80: Tie him up, you old bastard!

Space was twisting.

Time seemed to have lost its meaning.

Lin Chen felt as if his soul and physical body were forcibly stripped apart and crammed into a rapidly spinning kaleidoscope composed of shattered laws and chaotic light and shadow.

All around him were bizarre, colorful streams of light receding wildly at a speed beyond the limit of thought. His vision had completely failed, allowing him only to "see" blurred blocks of color representing the laws of different worlds, like an arbitrarily smeared oil painting. His ears were filled with the sharp buzzing sound produced when space was torn, a sound that grated on the nerves and even stung the soul.

This was the ultra-long-distance transmission that crossed the level of a Great Domain!

It was not a simple "journey," but a cruel test of one's level of life!

Even with Lin Chen's current powerful physique, which had condensed one hundred thousand chaos dragon elephant particles and whose physical strength rivaled a High-Grade Dao Artifact, he could still feel a terrifying tearing force coming from all directions! It was as if countless invisible hands were reaching out from different dimensions and different temporal nodes, pulling at his limbs, torso, and even his soul, trying to completely erase his "existence" from the current timeline and reduce him back to the most primitive chaos particles.

Fortunately, the Sky Patrol Token activated by City Lord Long Yan emitted a layer of gentle yet resilient golden halo. The halo, like a warm and strong palm, securely wrapped their entire group, forming an independent, absolutely safe "bubble" that resisted the spatial pressure capable of instantly tearing ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators to shreds and turning them into nothingness.

Beside him, Luo Bingli and Blood Moon Wolf Queen both had slightly pale faces, their delicate bodies taut, beads of fragrant sweat seeping from their foreheads. Subconsciously, they pressed tightly against him, as if only by drawing in that trace of masculine, reassuring, powerful warmth could they barely maintain their mental stability. The spiritual energy within their bodies was already operating at its maximum, yet they still felt like two small boats in a storm, liable to capsize at any moment.

As for High-Grade Fertilizer and Extinction Sword Crone, whose cultivation had been sealed, they had long since completely fainted, bound by Lin Chen's spiritual energy like two shapely dead fish, left to be tossed and swung by the spatial forces.

"Master..."

Luo Bingli forcefully endured the soul's turbulence and transmitted her voice to Lin Chen using divine sense, her tone carrying an unconcealable trace of trembling and lingering fear: "This... this level of transmission This Madams too terrifying! This This Madams no longer a confrontation of strength, but an absolute crushing on the level of laws! Without the protection of the Sky Patrol Token, This Madam fear even a Soul Transformation Ancestor wouldn't dare try it easily, right?"

"Indeed." Lin Chen's gaze was extremely serious. While dedicating a sliver of his attention to build a more stable internal defense for his two loyal servants using his mighty Chaos Vitality, making their complexions look slightly better, he carefully sensed the fluctuations of laws within the spatial tunnel.

He could clearly feel that they were penetrating layer after layer of incredibly thick "world barriers" in a near-"warp jump" fashion! Behind every barrier was a set of new Heaven and Earth laws completely different from those of the Eastern Barrens! Behind some barriers were raging Fire-elemental laws, while others were filled with the silent aura of the undead... This made him profoundly realize that the Xuanhuang Great World was far more complex than he had imagined.

"The Eastern Barrens and the Central Continent Sacred Domain appear to be on the same continent. But in reality, they are like two different dimensional spaces that have been folded," Lin Chen explained to Luo Bingli using physics knowledge from Blue Star. "This teleportation array doesn't travel in a straight line. Instead, it uses a higher-dimensional 'wormhole' jump, forcibly connecting two spatial nodes that were originally unrelated."

Although Luo Bingli was completely confused and couldn't understand concepts like "dimension" or "wormhole," she still nodded, impressed by the incomprehensible. Anyway, everything her Master said was correct! Moreover, in this extremely dangerous environment, just hearing her Master's steady and magnetic voice was a great comfort in itself, quickly calming her anxious heart.

The transmission continued.

According to Long Yan, the entire process would last about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn. Their final destination would be the Eastern Region of the Central Continent Sacred Domain, at a specialized reception platform belonging to the Sky Patrol Hall. There, envoys from the Sky Patrol Hall would verify their identities and issue the "credentials" needed to enter the Central Continent.

Everything should have gone smoothly.

However.

Just as the transmission was about to reach its final moment! Just when a softly glowing white "exit" could vaguely be seen at the end of the colorful stream of light tunnel!

A sudden change occurred!

"Bzzzz—!!!!"

