She closed her eyes in despair, waiting for death to descend.
However.
The icy annihilation she expected never came.
Instead, an incredibly overbearing wave of heat, accompanied by a tyrannical, low roar, crashed ruthlessly into her embrace.
"Shut up!!"
A large hand roughly tore away the tattered cloth hindering its path over her lower abdomen. Radiating a scorching heat, it pressed down directly and without hesitation onto the cluster of pale, deadly light that was wildly spreading.
Great Sun Heaven-Scorching Scripture, running at full power!
The utterly unyielding and masculine Golden Crow Fire surged domineeringly through his palm and into Su Wanyin's body. Like a sovereign patrolling his domain, it launched the most frenzied siege against that pale cluster of Nine Nether Corpse Fire.
Sizzle!
The moment flesh made contact, the collision of ice and fire provoked a burst of teeth-aching white smoke.
Gu Yang furrowed his brows fiercely.
It hurt.
But this bone-piercing, sinister cold only further stimulated the ferocity of the Great Sun Heaven-Scorching Scripture within his body.
This trash fire actually dared to touch his private property?
"Trying to hog it all to yourself? Have you asked me first?!"
Gu Yang roared in his heart. Not only did he not withdraw his hand, but he also changed his palm into a claw. His five fingers sank deeply into the skin of Su Wanyin's flat, taut abdomen like iron hooks.
"Spit it out... for me!!"
Boom!
The five-colored lotus platform within his body rotated madly. The Great Sun True Fire, like golden magma, surged barbarically down his arm and crashed into Su Wanyin's dantian.
This time, it was not to heal.
It was to plunder!
It was the absolute crushing dominance of an apex predator over a lesser being!
...
Buzz—
At the exact moment the Great Sun True Fire and the Nine Nethers Soul-Locking Flame converged within Su Wanyin's body.
Both of their bodies trembled violently at the same time.
The reason the Nine Nethers Soul-Locking Flame ranked ninety-ninth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking was precisely because of its bizarre soul-locking characteristic.
At this moment, in order to resist Gu Yang's invasion, it instinctively and forcefully locked their divine souls together.
An invisible soul bridge was instantly erected.
Time seemed to stand still in this instant.
Su Wanyin's previously unfocused pupils suddenly contracted.
She saw it.
On a soul level, she clearly felt the truest, most violent emotions deep within that man's heart at this very moment.
It was a possessiveness capable of incinerating heaven and earth.
It was an extreme protectiveness over his food, going by the name of greed.
However, in the perception of the dying Su Wanyin, this greed directed at the heavenly flame was subjected to a beautiful, fatal misinterpretation by her consciousness that was hovering on the brink of collapse.
...
Gu Yang (furious): This fire is mine! Who allowed you to ruin my spoils of war! I won't let even a single trace of its spiritual essence slip away!
Su Wanyin (trembling): He is angry... because the grim reaper is trying to take me away? He is roaring at the Heavenly Dao, saying that I am his?
Gu Yang (anxious): Lock it down for me! Don't let it dissipate! If it dissipates, I won't be able to level up!
Su Wanyin (captivated): He is ordering me... not to let my soul scatter? Even if it means defying the heavens, he wants to lock my life to the mortal realm?
...
"Look at me!!"
In reality, Gu Yang's explosive shout forcefully pulled Su Wanyin's consciousness back.
That ordinary, unremarkable face was now covered in sweat and ferocity. Those eyes, which were originally as placid as an ancient well, were now burning with golden flames, frighteningly bright.
He stared fixedly at Su Wanyin, the force in his hand so great it felt as if he was going to crush her bones.
"You are not allowed to die!!"
"Did you hear me!!"
You are my quest NPC! You are not allowed to die before the rewards are issued!
This incredibly overbearing declaration, accompanied by the resonance deep within her soul, instantly shattered Su Wanyin's final reserves and defenses as the Demonic Sect's Saintess.
In this cultivation world full of deception, where everyone calculated for their own benefit.
Even Mo Yuan, whom she was as close to as a grandfather, only thought of refining her into a human pill.
Only this man.
This Li Feiyu whom she had met by chance.
To save her, he did not hesitate to risk his own life to touch the lethal Nine Nethers Netherfire.
