Fiend Surrender Now

They were like venomous snakes smelling blood, wrapping around Luo Shenyao's slender ankles and delicate wrists with extreme brutality!

"Father! The array has lost control!"

Luo Shenyao struggled desperately, but her meager cultivation was like an ant trying to shake a tree in front of a peak Golden Core array.

"Riiip—"

The vines tightened violently, their barbs mercilessly tearing through her expensive 'Flowing Cloud Plain Brocade'.

The light green gauze was brutally ripped apart, revealing large patches of delicate, jade-white skin on her shoulders and thighs.

The rough vines dug deep into her flesh, forcefully suspending her in mid-air in a spread-eagle position.

"No... it hasn't lost control."

At the edge of the altar, Luo Tianheng slowly straightened his previously hunched back.

The wrinkles on his face seemed to smooth out at this moment, sweeping away the senility of his waning years.

Replacing it was the terrifying, overwhelming pressure of a peak Golden Core cultivator, along with a madness that had been suppressed for over a decade, finally erupting.

"It's operating perfectly."

Luo Tianheng stared fixedly at Luo Shenyao, who was suspended in mid-air, entangled in blood and vines. His Adam's apple bobbed violently.

Luo Shenyao was stunned.

The excruciating pain of the vines cutting into her flesh couldn't compare to even a ten-thousandth of the feeling of her heart being torn apart at this moment.

She looked at her father, who was both familiar and strange, and saw the hunger in his eyes.

"Father... what... what are you talking about?"

Her voice trembled uncontrollably, and tears fell from her eyes like broken pearls, dropping onto the vines that greedily drank her blood.

"Weren't you going to cure your illness? Why are you tying Yao'er up? It hurts... Father, Yao'er is in so much pain..."

Her clear eyes were filled with pleading and incomprehensible despair.

"Cure my illness? Hahaha!"

Luo Tianheng threw his head back and let out a harsh, maniacal laugh, like a night owl.

He took a sudden step forward, his gaze locked onto Luo Shenyao's delicate body, which was radiating an astonishing amount of life force.

"I've been stuck at the peak of the Golden Core realm for eighty whole years! My lifespan is nearing its end! The Heavenly Dao is unfair! Why should those fools be able to condense a Nascent Soul, while I have to wait for death here in the Heavenly Sound Valley?!"

Luo Tianheng's face completely twisted in rage, the finger pointing at Luo Shenyao trembling violently.

"Until I discovered your true form in the ancient ruins!"

"Did you really think you were my biological daughter?! Did you really think that for the past eighteen years, I exhausted the sect's resources, gave you the best spirit fruits, cleansed your marrow with the purest spirit spring water, and couldn't even bear to say a harsh word to you, all because of a father's deep love?!"

Every word was like a rusty, blunt knife, ruthlessly carving into Luo Shenyao's heart.

Her face turned as pale as paper, and she stopped struggling.

A desperate roaring echoed in her mind.

"No... that's not true... You taught me Daoist spells every night... For me, you even went to beg the immortals of the Dao One Sect..."

Luo Shenyao wept uncontrollably, her frail body shivering in mid-air.

"Shut up!"

Luo Tianheng roared, the greed in his eyes almost manifesting into something tangible.

"That's because you are a medicine! A living 'humanoid great medicine'!"

"You are the reincarnation of an ancient Flower God! Your bloodline, your bone marrow, every inch of your flesh that hasn't been polluted by the mortal world, is a supreme treasure that can allow me to glimpse the Nascent Soul Great Dao!"

Luo Tianheng spread his arms, taking a deep breath of the air, which was filled with the fresh scent of vegetation and the metallic tang of blood.

"I worshipped you like an ancestor to let your Flower God bloodline mature in the most carefree, purest state!"

"Today, the fruit is ripe. It's time for me to harvest it!"

Luo Tianheng's hands suddenly formed hand seals.

"Myriad Woods Eternal Spring, Extract Bone and Pull Marrow!"

"Boom!"

The dark green vines wrapped around Luo Shenyao instantly sprouted countless transparent tendrils, thin as gossamer.

These tendrils acted like living parasites, brutally piercing her delicate skin, following her meridians, and stabbing directly deep into her spine!

"Ah—!!!"

Luo Shenyao let out a scream of utmost agony.

It was the extreme pain of having one's soul torn apart alive and bone marrow forcefully extracted!

Her clear eyes were instantly filled with bloodshot agony, her stunning face tilted upwards, her fragile neck strained into a heartbreaking arc of despair.

Her faith collapsed.

The extreme despair mixed with the excruciating pain of being skinned and having her bones extracted pushed her sanity to the brink of collapse.

Above the altar, a blood-red light shone brightly.

Luo Tianheng's shriveled old face was covered in extreme fanaticism as he prepared to step into the Nascent Soul Great Dao.

His withered hands tightly held the hand seals, frantically absorbing the "Flower God bone marrow" surging through the vines.

"Boom!"

However, just as that extremely pure life force was about to merge into his dantian.

A sudden change occurred!

The originally dark green, rough vines instantly turned into a bizarre, dark red color!

The transparent tendrils that were stabbed deep into Luo Shenyao's spine suddenly reversed, acting like greedy straws. Not only did they instantly cut off the life force being sent outwards, but they also pierced backwards into the pulse gates of Luo Tianheng's withered hands with a terrifying devouring force!

"Pfft!"

Blood splattered.

"What... what is going on?!"

The wild joy on Luo Tianheng's face instantly froze, his cloudy old eyes bulging out of their sockets.

To his horror, he discovered that the peak Golden Core spiritual energy he had cultivated for hundreds of years, along with his essence blood and lifespan, were pouring back into the depths of the array like a breached dam, following those dark red vines!

"Rebellious daughter! You dare devour your father?!"

Luo Tianheng's eyes widened in fury, desperately trying to swing his withered arms to chop off the vines.

But the vines were now as hard as ancient profound iron, locking his meridians tightly, making it impossible to shake them even the slightest bit.

"Eat my daughter... hehehe..."

An extremely cold, bone-chilling ancient female voice suddenly exploded deep within Luo Tianheng's sea of consciousness.

That voice was definitely not Luo Shenyao's!

"Did you really think that with your inferior aptitude, you could detect the secret within this vessel?"

The dark red vines writhed madly in mid-air, the cold female voice filled with endless mockery and ridicule.

"I deliberately leaked a trace of my aura, planting the obsession of 'eating her to break through' in your subconscious."

"You are nothing more than a humanoid fertilizer I carefully raised to survive this weakest period of possession."

Boom!

It was as if ten thousand bolts of lightning struck Luo Tianheng's mind.

Mental manipulation!

For over a decade, the cruel chess game he had plotted day and night, thinking it was flawless, was actually being secretly controlled by this ancient demonic vine!

He wasn't even a chess piece; he was just a consumable!

"No! Let me go! I am the Patriarch of Heavenly Sound Valley—Ah!!!"

A shrill scream echoed through the karst cave.

In just three breaths.

This peak Golden Core cultivator who could summon the wind and rain in Holy Heaven City didn't even have the chance to self-destruct his Golden Core. His entire body shriveled up at a visible rate.

His skin clung tightly to his bones, ultimately turning into a lifeless, ashen-white dried corpse.