366: Chapter 366 Do you want to kill them?

Bang!

The wooden door of the firewood shed was kicked into pieces.

Sharp wooden splinters, carried by the cold wind, slammed hard against Lin Yan's blood-stained face.

Two burly, wicked servants of the Lin family strode inside.

Without a word of nonsense, the man on the left grabbed Lin Yan by his collar and dragged him out like a dead dog.

"Behave! The master's family wants to use you, which is a blessing you, bastard, couldn't earn in eight lifetimes!"

Broken kneecaps rubbed agonizingly against his flesh.

Lin Yan clenched his back teeth tightly, a strong metallic taste of rust instantly filling his mouth.

A striking red trail was dragged across the bluestone floor.

He didn't struggle; he merely carved those two rough faces deeply into his mind.

Cao Yun hid in the shadow of a bell tower a hundred zhang away, a crimson fire dancing on his fingertips.

He was in no hurry to make a move.

He wanted to see what exactly this Lin family intended to do by keeping a bastard with a useless Spiritual Root.

Passing through multiple corridors, Lin Yan was roughly thrown into a stuffy underground stone chamber.

The floor tiles were carved with complex, scarlet array runes, emitting a sickening stench of blood.

In the center of the stone chamber sat a stone bed forged from profound iron.

The head of the Lin family, Patriarch of the Lin Family, stood with his hands behind his back, with the eldest young master, Young Master of the Lin Family, dressed in fine silks, standing beside him.

A withered, black-robed elder was holding a Willow-Leaf Dagger, repeatedly heating it over a brazier.

"Father, can this bastard's Spiritual Root really help me Breakthrough to Foundation Establishment?" Young Master of the Lin Family rubbed his hands, greed contorting his face.

"His mother was a lowly maid, but the extremely rare Heavenly Fire Spiritual Root flows within his body!" Patriarch of the Lin Family snorted coldly and kicked Lin Yan in the ribs.

"If it weren't to nurture this Spiritual Root to maturity, why would I have let him live until now?"

"Today you are at Qi Refining Perfection; it is the perfect time to harvest the fruit!"

Lin Yan lay prone on the cold stone floor, blood blurring his vision.

The truth brutally shattered his last shred of illusion.

It turned out that even the beatings and humiliations were only to stimulate the fire energy in his body to nourish that Spiritual Root.

He was nothing but a blood pig raised in a pen.

"Tie him up," the black-robed elder said, testing the blade's edge with his thumb.

The two wicked servants roughly grabbed Lin Yan's limbs.

Bang.

Lin Yan was slammed heavily onto the profound iron bed.

Thick iron rings clamped around his wrists and ankles, locking tightly.

Unable to move, he could only pant heavily like meat on a chopping block.

"This Spirit Extraction Technique is extremely painful, requiring a raw extraction from a living body," the black-robed elder approached, his withered face twitching.

"The more painful it is, the stronger the vitality of the Spiritual Root will be."

"Young Master, no matter how he screams later, you must keep your mind steady."

Young Master of the Lin Family let out a sinister laugh, pulling out a folding fan from his waist to lift Lin Yan's chin.

"Don't worry, Mister. Hearing this bastard scream will only make me more excited."

The black-robed elder nodded, placing the tip of the dagger directly against Lin Yan's Dantian.

Slash.

The sharp dagger sliced through his flesh cleanly.

Blood instantly gushed out, dripping down the grooves of the profound iron bed.

Lin Yan's entire body shuddered violently.

The blade churned in his flesh, precisely avoiding vital organs as it crept closer to the Meridians where the Spiritual Root resided.

The agonizing pain of this live dissection was enough to instantly break any adult.

But Lin Yan did not cry out.

He stared fixedly at the ceiling above, the veins on his neck bulging like writhing dragons.

His teeth chattered violently as he forced the scream back down his throat.

Hatred.

A sky-high hatred burned furiously in his blood.

Kill them all.

Burn this mansion to ashes.

In the dark, Cao Yun saw this desire clearly through the [Mingxin Mirror].

