529: Chapter 529 A Great Tonic!

"Bang!!!"

The shockwave from the clash between fist and palm made the entire living room tremble.

Flames splattered in all directions.

But what was shocking was...

Karl's fist stopped in mid-air, unable to advance even half an inch further.

His pupils contracted suddenly, his eyes filled with disbelief.

"You..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Ye Chen's left hand had already been raised.

He slapped Karl's chest with an air of indifference.

"Bang!!!"

Karl's chest felt as if it had been struck by a mountain; his feet left the ground, and he was sent flying backward.

His body crashed through the living room wall, sending brick fragments flying as dust filled the air.

Without losing momentum, he crashed through the corridor wall, and then the stairwell wall...

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

A series of impacts echoed through the building, causing the entire structure to tremble slightly.

Then.

He fell from the building!

The next second.

Karl plunged into the lake below, sending up a splash several meters high.

The flames on the lake's surface were completely extinguished the moment they touched the water, leaving only a wisp of blue smoke rising.

Ye Chen narrowed his eyes and said to the crowd, "Wait for me here."

As soon as he finished speaking.

His body flickered, and he actually leaped directly down from the cracked wall.

The night wind howled in his ears; the height of over a dozen floors was covered in an instant.

Ye Chen landed steadily in the first-floor garden and looked up.

The surface of the artificial lake was still rippling slightly, while Karl had sunk to the bottom.

Ye Chen walked on the water to a spot directly above Karl and made a grasping motion with his right hand.

An invisible suction force erupted from his palm!

The lake water churned violently, and Karl's charred body was forcibly dragged from the bottom, breaking the surface and landing on the grass.

Ye Chen landed on the shore and looked down at Karl.

Karl's clothes had long since been burned to tatters, and his exposed skin was charred black.

But strangely...

His limbs were twisted at bizarre angles, like a puppet that had been broken and reassembled; there was hardly a single intact bone in his entire body.

Yet, he was still alive.

Ye Chen crouched down, grabbed Karl's scorched hair, and lifted him from the ground.

Karl's body was like a pile of rotten meat, hanging limply with his limbs dangling weakly.

He looked into Ye Chen's face in terror.

"You... you're not in the Tianyi Realm..."

Ye Chen raised an eyebrow. "You just realized? But it's too late!"

Karl's pupils trembled slightly.

"I... I worked so hard to become strong..."

"Why can't I still beat you..."

Ye Chen looked down at him without saying a word.

Two lines of tears welled up in Karl's eyes.

"I pursued her for three years!"

"Why did she... give her heart to you the moment she saw you..."

"Why?"

This time, Ye Chen spoke expressionlessly, "Because you're trash."

Karl's tears flowed even more fiercely.

Ye Chen looked at him and said calmly, "If you want to live, then tell me, who helped you level up?"

That's right!

He could feel that the supernatural power in Karl's body clearly hadn't awakened normally; it was more like...

It was parasitic.

That power was like a snake coiled in Karl's energy center, constantly devouring his vitality and converting it into violent fire energy.

And the terrifying thing about this parasite was...

After draining all of Karl's potential, it could detach itself like a voodoo insect to find its next host.

It was extremely evil, not something from the Secular World.

Karl's lips trembled, the fear in his eyes growing more intense.

"I can't say..."

"If I do, I'll die!"

Ye Chen gave a cold laugh. "If you don't say it, you'll die right now!"

Karl's face turned pale, and he no longer dared to hide anything.

"It's... it's the Holy Sect..."

Ye Chen's brow furrowed suddenly. "The Holy Sect? They actually came?"

"It's them!"

Karl's voice was intermittent.

"One of their elders approached me and said he could make me an Ability User..."

"I... I drank the Holy Water they gave me... and then I became that powerful."

He didn't continue, but Ye Chen already understood.

That so-called "Holy Water" was the carrier for the parasitic power.

What Karl had swallowed wasn't some miraculous medicine, but an evil parasite.

That parasite had sneaked into his energy center, extracting his vitality and converting it into powerful fire energy.

But the price was...

His life force was being devoured bit by bit by that parasite.

Even if Ye Chen didn't kill him, he wouldn't live much longer.

Ye Chen pondered for a moment and asked, "Where are the people from the Holy Sect?"

Karl shook his head.

"I... I don't know. He... he approached me on his own initiative..."

"What did he look like?"

"White robes! Wearing a mask!"

