566: Chapter 566 Saving you comes with conditions!

Ye Chen looked at Qin Shou, who was lunging toward him, and spoke indifferently.

"Kneel."

Two words.

Light as a feather.

But the moment those two words fell, Qin Shou's body suddenly stiffened.

An invisible force slammed into him like Mount Tai pressing down; his knees buckled uncontrollably, and he fell to the ground with a thud.

Upon the impact of his knees, the ground shattered.

The true qi within his body was crushed as if by a massive invisible hand, and a mouthful of blood sprayed from his mouth.

"Pfft—"

Blood splattered across the floor, a shocking sight under the dim yellow light.

Qin Shou's aura instantly withered, his face turning as pale as paper.

He raised his head and looked at Ye Chen, his eyes filled with terror.

"Spoken Law?"

"This... how is this possible!"

His voice was trembling, and his teeth were chattering.

Just now.

The moment Ye Chen uttered the word "Kneel," he felt an irresistible force descend upon him.

That feeling was as if the sky had collapsed, and he had no choice but to kneel.

He resisted desperately, mobilizing all the true qi in his body to fight that force, but the more he resisted, the more powerful the force became!

Like a maggot in the bone, it bored into his limbs and bones, shattering his meridians until they were riddled with holes.

And then...

He still knelt.

A late-stage Heavenly First Realm Expert didn't even have the right to stand and speak in front of Ye Chen???

Kneeling on the ground and trembling all over, Qin Shou had only one thought in his mind...

Spoken Law!

That was a divine ability that only peak Golden Core Realm experts could begin to comprehend!

However, it wasn't something just anyone could comprehend even if they wanted to.

Because it was a supreme technique of Taoism.

But Taoism had already declined, and that supreme technique had long been lost!

Why did this Ye Chen possess a supreme technique of Taoism? Why was he so heaven-defying?

Ye Chen looked down at him from above and spoke indifferently.

"What's so impossible about it?"

"Do you think the late-stage Tianyi Realm is very strong?"

"In my eyes, you're no different from those Japanese men on the ground."

He paused, his gaze falling on Qin Shou's pale face, and his voice turned cold.

"Next, do you have any last words?"

"If not, then I'm going to send you to your death."

"After all, for a traitorous dog like you, staying alive is just a waste of air."

Hearing this, the fear on Qin Shou's face grew even more intense.

"You... you dare?"

"I represent the One Clan, Three Sects, Five Gates!"

"If you kill me, they won't let you off!"

Ye Chen looked at him, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly, though there wasn't a hint of a smile in his eyes.

"One Clan, Three Sects, Five Gates?"

"If they dare to come, I'll dare to kill them."

"Do you think I, Ye Chen, was raised on threats?"

Qin Shou's face turned completely white.

He suddenly realized that Ye Chen wasn't trying to scare him, nor was he negotiating.

Ye Chen really intended to kill him.

And...

He didn't care at all about who was standing behind him.

Ye Chen stopped looking at him, turned around, and swept his gaze over the group of Japanese men who were already scared witless.

Then.

He spoke indifferently.

"All of you... die by body explosion."

As soon as these words were spoken.

Whether it was Qin Shou kneeling on the ground or the surrounding Japanese men, they all suddenly felt...

The blood vessels in their bodies began to swell.

It was as if countless snakes were writhing inside their veins, frantically pumping air into them.

Beneath their skin, veins bulged like twisted earthworms crawling madly under the surface.

One Japanese man screamed in terror: "Yamete!!!"

However, as soon as he finished speaking.

"Boom!!!"

His body exploded directly, turning into a mist of blood and mangled flesh that splattered across the ground.

Immediately after.

"Boom!"

"Boom!!"

"Boom!!!"

...

One after another, the Japanese men's bodies exploded.

To the point where.

The entire warehouse was stained with a layer of crimson, and the air was filled with the stench of flesh and blood, making one feel nauseous.

"No... don't..."

Qin Shou panicked completely, but before he could finish his words, with a "boom," he turned into flesh and blood, splattering everywhere.

The scene was a bloody mess.

A thick scent of blood permeated the warehouse.

Shen Qingyi was scared witless.

Shu Yuan and Jiang Daoxuan lay on the ground, their eyes filled with shock.

With a single sentence, he had wiped out everyone present!

Even a Tianyi Realm expert couldn't withstand it!

This...

What kind of method was this?

This was practically the technique of a god or ghost!

In the entire warehouse, the only person still standing was Ye Chen.

The only people still alive were the three of them.

Shen Qingyi was the first to snap out of it, looking blankly at the young man standing in the blood mist.

