"Hm? What a coincidence?" Lin Tang and Shen Youling were both taken aback.
Her parents could die at any mont. Shen Youling was frantic. "Listen to first, about my family's company..."
What damn company? Is that more important than breaking through to the Golden Core Stage?
Lin Tang interrupted her directly. "You should listen to ! Here's the thing. After my diligent cultivation, I've finally reached a critical point. I want to formally attempt Dual Cultivation with you. Seriously, I'm not lying."
Shen Youling was silent.
Ha! As expected! He was so anxious to find , and it was just for this stupid reason!
"You only care about my body! You just see as a tool, don't you? You co looking for when you need , then you avoid when you don't. No matter how much pain or helplessness I feel, I can never reach you!"
"Er, I didn't an that..."
"You did, you definitely did!" Shen Youling's emotions crumbled. Tears stread down her face as her small fists pounded his chest. Lin Tang looked embarrassed. Lee Encai also twitched the corner of her mouth and turned her face away.
"Fine, fine. You go first. Tell what you need my help with," Lin Tang said, patting her on the back. "Stop crying!"
Shen Youling pulled away from his embrace, wiping her tears as she forced herself to calm down. She recounted the entire story of the new drug's disastrous side effects and how countless people demanding justice were now threatening her parents' lives.
"If you help save them, in exchange, I'll perform Dual Cultivation with you!"
"...What do you an, 'in exchange'?" Lin Tang asked, displeased.
"Isn't it?" Shen Youling grew agitated again. "Don't you dare say you didn't know about the drug's side effects in advance! You knew about them, yet you let my family develop and sell it. You probably predicted this would happen, just waiting for to beg you so you could use this as a bargaining chip. You're despicable..."
"Shen Youling! Can you stop being so hysterical?" Lin Tang's anger flared, and he shouted, "What do you an I 'let' it happen? Didn't I tell your foolish parents to stop stealing my formula? I warned them, but they wouldn't listen. What was I supposed to do? Kill them? Cripple them? For your sake, I tolerated everything they did to . I graciously forgave a thief who stole from my ho, but when they get killed trying to fence the stolen goods, it's sohow my fault? I'm warning you, don't think you can be unreasonable and make absurd demands just because I need to perform Dual Cultivation with you!"
"You... you..." Shen Youling trembled all over. She never expected that Lin Tang, the man who always said "I love you," would berate her so harshly. The most frustrating part was that she didn't know how to refute his words. All she could do was lower her head and say weakly, "You should have told them clearly about the side effects beforehand. You deliberately concealed them. They deserve what's happening to them, but what about the countless custors who are also suffering from the side effects? Don't you have even a sliver of conscience?"
"What a joke. Your parents don't feel any remorse, so why should I? I've realized you're a hypocrite. No matter what your parents do, you forgive them, but you criticize and nitpick everything I do. Marrying you was the worst luck of eight lifetis..."
"Lin Tang!" Seeing Shen Youling's face turn deathly pale with heartbreak, Lee Encai quickly tried to diate. "Youling is just desperate. Why are you saying such hurtful things? Those are her parents, after all. They gave her life and raised her."
"Alright." Lin Tang was fed up.
Just as he was about to compromise and agree to help, his phone rang. Annoyed, he was about to hang up but saw the caller was Wei Zichu. He stepped aside to answer it.
Lee Encai pulled Shen Youling closer, trying to comfort her. "Youling, don't be stubborn now. Saving your parents is what's important..."
"What? A Grandmaster is chasing you? Where are you? I'll be there right away," Lin Tang's voice shot up. He hung up and was about to vanish.
"Wait!" Shen Youling jolted, rushing to stop him. "Lin Tang, are you crazy! That's a Grandmaster! Going there is suicide! Let Long Tianji deal with the Langhuan Holy Land. You won't be any help at all, so why go looking for trouble..."
She was speechless. Why would Wei Zichu call Lin Tang instead of Long Tianji? Lin Tang couldn't possibly defeat a Grandmaster!
"Langhuan Holy Land? So you already knew they were being hunted?" Lin Tang's expression hardened.
"Um... I couldn't reach you earlier, so I asked Miss Wei to help see if she could locate your phone..."
"Shen Youling, you're really sothing else. You asked her for help, and she ca right away. Now her life is on the line, and not only did you not tell , but you're also trying to stop from saving her..."
"That's not what I ant..."
"I've seen right through you! Encai, find a place to hide. I'll co find you later." Lin Tang didn't even glance at Shen Youling. With a casual touch, he left an imprint on Lee Encai's shoulder. His figure flickered and vanished on the spot.
THUD!
Shen Youling collapsed to the ground, gasping for air. "I really didn't an it like that!"
...
SCREECH—
The screeching of tires against asphalt sent a shower of sparks into the air. The speeding car was forcibly dragged to a halt.
Xiao Qingcang's ears twitched. He had also heard Wei Zichu's call for help.
"Hehe, it seems this Long Tianji really cares about you," he laughed.