Ye Chen's brow furrowed even tighter.

White robes, a mask, approaching Karl on his own initiative, giving him Holy Water, and sending him to kill him...

All of this was clearly a setup.

And Karl was merely a pawn pushed to the front!

Ye Chen let go, and Karl's body slumped to the ground.

He lay on the ground, looking up at Ye Chen as tears flowed uncontrollably.

"I've told you everything. Can you... spare my life?"

Ye Chen looked down at him and shook his head.

"No."

"You broke into my house and threatened to kill me. If I let you live, it would be an insult to me."

Karl panicked and was about to beg for mercy...

Suddenly!

Ye Chen's right foot was raised and then brought down.

"Crack."

Karl's neck was broken, and he died on the spot.

But the moment he stopped breathing, his corpse began to shake violently.

It wasn't the corpse convulsing.

Rather, something inside him was struggling frantically.

The next second.

Karl's belly was torn open from the inside, and a mass of viscous liquid oozed out from the wound.

That liquid seemed to have a life of its own, squirming on the ground.

Ye Chen's brow furrowed.

As expected, the parasite hadn't died along with Karl.

It had only been dormant within the host, waiting for the host to die before breaking out to find its next prey.

The insect suddenly raised its head, its viscous liquid forming a mouthpart that aimed directly at Ye Chen, as if it had caught the scent of a living person.

Ye Chen looked at the disgusting insect, his mouth twitching slightly.

"Still want to use me as a host?"

"You certainly know how to pick them."

He flipped his right hand, took out his needle pouch from his waist, and pulled out two Silver Needles.

The black insect seemed to sense danger; its body suddenly shrank, and then it scurried toward the nearby bushes at extreme speed.

Ye Chen didn't even blink as his right hand flicked.

"Swish! Swish!"

Two Silver Needles shot through the air, accurately pinning the black insect's body.

One pinned the head, and the other pinned the tail.

The Silver Needles pierced through the insect's body and lodged deep into the soil, pinning the black insect firmly to the ground, unable to move.

The black insect let out a sharp hiss, its body twisting and struggling frantically.

Ye Chen crouched down, a playful smile appearing on his face.

"Since you can help someone reach the Tianyi Realm, you must be a great tonic, right?"

He reached for the shanhai bottle at his waist and weighed it in his palm.

"Perfect. I used some of the spiritual liquid in the shanhai bottle for Shanshan last time; I need to restock."

The black insect seemed to understand his words and struggled even more violently.

A sharp hiss even came from its mouthpart.

Ye Chen wasted no more words and aimed the mouth of the shanhai bottle at the black insect.

"Collect!"

He gave a low shout, and the true qi in his body surged, pouring into the shanhai bottle.

A terrifying suction force instantly erupted from the mouth of the shanhai bottle.

The next second.

The black insect's body was enveloped by that suction force and was pulled right out of the soil.

Its body twisted and shrank in the air, like a lump of clay being kneaded by an invisible hand, getting smaller and smaller until it finally turned into a streak of black light and was sucked into the shanhai bottle.

"Pop."

Ye Chen plugged the bottle and then shook it.

As a result, Ye Chen discovered...

The spiritual energy that had been depleted was actually completely replenished!!!

"It really works?"

Ye Chen's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but laugh.

"It seems I'll have to find more of these things in the future!"

"Maybe if I keep at it, I can even create a Golden Core expert!"

He felt quite pleased with himself and then stood up.

Then.

He headed straight home.

...

In a deserted warehouse at a distant port.

A person wearing white robes and a silver mask sat cross-legged on a dilapidated sofa.

In front of him sat an oil lamp; the flame was a strange, eerie blue, flickering and emitting an unsettling aura.

He had his eyes closed, his hands forming a strange hand seal, and he was chanting something.

Suddenly...

"Pfft!!!"

The Man in White Robe snapped his eyes open and spat out a mouthful of blood.

His body trembled violently, and a look of horror appeared on his face.

"What?"

"How could the connection with the Life-Eroding Insect be severed?"

"Who was it?"

The Life-Eroding Insect was an evil creature he had spent three years cultivating, barely managing to raise it by feeding it the essence blood of tens of thousands of living people.

Once planted in a host, it was like a maggot in the bone, devouring the host's vitality and converting it into powerful strength.

Moreover, the Life-Eroding Insect was connected to his mind; no matter how far apart they were, he could sense the insect's status.

But just a moment ago...

That connection had been severed!