Faster! Even faster!
The private jet pierced through the clouds, tearing open the sky as it hurtled at top speed toward Jinling City.
"Qingyue, Ningning... nothing must happen to you!"
"Otherwise, I will turn Jinling City into a ghost town—a ghost town where blood flows like a river and a million corpses litter the ground!"
"Hold on, you must hold on!"
Ye Chen's entire body was ice-cold, trembling violently. He was consumed by rage and terror...
The vicious malevolence raging within him could no longer be suppressed!
"Hah! Hah! Hah..."
With blood-red eyes and a voice like a rakshasa crawling straight out of the netherworld, Ye Chen roared, "How much longer... how much longer until we reach Jinling City?!"
"Master, we have already arrived in Jinling City!"
Chen Junlin maintained a steady, firm grip on the controls and shouted at the top of his lungs, "We are landing right now, Master... Little Junior Sister, Little Junior Sister will be fine!"
We've arrived?!
Ye Chen's body stiffened as he abruptly looked out the window.
The plane was already in the middle of its descent, hovering a mere few hundred meters above the ground. Parts of the sprawling buildings below were now clearly visible.
Chen Junlin called out, "Master, we will land safely in one minute, please don't wor—"
Before Chen Junlin could even finish, Ye Chen cut him off abruptly: "I can't wait! Open the cabin door!"
"Master, we're still hundreds of meters in the air..."
"Open the cabin door!"
With an explosive roar, Ye Chen unleashed a torrential surge of malevolent energy from deep within his body. In an instant, every single glass fixture inside the cabin shattered into countless pieces with a series of sharp cracks.
Centered entirely on Ye Chen, everything around him was being violently pulverized. If this continued, the plane would be completely torn apart by the malevolent force long before they could land safely!
Gritting his teeth, Chen Junlin had no choice but to open the cabin door.
And then, he witnessed a sight that would be etched into his memory for the rest of his life!
The moment the cabin door swung open, Ye Chen stepped right out into the void...
"Master!"
Horrified, Chen Junlin moved to stop him, but Ye Chen had already plunged downward.
High above in the sky, hundreds of meters up, Ye Chen plummeted in a sheer, unhindered drop.
"That's a hundred-meter drop..." Chen Junlin muttered, his scalp tingling with terror.
At the same time, the dozens of disciples aboard the private jets trailing closely behind shouted in unison: "Master!"
The moment Ye Chen had burst out of the aircraft, all thirty-six disciples had boarded their own private jets, following closely behind the entire way.
Along the journey, they had already discovered the reason for Ye Chen's fury, and had managed to mobilize every single fellow apprentice!
They had all sworn to obtain justice for their master, mistress, and little junior sister...
Even though more than half of those disciples had already been blacklisted by the Great Xia Country, warned that if they ever set foot on its soil again, they would be executed on sight!
They didn't care...
As long as they could secure justice for their master, what did it matter if they had to make enemies with the entire world?!
Yet none of them could have anticipated that upon reaching their destination, their master would leap straight out of the aircraft, plunging headfirst from a height of a hundred meters!
"Master!"
"Master!"
Amidst the desperate shouts of the crowd, Ye Chen cut through the hundreds of meters of empty air like a falling meteorite. With virtually no cushioning, he slammed heavily into the ground with a deafening crash!
BOOM!
A thunderous explosion shook the earth, sending up a massive cloud of dust and debris!
The bluestone-paved courtyard of the Gu Family was completely pulverized into fine powder, and the entire villa trembled violently from the impact!
The glass windows throughout the courtyard shattered instantly under the sheer force of the shockwave!
"What on earth is that?"
"Could it be an earthquake?"
"There... there's a human figure in the courtyard..."
The people inside the house were left with a deafening ringing in their ears from the immense blast. Following the source of the sound, they peered through the swirling dust and caught sight of a vague human silhouette!
The figure stood at the bottom of a massive crater. Beneath his feet, a dense, spiderweb-like network of cracks spread outward for dozens of meters, even fracturing the structural walls of the surrounding buildings!
"Is... is that a man or a ghost?!" someone gasped in sheer terror.
Before anyone could answer, Ye Chen moved!
BOOM!
Another deafening crash echoed out. Before anyone could process what was happening, a figure resembling a rakshasa from hell instantly burst into the house!
With trails of blood and tears streaming from his bloodshot eyes and a murderous aura surging endlessly from his body, Ye Chen swept his hand outward. The bodies of seven or eight bodyguards inside the room exploded all at once, bursting into bloody mists!
Then, fixing a freezing, deathly glare on the three remaining bodyguards, he asked in a voice as cold as millennial frost, "Where are my wife and my daughter?!"
