33: noisy

“Little girl, perhaps there truly is a misunderstanding between us.” Luo Sha suppressed the shock in his heart, his withered palm slowly lowered, and the pressure of a Half-step Nascent Soul Realm cultivator receded by a third. “The Luo Family’s treasure vault contains a Millennium Snow Lotus and a high-grade Profound-tier magical artifact. If you are willing to stop, all of these can be offered to you.”

He deliberately emphasized the words “high-grade Profound-tier magical artifact,” his peripheral vision glancing at Tantai Qinghuang, trying to catch a hint of greed or wavering in the girl’s eyes.

However, his only response was Su Chen’s faint sneer.

“Misunderstanding?” Su Chen’s gaze swept over the dry corpses on the ground, finally landing on Luo Sha’s hypocritical old face. “No, you’re just afraid that I have someone you can’t afford to offend standing behind me.”

Luo Sha’s expression suddenly turned ugly, and bluish-black veins pulsed on his withered neck. A trace of Half-step Nascent Soul Realm pressure uncontrollably leaked out, making the surrounding surviving cultivators shiver.

“Let me tell you,” Su Chen’s voice suddenly turned cold, carrying a biting chill that permeated the entire hall, “I have no power behind me, and no background to speak of.”

“Just make your move.” He brushed off non-existent dust from his sleeve, his green robe appearing particularly striking in the blood-filled hall. “Why waste words.”

Want to reconcile? No way.

The BOSS’s aggro must be firmly held.

If the old man didn’t make the first move, how could he trick the system into giving him a gift package?

…

These words were like a clap of thunder, making the cultivators in the hall dizzy.

“He’s crazy! This kid is absolutely crazy!” Tie Lu, the young master of the Tie Family, hid behind a pillar, his voice trembling like a sieve. “With a Half-step Nascent Soul Realm cultivator in front of him, he dares to actively challenge him?”

“Perhaps he’s just giving up? Knowing he can’t escape, he’s just stubbornly trying to save face,” a cultivator sneered, his eyes full of schadenfreude.

Luo Sha’s pupils suddenly constricted, and a storm raged in his heart. He stared intently at Su Chen, trying to find a trace of bluffing on his face, but those eyes were as clear as ice, only showing indifference and mockery.

No background?

The Half-step Nascent Soul Realm gained by sacrificing his entire clan seemed glorious, but in reality, he was already in a difficult position.

If Tantai Qinghuang was truly a descendant of some hidden imperial family, today’s events would surely attract an overwhelming wrath. Not to mention rebuilding the Luo Family, he wouldn’t even have ashes left. But Su Chen’s words were like another knot tightening on his already taut nerves—no background?

Then where did this girl’s Dual Pupils talent come from? And what was with the imperial power in her spatial magic?

Greed, like a poisonous vine, instantly wrapped around Luo Sha’s heart. He licked his chapped lips, and the skull prayer beads under his withered palm quietly rotated, the ghost fires in the ten skull eye sockets suddenly brightening by three points. If he could kill these two, and seize that spatial inheritance and Dual Pupils… The world was vast, where could he not rebuild the Luo Family? Perhaps with this opportunity, he could truly step into the Nascent Soul Realm and become a feudal lord!

“Heh heh… what a ‘no background’.” Luo Sha suddenly began to chuckle, his laughter growing louder and louder, finally turning into a frenzied, sinister laugh. “Since Your Excellency insists on seeking death, I, Luo, shall grant your wish!”

Before he finished speaking, a dense aura of blood fiend suddenly erupted from his body! Those blood auras were no longer ethereal mist, but solidified into dark red armor. The armor plates glowed with a viscous, greasy sheen, and countless resentful spirits could vaguely be seen struggling and roaring within—it was precisely his divine ability, “Myriad Tribulation Blood Armor,” obtained by sacrificing his entire clan!

“This old man had a plan all along!” Zhao Meng clenched his rusty iron sword, the blade humming softly as spiritual power was infused into it. “He wasn’t trying to make peace just now; he was secretly building up power!”

Qin Ze’s pupils constricted as he looked at the huge blood shadow emerging behind Luo Sha, feeling his scalp tingle. The blood shadow was ten feet tall, with nine heads and eighteen arms, each holding a different weapon. It was none other than the Luo Family’s legendary forbidden divine ability, “Nine-Headed Blood Demon”!

