Cold sweat instantly soaked the backs of Gan Leixin and Qiu Yuxian's shirts. For a mont, they were caught in an intense internal struggle. Should they admit it, or should they continue to deny everything?
How could Long Tianji think we know about the Lin Family's situation? Could that little bastard Lin Tianyang have told him? Under normal circumstances, no one should know we ever stayed with the Lin Family…
GULP. Gan Leixin secretly swallowed. Bracing himself, he said, "Heavenly King Long, a secret of Lin Tianyang's family? I truly don't know anything about it. I know of a Lin Tianyang, but the person you're speaking of is just Lin Tang in disguise… he's a fraud!"
"Heh, it seems you're the type who won't shed a tear until you see the coffin," Lin Tang said with a faint smile. He flicked his finger.
An invisible force, like a bullet from a high-caliber rifle, shot out and blasted Gan Leixin's arm apart. Amid a spray of blood, the severed limb dropped to the ground.
Gan Leixin stared down dumbfounded at the scene. A few seconds later, he began to tremble uncontrollably, rolling on the ground and howling in agony.
"AHHHHHH—"
Terrified, Qiu Yuxian wet herself and collapsed to the floor, screaming for help. However, without Lin Tang's permission, their voices couldn't possibly reach the outside. No one was alerted to co bursting in.
"Still not talking?" Lin Tang raised his finger again.
Qiu Yuxian just continued to scream like a madwoman.
So, Lin Tang flicked his finger, and this ti, he snapped one of her legs.
After the two of them had passed out from the pain, Lin Tang used his True Qi like a cardiac stimulant to jolt them awake again. They fainted and were reawakened several tis.
Finally, Gan Leixin seed to snap, roaring furiously, "Just kill us! We honestly don't know! You've already turned us into cripples, so what's the fucking point of living anymore!"
Qiu Yuxian had been about to break, but hearing her husband's words, she unexpectedly steeled her resolve. The fact that they had been able to fight their way to their current position over the years proved they had a ruthless streak in them.
"You don't want to be cripples? That's simple enough," Lin Tang said with a smile. He squatted down and pressed the severed limb against Gan Leixin's arm. "Watch closely. I'm going to perform a magic trick for you."
"Spring Breeze and Rain, go!"
Instantly, Gan Leixin's arm reattached itself.
"Holy shit!"
Gan Leixin and Qiu Yuxian were utterly stunned. Was this a miracle a human being could perform? Compared to this, the tricks of the hypnotherapist, Angry, were nothing but child's play!
After a mont of stunned silence, Qiu Yuxian suddenly blurted out, "Quick, reattach my leg too, please! If you help recover and also restore my grandson's eyes to normal, I'll tell you everything I know!"
"Honey, you..." Gan Leixin started, trying to stop her.
"Hm?" Lin Tang raised his finger again, making as if to flick it. Gan Leixin promptly shut his mouth.
Even if we tell Long Tianji, it doesn't an he can get his hands on the Lin Family's secret imdiately. We can contact the Shadow Master afterward and have Him eliminate this bastard! There's no need for us to fight him to the death...
So, after Lin Tang reattached Qiu Yuxian's leg, she obediently began to confess.
Years ago, she and Gan Leixin had been fleeing for their lives and were extrely fortunate to be taken in by the Lin Family. He beca a driver, and she beca a nanny. After so ti, she beca pregnant with their son, Gan Nianyun. At the sa ti, Lin Tang's mother was also pregnant with him. Because of this, Qiu Yuxian later beca Lin Tang's wet nurse.
Being around the baby Lin Tang twenty-four hours a day, she eventually stumbled upon so miraculous phenona that couldn't be explained by science.
"For instance," she explained, "Lin Tang's body temperature would often soar to the thermoter's limit. A few tis, it even caused the thermoter to burst! Sotis he could even levitate in mid-air. His strength was also astonishingly great. At tis, the breath he exhaled was as hot as steam from a boiling kettle."
Her voice grew low. "The most incredible thing was his growth rate. One day he'd be an infant, and the next he would look like a three-year-old child. Then, a few days later, he'd change back into a baby..."
I don't have any mory of this. Then again, it's normal for a baby not to rember such things. Mom and Dad never ntioned it later, either. They must have intentionally hidden it from .
"So you're saying Lin Tianyang is so kind of monster?" Lin Tang deliberately asked.
Qiu Yuxian shook her head. "At first, I did think he was a freak and was terrified of him. But his mother revealed to that his strangeness was due to the influence of a certain object. I don't know what that object was, and I didn't dare ask too many questions."
Gan Leixin added, "That object had the greatest effect on Lin Tianyang, but it also affected others in the Lin Family, including us outsiders. I clearly rember a period where my hair turned gray and my wrinkles beca very obvious. But just a few days later, I suddenly looked young again. Based on my observations, it must have many functions. One of them is to accelerate growth and even aging, but it can also make people young again!"
His face flushed with fanaticism. "If soone could get their hands on it and master its use, couldn't they live forever? With it in hand, one could also make any enemy rapidly age to death! After all, no matter how powerful soone is, their lifespan is still limited!"
Lin Tang's brows furrowed in thought. "So, you're saying the Lin Family's secret *is* this object?"
