23: You're lying! You're a member of the Su family!

"Qin Feng?"

The Demoness tilted her head, softly repeating the name. Her dark red eyes were still empty, seemingly searching the ruins of memory for traces of that name.

Su Chen's heart leaped into his throat.

He stared intently at her face, afraid to miss the slightest change in expression.

Did it work?

She should remember it this time, right?

If she still doesn't remember, I truly have no other options!

However, the next second.

A strange look of confusion, mixed with innocence and cruelty, suddenly appeared on the Demoness's enchanting and beautiful face.

Swish!

Su Chen didn't even clearly see her movement.

He felt a blur before his eyes, and a bone-chilling intent to kill immediately rushed toward him.

The Demoness, who had been a hundred meters away just a moment ago, appeared silently right in front of him, as if she had teleported!

A hand—pale, icy, yet delicate like the finest jade—suddenly clamped down on his throat!

Fast!

It was so fast that Su Chen didn't even have a moment to react!

His Saint Realm protective Spiritual Qi was as fragile as a soap bubble before this seemingly delicate hand, and it was effortlessly crushed!

Ugh...

Intense suffocation and the shadow of death, like two icy large hands, simultaneously gripped his heart!

Su Chen's face instantly turned liver-colored. His feet left the ground as the woman effortlessly lifted him with one hand.

He struggled desperately, kicking his limbs wildly in the air, but he couldn't move her in the slightest.

He felt as if his neck could be snapped by this jade-like hand at any moment!

The Demoness pulled him closer to her, her breathtakingly beautiful face slowly approaching.

Several strands of her ink-black hair playfully dropped down, lightly brushing Su Chen's cheek, bringing an icy and strange sensation of itchiness.

Su Chen could clearly smell the peculiar scent emanating from her, a mixture of ancient, sealed fragrance and faint bloodiness.

He saw the woman slightly close her dark red Devil Eyes, her long eyelashes trembling like butterfly wings.

Her nostrils flared slightly as she leaned in close to Su Chen's neck and took a deep sniff.

The gesture was like savoring a dish she had never tasted before.

Or like identifying a scent... familiar yet detestable.

All the hairs on Su Chen's body stood on end!

Holy crap!

What is going on?

Identifying people by smell?

Are you a dog?

I Transmigrated years ago, eating the Su Family's food and drinking the Su Family's water. Isn't it normal to carry the Su Family's scent?

She can smell that too?

An extremely ominous thought began to wildly sprout in Su Chen's mind.

Sure enough!

When the Demoness opened her eyes again, her previously empty and confused gaze had been replaced by a bone-chilling intent to kill!

It was a deep-seated, unforgettable hatred originating from the depths of the Soul!

The corners of her mouth slowly curled up, forming a cruel and enchanting smile.

"You are lying."

Her voice was no longer hoarse, but clear and cold. Every word was like a poisoned ice pick stabbing fiercely into Su Chen's ears.

"In your blood..."

"Flows the stench of those old bastards of the Su Family who locked me here too!"

"You are a member of the Su Family!"

The instant her voice fell!

Her fingers, clamped around Su Chen's throat, suddenly tightened!

Crack!

Su Chen felt his neck bones emit a mournful cry under the overwhelming pressure!

The scythe of death was already resting against his neck!

...At the same time.

Outside the Su Family Ancestral Land.

The entire Everlasting Su Family erupted into chaos!

From the direction of the Forbidden Ground in the back mountain, a torrent of Devilish Qi, black as ink and monstrously evil, burst through the Su Family's layers of Protective Formations, shooting straight into the sky, like an awakened Ancient Devil Dragon!

That Devilish Qi was so domineering, so full of destruction and ill omen.

Wherever it passed, even the sky was stained a strange dark red, as if the entire firmament was bleeding.

On Divine Son Peak, countless Su Family disciples and servants stared in horror at this celestial phenomenon, their faces pale, bodies trembling, suffocated by the fear originating from the depths of their Bloodlines.

"Heavens! W-what is that?!"

"It's the Forbidden Ground in the back mountain! Something happened in the direction of the Forbidden Ground!"

"What terrifying Qi... I feel like my Divine Soul is about to freeze!"

Deep within the Su Family Ancestral Hall.

Dong! Dong! Dong—!

The warning bell, signaling the highest level of crisis faced by the Family, was frantically rung by an unseen force. The urgent and mournful tolling spread throughout every corner of the Su Family!

Several figures, whose auras were as vast as the abyss and who had been in Secluded Death Cultivation, suddenly opened their eyes!

"This aura is... the Fallen Immortal of the Mortal World!"

Inside an ancient stone hall, Seventh Elder Su Qi suddenly shot up from his meditation cushion, his usually majestic face now filled with unprecedented terror!

He stared intently toward the Forbidden Ground in the back mountain, his lips trembling, barely able to utter a complete sentence.

"It's her... it's that woman... she... she has escaped!"

Several other white-haired old monsters, whose seniority was even greater than Su Qi's, also emerged from their respective seclusion spots.

Every one of them was a Saint King or even a Great Saint-Grade existence, capable of shaking the entire Tiannan Territory with a stomp of their foot.

But at this moment, without exception, their faces were all etched with terror, as if they had seen a ghost.

"How is this possible?! Suppressed by an Imperial Weapon and sealed for ten thousand ages, how could she possibly break free!"

"It's over... everything is over! Once that crazy woman appears in the world, my Su Family... no, the entire Tiannan Territory, will face utter destruction!"

"Quick! Head to the back mountain! We must suppress her again, no matter the cost!"

Su Qi reacted the fastest. He let out a desperate roar, no longer caring about anything else.

He tore open the Void Realm and instantly moved toward the Forbidden Ground in the back mountain like a madman!

The rest of the Grand Elders followed closely behind, each of their faces bearing the tragic solemnity of sacrificing themselves for a noble cause.

They knew very well that this woman was the most terrifying taboo in the history of the Xuan Yuan Su Family lineage, and its darkest period of the past.

Once she returned to the world, only destruction awaited everyone!