"Speak, do you want to live?"
"Of course I want to live! Please, Senior, have mercy and spare me this time. I won't dare to do it again."
"Good! Then I'll give you a chance. Will you go somewhere with me?"
Without waiting for Ma Jun to respond, the old man lifted him and dashed towards the southern entrance.
Feeling the freedom of the wind, Ma Jun once again deeply understood the true meaning of "playing the pig to eat the tiger."
I should have realized it earlier. This old geezer dared to disrespect Gu Tianhe and Chu Yang yesterday within the Guhe Sect. He must have something to rely on. If I had known, I wouldn't have gotten involved in this mess, even if it killed me.
As Shen Zhao, holding Ma Jun as if he were a grandson, hurried south, in the center of the Fuxi Abyss…
"Chu Yang, you despicable scoundrel, I truly misjudged you!"
"Ninth Prince, you can't do this. We worked so hard to find it; you can't just take it for yourself."
In a room resembling an altar, injured cultivators lay everywhere.
Chu Yang, standing in the center, looked around with disdain.
"I'm sorry, but you can only blame your own weak cultivation. In this world, only those who control power are qualified to possess everything.
But don't worry, we've had a pleasant time together these past few hours, and I'll remember you. So, rest in peace."
With those words, Chu Yang urged his spiritual energy, and immediately, flames surged around him.
"Nine Yang True Fire Technique?"
Everyone who saw this scene couldn't help but look at it with despair.
"Hahaha, you should feel honored to die under the hands of my Great Xia's national divine skill!"
"Chu Yang, we won't just sit here and wait to die! Even if we die! I'll drag you down with me!"
"Right, we're all going to die anyway, so we might as well fight this hypocrite!"
Rather than sit and wait for death, it was better to fight to the death.
The cultivators struggled to their feet, trying to gather their spiritual energy to fight Chu Yang to the death.
However, they had just stood up when they all collapsed again. The spiritual energy in their qi seas was dissipating at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"It's useless. You've been poisoned with Spirit Transmutation Powder. Unless you have a cultivation base above the Soul Sea Realm, you won't be able to mobilize any spirit energy. So, just accept your deaths and save yourselves some suffering!"
With that, Chu Yang flipped his palm, and the Nine Yang True Fire transformed into a writhing dragon, wreaking havoc in the room. Moments later, the thirty-odd cultivators were reduced to dust, leaving no trace.
"Hmph, a bunch of trash!"
With a cold snort, Chu Yang brushed off the dust on his clothes and walked directly toward a Fuxi statue in front of him.
However, as his hand touched the box beneath the statue, a faint dragon roar echoed through the empty room.
Chu Yang's pupils contracted, and he turned his head sharply to look.
He saw a shadow of a Dragon Head appearing on the wall in the corner.
"Roar~"
Roars of a dragon echoed, and a suffocating pressure spread outwards.
Following that, Chu Yang saw a massive, indescribable Dragon Head appear before him.
"A dragon! There's actually a dragon here!"
Chu Yang was shocked and hastily grabbed the box, urging all his spiritual power to sprint towards the exit.
"Roar~"
The giant dragon seemed enraged. It let out a low growl and immediately struggled, chasing after Chu Yang's retreating figure.
Wherever the winding, lengthy dragon body passed, the altar instantly shattered.
On the other side, Shen Zhao carried Ma Jun back to Ding Bu'er.
Yu Xiyan, upon seeing "Liu Chengzhou" this time, immediately got excited and tidied her long, shiny black hair, a strange light flickering in her eyes.
Unfortunately, Shen Zhao didn't even glance at her, instead dropping Ma Jun on the ground and saying to Ding Bu'er, "Are the Medicinal Pills all done?"
"Done long ago, two thousand five hundred in total. Even if I sold them at ten Spirit Stones each, I'd still make a killing."
"Ten Spirit Stones? That's thinking small."
Shen Zhao chuckled, then walked over to Ma Jun. "You want to live, right? Then I'll give you a chance. It was my mistake to break your legs, so to make up for my debt, I plan to heal your broken legs."
Ma Jun looked at Shen Zhao's malicious smile and hurriedly said, "Senior can spare my life, and I am already extremely grateful. There's no need for Senior to worry about the treatment. I'll just rest for a few days."
"How can that be? I'm a very reasonable person. If I say I'll heal your legs, then I definitely will. Otherwise, how can I break my word? How will I be able to survive in the future?"
Saying this, Shen Zhao took a porcelain bottle of medicine for treating external injuries, poured out a pill, and then crushed it into powder. Before Ma Jun could react, he directly applied it to his bleeding, broken bone.
"Aah~"
"Wang mai si kang~~"
Ma Jun immediately screamed in pain, but then groaned, his expression surprisingly blissful.