An extremely concealed yet destructive gray-black "turbulent current," without any warning, suddenly infiltrated from outside the incredibly stable spatial tunnel barrier, like a venomous snake lurking in a dark abyss!

The timing of this turbulent current's appearance was incredibly cunning! It was precisely at the moment they were about to exit the tunnel, when their minds were most relaxed, and when the defensive power of the Sky Patrol Token was about to complete its mission, shifting from extreme motion to extreme stillness!

It was more like an invisible, poisoned sharp blade! It wasn't intended to directly slaughter them! Instead, it precisely struck the Sky Patrol Token, the item maintaining everyone's safety!

"This This Madams bad!"

Lin Chen's pupils instantly contracted into the most dangerous pinpoints! He reacted immediately!

This was no accident at all! It was a premeditated interception and assassination!

It was the faction inside the Sky Patrol Hall that was hostile to Codename: Sharp Blade! It was the mastermind who had long viewed Lin Chen as an "eyesore," secretly pulling strings!

The opponent clearly dared not tamper with the teleportation array openly, as that would be instantly discovered by City Lord Long Yan. Therefore, they chose this more insidious and vicious method! By utilizing chaotic spatial nodes, they artificially guided a fatal "spatial turbulent current" to create a seemingly "accidental" death!

How malicious their intent was!

"Be suppressed!"

In this critical moment! Lin Chen didn't even have time to activate the human emperor seal! He could only let out a roar originating from the depths of his soul!

The one hundred thousand chaos dragon elephant particles, which had just completed their evolution and were dormant throughout his limbs, bones, and internal organs, were instantly and completely detonated!

A pure physical force, brutal to the extreme, erupted like a supernova detonating inside him, instantly forming a visible shield shimmering with chaotic radiance, tightly protecting Luo Bingli and Blood Moon Wolf Queen behind him!

Boom—!!!!

The gray-black spatial turbulent current violently collided with Lin Chen's shield and the Sky Patrol Token!

The Sky Patrol Token let out a groan of distress, the golden halo it emitted instantly dimmed to the extreme, and even a tiny crack appeared on its surface!

Furthermore, the entire, previously stable spatial tunnel was instantly covered in terrifying, spiderweb-like cracks, like a glass pipe into which a bomb had been thrown! Countless tiny spatial fragments, like the sharpest blades, wildly cut inward!

"Master!"

Luo Bingli and Blood Moon Wolf Queen let out terrified screams! They felt an irresistible, terrifying suction force wildly emanating from the shattered tunnel cracks! Their bodies were instantly and uncontrollably pulled towards two different directions!

"Hold onto me!" Lin Chen's eyes were splitting with rage! He stretched out his hands with all his might, trying to grab them! But the random pulling force generated by the spatial collapse was simply too horrifying!

In the end, he could only watch helplessly as the figures of Luo Bingli and Blood Moon Wolf Queen, along with the two unconscious "captives," were swept into the endless spatial turbulent currents and vanished instantly!

As for himself, he was violently flung by another, even more ferocious force toward the unknown exit that had long deviated from its original trajectory!

...After an unknown amount of time passed.

Lin Chen slowly recovered from the intense, dizzying sensation of the world spinning.

"Cough... cough, cough..."

He struggled to climb out of the thick, knee-deep snow, coughed violently a few times, and spat out a mouthful of clotted blood mixed with ice shards. Even with his physical body comparable to a High-Grade Dao Artifact, after forcefully withstanding the impact of the spatial collapse, he still felt as if his internal organs had shifted, his vitality surging, and his entire body aching.

He looked around.

As far as the eye could see was a vast, white, endless frozen snowy plain. The sky was a suppressive lead-gray, like a massive iron curtain weighing heavily on one's heart. The biting cold wind, like the sharpest knives, wrapped around ice crystals, whistling across the land and howling like ghosts and wolves.

The spiritual energy in the air was shockingly thin! Furthermore, it was filled with violent, repulsive Ice-elemental energy. If an ordinary cultivator took a single breath here, their lungs would likely be instantly frostbitten!

"Where... where This Madams this?" Lin Chen frowned tightly. He was certain this was absolutely not the peaceful reception platform of the Sky Patrol Hall! This looked more like a desolate Life Forbidden Zone!

"Bingli... Yue Ji..."

He immediately released his divine sense, intending to investigate the whereabouts of Luo Bingli and Blood Moon Wolf Queen. However, his divine sense was torn to shreds by the violent ice and snow storm barely a hundred miles outside his body! Effective searching was impossible!

"Damn it!" A cold killing intent flashed in Lin Chen's eyes! "Sky Patrol Hall! This Madam'll remember this debt!"