He didn't look like a murderous demon; instead, he looked like a god descended to earth.

Moonlight spilled through the holes in the roof, falling on him and casting his profile in alternating light and shadow.

Not a single drop of blood had stained his clothes.

Despite standing in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, he was as clean as if he were untouched by dust.

Her heart skipped a beat!

At this moment, Shen Qingyi felt as if her heart was about to jump into her throat.

"Are you... really that Ye Chen?"

Ye Chen glanced at her. "Who else would I be?"

Shen Qingyi's face flushed, and her heart beat even faster.

Before the incident with the Ancient Tomb Sect, she had often heard her grandfather and father talk about him.

They said a monster had appeared in the Secular World, someone who could kill Heavenly First Realm Experts at a young age and had even uprooted the Sacred Sect.

They said it was best not to provoke this person, otherwise the consequences would be endless.

But she never expected that one day, this person would descend from the heavens, save their lives, and become their savior...

Shu Yuan finally recovered from his shock.

He forced himself to crawl up from the ground and knelt down heavily.

"Mr. Ye, for the grace of saving our lives..."

"Shu Yuan will never forget it!"

Jiang Daoxuan also struggled to get up, knelt beside Shu Yuan, and kowtowed heavily three times.

"Jiang Daoxuan thanks Mr. Ye for the grace of saving our lives!"

"If Mr. Ye hadn't stepped in, the three of us would likely have died a violent death here today!"

His voice choked up, and tears welled in his cloudy eyes.

Not for himself, but for Shen Qingyi.

If Ye Chen hadn't appeared tonight, he didn't dare imagine what would have happened to Shen Qingyi.

Shen Qingyi was the last spark of the Ancient Tomb Sect, the only bloodline of the Sect Master.

If something had really happened to the young miss, even if Jiang Daoxuan died, he wouldn't have the face to meet the Sect Master in the afterlife.

Ye Chen looked down at the two kneeling on the ground, expressionless.

"Don't thank me. I didn't save you because you're pitiful, nor because I'm kind-hearted."

"I'm not some saint who helps everyone."

"Saving you comes with conditions."

Shen Qingyi and Shu Yuan were both stunned.

But Jiang Daoxuan was an old hand in the world; he understood that there was no such thing as a free lunch, so he nodded: "Please speak, Mr. Ye!"

Ye Chen said indifferently, "I want the bronze key."

As soon as he said this, the expressions of the three changed simultaneously.

Actually, they all understood.

Ye Chen's appearance was more than likely for the bronze key.

Shu Yuan and Jiang Daoxuan looked at each other, both seeing hesitation in the other's eyes.

The bronze key was something they had exchanged for the lives of over five hundred people in the entire Ancient Tomb Sect.

The Sect Master had entrusted it to them before he died, telling them to take it out and give it to someone worthy of the trust.

But who was worthy of such trust?

They didn't know.

They only knew that this key could not fall into the hands of the One Clan, Three Sects, Five Gates, nor into the hands of anyone with ulterior motives.

But Ye Chen...

Although he had saved their lives tonight, although his strength was incredibly formidable, and although his name was famous in the Cultivation World.

They didn't know him well.

Shu Yuan gritted his teeth and was about to speak.

Shen Qingyi suddenly stood forward.

There was no more fear in those almond eyes, only determination.

"Mr. Ye, I can give it to you."

Ye Chen looked at her without speaking.

Shen Qingyi took a deep breath and continued.

"My grandfather said before he died that the bronze key isn't something just anyone can take."

"The person who takes the key must have responsibility, vision, and ability."

"He said that only by giving the key to such a person will the Ancient Tomb Sect's centuries of protection not be in vain."

She paused, her eyes turning slightly red.

"I don't know you, and I don't know if you're the kind of person my grandfather talked about."

"But tonight, you saved our lives."

"A complete stranger willing to step in at the risk of offending the One Clan, Three Sects, Five Gates at least shows you're not a bad person."

"Furthermore..."

She raised her head, her gaze falling on Ye Chen's face, and spoke seriously.

"Your strength is very great, great enough to protect this key from being snatched away!"

"That way, our desperate efforts to protect it won't have been for nothing."

"So, I am willing to give it to you."

After she finished, she took a cloth bundle from her bosom.

The bundle was wrapped in layers, with hemp rope wound around it several times and tied with several dead knots.

Shen Qingyi unwrapped the bundle layer by layer.

At the very center lay a bronze key.

With just one glance, Ye Chen could confirm that it was the real bronze key.

Shen Qingyi held the silk in both hands and handed the key to Ye Chen.

"Mr. Ye, this item is now yours."