The next moment, the pain in his broken leg gradually dissipated, replaced by endless cool air infusing every inch of his leg's meridians, rapidly healing at a visible rate.
About a minute later, Ma Jun was astonished to find his legs completely restored, and he took two steps without any problems.
"Hahaha, it's healed, my legs are healed!"
He then knelt down and kowtowed to Shen Zhao: "Thank you, Senior. This junior's heart was blinded by lard, and that's why I was instigated to harbor murderous intentions towards you, Senior,
"I never thought Senior would be so magnanimous, not only sparing my life but also using a divine medicine to heal my broken leg. I will forever be grateful for this kindness."
However, these heartfelt words grated on Shen Zhao's ears. He immediately interrupted, "I don't need you to remember anything. This medicinal pill wasn't easy to come by; it took a lot of effort to refine. You understand what I mean, right?"
Ma Jun replied, "I understand, I understand. After I leave, I will definitely do good deeds and follow Senior's teachings!"
"Damn it!"
Unable to bear it any longer, Shen Zhao slapped Ma Jun, sending him spinning in the air for more than a dozen rotations.
After he landed, Shen Zhao grabbed his collar and growled, "You little punk, you think you can play games with me, huh? You dare to freeload my stuff? When did we become so close? Pay up!"
"Yes, yes, yes, I'll pay!"
Ma Jun immediately took out his storage pouch and produced twenty Spirit Stones, handing them over.
"That's more like it. You wanted to leave early, so why did you have to take a beating?"
Ding Bu'er happily reached out to take the Spirit Stones.
But Shen Zhao stopped him immediately: "Twenty Spirit Stones? Kid, do you think you're being funny?"
Ma Jun's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly said, "Senior, you are right. Please, Senior, name your price."
"One thousand Spirit Stones!"
"What! One thousand Spirit Stones!"
Ma Jun's eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief.
"Senior, although your medicine is miraculous, it shouldn't be this expensive!"
Ding Bu'er, who was standing to the side, whispered to Shen Zhao, "That's enough. Twenty Spirit Stones isn't a small amount. It's double what we expected."
"Get lost. No wonder you're still doing so poorly after all these years. Learn from your Shen-ye."
Shen Zhao shrugged and said to Ma Jun with a serious expression, "You say my medicine is expensive? Where is it expensive? Selling you a single Medicinal Pill for ten Spirit Stones, where's the high price?"
"But didn't you just say you wanted a thousand Spirit Stones?"
"That's the fee to leave the Fuxi Abyss, understand!"
"What do you mean? Please enlighten me, Senior."
"If you want to leave here, you have to pass behind me, and the fee for leaving is nine hundred and ninety Spirit Stones. Is it expensive? I'm a proper businessman; I don't engage in those dirty dealings!"
"So, can't I just buy the medicine?"
"That won't work. We're doing a bundled deal. You can't get the Medicinal Pills without paying the toll, and you can't pass through without buying the pills."
Ma Jun's face instantly turned the color of a pig's liver. He'd lived for over thirty years and this was the first time he'd encountered such a shameless merchant. He was about to explode with rage.
If he had the strength, he'd really love to slap this old bastard to death.
But, unfortunately, he didn't have that strength.
"But Senior, I don't have that many Spirit Stones on me."
"If you don't have Spirit Stones, you can use other things to trade. Since you're my first customer, I'll give you a little discount. Promote the Medicinal Pills' effects for me inside the Fuxi Abyss, and I'll give you a 9.8 discount."
"Alright, thank you, Senior. So, now?"
"Go!"
Ma Jun fled as if escaping for his life.
In his heart, he was smug: "The old man is getting old and his mind isn't working well. There isn't only one exit, I don't believe you can stop me in the east!"
Just after Ma Jun left, Yu Xiyan, who had been silent, spoke, "He wanted to kill you, why did you let him go?"
Shen Zhao didn't turn his head and replied, "When making money and doing business, why push people into a corner? We're after wealth, not lives."
"But he wanted to kill you!" Yu Xiyan said word by word, her eyes lingering on Shen Zhao, unwilling to move away.
Shen Zhao shrugged, "Didn't he fail to kill me? Why dwell on it so much?"
Yu Xiyan was silent for a long while, then shook her head and said, "That's not right, this isn't like your usual way of doing things."
"What did you say?"
"It's nothing."
Realizing she'd spoken out of turn, Yu Xiyan immediately dropped the subject.
Just now, when she heard Ma Jun's intentions toward Shen Zhao, she'd suppressed her urge to intervene and quietly observed him.
In her previous life, Shen Zhao had practically fought his way across the entire Immortal Martial Continent, becoming a renowned war god. Ruthlessness and coldness were his defining traits.
Yet now, this man was willing to leave someone a way out?
Perhaps I'm overthinking it? Liu Chengzhou and Shen Zhao aren't even the same person?
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