However, the top priority was still to figure out his current location. Then, he needed to find the separated Luo Bingli and the others as quickly as possible.

Just as Lin Chen stabilized his posture and prepared to choose a direction to investigate.

"Awooo—!!!"

Howls filled with wildness and ferocity suddenly came from behind a snow dune not far away!

Immediately following!

More than a dozen Ice Plain Giant Wolves, whose bodies were comparable to rhinos, covered in long snow-white fur, and whose eyes glowed with cold, ghostly blue light, suddenly leaped out from behind the snow dune! They completely surrounded Lin Chen!

And mounted on the back of every giant wolf was a woman, dressed in thick, roughly made fur coats and skirts, holding weapons polished from the bones of demonic beasts!

These women were all tall and robustly built, their skin exhibiting a rough bronze color from being constantly exposed to the cold wind. Their eyes, like those of the giant wolves they rode, were filled with savagery, fierceness, and undisguised aggression!

A "hunting team" composed of local female cultivators!

Leading them was a one-eyed woman with a hideous scar across her face. The giant wolf she rode was even larger than the others! Her cultivation had surprisingly reached the late Golden Core stage realm! And most of the female cultivators behind her were at the Early Golden Core Stage or Middle Golden Core Stage level!

Such a force, if placed in the Eastern Barrens, would be enough to sweep through a second-rate sect! Yet here, it seemed to be just an ordinary hunting team.

The one-eyed Scarred Woman paused slightly the moment she saw Lin Chen.

Immediately afterward, her single eye revealed a smile full of contempt, mockery, and ill intent, as if she had spotted a naked, defenseless, and succulent piece of prey!

Her gaze shamelessly swept back and forth over Lin Chen's immaculate, luxurious white robes made of fine Heavenly Silkworm silk, and his handsome face, which, due to possessing the Chaos Dao Body, had skin even fairer and more delicate than a woman's. Her stare was utterly naked and aggressive, as if she intended to use her eyes to peel off his clothes layer by layer and meticulously inspect the quality of this "goods."

"Yo, sisters, look quickly!"

She laughed loudly at her companions behind her in a coarse, teasing tone, her voice filled with the surprise of discovering premium prey:

"Our luck This Madams good today! We didn't catch a Snow Mountain Demon Ape, but look, a rather handsome 'little pet' actually fell from the sky?"

"Giggle, giggle, giggle..."

Hearing this, the female cultivators behind her burst into a chorus of wild, unrestrained laughter!

The look in their eyes toward Lin Chen was filled with the most blatant lust! They were like a pack of female wolves starved for three days, seeing a tender, fragrant little white rabbit! Their gazes shamelessly roved back and forth between his waist, legs, and hips, and they let out undisguised, lewd whistles!

"Hehehe, Big Sister, look at his attire, dressed up like a peacock! That slender waist, those long legs... tsk tsk, he clearly isn't fit for any hard labor! He's probably just a 'Male Concubine' kept by some wealthy family in the South, raised specifically for entertainment in the boudoir, right?"

"This Madam think so too! Look at his small frame, he'd fall over with a gust of wind! This kind of goods, in our Northern Territory, we wouldn't even want him as a slave because he's too weak! But still..." A female cultivator who licked her cracked lips said with a lecherous glint in her eyes, speaking in the tone of someone appraising merchandise, "...that little face This Madams genuinely handsome! Much better than those smelly men in our village who only know brute force! If we bring him back and lock him up, it will definitely be... fun! Look at his skin, whiter than snow, smoother than silk; the texture must be wonderful to touch!"

"Exactly! Perfect! Our haul from this hunting trip isn't great! If we go back empty-handed, the Young Miss will definitely throw a tantrum again!" The one-eyed Scarred Woman's eye flashed with shrewdness! She made the final decision!

"—We'll capture him and take him back!"

"And offer him to our Young Miss!"

"The Young Miss loves these kinds of 'little toys' that are good-looking, weak, and can be played with freely! The one we caught last month broke after only ten days of play, and she's been worried about not having a new one!"

"If we can make her happy, perhaps we can redeem ourselves for our poor performance this time!"

Having said that! She didn't even bother wasting another word on Lin Chen! It was as if Lin Chen's opinion was completely irrelevant! He was not a person, but an object that could be priced and distributed arbitrarily!

She merely waved her hand casually at the two subordinates beside her, as if commanding her hunting dogs.

"Go!"

"Tie him up for This Madam!"

"Remember, don't hurt his pretty little face, and don't ruin those smooth clothes. The Young Miss doesn't like 'pets' with flaws!"