Chapter 4: Murderous Aura
Was this even within the realm of human capability?
The three remaining bodyguards were instantly driven to the brink of collapse by Ye Chen's horrific display. Their jaws hung wide open, their faces frozen in absolute, vacant terror.
They were far too terrified to even answer Ye Chen's question!
"Ah! Ningning... you beasts, you'll all die a horribly painful death!"
At that moment, a heart-wrenching, blood-curdling scream echoed from upstairs, belonging to Xia Qingyue.
BOOM!
In an instant, the malevolent aura erupting from Ye Chen surged to even greater heights. With a single punch, he blasted the three remaining bodyguards into a spray of flesh and bone, then shot toward the second floor like an arrow released from a taut bow.
"Hahaha, so what if you're the number one goddess of Jinling... Xia Qingyue, from now on, you're nothing more than a plaything beneath Gu Nanfei!"
Gu Nanfei laughed ecstatically as he tore Xia Qingyue's clothes to shreds.
Riiiiip!
In a matter of moments, only a single undergarment remained on Xia Qingyue's body. "You beasts... you promised you'd spare my daughter, you said you'd spare my daughter!"
Xia Qingyue shrieked in agony, her mind shattering to the point where she had lost all strength to fight back.
On the cold operating table, little Ningning's chest was slick with crimson blood. Only one final step remained before her heart was to be excised.
"Ningning... Mommy is coming to join you!"
Crying out in utter despair, Xia Qingyue lunged forward and sank her teeth viciously into Gu Nanfei's arm.
"Damn you, you stinking bitch!"
Gu Nanfei backhanded her across the face with a ferocious slap.
Instead of shrinking back, Xia Qingyue used the momentum to hurl herself toward the operating table. Seizing a sharp surgical scalpel, she slammed it mercilessly toward her own neck!
*Goodbye, cruel world!*
*Goodbye, Ye Chen!*
*Ningning, Mommy is coming with you!*
Slash!
The razor-sharp scalpel sliced through her skin, sending a fountain of bright red blood spraying several meters into the air.
Yet Xia Qingyue felt no pain at all.
She forced her eyes open to check.
Ye Chen was blocking the blade with his bare arm...
This man had finally made it back in the nick of time!
"Ye... Ye Chen..."
"You're finally back, you're finally back!"
"Why did you take so long to come back... our daughter... sob!"
In an instant, Xia Qingyue lost every ounce of strength left in her body. Collapsing into Ye Chen's embrace, she wept bitterly.
Ye Chen held Xia Qingyue tightly, then turned his gaze toward the operating table... A little girl of about four years old was strapped down to the cold metal surface. Her complexion was as pale as paper, and she had already lost consciousness. Her chest bore a gaping incision, and her entire torso was stained with blood!
Looking closer at the little girl's facial features, her brow and eyes bore a striking seventy-percent resemblance to Ye Chen's... That face, those features—she was quite literally a miniature, adorable female version of Ye Chen himself!
"My daughter!"
In a flash, Ye Chen's eyes turned completely blood-red.
The doctor attempted to resume the procedure, but froze in sheer terror as he met Ye Chen's murderous gaze.
"W-W-What... what do you think you're doing?"
Before the doctor could finish, Ye Chen had already grabbed him by the throat and twisted violently.
Crack!
With ruthless and decisive speed, the doctor's neck was snapped instantly, leaving him no chance to even struggle.
"Who are you? H-How did you get in... where are the bodyguards?!" Gu Nanfei was startled out of his wits by Ye Chen's lethal efficiency, his speech stumbling and slurring.
"You! Are! Dead!"
Gritting his teeth through the words, Ye Chen seized the doctor's lifeless corpse and hurled it violently at Gu Nanfei.
Bang!
Ye Chen's strength was immense, and Gu Nanfei had no way to evade the projectile. Instantly, he felt as though his body had been struck head-on by a heavy truck, fracturing several of his ribs!
Only then did Ye Chen release Xia Qingyue, rushing over to the cold operating table to quickly slice through all the restraining straps.
"My daughter... my baby!"
Looking at the unconscious little girl, Ye Chen felt as though his heart were bleeding.
He hastily retrieved a Peiyuan Pill from his tunic and pressed it between the little girl's lips, his voice trembling as he said, "Her heart hasn't been taken out yet... Ningning has just lost too much blood. I can save her, I will save her!"
The Peiyuan Pill melted instantly upon contact with her saliva. Not daring to waste a single second, Ye Chen immediately set to work stitching up little Ningning's wounds.
Xia Qingyue's emotions had also steadied somewhat. Hearing that her daughter still had a chance, she clutched her shredded clothing with trembling hands and stood vigil beside the operating table, waiting to follow Ye Chen's every instruction...
