Du Long's triumphant expression gradually faded away.
No matter the old man behind him who had risen again, or the burly man walking towards him, both made Du Long increasingly feel that this small town was a bit eerie.
Looking at those people standing by the roadside, their faces wearing eerie smiles as they watched him.
Suddenly, Du Long could hardly hold his gun steady.
"Boss, this, this place... seems a bit off..." His underling's concerned words actually calmed Du Long down a little.
That's right, he still had around 180 men behind him!
No sweat!
Du Long glanced at the old man he had just shot, who had stood up from the ground, but showed no intention of attacking him.
Compared to the old man, the burly man walking towards him posed a greater threat in Du Long's eyes!
Click—
Du Long tilted his head and swapped a new magazine into his rifle!
"Take down that dumb big guy!"
At Du Long's command, the entire mercenary convoy opened fire!
Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat—
Countless bullets with bright tracer lines sped towards the approaching Niu Ben wielding a spiked club!
Clang clang clang clang!!
But what made these mercenaries gawk was that every single bullet that hit Niu Ben's body sparked a burst of fire!
"Heh heh..."
"Even if Dr. Lu doesn't operate on me, your toys can't hurt me!"
On the other side, Niu Ben, whose muscles had turned metallic, lowered the spiked club from his shoulder and accelerated into a run, dragging his feet on the ground!
Weighing nearly 300 pounds originally, after his entire muscular body turned metallic, Niu Ben's weight instantly exceeded one ton!
Thump, thump, thump—
With each step Niu Ben took, he left a deep footprint on the ground behind him!
Seeing this, the mercenaries gulped!
Some of the more cowardly ones had already quietly tried to pull open the doors of the armored vehicles!
But Du Long didn't panic too much, for he was an ability user himself.
Du Long calmly set down his rifle, taking off his camouflage T-shirt to reveal a sinewy, dark body, and stepped to the front of the formation to face the charging Niu Ben!
"Let me see how tough you really are?!"
As the words left his mouth, a vicious grin spread across Du Long's face!
Then, he took a sumo wrestler's starting stance, stomped hard on the ground, and charged at Niu Ben!
When the two neared each other, Niu Ben swung his spiked club at Du Long, but Du Long deftly sidestepped and grappled the arm holding the club!
Sizzle—
Instantly, white smoke arose from Niu Ben's arm!
At that moment, Niu Ben's eyes went wide, as if shocked by what was happening!
Du Long was very pleased with this effect and tightened his grip on Niu Ben's arm!
Sizzle—
The white smoke intensified!
And Niu Ben's arm was gradually being corroded!
Strong acid corrosion!
This was Du Long's ability!
Seeing the big guy in front of him harmed by his own power, Du Long became exceptionally excited!
The feeling of conquering a powerful ability user by his own hand was irresistible to the bloodthirsty mercenary!
But soon Du Long realized something was off!
He felt the brawny arm he was grappling gradually becoming thicker and harder!
And the steel-like muscles he had already corroded were slowly regenerating!
He looked up at Niu Ben to find his eyes had turned blazing red!
The bloodthirsty, frenzied look flickering in them would chill anyone to the bone!
Niu Ben's other hand swiftly grabbed at Du Long, but Du Long agilely tried to dodge!
But before he could move, Niu Ben's iron grip had seized him firmly!
Du Long found it hard to comprehend how such a huge bulk could move with such nimbleness?!
"If I didn't know Dr. Lu would like you, you'd be a splatter of meat pulp right now!"
Niu Ben said in a slow voice, then flung his arm forcefully, and swish—
Du Long was hurled like a bowling ball, rolling a long distance across the ground!
Crack—
Crack—
Crack—
The sound of snapping bones rang out repeatedly as Du Long rolled!
This was Niu Ben holding back a bit of his strength!
Finally, Du Long stopped rolling and lay motionless on the ground, alive or dead, it wasn't clear.
Niu Ben turned to face the remaining 180 or so mercenaries and flashed a slight smile.
When this one-ton steel man charged into their ranks, those guns and grenades became meaningless.
Swinging his spiked club in a sweeping arc took down a whole row!
Niu Ben swung his club down hard on an armored SUV, WHAM!!
The SUV's four tires exploded instantly from the impact, and the whole vehicle slammed down low to the ground!
Some mercenaries turned to flee, but Niu Ben grabbed an armored sedan with one hand and flung it violently towards the road ahead!
CRASH!
The sedan rolled over several times after landing, and no one dared run anymore.
Niu Ben strode into the mercenary crowd, clutching his spiked club, and bellowed in his slow voice, "Anti-vice raid!"
"Everyone get down on your knees! Hands on your head!"
With that, he swung his club at a mercenary trying to throw a grenade at him!
SPLAT!
That mercenary's head was smashed into a pulp by Niu Ben's club!
"Anyone who doesn't get down, I'll smash their head in!"
Seeing their lively comrade turned into a headless corpse in mere seconds, the mercenaries obediently got down on their knees in rows along the roadside, hands on heads.
