"You... you actually dared to hit my face?!" Zuo Youren's eyes widened, as if he had suffered a great humiliation.

"Pa!" Another crisp sound rang out, and a palm print appeared on the other side of Zuo Youren's face.

As the saying goes, don't hit people in the face, but Chen Xiao insisted on doing it. His chest was filled with anger, and only by doing this could he vent a little.

Two loud slaps made Zuo Youren dizzy. His originally pale face was now red and swollen.

Zuo Youren completely lost his mind. His pride as the young master of the Zuo family was shattered. His nose twitched, and tears and snot flowed down his face.

"Stop hitting me, I beg you!" Zuo Youren pleaded.

"It's too late to beg for mercy now!" Chen Xiao's mouth hung with a ferocious smile. At this moment, he seemed to be a killing god from hell.

Chen Xiao slammed Zuo Youren to the ground. Zuo Youren's face made intimate contact with the ground. Then, Chen Xiao stepped on his head, grinding his face back and forth on the ground.

Chen Xiao didn't use much force with his feet because he didn't want to kill Zuo Youren so easily, but even so, Zuo Youren's face was already bloody.

Zuo Youren trembled all over, making鬼哭狼嚎-like (wailing and howling) screams.

He had been spoiled since he was a child. He had been hit so few times that he could count them on his fingers. When had he ever suffered such humiliation? He felt that his soul had left his body. He even began to lose consciousness and didn't even know who he was anymore.

This is exactly what the old saying says, evil people have their own磨人 (tormentors), and good and evil are rewarded in the end. If retribution is not immediate, it is simply not time yet. Meeting Chen Xiao was his tribulation, and the humiliation Chen Xiao gave him would become a shadow for the rest of his life.

He had hit him, he had tormented him, and Zuo Youren had long since fallen into a coma. Chen Xiao stared blankly at his arm, lost in thought. The poison of the Ning Xue San (Blood Coagulation Powder) had begun to spread, and the injured arm had turned pitch black from shoulder to finger.

"Alas, is this my fate? God, are you playing with me? To be killed by this kind of trash, I'm not convinced!"

Chen Xiao sighed to the sky. He was not an alchemist and knew nothing about toxicology. Without an antidote, he had no idea how to detoxify.

Just when Chen Xiao thought the poison would continue to spread, he suddenly felt a warm sensation in his dantian. He focused his mind and looked down, only to find that the Shi Shen Zhi Shu (God-Slaying Book) was releasing wisps of golden aura, heading straight for his injured arm.

As soon as the golden aura reached his shoulder, it blocked the path of the poison, stopping it from spreading.

Chen Xiao was overjoyed: "I didn't expect you to save my life again, but it's a pity that this arm is going to be useless."

Although the golden aura prevented the poison from continuing to spread, it couldn't expel the poison from his body. The arm infected with the poison was festering little by little, emitting a pungent stench. It was probably not salvageable.

He didn't expect a crisis to be resolved like this. Temporarily out of danger, Chen Xiao turned his attention back to Zuo Youren under his feet.

"Hmph, you've troubled me time and time again, and even wanted to put me to death. If I don't kill you today, even the heavens won't tolerate it!"

The killing intent in Chen Xiao's eyes grew stronger. He raised his hand, intending to end Zuo Youren's life.

"Young man, leave people room to maneuver!" Suddenly, a low and slightly hoarse voice came. Chen Xiao's hand froze.

"Shua!"

After a slight sound of air being torn, a person shrouded in a mysterious aura appeared in front of Chen Xiao.

The person was wearing blue soft armor, with a cloak draped over it. The brim of the cloak deeply covered half of his face, making it impossible to see his face clearly.

The reason he was said to be mysterious was that he had arrived silently. Even Chen Xiao hadn't noticed him. Even face to face, Chen Xiao felt that the aura on his body was very weak. This weakness was not because of physical weakness, but because the person deliberately concealed it.

Chen Xiao's divine sense was exceptionally strong. Any slight breeze or movement within a range of tens of meters around him could not escape his perception. However, Chen Xiao had not noticed the approach of such a large living person, which meant that this person was very good at concealing his aura, possibly practicing a special cultivation technique.

Such people usually attacked covertly and quickly, and Chen Xiao's expression could not help but become solemn.

This person's cultivation was at the sixth level of Body Refinement, which was not too outrageous. Chen Xiao felt a little relieved. The other party was obviously here to save Zuo Youren. If a fight broke out, even if he couldn't win, Chen Xiao could escape and the other party couldn't do anything to him.

"Who are you?" Chen Xiao asked warily.

"Who I am is not important. You just need to know that I have no malicious intentions towards you. If you must know my name, you can call me Tai Long," the man said calmly. There was not a trace of fluctuation in his tone.

"You say you have no malicious intentions, and I should believe you?" Chen Xiao raised his eyebrows. "What's your purpose?"

Tai Long replied, "I want you to let Zuo Youren go. From now on, your grievances will be written off."

"Written off?" A hint of a smile appeared on the corner of Chen Xiao's mouth. "I think it should be a never-ending feud. Even if I can let it go, Zuo Youren won't."

"He will," Tai Long said affirmatively, his tone unquestionable.

"Do you understand the grievances between us that you can say that?" Chen Xiao was very unhappy with Tai Long's attitude, as if everything was under his control.

Although there was a never-ending feud between Chen Xiao and Zuo Youren, at this moment, Chen Xiao began to feel pity for Zuo Youren. If a person's ability to avenge themselves could be decided by others, then what was the point of them being alive?

"I know more than you think. I not only know all the grievances between the two of you, but I also know that you come from the Chen family in Qingyuan City and are the adopted son of the Chen family's patriarch," Tai Long continued unhurriedly.

"You investigated me? Who exactly are you? What are your intentions?" Chen Xiao's expression instantly turned icy. The thing he hated the most was others investigating him. If his cultivation was still intact, the person in front of him would definitely be dead.

"To tell you the truth, I am a retainer of the Zuo family and have been secretly protecting the young master. So, as soon as you started arguing, I began to investigate you," Tai Long also noticed Chen Xiao's anger and, for the first time, revealed his identity.

Chen Xiao's face was uncertain. He was silent for a while before saying, "If you just want to save Zuo Youren, you can do it directly. I can't stop you."

Tai Long immediately replied, "I said that my purpose is to resolve the grievances between you. To be honest, the Zuo family's old patriarch admires you very much. We don't want to be your enemy."

Having said that, if Chen Xiao was just a naive young man, he would probably be elated and believe Tai Long's words. But Chen Xiao had lived two lives and his mind was more mature than most. Tai Long's seemingly sincere words were full of strangeness, and Chen Xiao smelled a conspiracy.