Tantai Qinghuang’s red hair moved without wind, the Dual Pupils phantom in her golden eyes spun rapidly, and ripples of spatial fluctuation spread around her. She could feel that the opponent’s pressure was more than ten times stronger than before, and every wisp of blood fiend carried a potent toxin that could erode the soul.

With her current strength, she definitely couldn’t withstand this move.

But the girl’s face remained calm, because she trusted her Old Ancestor.

Under Su Chen’s sleeve, a simple bronze token quietly appeared in his right palm. The imperial patterns carved on the token seemed to possess life, flowing with a faint golden light under the candlelight—it was precisely the “Profound Abyss Imperial Token” that could summon the projection of the family’s strongest historical figure!

But he didn’t use it immediately. Luo Sha was delaying to build up power, and he, too, was waiting for a pleasant notification sound.

Just as Luo Sha’s “Nine-Headed Blood Demon” was about to lunge, a light blue system screen suddenly popped up in front of Su Chen’s eyes:

【Ding ~】

【Detected that the player has encountered a crisis of game difficulty far exceeding the current stage (Half-step Nascent Soul Realm suppression), triggering a limited-time Supreme Rescue Gift Package!】

【Gift package options generating…】

【Option One: Instant Teleportation Talisman (Normal Gift Package)】

【Effect: After activation, can ignore spatial confinement and instantly teleport a thousand li away. Note: Can only carry one person, will enter a ten-minute weakened state after use. Price: 688 yuan.】

【Option Two: Blazing Heaven • Potential Burst Pill (Advanced Gift Package)】

【Effect: After consumption, forcefully increases three major realms for fifteen minutes. Note: After the effect ends, will fall into a three-month cultivation regression, with a certain probability of damaging the foundation. Price: 6888 yuan.】

【Option Three: Grand Void Dragon Scale Cannon (Holy Weapon Fragment) (Supreme Gift Package)】

【Effect: A fragment of an Imperial Weapon containing the primordial power of an ancient Grand Void Dragon, capable of firing dragon might cannon light, causing devastating damage to targets below the Nascent Soul Realm. Uses: 3, already charged. Note: This item requires 10% of the player’s current soul power to activate, and spatial collapse will occur within the cannon light’s coverage area. Price: 8880 yuan.】

【Limited-time purchase: 30 seconds】

Su Chen smiled, the gift package had finally arrived!

【Purchase All.】

As Su Chen confirmed his intention, the Profound Abyss Imperial Token instantly vanished, and a massive bronze cannon, entirely covered in dragon scale-like patterns, appeared out of thin air behind him.

The cannon barrel was ten feet long, its muzzle carved with a lifelike dragon head, fangs exposed, and eyes as red as two burning fires of the netherworld, as if it could spew out blazing flames at any moment. Ancient runes flowed across the dark golden cannon body, each scale pattern seemingly containing the mysteries of celestial movement, and the imperial might it exuded solidified the air in the entire hall.

“Hmm?”

Luo Sha’s movements suddenly paused, and the Nine-Headed Blood Demon phantom even froze for a moment. He could clearly feel the terrifying power contained within this bronze giant cannon; it was a kind of suppression originating from the depths of his bloodline, as if as long as the opponent infused spiritual power, it could summon an existence capable of destroying heaven and earth.

“What? You don’t dare to make a move?” Su Chen gently stroked the cannon body, his fingertips tracing the cold dragon scale patterns, a playful radian curved at the corner of his mouth. “Where’s your arrogant demeanor from before?”

“This is… a Holy Weapon?!” Old Li exclaimed in shock, his horsetail whisk clattering to the ground, his cloudy old eyes wide open. “Even if it’s a fragment, it’s absolutely not something a Half-step Yuanshen can contend with!”

Luo Sha’s face instantly turned ashen, no longer able to maintain his composure: “Impossible! How could you have a Holy Weapon?!”

He finally understood that he had been wrong from the very beginning. This wasn’t some rogue cultivator with no background, but an avatar of some reclusive grand elder! The Half-step Yuanshen obtained by sacrificing his entire clan was nothing but a joke in front of a true Holy Weapon!

“Noisy.” Su Chen uttered two words indifferently, and with a light press of his fingertip on the Dragon Scale Cannon, the runes on the cannon body suddenly lit up. “You have three breaths to say your last words.”