Although Yan Luoyang had no feelings for Lee Encai, he kept her around purely for her usefulness.
Yet, as a man, how could he endure this?! To see his future wife plead for another man, even threatening suicide… to see her exchange tender, flirtatious glances with him…
"LEE! EN! CAI!" Yan Luoyang's voice was utterly frigid, radiating a murderous aura. "You've finally succeeded in provoking ! Do you think I'd yield to your threats? Even if you die right now, I can turn you into a Corpse Slave! You will never escape my grasp in this lifeti!"
He pointed a finger at Lin Tang and roared, "Originally, I was only going to turn him into a Corpse Slave. Now, I've changed my mind! I will capture them, take them into the city, and in front of countless people, I will strip his wife naked and torture her to death!"
"No! Don't!" Lee Encai's tears stread down her face as she trembled violently, terrified and blaming herself for her clever plan backfiring.
"I'm begging you, please don't!" she scread in agony.
But Yan Luoyang simply tossed her aside, where Tang Ruqing and Tang Shaojie imdiately seized her by the wrists. All she could do was watch helplessly as Yan Luoyang advanced on Lin Tang.
Tang Dingwu, Zheng Hongsheng, and Song Chaohu, who was carrying a spiked mace, also stepped forward.
Lin Tang's expression remained placid as he squeezed Shen Youling's hand. "You think you've already won?"
"And why not?" Yan Luoyang sneered. "You're already a cripple. You still want to fight back? What could you possibly rely on? These pieces of junk?"
Though he completely disregarded Lin Tang, he remained cautious and waved his hand, letting Tang Dingwu and Zheng Hongsheng throw the first punches rather than engaging himself.
Lin Tang found this sowhat regrettable and reached his other hand into his robes.
Zhu Yingning was on the verge of a breakdown, deeply regretting her return to Jiangbei. She had never imagined that right after witnessing Mu Jiuzhou possess a corpse, she would encounter another Corpse Control user like Yan Luoyang.
Why is it always about corpses with these people? How morbid! If I'd known it would be like this, I would've rather been swallowed by that snake for a clean death. Why am I so unlucky?
As tears welled in Zhu Yingning's eyes, she saw Lin Tang pull sothing out.
It was one of the giant snake's scales, still stained with its blood!
At so point, Lin Tang had used the snake blood as ink to draw fine, dense, and mystical patterns across its surface.
He had turned the scale into a—
Talisman!
The mont he produced it, Shen Youling felt sothing stir deep within her, rging with Lin Tang through their clasped hands.
The next mont, Lin Tang abruptly raised his hand.
BOOM!!
A deafening blast erupted like thunder from a clear sky. A silvery-white light, as brilliant as a lightning strike, bathed Lin Tang, making him appear like a descending deity.
"Damn it!" Yan Luoyang's heart pounded in his chest.
In his shock, he instinctively grabbed Song Chaohu and yanked him forward as a shield. At the sa ti, Tang Dingwu and Zheng Hongsheng charged ahead fearlessly, accelerating to smash Lin Tang into a bloody pulp!
But they were like n made of paper, pierced through in an instant. They were imdiately incinerated, turning to charcoal.
Song Chaohu let out a final, furious roar before eting the sa fate.
"AHHH!" Yan Luoyang let out a horrid shriek like a night owl. Half of his body was blackened and smoking as he was blasted backward a great distance.
He could never have imagined that he wouldn't withstand even a single move! Just monts ago, he had thought everything was under his control. The humiliation was imnse.
"Lin Tang, you just wait! I'll be back!"
The mont Yan Luoyang hit the ground, he turned and fled without the slightest hesitation, abandoning Lee Encai and the Tang siblings. He was genuinely terrified, afraid that Lin Tang had other tricks up his sleeve. He had worked so hard to escape the control of that old crone and master the Corpse Heart Technique. He had a brilliant future ahead of him; he was still so young…
I absolutely cannot die here!
"Hahaha, you think you can escape?" Lin Tang laughed heartily. He let go of Shen Youling and gave chase, looking fully determined to hunt him down and finish the job.
Zhu Yingning stood dumbstruck, her mouth hanging wide open.
Shen Youling and Lee Encai were equally stunned.
What just happened? Can you even call that martial arts? That was clearly a spell, right? Is Lin Tang even human? He must be a god!
In the end, Lin Tang watched as the defeated cur, Yan Luoyang, vanished from sight. He hadn't been able to catch him, but he wasn't disappointed. Instead, he let out a huge sigh of relief.
Thank goodness that guy is a coward. If he had stubbornly stayed to fight to the death, I would have been completely out of options.
Lin Tang mused to himself with a sense of relief. When he opened his hand, the giant snake scale had already turned to ash.
He forced himself to look composed and returned to Shen Youling's side. He then barked at the dazed Zhu Yingning, "Useless fool, what are you standing there for? Take care of these two siblings."
"Oh, right," Zhu Yingning swallowed hard, her entire body feeling numb. She had never expected Lin Tang to possess such a terrifying superweapon. Two Master Realm experts were defeated in an instant.
And to think of all the little sches I was plotting on our way here. If he had detonated that thing while he was on my back, wouldn't I have been killed long ago? Does he have a second one? I rember that snake had a lot of scales. I wasn't paying attention… did he grab more than one?
Zhu Yingning's eyes flickered with thought.
Without Yan Luoyang's control, Tang Shaojie and Tang Ruqing were like mindless robots or wild beasts. They could only snarl and bare their teeth on instinct. Naturally, they were no match for Zhu Yingning and were easily subdued.