However, Ye Chen did not ask Xia Qingyue to help.
Working entirely alone, he meticulously sewed up his daughter's wound. The surgical needle moved through Ye Chen's fingers as though it were an extension of his own body—fluid, precise, and breathtakingly skillful.
Within moments, little Ningning's wound was completely sutured, and the bleeding had stopped entirely.
"How dare you come to the Gu Family to make trouble? You're courting death!"
Gu Nanfei struggled back to his feet, reaching shakily for his phone to call for reinforcements, when the door was pushed open once more.
Chen Junlin, clad in full military uniform, stepped into the room first.
Close behind Chen Junlin followed the Master of Yama Hall, the God of Slaughter himself, Nie Wuji...
And then... the Valley Master of Medicine God Valley, the chairman of Tengli Group, an undisputed warlord from a foreign nation, and the king of overseas mercenaries—one illustrious figure after another filed into the room.
"Who are you people?"
Gu Nanfei paused, suddenly overwhelmed by the crushing aura radiating from the group.
Although none of them spoke a word, the presence they projected was far beyond anything an ordinary person could match.
"You... don't you know that the Gu Family is a first-tier family in Jinling City? You dare trespass into the Gu Family and assault my men—aren't you afraid of dying?!" Gu Nanfei attempted one last desperate bluff.
"So noisy!"
Before he could finish, Nie Wuji made his move!
As the Master of Yama Hall and a God of Slaughter renowned across nations, Nie Wuji's voice was as cold as millennial ice.
His voice carried no emotion whatsoever...
And the short blade in his hand carried even less.
With a single flash of motion, the gleaming dagger sliced across Gu Nanfei's wrists. Blood splattered everywhere as Gu Nanfei's hands were instantly rendered useless.
"Ah..."
Gu Nanfei let out a shrieking wail, but before the sound could fully escape his throat, Nie Wuji threw a vicious punch straight into his face.
Bang!
Gu Nanfei's nose was smashed completely out of alignment, and his teeth were shattered.
Before the blood and broken teeth could even spill from Gu Nanfei's mouth, Nie Wuji struck again!
Pinning Gu Nanfei's jaw shut with one hand, Nie Wuji articulated each word with chilling clarity: "If you dare make so much as a peep and disturb my Master while he saves my Little Junior Sister, I will carve the flesh off your bones piece by piece and let you experience what it means to wish you were dead."
"Gulp!"
Gu Nanfei was paralyzed with terror. Staring wide-eyed into Nie Wuji's terrifying gaze, he broke out in a cold sweat from head to toe.
He knew Nie Wuji was not joking.
*S-So vicious?! Is this guy even human, or is he a demon?!*
Despair washed over Gu Nanfei completely... Because he could sense that aside from Nie Wuji, the thirty-odd other figures in the room were likely entities he could never hope to provoke either!
Chapter 5: Go to Hell
"Master, Little Junior Sister has lost too much blood and urgently needs a transfusion..." said Hua Yuntian, the Valley Master of Medicine God Valley.
Hearing this, all the disciples in the room scrambled forward, vying with one another: "Let me do it, use my blood!"
"I have plenty of blood, let me!"
"No, let me... my blood is purer!"
As everyone argued over who would be the donor, Xia Qingyue wept softly, "M-My daughter has Panda blood. It's an extremely rare blood type. Right now, we can only rush to a hospital and try our luck..."
Panda blood?
At this, everyone's brows furrowed.
Common blood types were always stocked in hospital blood banks. But rare types like Panda blood required pure luck.
"I'll do it. I have Panda blood!"
Seeing the hesitation, Ye Chen pulled the transfusion tubing over to the bedside and said, "Hua Yuntian, you handle the operation!"
"Yes..." As the head of Medicine God Valley, a physician revered by countless people, Hua Yuntian's hands trembled slightly upon receiving Ye Chen's command.
Half an hour later, as Ye Chen's blood flowed drop by drop into little Ningning's body, the little girl's complexion gradually regained some color...
Yet Ye Chen's face grew progressively paler, until within moments, not a single trace of color remained.
"Master, that's enough!" Hua Yuntian urged anxiously.
"It's not enough... These bastards drained over a thousand milliliters of blood from my daughter... and she's just a little child!"
Enduring the growing physical discomfort, Ye Chen commanded, "Keep the transfusion going, do not stop!"
"But your injuries..."
Hua Yuntian wanted to say more, but was cut short by a piercing, razor-sharp glance from Ye Chen.
The rest of the disciples burned with incandescent rage, each itching to tear Gu Nanfei limb from limb... Yet without Ye Chen's order, none of them dared to act rashly.