To keep her here, he did not hesitate to burn his divine soul, playing tug-of-war with the King of Hell in this rainy night.
"Li... Feiyu..."
"How can you be so foolish..."
A clear tear slid from the corner of Su Wanyin's eye, mixing with the rainwater, so poignantly beautiful it broke the heart.
So, this was what it felt like to be needed so domineeringly by someone?
It was like a lone boat that had drifted for half a lifetime, finally crashing into a hard, scalding, yet incomparably safe harbor, despite its roughness.
"Alright..."
Her pale lips moved slightly, letting out a broken murmur.
"I won't die... I am... yours..."
She gave up all resistance, even taking the initiative to open her most vulnerable dantian qi sea, allowing that man's spiritual energy to drive straight in.
Rumble!
Having gained Su Wanyin's active cooperation, Gu Yang's Great Sun True Fire instantly gained the absolute upper hand.
The golden flames transformed into a giant net, firmly covering the cluster of pale heavenly flame that was wreaking havoc.
"Collect... for your granddaddy!!"
Gu Yang forcefully yanked backward.
Sizzle sizzle sizzle—
That cluster of Nine Nethers Soul-Locking Flame let out an unwilling shriek as it was forcibly uprooted from Su Wanyin's dantian!
The intertwining of pleasure and emptiness in that instant caused Su Wanyin to let out a trembling scream.
"Ugh— Ah..."
...
Rainwater washed over the mess on the ground.
Gu Yang sat cross-legged on a scorched black rock. In the center of his palm, that pale cluster of Nine Nethers Soul-Locking Flame was madly darting left and right, letting out shrieks like a vengeful ghost.
But under the absolute suppression of the Great Sun True Fire, it was like an ice cube dropped into boiling oil, helplessly being stripped away and melted layer by layer.
Gu Yang raised his eyelids slightly. The five-colored lotus platform in his dantian rotated with a rumble.
A domineering suction force erupted from his palm.
Whoosh—
That cluster of heavenly flame, enough to make late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators tremble in fear, was actually sucked alive into his body like a noodle!
There was none of the imagined pain.
The Great Sun Heaven-Scorching Scripture had long been dying of thirst and hunger.
The moment that surge of extremely yin and freezing energy entered his meridians, it was instantly enveloped, shredded, and devoured by the ravenous golden spiritual energy within his body.
Yin and yang transformed, water and fire complementing each other.
The originally tyrannical and scorching Great Sun True Fire, after devouring this extremely yin heavenly flame, unexpectedly gained a trace of bizarre profoundness.
In the center of the golden flames, a heart-palpitating pale white faintly emerged.
Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully devouring the Nine Nethers Soul-Locking Flame (Incomplete Version).
Proficiency of the Great Sun Heaven-Scorching Scripture has increased!
Great Sun True Fire has successfully evolved! Awakened new special effect: Soul Scorch.
Soul Scorch: The Great Sun True Fire will carry true soul damage. For those burned by the true fire, their divine soul will collapse before their physical body is destroyed. Deals extra damage to ghost cultivators, soul entities, and body snatchers.
Beside the scorched rock, Gu Yang lay flat on his back among the mud and gravel.
His eyes were half-closed, his chest heaving violently. Every breath he took brought out a pale golden, scorching white mist.
That was the pure energy overflowing after the Nine Nethers Soul-Locking Flame had been forcefully refined.
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
for mindless slaughter, this isn't for you.] My name is Ye Shu, and I'm a transmigrator. It seems I'm supposed to be the protagonist, but that feels pretty unlikely. This world has been invaded by a system. The antagonists on the other side have suddenly become pure, flawless saints. The female leads have been force-fed the so-called "original plot," making them think they've been reborn. Now, everyone thinks I'm scum. Including the old lady in my ring. And here I am, in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, braising pork. To put my situation in perspective— It's as if, the moment Xiao Yan stepped into the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the Soul Emperor already knew he would become the Flame Emperor, and Yao Lao had been turned to the enemy's side. I have nothing right now. Oh wait, that's not true. I do have a white-haired loli child-bride who's the Heavenly Dao, and her only skill is acting cute. So, tell me guys... what are my chances of making it to the end?
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
