219: Chapter 220 The Collapse of the Prodigy! The prodigy instantly turns into a pig, and the hostage begins to be appraised.

There was only a faint sound of static coming from the communicator.

The subordinate swallowed hard, his voice filled with a distinct sobbing tone.

"Captain. We can't contact Wang San and the others anymore."

As soon as these words were spoken, the rift went completely silent.

Several Dead Soldiers instinctively gripped their weapons and huddled back-to-back.

The Dead Soldier Captain snatched the communicator and smashed it hard against the ground. The communicator shattered into pieces.

"Grab your weapons! Something has snuck up on us!"

He roared, pulling out the two-handed greatsword from his back.

A dozen or so Dead Soldiers immediately formed a formation; the mages began chanting, and the archers nocked enchanted arrows. Colorful skill effects lit up, illuminating the dim rift.

Xiao Kuangyun leaned against a thick Dragon bone, his legs shaking uncontrollably.

"What's going on? Didn't Lord Ying Wan go to scout the path?" Xiao Kuangyun shouted at the top of his lungs, his voice hoarse.

The captain had no time to deal with this dead weight.

"Two of you, go out and check the corner!"

Two Dead Soldiers raised their shields and, bracing themselves, moved toward the exit of the rift. Twenty times the gravity pressed down on them, and every step required a tremendous amount of stamina.

Before they even reached the corner.

Thump. Thump.

Several muffled sounds came in succession.

Four limp objects were thrown in directly from outside, rolling along the dark red ground to the feet of the two Dead Soldiers.

The two Dead Soldiers looked down, and their legs immediately went soft, causing them to collapse onto the ground.

They were none other than Wang San, Zhao Si, and the others responsible for the outer perimeter guard.

The four corpses had all died the same way; their cervical vertebrae had been twisted into a knot by absolute physical violence, their heads hanging limply on their shoulders, without even a trace of resistance.

Clack. Clack.

Steady footsteps came from the shadows around the corner.

Lin Qi walked out unhurriedly, one hand in his pocket.

He stood directly at the only exit of the rift. Behind him was the rolling dark red mist, and in front of him was this group of trembling lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

There were no flashy skill effects, nor any System notification sounds.

Lin Qi just stood there, plain and unremarkable, yet the pressure he brought to everyone far exceeded those max-level Abyss monsters.

"He's alone! Don't be afraid! Focus fire and kill him!"

The Dead Soldier Captain suddenly raised his greatsword, trying to use his shouting to bolster his courage.

"Fireballs! Wind Blades! Throw everything you've got at him until he dies!"

Four mage-class Dead Soldiers immediately aimed their staffs at Lin Qi; fireballs and wind blades trailed long exhaust flames, heading straight for Lin Qi's face.

Lin Qi didn't even lift a foot.

He slowly bent down and grabbed a handful of bone fragments from beside his feet.

His Indestructible Golden Body worked in tandem with the rapid circulation of True Qi within his body, and the spiral Penetrating Force of the Baji Mountain Crushing Force directly coated the surface of these bone fragments.

Lin Qi's wrist shook violently.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Several extremely ordinary bone fragments tore through the air, flying out with a piercing sonic boom.

The fireballs and wind blades flying toward him were directly pierced by the bone fragments coated with Spiral Force, dissipating on the spot in mid-air into clusters of void data streams.

That wasn't all.

The bone fragments didn't lose speed, accurately smashing into the knees of the Dead Soldiers at the very front.

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

Blood mixed with bone fragments splattered everywhere.

The five Dead Soldiers at the front let out shrill screams simultaneously. Their kneecaps were completely pulverized by the Spiral Force, and their entire lower bodies lost all support.

The five of them fell to their knees in unison, facing the direction of Lin Qi.

This wave of purely physical, long-range injury left the remaining people completely dumbfounded.

"Monster... this f*cking thing isn't human!"

The Dead Soldier Captain couldn't stand this pressure of being slowly approached; he went insane.

He cast a berserk skill on himself, raised his greatsword with both hands, and, enduring the twenty times gravity, charged madly toward Lin Qi.

"I'm going to hack you to pieces!"

Lin Qi looked at the charging captain and shook his head.

"Too slow."

He raised his right hand, index and middle fingers together, with True Qi highly compressed at his fingertips.

Just when the captain was exactly ten steps away from him, Lin Qi pointed a finger into the air in front of him.

A visible ring of Qi exploded at his fingertips.

The refined-to-the-extreme finger force tore through the air, directly piercing the Dead Soldier Captain's throat.