Ye Chen would never allow a monster in human skin like this to die an easy death!
"You... just who the hell are you people?"
Gu Nanfei was so terrified by the collective killing intent radiating from the crowd that he nearly wet his pants.
"Who are we?"
Nie Wuji ground his teeth, speaking in a chilling tone, "We are the ones sending you to hell... You'd better pray that my Little Junior Sister is completely unharmed, or I will turn this entire city into a graveyard!"
"Y-You guys... you're all madmen!"
Gu Nanfei stammered, trembling uncontrollably. "Do you have any idea who I am? I am the eldest young master of the Gu Family... My wife is the second young miss of the Jinling Lin Family! Surely you've heard of the Lin Family? They hold absolute sway over Jinling City! Hehehe, when my wife gets back and sees how you've treated me, she'll tear every single one of you into a thousand pieces! If... if you know what's good for you, you'd better let me go right now!"
"You talk too much!"
Suddenly, Ye Chen's voice rang out.
He had already halted the blood transfusion.
Little Ningning's condition had stabilized; she merely required a period of quiet recuperation.
"Master!"
Seeing Ye Chen rise to his feet, the thirty-six disciples dropped to their knees once again.
Ye Chen nodded slightly. "Chen Junlin, take my wife and daughter away first. Find a safe place to settle them."
Hearing this, Chen Junlin carefully scooped up little Ningning and said respectfully, "Mistress, please come with me..."
"But Ye Chen, you... aren't you coming with us? The Gu Family and the Lin Family are first-tier families in Jinling City, they—they... we can't afford to provoke them!" Xia Qingyue panicked.
"Go on, this place is no environment for you... nor for our daughter."
Looking directly at Xia Qingyue, Ye Chen said each word with deliberate weight: "Go with Chen Junlin. Don't delay—Ningning's injuries are severe and still require medical attention!"
With that, Ye Chen cast a glance at Hua Yuntian. "You go with them and take responsibility for healing my Little Junior Sister."
"Yes!"
Hua Yuntian bowed deeply at a ninety-degree angle, then said, "Mistress, please come with us... With so many disciples here, Master will be completely fine."
Xia Qingyue cast one lingering, deeply reluctant look at Ye Chen...
Despite her immense reluctance, her daughter's condition was far more critical.
Gritting her teeth, she accompanied her daughter away from the Gu Family estate!
"Master, how should we deal with this piece of trash?"
Once Xia Qingyue and the others had departed, Nie Wuji asked, his eyes glacial.
"He took a single drop of my daughter's blood, so I will extract a thousand, ten thousand drops from him... He slashed a cut across my daughter's chest, so I will carve a thousand, ten thousand cuts across his!"
Ye Chen's tone was calm, yet the chill in his voice was absolute. The mere sound caused the temperature inside the room to plummet drastically.
"Y-You dare?! I... I am the eldest young master of the Gu Family, and my wife belongs to the Lin Family..."
Swish!
Before Gu Nanfei could finish, Ye Chen moved.
With a flick of his hand, the dagger in Nie Wuji's grip was somehow snatched away by Ye Chen.
Then came a flash of lightning-fast steel.
Before Gu Nanfei could even process what had happened, a cut over ten centimeters long opened across his chest.
Blood gushed forth. Before Gu Nanfei could even scream, Ye Chen slashed again, and again. In a flash, Gu Nanfei's limbs and torso were crisscrossed with dozens of deep blade wounds.
Blood poured out like a ruptured fountain!
Gu Nanfei lost his mind with terror, his bowels and bladder releasing involuntarily all at once.
"Aaaaaah!"
In an instant, the room was filled with nothing but Gu Nanfei's agonizing shrieks and the heavy stench of fresh blood.
Meanwhile, Gu Nanfei's young son was frozen stiff with fright, green bile spilling from his mouth... With a violent spasm, the boy collapsed directly onto the bed.
The kid had literally been scared to death.
"Aaaaaah!"
Witnessing this scene, Gu Nanfei's howls grew even more desolate and wretched.
Yet Ye Chen felt not a shred of sympathy, for when his own daughter's heart was about to be cut out, there had been no pity on that little boy's face.
On the contrary, upon witnessing such bloodshed, the boy's eyes had gleamed with a predatory, excited thrill.
"Hurts, does it?"
Wearing a smile as chilling as any rakshasa, Ye Chen articulated, "Your son's life is a life, but my daughter's life is worthless? Did your wife know about cutting out my daughter's heart?!"
"My wife... of course she knew!"
Gu Nanfei panted heavily, gritting his teeth as he gasped, "Just wait... you just wait... The Gu Family and the Lin Family will tear every last one of you lawless bastards into pieces!"