoyang thought, a wave of exhaustion washing over him. Was teaming up with him a mistake?
Just as the two were about to clash again…
TAP. TAP. TAP.
Rhythmic footsteps approached. A strange figure dressed in rags like a beggar, wearing a conical reed hat, sauntered toward them. His fingers traced patterns in the air as he muttered to himself, seemingly lost in his own world, as if possessed.
"Yan Renjie? Uncle Yan!" Zheng Shiyin had t Yan Renjie before and recognized him. She knew he was a renowned master of the Sword Dao! A spark of hope ignited within her, and she cried out, "Save ! Please, save !"
"Hmm?" His train of thought interrupted, Yan Renjie frowned slightly. He looked over at Yan Luoyang and Mu Fan, his eyes no longer possessing their forr sharpness, but rather a calm, restrained depth. His entire being radiated the aura of a grandmaster.
That's right. Thanks to Lin Tang, he had managed to escape after being gravely injured. Not only had he survived, but he had sohow, inexplicably, broken through to the Grandmaster Realm he had always dread of achieving! His understanding of Swordsmanship had reached a new level, as if he had been completely reborn.
And so… he had decided to return for revenge.
But then he heard that Lin Tang's martial arts had been crippled and his divine sword destroyed. The news had left him feeling rather dispirited. Seeing the bizarre appearances of Yan Luoyang and Mu Fan, however, Yan Renjie smiled faintly. Now this is interesting. He had been looking for an expert to test his sword against. It was as if soone had handed him a pillow just as he was getting sleepy.
"Gentlen, would you care for a battle?" he asked politely, slowly drawing a thin sword.
Yan Luoyang and Mu Fan were silent. A re early-stage Grandmaster? What gave him the deluded impression that he's powerful?
"Die!" Yan Luoyang said coldly, striking out with his palm.
Are all young people this arrogant nowadays? Do they think everyone is Lin Tang? Even before his martial arts were crippled, Lin Tang only defeated because he had that divine sword. This guy dares to face empty-handed… How is that possible?! Yan Renjie mused with a slight smile as he countered with his sword. He had expected an easy victory. But the mont their techniques t, he felt an irresistible, evil power crash down upon him.
HACK!
He couldn't even last a single breath before he was sent flying backward, spitting up a mouthful of blood.
Zheng Shiyin was speechless. Well, that was pathetic.
"I refuse to accept this! Even if I die, I'll take a piece of you with !" Yan Renjie roared, scrambling to his feet. Just as he was about to be crushed completely, he channeled all his energy through the thin sword. For a mont, it seed as if man and sword had beco one, his power increasing dramatically.
"Oh?" Mu Fan suddenly stopped Yan Luoyang. He then used his tentacles to entangle Yan Renjie, who was attempting a suicidal attack.
"I have an imnse fortune to offer you. Do you want it?" Mu Fan asked Yan Renjie earnestly.
Yan Renjie froze. "???"
…
A full half-hour passed before the adjutant and his n finally completed their one thousand kowtows. Their faces were covered in blood, and their minds felt like mush.
"Is that enough now?" the adjutant snarled, staring at Lin Tang with a ferocious expression. "Will you finally co back with to detoxify Director Xiao and Director Guo?"
Lin Tang watched as Zhu Yingning and the others finally left the area, leaving him all alone. He smiled. "Sorry, I've changed my mind. You can go back and prepare for their funerals."
The adjutant and his n froze. Their minds snapped. They went insane. Completely insane. They moved to detonate all the explosives.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM
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