The crimson bronze mirror vibrated violently within his spiritual terrace.

This kid is practically a natural-born demon seed.

That pure intent to kill even resonated with the Pure Yang Heart Fire inside Cao Yun.

The timing is just right.

If they cut any further, this perfect vessel will be ruined by these quacks.

Cao Yun lightly flicked his finger.

The black-robed elder's blade tip had already touched that dark red Spiritual Root.

"Found it!" The elder was overjoyed.

He was just about to cut it out.

A sudden change occurred.

An extremely tiny, almost transparent crimson flame shot up from the blade tip without warning.

Before the elder could react...

The flame instantly expanded.

Boom!

The Pure Yang Heart Fire surged cleanly up the Willow-Leaf Dagger.

Directly enveloping the elder's entire right arm.

"Ah~!"

The elder let out a shrill, inhuman scream.

He desperately channeled his water-attribute true essence to extinguish the fire.

But this was a Golden Core-level Origin heart fire, specializing in burning illusions and suppressing all things.

The moment the water-attribute true essence touched the flame, it was brutally evaporated into nothingness.

The flame spread along with it, instantly engulfing the elder.

In less than half a breath,

A living person turned directly into a pile of white ash on the spot, with not even bone fragments left.

Clang.

The red-hot Willow-Leaf Dagger dropped onto the bluestone floor.

The air in the stone chamber instantly fell into a dead silence.

The sinister smiles on the faces of Patriarch of the Lin Family and Young Master of the Lin Family froze completely.

The two wicked servants were so terrified that their legs gave out, and they collapsed directly to the ground.

This was not mundane martial arts at all, nor was it any Qi Refinement Stage Spell they knew.

Such a bizarre and overbearing method directly shattered their worldview.

"Who is it!" Patriarch of the Lin Family forced down his wildly beating heart, drew the longsword from his waist, and looked around.

"Which expert is present! I am of the Lin family of Luoyun City..."

Before his voice could fade,

A wisp of crimson smoke slowly condensed in the center of the stone chamber.

Cao Yun, dressed in black, stood in mid-air.

He didn't even spare Patriarch of the Lin Family a glance, his gaze passing directly over everyone to land on Lin Yan on the profound iron bed.

"Do you want to live?" Cao Yun spoke extremely quickly.

Lin Yan's chest heaved violently, the bloody hole in his abdomen still seeping blood.

He stared fixedly at this black-clothed man who had appeared out of thin air.

There was no fear, only an intense craving for power.

"Yes."

Lin Yan's voice carried a fierce determination to burn his bridges.

"Do you want to kill them?" Cao Yun asked again.

"Yes!" Lin Yan's fingers clawed tightly at the iron rings, breaking his nails.

Cao Yun was very satisfied.

This lone wolf, he would take him in.

Being completely ignored on the side, the pride of being the eldest young master of the Lin family made Young Master of the Lin Family lose his mind.

"Playing tricks! Die!"

Young Master of the Lin Family swung his longsword, pouring his Qi Refining Perfection magic power into the blade without reservation.

The sword glow flared up, heading straight for the back of Cao Yun's heart.

Cao Yun didn't even move.

He didn't even activate his defensive true essence.

At the very instant the tip of the sword was less than an inch from his back,

Puchi.

A burst of Pure Yang Heart Fire exploded from within Young Master of the Lin Family's body.

The heart fire burned from the inside out, directly igniting his internal organs.

Before Young Master of the Lin Family could even scream, he instantly turned into a human torch.

The longsword fell to the ground with a clang.

Young Master of the Lin Family rolled frantically on the ground, the stench of burning flesh filling the entire stone chamber.

"Tian'er!" Patriarch of the Lin Family's heart and liver split with grief.

He desperately threw himself forward to extinguish the flames.

The moment his hands touched them, the Pure Yang Heart Fire immediately clung to him like maggots on a bone.

"Ah~ My hands!"

Patriarch of the Lin Family withdrew his hands in horror, only to find his ten fingers had already been burned to charcoal.