Previously, Ning Yuexi only ever wanted to save people, disdaining the use of poisons. But after witnessing Lin Tang's poisoning techniques, she had quietly researched a few of her own. In that instant, she couldn't resist secretly releasing one.
Xiao Qingcang sneezed several tis. "Bitch, you dare play dirty? I'm a Grandmaster! You think I'm afraid of your pathetic little toxins?"
He completely ignored Ning Yuexi's stunning beauty and slapped her hard across the face, causing her cheek to swell and her lip to bleed.
"Sir, sir, please have rcy," Wei Zichu pleaded, quickly hugging Ning Yuexi, ever aware of the situation. "Aren't you planning to threaten Long Tianji? Please don't kill us."
Xiao Qingcang said disdainfully, "Threaten him? You're thinking too much. We're just forcing him to show himself, to stop hiding like a coward in his shell."
He then moved to grab them and take them back. However, Wei Zichu suggested that he must be tired after such a long chase. She offered him a rest in the car, volunteering to drive them back to Jiangbei herself.
"Haha, you're an interesting little girl." Xiao Qingcang was suprely arrogant, completely unworried about any tricks they might pull. He was indeed quite tired, so he nonchalantly climbed into the car.
Wei Zichu was very obliging, imdiately turning the car around and cooperating fully. The journey back was uneventful.
Upon arriving at the headquarters of the Heavenly chanism Martial Alliance, they were greeted by the sight of people from the Langhuan Holy Land whipping and torturing the Alliance's mbers, clearly taking pleasure in their screams of agony.
"A re early-stage Innate cultivator is qualified to be the leader here?" The Vice Hall Master grabbed Wei Shanhe's hair contemptuously. Seeing Wei Shanhe glare back at him, he gave a savage grin and moved to gouge the man's eyes out.
"Don't!" Wei Zichu rushed forward, begging him to stop.
The Vice Hall Master glanced over at her. "Tsk, tsk, are you also one of Long Tianji's won? Oh, this one is quite exquisite. Even I am tempted!"
He tossed Wei Shanhe aside like a piece of trash and strode toward Ning Yuexi.
Wei Zichu stood there, baffled. I was completely ignored?
"Oh no, Junior Sister Ning has been captured too!"
"What should we do?"
The students from the Heavenly Person Academy were at a complete loss. They wanted to step forward and explain that Ning Yuexi and Long Tianji were actually enemies, but they were terrified of getting caught in the crossfire.
Ning Yuexi's face was like ice, her heart filled with despair.
It's completely over!
The Langhuan Holy Land was too powerful. Citing the na of the Heavenly Person Academy was aningless. Even if the Academy's Master, Ji Yongyan, ca in person, he probably couldn't save her. Was it worth offending such a behemoth for a re Ning Yuexi? Absolutely not.
Will Long Tianji really co to save ? How ridiculous. I've always wished him dead, yet now I'm hoping he will...
"Xiao Qingcang, this woman isn't a Faith Body, is she?" the Vice Hall Master asked playfully.
"She's not," Xiao Qingcang shook his head.
"Haha—" The Vice Hall Master laughed wantonly, ripping off Ning Yuexi's sleeve and holding it to his nose for a sniff. When he saw that she remained motionless, he grew displeased.
"Why don't you struggle? Why don't you scream? Why don't you beg not to dishonor you?" he said coldly.
"Would that do any good?" Ning Yuexi looked at him calmly. "Actually, you're not in the mood to toy with won. I can feel your pain. Did you lose a very important loved one? You regret not protecting her, don't you? Now you'll never see her smile or hear her voice again in this lifeti..."
"Shut up, you bitch!" the Vice Hall Master roared, his face contorting with rage. He shot a hand out, grabbing her by the top of her head and lifting her into the air. His other hand moved to tear her clothes to shreds, to expose her naked body for all to see. He had no intention of killing her directly. He would make her wish she were dead!
However, just as his fingers were centiters from her chest, he found he couldn't move them any further.
Huh?!
He snapped his head around and saw Lin Tang, wearing the face of Long Tianji, standing right behind him, one hand gripping his shoulder. Inexplicably, half of his body had gone completely numb.
A cold, grim voice whispered into his ear, "Who gave you the nerve to touch my woman?"
"Long Tianji!"
"He's finally here!"
"He's so fast, it was almost like Instantaneous Movent..."
Everyone, both inside the compound and watching from afar, stared wide-eyed, utterly shocked.
The Vice Hall Master's scalp tingled with terror. How is this possible? I didn't get even the slightest warning before he captured ... This is bad! He couldn't move at all. How could he activate the ring on his finger? His subordinates were equally stunned.
"It's you! It's really you!" Xiao Qingcang took a deep sniff of Lin Tang's aura. After a mont of identification, he was certain. This was, without a doubt, the man who had murdered the Vice Hall Master's daughter.
Lin Tang looked back at him and sneered, "You're the one who was following before, aren't you? I let you escape last ti, but I didn't expect you to have the guts to show your face again. Did you bring new backup, thinking you could finally take down?"
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