Qiu Yuxian nodded. "It should be... but that's just my guess; I have no proof. The object only appeared after Lin Tianyang was born. It's very likely it was born *with* him. All the people who assisted with the birth disappeared afterward, probably silenced to keep the secret."
Gan Leixin said, "We were supposed to be silenced too, but we managed to escape from the Lin Family through sheer luck."
"Born *with* him?!" Lin Tang didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Are you kidding ? You make it sound like I'm Jia Baoyu from *Dream of the Red Chamber*, who was born with a piece of jade in his mouth…
Qiu Yuxian continued, "Around the ti Lin Tianyang turned one, his mother suddenly vanished for a full six months. During her absence, all the strange phenona in the Lin household ceased. She must have taken the object and hidden it sowhere. Five years ago, she died, and so did the rest of the Lin Family, leaving only Lin Tianyang. That's why he's the most likely person to know the object's whereabouts."
Lin Tang fell silent.
I honestly don't know anything about this. Mom never ntioned it. But if Qiu Yuxian isn't lying... a treasure that can make people age rapidly or return to their youth would truly be enough to drive the entire world mad. For sothing like that, it would make perfect sense for nurous factions to unite and annihilate the Lin Family.
"So the question is, who leaked the secret about the Lin Family's object?" Lin Tang's voice was low and icy, his gaze sweeping over Qiu Yuxian and Gan Leixin.
"This—" The couple shuddered, overco with a sense of impending doom.
Gan Leixin hastily said, "I swear, my wife and I have never revealed this to anyone! After all, we wanted it all for ourselves."
That much was true. He had only revealed it while trying to please the Shadow Master, and the Shadow Master wasn't a person anyway, so it didn't count.
"That's right, that's right! Even our own son and daughter don't know about it," Qiu Yuxian chid in, trying to deflect the bla. "And who's to say the midwives were really silenced? Besides us, the Lin Family employed many other nannies and bodyguards. As long as they weren't blind, they must have noticed sothing. Any one of them could have leaked the secret."
"Your answers are barely satisfactory," Lin Tang said. "Now for the last question..."
"Please, ask away!" Gan Leixin breathed a secret sigh of relief, feeling that he could already see the hope of escaping alive.
"In Jiangbei, I encountered a strange shadow that tried to possess . You sent it, didn't you? Tell , what exactly is it?"
So the evil spirit just had to run into Long Tianji of all people. What rotten luck! Gan Leixin groaned inwardly.
With a miserable expression, he said, "I'm sorry, but regarding... that... I dare not reveal anything. The mont I speak of it, I will suffer a punishnt from a certain being, a tornt a hundred tis more painful than death."
"What are you...?" Qiu Yuxian was shocked, completely unaware of this.
"Oh," Lin Tang said in a mont of realization. "So it's an Evil God, sothing like the Eye of Truth. I understand."
Gan Leixin had still been terrified a mont ago, but upon hearing the words "Evil God," his pupils instantly dilated, dark ink spreading to fill the whites of his eyes entirely.
"Audacious!" The corners of his mouth tore open into an exaggerated smile. His shadow suddenly beca three-dinsional, baring fangs and claws as it lunged at Lin Tang!
"Hmph!" Lin Tang had obliterated this thing once before; why would he fear it a second ti? His Divine Sense, as powerful as that of a Golden Core Peak cultivator, lashed out fiercely!
Amid a piercing screech, the shadow swiftly retreated like a leech or a snail doused in salt.
Just then, however, large and small shadows began to appear all over the walls of the room, their numbers multiplying rapidly. They circled the room incessantly, eventually rging into a giant black sphere that then began to shrink.
"Burn!" Lin Tang's Divine Sense rged with his Core Fire, forming a flaming shield in the majestic shape of a dragon roaring at the heavens. After burning straight through the black sphere, he found he was no longer in the room.
Instead, he had been inexplicably transported to a flat world devoid of all color, existing only in shades of black, white, and gray. Lin Tang looked down and saw that he, too, had beco a paper-thin figure. He couldn't help but find it strangely fascinating.
Have I been shifted from three dinsions into two?
A vague, towering silhouette with an indistinct face suddenly appeared. It was imnse and majestic, like a towering mountain range. It held up its palm, and Lin Tang found himself standing upon it, as tiny as an ant.
"I am the dark side of the world... I am the Shadow Master... You insignificant maggot, make an offering of your soul..."
"Offer my ass!" Lin Tang roared back. Wreathed in True Qi, he transford into a dragon once more and shot forward like a venomous wasp, aiming straight for the entity's face.
The Shadow Master swatted at him furiously, as if trying to crush a mosquito. Lin Tang dodged and weaved with incredible speed, slipping between the massive fingers ti and again before finally piercing straight through the being's forehead.
The Shadow Master's body shattered, lting into a pool of black liquid. The pool then contracted back into a lump and reford into its humanoid shape. Without letting up, Lin Tang continued his assault, shattering the entity ti and again, only for it to repeatedly reform.
"It's useless! Useless! This is my God Country! Here, I am immortal and invincible!" the Shadow Master roared arrogantly and triumphantly. "Just give up and beco my Divine Servant! Hahaha—"
The being grew larger and multiplied, forming a black torrent that completely engulfed Lin Tang!
At this mont, Lin Tang was in grave peril
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