"This isn't a place to linger. Let's go," Lin Tang said, his face a mask of calm. He beckoned Zhu Yingning over and, with practiced ease, climbed onto her back.
"Giddy up!"
Zhu Yingning was speechless. Are you seriously treating like your personal mount?!
***
"Holy hell, was that a bomb?"
Lu Zizheng, who had barely survived, heard the massive explosion and was so scared he fell flat on his butt. He kept glancing nervously behind him.
Then, with a WHOOSH, Yan Luoyang streaked past overhead. The sight terrified Lu Zizheng so much that he pulled his head into his shoulders like a turtle. After a long mont, he cautiously peeked up again but saw nothing. Yan Luoyang had been too fast.
Don't tell … another expert showed up? Amitabha, please don't kill , I'm just passing through, just passing through…
Lu Zizheng scrambled away, holding his head. He ran breathlessly out of the cetery, got into his car, and sped off.
Back in the city, he was still shaken. As he approached the Shen Family's residential complex, a figure suddenly appeared in front of his car.
SCREECH—
Lu Zizheng slamd on the brakes, about to curse the person for being blind. But before he could, Shen Jiayue ripped open the car door, grabbed him by the ear, and dragged him out.
"Where did you go with Shen Youling?" she demanded fiercely. "Did you cheat on ? Are you even human? She's my little sister, you—"
"Enough!" Lu Zizheng shoved her away with a kick. "You shrew, have you any idea I was almost killed just now? What the hell are you making a scene for!"
"Ow! You dare shout at ? You dare to hit back? I'll kill you!"
Shen Jiayue clawed at him, and the two began to brawl, attracting a crowd of onlookers who pointed and laughed.
Only after Shen Jiayue had vented her anger did Lu Zizheng finally explain what had happened.
"Lin Tang isn't dead?" Shen Jiayue was first imnsely disappointed.
"He's beco a cripple?" Her face then lit up with glee as she declared that he deserved it.
But when she learned that Yan Luoyang had brought several experts to get revenge, she beca certain that Lin Tang and Shen Youling couldn't possibly have survived. She let out a heavy sigh.
"…You're actually sad?"
"Of course I am, she's my own sister! But she has no one to bla but herself. She was blind and married the wrong man, which led her to this fate."
"No, I don't believe it! This can't be happening!" an anguished voice cried out.
"Uh, Grandpa?"
They saw Shen Qiushi, his eyes bloodshot and streaming with tears. He was overwheld by a mixture of pain, regret, and despair. With a sudden surge of emotion, he collapsed to the ground unconscious.
"Oh, co on. Not another fit," Shen Jiayue said, exasperated.
Lu Zizheng frowned deeply. "This is so damn annoying. Either drop dead for good or stop with all this drama. Always making trouble for us… Now I finally understand that saying: 'to be old and not dead is to be a thief.'"
Still, they couldn't just leave him there and risk being condemned by acquaintances, so they imdiately called an ambulance and notified Shen Xin.
「At the hospital.」
After ergency treatnt, the doctor announced that he was out of danger.
Shen Xin breathed a sigh of relief.
Dong Mingfeng, however, was impatient. She complained that she had been about to close another business deal when this had interrupted everything.
"Mom, forget about business for a minute. Let tell you about Youling, she…"
"What?!"
When Dong Mingfeng heard the full story, she collapsed to the floor. "Damn you, Lin Tang! I curse you to be reincarnated as an animal for all eternity! You finally got my daughter killed!"
Shen Xin swayed on his feet, struggling to accept the news of his youngest daughter's death.
As it happened, many of those who had been injured during the internal fighting instigated by Tang Dingbo were recuperating in this very hospital.
"Shen Youling, Jiangbei's number one beauty, is dead?"
"And Lin Tang, who just beca a cripple, kicked the bucket with her?"
"Quick, go find out if it's true!"
The gossip spread like wildfire. Before long, the news was all over Jiangbei's upper-class circles.
To verify the rumors, so of them pulled up surveillance footage. Yan Luoyang and his group hadn't bothered to hide their movents on their way to Taoyuan Cetery, so they were easily spotted on monitored roads.
"Isn't that Lee Encai from the Li Family?"
"The Zhou Family's son-in-law, Song Chaohu, is with them!"
"Hiss… I recognize that guy. He's the Tang Sect Leader's cousin, a truly ruthless character!"
"My God, is that who I think it is? Zheng Hongsheng, the patriarch of the Zheng Family from Xianggang Island!"
"They all went to kill Lin Tang?"
"Then there's no way Lin Tang is still alive. That's an overwhelming force!"
When Li Weihai and the others from the Li Family saw the footage, their hearts leaped into their throats.
"It's that freak, Yan Luoyang!"
"My poor little Encai, what are we going to do!"
"So, Lin Tang couldn't escape his fate after all."
Li Weihai and his family sighed in despair, utterly helpless.
With tears in her eyes, Pei Huixian clutched at a sliver of hope and called Lee Encai's phone. To her surprise, it was answered instantly.
"Mom, why are you calling now? It's not a good ti, I'll call you back later," Lee Encai said in a rushed, quiet voice.
Pei Huixian was taken aback. Faintly, in the background, she could hear panting sounds. It sounded as if…
"Are you being assaulted by Yan Luoyang?"
"What? No, Brother Lin chased Yan Luoyang away a while ago. I'm already… AHHH! Gotta go, bye!"
Pei Huixian was left speechless.
Li Weihai was left speechless.
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