Niu Ben's big brass bell-like eyes scanned over the mercenaries and he barked, "Stay down! Anyone moves, I smash them!"
Then Niu Ben glanced behind him as Dr. Lu Yuan walked over in his white lab coat.
The tardy Dr. Lu looked at Du Long lying motionless on the ground with concern and asked, "Brother, can you still live?"
Du Long remained silent, only twitching a finger slightly.
"Oh, looks like there's still hope..."
Dr. Lu said as a sharp surgical knife appeared in his hand.
With a casual flick—
The blade cleanly sliced through Du Long's carotid artery.
After finishing, Dr. Lu stood up and glanced at the crowd by the roadside.
Immediately, the onlookers shrank back a step in unison.
Dr. Lu frowned, looking down at Du Long's corpse in puzzlement, "What unforgivable crimes did you commit to make everyone so afraid of you?"
"Seems you were guilty of misdeeds."
Then he called out to the crowd, "Who set up the spiked strip on the road to the eastern suburbs?"
Silence fell over the crowd until an employee of the Xia Group stepped forward, "Dr. Lu!"
"It, it was us who set it..."
Dr. Lu pointed back in the direction they came from, "Get the vehicles with flat tires repaired and sent back, and take this too."
He kicked Du Long's body, "Find a vehicle to transport this one back as well."
"Yes, Dr. Lu! We'll have it taken care of promptly!"
"Mm."
After giving those instructions, Dr. Lu walked to the front and asked the crowd, "Who got beaten up earlier?"
The old man Du Long had shot raised his hand trembling.
Seeing the old man's frail, shaking figure, Dr. Lu couldn't help feeling sympathetic.
"Aiya... These people are too brutal, laying hands on an elderly man."
Dr. Lu looked over at Niu Ben's battlefield and said concernedly to the old man, "All right, grandpa, we'll still follow the rules."
"But the one who hit you is useful to me, so I'll take him. As for the dead bodies here, you can take two back however you want to deal with them, okay?"
The old man's face was deathly pale, and his head was nodding like he was pounding garlic. He didn't dare say a word.
Du Long raised two fingers and instructed, "Uncle, remember this well—two of them, and they have to be dead ones, not a single extra one! And don't find any living ones!"
The old man's legs went weak, and he collapsed straight to the ground.
Seeing this, Du Long immediately went to help him up, but by the time he approached, the old man had fainted, his eyes rolling back.
Du Long: "......"
e vast world of cultivation, where he becomes the master of the Heavenly Ruins Sacred Hall, a dying old man with barely a tenth of his former cultivation remaining. He is immediately confronted with a deadly crisis: his subordinates have rebelled, and his protectors are forcing him to abdicate. At the critical moment, the system descends from the heavens: [Ding! The host has been detected facing a life-or-death crisis. The system is now officially activated!] [As a gift, you have received the Supreme Beginner’s Pack and awakened the ultimate cheat: ten thousand years of pure cultivation essence every second!] Yin Tianjue: “Wait… ten thousand years of cultivation every second? That’s six hundred thousand years a minute, and in one day… I can’t even calculate it. Either way, I’m already invincible!” You’re a peerless prodigy rarely seen in ten thousand years? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re an undying ancestor who has guarded a sacred land for countless ages? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. You’re the strongest chosen one, blessed with heaven-defying destiny? Sorry, I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. From this day forth, I have only one thing to say: “I gain ten thousand years of cultivation every second. Now, how exactly are you supposed to deal with that?”
uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
s the Eldest Princess, renowned for her cold and aloof detachment, became the most docile of lambs, obeying his every command without question. But when the final move was played on the chessboard, as Gu Chenghan seized everything and ascended on the verge of apotheosis, that very Princess suddenly embraced him from behind, her tone carrying a dependence never heard before: "Wait... you haven't yet... commanded me to love you forever." Gu Chenghan froze abruptly. She... hadn't been hypnotized?! ... [The Eldest Princess's Diary] [When my soul was extracted, becoming the sole spectator outside my own shell] [At first, there was overwhelming fury, until I saw] [How he used my sword to effortlessly shatter my inescapable doom] [How he wielded my authority to eradicate fatal conspiracies I had never even detected] [Like a deity, he rescued me from the deep mire I was trapped in] [If not for those annoying vixens, he and I would be a match made in heaven] [I think I am ill, gravely ill] [My deity should belong to me alone] ... "Hypnosis? Oh, it succeeded, my dear Master." "Only this time, it's my turn to hypnotize you."
Cheng's father told him he was getting remarried—to a wealthy woman. Cao Cheng realized his time had finally come: he was about to become a second-generation rich kid. Sure, it might be a watered-down version, but hey, at least he'd have status now, right? The wealthy woman also had four daughters!! Which meant, starting today, Cao Cheng gained four stunning older sisters?? But that wasn't even the whole story... "My name is Cao Cheng—'Cheng' as in 'honest, smooth-talking gentleman'!"
