Chapter 704: Chapter 355 The Underground Queen Submits! _2
Seeing Lin Beichen stop his actions, Xu Hongzhu felt a slight sense of relief and revealed a seductive smile once again.
"Young girl, do you know how annoying your smile is?"
Lin Beichen said calmly.
"Do not try to guess my thoughts, and do not test me! If I wanted to kill you, I don’t need to do it myself. I have countless ways to end your life without anyone tracing it back to me!
Do you believe me? One day when you go out for a leisurely stroll in the bright sunny weather, a divine thunder might suddenly strike you from the sky, shattering you into pieces! Outsiders would only say that you met divine retribution for your crimes. Even Luo Meixiang wouldn’t suspect me."
Lin Beichen said coldly, as a five-colored glow flickered at his fingertip, transforming into a bolt of lightning.
He controlled the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, needing not to personally act to kill.
Back when Lin Beichen was at Zhongcheng Hall, he had once killed someone from a distance using just a drop of their blood.
To this day, no one had discovered the cause of that person’s death. Though many suspected him, they had no evidence whatsoever.
In modern society, evidence is paramount; without it, everything is just empty talk.
Beads of cold sweat slid down Xu Hongzhu’s beautiful face.
It was only now that she realized how naive she had been.
The means and restrictions she considered were all aimed at ordinary people.
Threatening Lin Beichen with the perspective of an ordinary person was akin to a child with a stick challenging an adult in a ring.
She thought that hitting him with the stick would earn her points, not realizing that he could end it all with a shot from afar.
"I..."
Xu Hongzhu was finally afraid.
But before she could think of a countermeasure, Lin Beichen had already become impatient.
A point of blue light gathered at Lin Beichen’s fingertip, slowly transforming into a White Bone Lotus, descending gently from Xu Hongzhu’s beautiful forehead and leaving a bone-like mark on her neck.
This White Bone Lotus penetrated her flesh, connecting with her veins, eventually forming a web-like structure sculpted by Spiritual Qi.
The White Bone Qi enveloped Xu Hongzhu’s entire body.
If anyone could see through her at this moment, they would see that Xu Hongzhu’s internal body had completely changed.
Layers of special Spiritual Qi enveloped Xu Hongzhu’s blood vessels and internal organs, intertwined yet failing to improve her physique, instead leaving numerous nodes at her vital points.
"What did you do to me?"
Xu Hongzhu asked in terror, her eyes slightly unfocused, as though realizing something.
She lacked the talent for Cultivation and did not understand the nature and distinctions of Spiritual Qi, but she could feel an icy cold air permeating her entire body, as if penetrating her bones, leaving her chilled to the bone.
However, she could not resist.
People have always feared the unknown. Sometimes death merely represents the outcome, not the fear. The true fear lies in the various processes that precede death.
This is the most difficult psychological repression for humans to overcome.
"This is Withered Wood Qi. Wood Spiritual Qi is Life Spiritual Qi, but even life can decay, and Withered Wood Qi is the final struggle before death! You can treat it as a toxin or a time bomb hidden in your body!"
Lin Beichen said calmly.
"But the method of Spiritual Qi is far more miraculous than you imagine. With your body filled with Withered Wood Qi, your life is no longer under your control. If you want to die, it will turn into Life Spiritual Qi to heal your wounds and restore you to how you were before.
If you wish to live, I can also trigger the poison at any moment, making your limbs wither instantly, leaving only your brain intact, keeping you conscious but unable to move for your entire life like a dead tree."
Each word from Lin Beichen deepened the fear in Xu Hongzhu’s eyes, and by the end, she was already paralyzed on the ground, drenched in sweat.
"I don’t want to die! Kill me! I don’t want to live anymore,"
Xu Hongzhu screamed, unable to suppress her inner panic any longer.
How could this world harbor such vicious methods?
Her life was hers to live or die, not up to others to decide!
Even her father could only decide her birth, not her life or death.
Lin Beichen’s methods had gone beyond her understanding.
"You are a demon; you should die. How could heaven let you exist in the world?"
Xu Hongzhu screamed, showing an infinite killing intent in her eyes.
This time, Xu Hongzhu finally broke down, unable to maintain her inner peace anymore.
She was no longer the true ruler of the underworld in Huadu; she was now just a woman without the strength to truss a chicken.
The greatest fear lies between life and death, and that fear can manifest in countless ways.
Xu Hongzhu once believed that she could face life and death without fear, but only when life and death were taken from her did she realize how naive she had been.
"Bang!"
With Xu Hongzhu’s scream, a blue Spiritual Fire suddenly spewed from her mouth, condensing into a White Bone Lotus, with the flames circling before her.
Ah!
Xu Hongzhu screamed in agony, her body trembling violently as if all her life force was being drained away.
The White Bone Lotus, after absorbing her life force, ignited once again, causing cracks to appear on Xu Hongzhu’s fair skin, resembling the fissures on a dry tree.
"My body! My life force! Don’t take my life force away, please! I don’t want to die so miserably!"
Xu Hongzhu finally realized the horror of the White Bone Spiritual Qi. In an instant, she aged fifty years, transforming from a youthful girl into a frail old lady.
It seemed like even a breeze could scatter her.
In the backyard, there was dead silence.
All the assassins watched Xu Hongzhu in terror, trembling uncontrollably.
What happened to Xu Hongzhu could very well happen to them.
No!
They might die more miserably than Xu Hongzhu. At least Xu Hongzhu had bargaining chips, while they had nothing.
"Immortal, this is truly an Immortal."
Countless people screamed in their hearts.
Killing someone is just a simple matter, and they were all firm believers in the path of life and death, detached from both. However, Lin Beichen’s methods were a hundred times more terrifying than they imagined.
This alone left them with no will to resist.
To them, Lin Beichen had become an unspeakable fear.
"Whoosh!"
It was not until Xu Hongzhu’s hair had turned entirely white, her flesh utterly cracked, revealing the white bones beneath, and her teeth completely fell out, resembling a hundred-year-old ghost, that Lin Beichen gently waved his hand.
The Withered Wood Qi stopped absorbing her life force and turned into Clear Light Spiritual Qi, enveloping Xu Hongzhu, immersing her in Life Spiritual Qi.
In an instant, Xu Hongzhu transformed from a near-death figure back into a divine beauty, akin to an elven princess.
However, her eyes now only held a faint despair, devoid of any slyness.
"From now on, your life is in my hands."
Lin Beichen said calmly.
Xu Hongzhu slowly got up, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed silently.
Lin Beichen watched her calmly, not stopping her actions.
"What you just experienced was the simplest application of Withered Wood Spiritual Qi. If you ever dare to have second thoughts again, you will witness scenes a hundred times more terrifying than before."
"I dare not, I absolutely dare not."
Upon hearing this, Xu Hongzhu was exceedingly frightened and hurriedly spoke.
The feeling she just experienced was something she never wanted to endure again in her life. The thought of something a hundred times worse was unfathomable.
Now that her life was spared, Xu Hongzhu thought she would be left with just fear, but once she calmed down, she realized there was a hidden sense of anticipation in her heart.
Lin Beichen’s methods were so miraculous that he could even take life away.
This god-like ability, could it change her constitution, granting her the ability to cultivate?
As this thought surfaced, Xu Hongzhu’s heart raced, thrilling her almost to the point of jumping.
To survive a great disaster must be followed by great fortune.
Could her destined path of cultivation lie with Lin Beichen?
With this thought, Xu Hongzhu completely submitted, her heart unwavering.