272: My father-in-law insisted on giving me some potent drugs! He said I absolutely had to have a grandson tonight!

Looking at Liu Canghai, who was running toward him with small steps and a face like a withered chrysanthemum, Su Chen's heart skipped a beat.

[What is this old man trying to do?]

[His expression isn't right! Just a moment ago, he was crying like his own father had died, and now he's smiling like he just picked up a Divine Stone?]

[He couldn't be coming to demand compensation for the Imperial Weapon, could he?]

[Let me tell you, that bell had a mind of its own and voluntarily sacrificed itself for the cause of peace in the Xuanyuan Continent; it has absolutely nothing to do with me, Su Chen!]

[A scam! This is definitely a scam! I'm not taking the fall!]

Su Chen instinctively shrank into Ye Linghan's soft and secure embrace, putting on an innocent look that said, "I'm very weak, I don't know anything, don't ask me."

However, Liu Canghai's next move went far beyond his expectations.

The Old Devil ran up to him, but there was no weeping as imagined, nor did he mention a single word about the Imperial Weapon.

He just used a... a type of extremely eerie gaze that Su Chen had only seen on the faces of the Su Family Elders when they were pressuring him to get married, sizing him up and down very carefully.

That look was like a butcher looking at a plump, sturdy breeding pig about to be sent into the bridal chamber.

From his charred afro to his tattered beggar-like clothes, and even the "Heavenly Demon Pendant" hanging around his neck that was radiating immense resentment, Liu Canghai looked on with amazement, his eyes sparkling with strange light.

It made Su Chen's skin crawl.

[Why is this old man looking at me like he's going to stew me for meat?]

[Don't do anything reckless! I'm a decent person!]

[Also, what's with that look? Look again! If you look again, I'll... I'll have Ye Linghan roll you into a ball to keep your future "neighbor" company!]

Su Chen felt completely uneasy under his gaze and was wondering how to slip away.

Liu Canghai suddenly waved his hand and barked sternly at the Demonic Cult Elders who wanted to follow: "What are you all standing here for? Are your dog eyes blind? Can't you see the benefactor needs rest?"

"Hurry up and clean up the mess! Prepare the cult's best Nine-Revolution Life-Prolonging Pill and the tent made of Ten-Thousand-Year Warm Jade for our benefactor!"

"Yes, Sect Master!"

The Elders left as if granted a grand amnesty, though their hearts were as clear as a mirror.

The Sect Master was going to... have a heart-to-heart talk with the future "Sect Master's Wife," oh no, the "Son-in-Law" alone!

With the subordinates dismissed, only Su Chen, Ye Linghan, Liu Ruyan, and this Old Devil with a suddenly changed vibe remained on the vast ruins.

Liu Canghai rubbed his hands together, the smile on his face becoming increasingly lewd.

He first bowed reverently to Ye Linghan, not even daring to lift his head, and then, with extreme familiarity, hooked his arm around Su Chen's shoulder, practically dragging and pulling him from Ye Linghan's fragrant embrace to a nearby corner.

"Worthy... Worthy Son-in-Law!"

The Old Devil lowered his voice, the address so familiar it was as if they had already performed the wedding ceremony.

Su Chen's face turned green on the spot.

[Worthy Son-in-Law?!]

[Who is your worthy son-in-law?! Old man, don't just go around claiming relations!]

[Your daughter and I are only fiancé and fiancée in name; we are clean and pure like a blank sheet of paper, we haven't even held hands!]

[Wait, I think we did hold hands... but that was because she pulled me by force! I'm the victim! My purity needs to be defended!]

Su Chen was completely bewildered and was about to righteously correct this title that was even more ridiculous than the Heavenly Demon Pendant.

Liu Canghai didn't give him a chance to speak at all. He leaned into Su Chen's ear with a mysterious look and whispered, "Worthy Son-in-Law, that 'big sparkler' you set off earlier was damn beautiful!"

"I've lived for tens of thousands of years, and I've never seen such an exciting firework!"

"However..." The Old Devil's tone shifted, and his expression became even more lewd, "Let me ask you, my daughter Ruyan has been following you these past few days. How... how well have you nourished her?"

"Pfft—"

Su Chen almost choked to death on his own breath.

[Nourished?]

[I nourished her? She's clearly the one finding ways to torment me every day! I'm the one being squeezed dry, okay?!]

[What on earth is inside this old man's head? Was it damaged by the Leyline Evil Qi? Can he ever be normal again?]

Su Chen's face flushed red as he tried to explain their revolutionary friendship, which was purer than the Yellow River's water.

Liu Canghai's expression turned solemn, as if he had seen through Su Chen's "shyness" and "disguise," and he patted his shoulder with a pained look.

"Oh, Worthy Son-in-Law! Don't act all proper with me! We of the Demonic Cult are open and upright; we don't go for that fake, hypocritical stuff of the Righteous Path!"

"As her father, don't I know what kind of person Ruyan is? If she's taken a liking to you, she definitely would have squeezed you dry and eaten you alive long ago!"

"Tell me honestly, have you... not taken her down yet?"

Liu Canghai's eyes were filled with deep disdain, as if saying, "Young man, you're not up to the task."

Su Chen: "..."

He felt he had suffered the greatest humiliation since the dawn of time.

[Holy crap! Is this old man PUA-ing me?]

[What do you mean I haven't taken her down? I'm staying true to my heart, remaining unmoved while sitting in her lap, and staying untainted despite the mud! Do you understand?!]

[What kind of person is your daughter? She's a demoness who eats people without spitting out the bones! I've only survived until now because of my iron-like willpower!]

Su Chen was about to defend his purity and dignity.

Liu Canghai let out a long sigh and pulled out a jade bottle from his robes that emitted a faint green glow. The bottle was carved with several indescribable patterns; one look and you knew it wasn't anything decent.

Without allowing any refusal, he forced it into Su Chen's charred hand.

"Take it!"

The Old Devil's tone was beyond dispute.

"Stop dallying with me! You two have a marriage contract, and I know Ruyan's figure and appetite! If you haven't taken her down yet, then you're looking down on her! Looking down on me! Looking down on my entire Nine Nether Demonic Cult!"

"This bottle of 'Nine-Revolution Hehuan Vigorous Pill' is the hidden treasure of our cult! The Sect Master of the Hehuan Sect begged me for eight hundred years and I didn't give it to him!"

"Its medicinal effect is overbearingly powerful; even a Great Emperor would turn into a mating dog on the spot after taking it!"

"Take it! Get it done tonight!"

Liu Canghai patted Su Chen's shoulder hard, his eyes burning with heat as he spoke earnestly, "Worthy Son-in-Law, your father can only help you this much!"

"Tonight, the raw rice must be cooked into a meal!"

"Ideally, produce a grandson for me to play with in one go!"

Su Chen clutched that bottle of slightly warm pills emitting an evil green light; his hands were shaking, and his heart was trembling.

He was completely lost in the blood-colored cold wind of the Nine Nether Demon Domain.

[Is... is this a biological father?!]

[What kind of father drugs his future son-in-law just to get him to do his own daughter?!]

[And you want me to produce a grandson for you? What do you take me for? A human seeding machine?!]

[Can the style of this Demonic Cult be just a little bit more normal?! Help me!!!]

Su Chen's inner self was roaring frantically at a speed of three hundred sentences per second.

He felt that his worldview had been pinned to the ground and crushed back and forth three hundred times by this Old Devil with a spiked club, until not even dregs were left!