461: Chapter 461 The Statue Collapses! The Final Collateral Was... a Coffin?!

That wretched voice played on a loop in the vast, dilapidated hall, every word dripping with schadenfreude.

The entire world instantly became terrifyingly quiet.

All the Prodigies who had rushed into the hall seemed to have been hit with a pause button, freezing in place one by one.

The expressions on their faces shifted from fanatical greed to extreme shock, and finally to a blank daze; their facial changes were faster than flipping pages in a book.

Adoptive father?

Repaying debts?

Eight hundred billion?!

These words were like heavy hammers smashing down on their skulls, shattering their proud Dao Hearts into pieces!

Their brains had completely crashed!

The information overload was too much; their CPUs were fried!

"No... no! This isn't real!"

Finally, a Prodigy with a weak psychological defense completely broke down!

He let out a pig-slaughtering scream and turned around like a madman, charging toward the Glazed Golden Gate that had just closed!

"Open the door! Open the damn door for me!"

His eyes were bloodshot, looking like a demon as he unleashed his ultimate Divine Ability with everything he had!

However, the door was impossibly sturdy; his attack hit it without even producing a single spark.

"Fake! It's all fake!"

"My Spirit Stones! My three million Spirit Stones! My entire fortune!"

"Rich Blockhead! I'll curse your Immortal ancestors! Get the hell out here!"

With the first one breaking down, the rest finally woke up from their petrified state!

The entire hall instantly exploded into chaos!

Cries, curses, and desperate roars rose and fell, echoing through the sky; it looked exactly like a massive mental asylum during recreation hour.

Meanwhile, outside the gate.

Su Chen's teammates watched this shocking reversal, each one dumbfounded, their worldviews shattered.

Listening to the shrill screams coming from inside, they felt a chill rush from the soles of their feet to the back of their heads, leaving them cold.

"My... my goodness..."

Qian Duoduo's chubby face instantly lost all color, turning as pale as paper.

He looked down at the sack in his arms, which still contained over four hundred million in "entry fees," and felt as if the thing was as hot as a branding iron!

"Just... just a little more..."

"Just a tiny bit more, and we would have become 'adoptive fathers' too!"

Qian Duoduo's voice was trembling, and his legs were shaking uncontrollably.

He could already imagine that if his boss hadn't held him back just now, he would be one of the "honorary debt-sharers" for that eight hundred billion debt.

At the thought of that astronomical figure, Qian Duoduo felt like his heart was failing, nearly dying on the spot.

Jian Buping and the monk Monk Jiese also looked terrified in hindsight.

The two exchanged a glance, both seeing the relief of having survived a disaster in each other's eyes, along with an endless stream of admiration for their boss.

In critical moments, it still has to be the boss!

You can always trust the boss's flashy maneuvers!

Only Su Chen remained his usual calm and collected salted fish self.

But in his mind, the bullet comments were already going wild!

[Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap!]

[What kind of top-tier underworld scheme is this?! A Crowdfunded Debt Repayment Center? Isn't this just an upgraded version of a P2P lending platform collapsing and the owners running away?!]

[Eight hundred billion?! Whose Immortal family's kidney did this guy stab to owe so much money?]

[Rich Blockhead... this guy is definitely a fellow transmigrator! And one who played with finance! This business model, this method of harvesting leeks, is ahead of this world by more than one version! He's a ruthless character!]

[But this guy's guts are too big, daring to slaughter the Prodigies of the Myriad Realms like pigs? Is he really not afraid of being ground into dust by various powerhouses after getting out, with his ashes thrown into the sea?]

Su Chen ranted wildly in his heart, looking at the tightly closed door, a rare trace of sympathy appearing in his eyes.

He observed three seconds of silence for the group of Suckers inside who had joyfully received the status of adoptive fathers.

"Rumble—!"

Just then, the shifty-eyed statue of Rich Blockhead in the center of the plaza suddenly began to shake violently!

Countless huge cracks spread rapidly from the base of the statue like a spider web!

"Not good! This place is going to collapse!" Hua Nongying's expression changed as she cried out!

Su Chen frowned.

They were also trapped in this godforsaken place.

In front was the indestructible "Debt Repayment Center," and the path back was blocked by fallen rocks; were they about to be buried alive?

[Damn, this Rich Blockhead is too ruthless.]

[He's not even letting us "passersby" who didn't fall for it go? This is an attempt to silence witnesses and destroy all evidence!]

Su Chen's face darkened instantly, and he was just about to use some of his trump cards to force a path out.

"Boom—!"

A loud explosion!

The hundred-zhang-tall statue of Rich Blockhead finally couldn't hold on anymore, collapsing with a bang and crumbling into a cloud of dust!

Beneath the original base of the statue, the so-called escape exit did not appear.

Instead, a massive coffin made entirely of unknown black gold, looking ancient and eerie, lay there quietly!

The coffin was covered with dense cinnabar talisman seals!

In the center of the coffin lid, a line of characters full of ominous warnings was written in blood-red ink.

[Final Collateral—If unsealed, no returns or exchanges!]