4: Chapter 4: Divine Skill First Accomplished, Swallowing the Four Seas; Demonic Heart Suddenly Awakened, Trembling the Eight Desolations

Before long, Lu Chen carried Zhang Cuishan down from the mountain, dangling him like a little chick.

Walking along, he muttered to himself, "The timing of my Transmigration is truly perfect. I actually got the first kill. If I had let them steal the Heavenly Fire from this mountain and take it back, I would have suffered a huge loss..."

Perhaps due to spending too much time in the high temperatures, combined with the total loss of his Internal Energy, Hero Zhang the Fifth had fallen unconscious. His face was pale, his lips were cracked, and he looked extremely weak.

"Brother Zhang Wu!" Yin Susu cried out anxiously upon seeing Zhang Cuishan's condition. She looked at Lu Chen, her eyes filled with pleading, "I beg of you, save him!"

Looking at Yin Susu's pitiful appearance, Lu Chen felt secretly smug. He felt as if he were King Yama himself, holding the power over life and death.

He plucked a leaf and gathered some water from a nearby stream flowing down from the snow-capped mountain, intending to feed Yin Susu a sip first.

"Come, have some water. You're about to die of thirst!" Lu Chen said hypocritically, bringing the leaf to Yin Susu's lips.

To his surprise, Yin Susu didn't appreciate his 'kindness.' She turned her head away and rejected him haughtily.

"Oh? Still got a temper?" Lu Chen watched Yin Susu's stubborn expression, a playful smile appearing at the corner of his mouth. He felt as if he were teasing a little kitten.

"Not drinking, eh?" Lu Chen raised an eyebrow, a flash of mischievous light in his eyes. "I'll kill him right now!"

Hearing this, a flash of terror crossed Yin Susu's eyes, but she still said defiantly, "Kill him then. I've already let Brother Zhang Wu down anyway; I'll die with him!"

“Tsk, tsk, tsk, what a fierce woman!” Looking at Yin Susu's readiness to face death, Lu Chen felt no admiration. Instead, a desire to toy with her welled up within him.

"I'm not going to kill him!" A wicked smile spread across Lu Chen's face. "I'll wake him up so he can watch us do our business!"

Yin Susu was shocked. Looking at Lu Chen's perverted smile, she felt as if she had encountered a true devil. "You... you are a devil!"

"Sigh, why bother!" Lu Chen put on a helpless act. "I have no ill intentions; I just wanted you to have a sip of water."

"Fine, I'll drink. Hurry up and save Hero Zhang the Fifth!" Yin Susu said reluctantly. Looking at Lu Chen's smug, villainous face, she felt utterly disgusted.

"I've changed my mind again!" Lu Chen said suddenly. He looked at Yin Susu, his eyes full of playfulness. "I'm jealous! I even cleared your acupoints for you, yet you're still thinking about someone else. It's really uncalled for!"

"You really did that to me..." Yin Susu looked at Lu Chen. She felt as if she understood everything now. The man before her was an absolute scumbag.

"Mm, I did it to save you!" Lu Chen admitted shamelessly, as if what he had done wasn't shameful at all, but rather a great deed.

"You lecher!" Yin Susu said through gritted teeth, feeling like she was about to explode with rage.

"Call me a lecher one more time and you will be punished!" Lu Chen's tone instantly turned cold. He felt like a tyrant in total control.

"You lecher! I will never coexist with you!" Yin Susu roared again. Her voice was filled with despair and anger. She felt like a Puppet toyed with by fate, completely powerless to resist.

"You're finished. You must be punished!" Lu Chen looked at Yin Susu, feeling like a devil in control of everything, enjoying the pleasure of making others suffer.

"I'll wake him up right now and let him watch us properly!" Lu Chen threatened again. He knew this was the final straw that would break Yin Susu's psychological defenses.

Yin Susu was horrified. She was unwilling to face such a scene under any circumstances; that would be worse than death, the ultimate insult to her dignity.

She shook her head frantically, tears streaming down uncontrollably. "You are a devil..." Yin Susu said hatefully.

"I'm a devil? Miss Yin, have you forgotten something?" Lu Chen said suddenly, his tone turning chilling. He felt he should add a little more "spice" for Yin Susu.

"You injured Yu Daiyan with Mosquito-Beard Needles, leading to him being severely wounded by others. You haven't forgotten that, have you?" Lu Chen looked at Yin Susu, his eyes full of playfulness.

"Also, you disguised yourself as Zhang Cuishan and killed seventy-one people—men, women, children, and elders—of Du Dajin's family at the Longmen Escort Agency in one go. You call me a devil, but what does that make your actions?"

"You wouldn't want Hero Zhang the Fifth to know about these things, would you?" After Lu Chen finished speaking, a wicked smile curled on his lips. He looked at Yin Susu like a predator watching prey he held in the palm of his hand.

Yin Susu was shocked. Looking at Lu Chen's perverted smile, she felt as if she had met a true devil. "You... how do you know all this!"

Looking at Yin Susu's despairing state, Lu Chen felt he quite resembled a villain, admiring the fall of an angel.

He stepped forward and pulled up the limp Yin Susu from the ground.

"Be good, cooperate with the work, and take a sip!" As Lu Chen spoke, he gently stroked Yin Susu's cheek. He felt like a demon enjoying his spoils of war.

"See, I'm still very good to you!" A smile curled on Lu Chen's lips, his fingers intentionally or unintentionally brushing across Yin Susu's cheek.

"You... you..." Yin Susu looked at Lu Chen's hateful face but could no longer say anything in rebuttal. She seemed to have truly resigned herself to her fate. She felt her resistance was utterly pale and weak.

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An hour later, Yin Susu cooperated with Lu Chen, repeating the method of using Internal Energy to clear acupoints over and over like she was reciting a book, until Lu Chen was satisfied.

She had completely given up struggling. Her entire being was like a Soul that had been hollowed out, slumped on the ground with nothing left but numbness and despair.

"Fine, you... you've gotten everything you wanted." Yin Susu looked up at Lu Chen, her tone carrying a hint of humble pleading. "Now, can you... can you let me and Brother Zhang Wu go?"

A smug smile curled on Lu Chen's lips. He walked up to Yin Susu and looked down at her as if admiring his trophy. "That's more like it. If you had just cooperated like this from the start, wouldn't everything have been fine?"

He reached out and gently patted Yin Susu's cheek, his tone frivolous. "See, I still quite like you. It's just a pity you're so disobedient."

Yin Susu turned her head away to avoid Lu Chen's touch. She felt like a toyed-with Puppet, stripped of all dignity.

"Alright, don't look at me with those eyes, or I won't be able to help myself." Lu Chen shrugged with feigned helplessness, then walked to the side and straightened his beggar clothes.

"Now, I'm going to start Cultivating." He muttered to himself, then sat cross-legged and closed his eyes.

Lu Chen ignored Yin Susu and walked straight to the side to sit down.

He closed his eyes and began to organize the Star-Sucking Great Method in his mind.

This Cultivation Technique was indeed miraculous. Not only could it absorb others' Internal Energy, but it could also convert their attacks into one's own power. Even better, it could reflect the opponent's Internal Energy back at them, making them suffer the consequences of their own actions.

"With this Star-Sucking Great Method, who will dare oppose me in the future?" Lu Chen was ecstatic.

"It seems it's time for this world to feel the powerful willpower of a Traverser!" Lu Chen whispered to himself, his voice carrying a hint of arrogance and brashness.