Entering through the front of the neck, exiting through the back.

Bringing out a large spray of hot blood.

The Dead Soldier Captain's roar came to an abrupt end. The greatsword in his hand clattered to the ground, and he continued to charge forward for two steps due to momentum, then collapsed face-first at Lin Qi's feet.

His body twitched violently a few times, then quickly became still.

Now, the remaining people in the rift didn't even have the courage to raise their weapons.

Clatter. Clatter.

The sound of weapons hitting the ground rang out continuously.

The few remaining Dead Soldiers were all lying on the ground, their crotches soaked. They didn't dare look up at Lin Qi, fearing that they would be the next ones to have their heads pierced by his finger force.

Xiao Kuangyun stood in the back, seeing everything clearly.

His mental defenses completely collapsed at this moment.

He had previously fantasized about relying on the Li Family's Dead Soldiers for protection, and relying on his own S-rank class to make it through.

But now, he only felt that those data panels were all useless scraps of paper!

What's the use of max-level skills?

What's the use of Karma-law weapons?

In the face of absolute physical violence, in the face of this Martial Dao Devil King who could crush System rules with his bare hands, everything they were proud of was a f*cking joke!

Thump!

Xiao Kuangyun's legs went soft, and he knelt heavily on the ground.

He didn't care about the excruciating pain caused by the twenty times gravity and crawled two steps toward Lin Qi using his hands and feet.

"Brother Seven! Master Seven! Don't kill me! I surrender!"

Xiao Kuangyun pressed his head against the ground covered in rough bone fragments and kowtowed frantically.

His forehead broke, and his face was covered in blood, but he didn't even dare to wipe it off.

The dignity of a Prodigy from a wealthy Family, the pride of an S-rank class, were all thrown to the nine heavens.

Now, he only had one thought in his mind.

To survive!

"I was wrong! I shouldn't have listened to that idiot Li Shaobai! I shouldn't have followed the Li Family to deal with you!" Xiao Kuangyun cried, snot and tears streaming down his face, shouting incoherently.

His kowtowing triggered a herd effect.

Beside him, Han Qianchi had been trying to hold out, but seeing Xiao Kuangyun kneel, he also immediately knelt down.

"Master Seven! You are a magnanimous person, please just let me go like a fart! I was also forced by the Li Family to come in!" Han Qianchi buried his head between his legs, trembling so hard his teeth were rattling.

The remaining seven or eight Prodigies from small Families were even more straightforward, kneeling down in a row.

The entire rift was filled with the sounds of these young masters begging for mercy and kowtowing.

If this scene were to spread to Tianhai City outside, it would probably shock the entire city's teeth out.

These young masters, who usually walked around like they owned the place, were now literally a group of pigs waiting to be slaughtered.

Lin Qi stopped in his tracks and did not continue to attack.

He reached out and picked his ear.

These young masters were giving him a headache with their noise.

Lin Qi stepped over the corpses of the Dead Soldiers, trod on those broken bones, and walked slowly in front of these young masters.

The twenty times gravity had absolutely no effect on him. Standing there, he was an insurmountable primordial mountain.

Lin Qi looked down at this group of people from a superior position.

He was quickly calculating the profit of this deal in his mind.

Kill them all?

It would certainly be easier.

But these guys were all precious darlings of their respective Families; if they died here, besides leaving behind a mess of rotten meat, he wouldn't gain anything.

He, Lin Qi, was a pragmatist debt collector.

The Organ Refining Realm after the Indestructible Golden Body was absolutely a bottomless pit. The high-quality medicinal herbs and resources required would probably not even be filled by the six hundred and eighty billion in Zhang Wei's hands.

The Li Family tree must be uprooted, but these living hostages were all ready-made cash machines.

This deal was worth doing.

Lin Qi looked down at Xiao Kuangyun in front of him.

This kid had been kowtowing the hardest, his forehead swollen and bleeding.

"Stop kowtowing." Lin Qi spoke.

As soon as these three words were spoken, Xiao Kuangyun immediately stopped.

He maintained the ridiculous posture of lying on the ground with his upper body and his butt stuck up, even holding his breath.

Han Qianchi and the others also froze, not daring to move an inch.

Lin Qi took out the ancient jade for mental defense he had just looted and tossed it in his hand twice.

"Since you know you are young masters, then it's easy to handle."

Lin Qi pulled over a broken, flat, large rock and sat down in a domineering manner.

He looked at Xiao Kuangyun's pale face.

"How much is your life worth?"