The SSSSSSSS-level Mad Dragon is released from prison!

"Put down the 'medicinal catalyst'."

The old man's voice was hoarse, like two stones rubbing against each other.

"I can make your death quicker."

Jiang Chen looked down at the thin girl in his arms.

Junyao stared curiously at the old man carrying the giant axe with her dark purple eyes.

She wasn't afraid; on the contrary, she was somewhat excited.

"Brother, is he going to eat me too?"

Jiang Chen didn't answer her, but simply pulled her closer into his arms.

He raised his head and his gaze fell on the old man.

"Old dog, what's your name?"

The old man seemed to have heard the biggest joke in the world.

"Does a dying man have the right to ask my name?"

He looked Jiang Chen up and down, a hint of contempt flashing in his cloudy eyes.

"With his meridians sealed and his true energy gone, he's just a cripple with a bit more strength."

The old man carried the giant axe, which was taller than himself, in one hand as he walked step by step.

"If you weren't still somewhat useful, you'd be a corpse by now."

With each step he took, the air pressure in the underground palace increased.

Xiao Ruoye felt a tightness in her chest, and even breathing became difficult.

Shen Suxin, who was next to her, was even paler than usual, and had to hold onto the wall to stand.

"Jiang Chen!" Xiao Ruoye shouted, and was about to rush forward.

"Stand still."

Jiang Chen's voice was flat, revealing no emotion.

The old man stopped, no more than five meters away from Jiang Chen.

This distance is the distance from which he is most confident of delivering a fatal blow.

"Looks like you know what's good for you."

The old man grinned, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth.

next second.

He moved.

A power that was completely inconsistent with his appearance erupted from that withered body.

The giant axe cleaved through the air with a piercing shriek, striking straight at Jiang Chen's head.

This single axe stroke is enough to split mountains and shatter rocks.

Jiang Chen didn't move.

Just as the axe blade was about to fall, he held Jun Yao and slid half a step to the left at an odd angle.

boom!

The axe blade grazed the tip of Jiang Chen's nose.

The bluestone ground where he had just stood was blasted open, creating a crater the size of a tabletop, with rubble flying everywhere.

"gun!"

Xiao Ruoye shouted from behind, trying to draw her gun.

But the old man missed with his axe, and with a backhand swing, a gust of wind swept out from the back of the axe.

That shockwave was like an invisible wall, slamming hard into Xiao Ruoye's chest.

Xiao Ruoye let out a muffled groan, her whole body was thrown backward by the shock, and she only stopped after hitting the stone wall. A metallic taste filled her throat.

This is the strength of a half-step Grandmaster.

Her internal energy alone was something she couldn't contend with.

"He has a bit of brute force."

The old man looked at the deep pit in the ground, his contempt deepening.

"Unfortunately, in the face of absolute power, you are just a slightly stronger ant."

Jiang Chen handed Jun Yao, who was in his arms, to Shen Suxin, who was standing next to him.

"I have high hopes for her."

He took off his cumbersome white coat and tossed it on the ground.

Then, he began to unbutton his shirt.

One, two, three.

When his blood-stained shirt slipped down, revealing his muscular upper body, a collective gasp filled the underground palace.

That wasn't a perfect body.

It was covered with crisscrossing scars.

There were knife wounds, whip marks, and even burn marks.

But those scars, far from ruining his beauty, actually added a wild, ferocious quality to him.

Every muscle seems to have been meticulously calculated, containing explosive power.

"You want to compete with me in strength?"

The old man laughed.

"I will grant your wish!"

He tossed aside the giant axe, and a layer of deathly gray aura appeared on his withered palm.

"The Hand of Withering and Flourishing!"

The few surviving shadow guards of the Jun family were so frightened by this scene that they retreated repeatedly.

This is the master's signature skill.

Those who are struck by this attack will have their life essence drained instantly, turning them into a dried-up corpse.

The old man moved with ghostly speed, his five fingers forming claws as he aimed straight for Jiang Chen's heart.

He could almost see Jiang Chen turn into a dried-up corpse.

Jiang Chen neither dodged nor avoided.

He didn't even make a blocking motion.

He watched the approaching ghostly claw, a flash of dark golden light passing through his eyes.

Just as the old man's fingertips were about to touch his skin...

Jiang Chen moved.

He also reached out his hand to meet her.

It's not done with the palm, it's not done with the fist.

He directly grabbed the old man's withered wrist with his hand.

"court death!"

A cruel glint flashed in the old man's eyes.

His internal energy surged wildly, and the deathly aura was about to spread upwards along Jiang Chen's arm.

Available in the next second.

His expression froze.

His withering and flourishing true energy, powerful enough to drain the lifeblood of a grandmaster, vanished without a trace the moment it entered Jiang Chen's body.

This disabled person's body is like a bottomless pit.

"How is that possible!"

The old man was terrified and tried to pull his hand away and back.

late.

Jiang Chen's five fingers suddenly clenched.

"Snap—"

A sound that made your teeth ache.

That wasn't the sound of bones.

It is a metal.

The wrist guard made of refined steel on the old man's wrist was deformed by Jiang Chen's forceful grip, and it became deeply embedded in his flesh.

Followed by.

It was the sound of bones breaking.

"ah--"

The old man let out a piercing scream as his wrist twisted at an unbelievable angle.

His withered and flourishing hands are now useless.

The excruciating pain instantly brought him to his senses.

The man in front of me is not a useless person at all!

He's a monster!

A monster that can crush refined steel with just its physical strength!

Without a second thought, the old man channeled all his power into his left palm and slammed it hard into Jiang Chen's chest.

He wanted to force Jiang Chen to retreat and create distance between them.

As long as he creates distance, he has hundreds of ways to kill this guy who's only got brute force left.

But Jiang Chen was faster than him.

Just as the old man's left palm struck, Jiang Chen released his wrist and lunged forward.

The knees struck the old man's chest like two heavy hammers.

"puff!"

The old man felt as if his sternum had been struck by a battering ram, his entire chest cavity caved in, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

The terror in his eyes reached its peak.

Because he discovered that Jiang Chen's hands had already grabbed his left and right shoulder blades.

Those two hands were like a pair of iron clamps.

"No--"

The old man only had time to utter a single syllable of despair.

Jiang Chen's arm muscles bulged instantly, and the veins slithered across his skin like small snakes.

He stretched his arms to the sides and pulled hard!

"Rip—"

The sound was like tearing apart a tough rag.

A cloud of blood suddenly exploded from the old man's back.

Inside the underground palace, the few surviving shadow guards stared wide-eyed like copper bells.

They witnessed a scene they would never forget.

The chief retainer of the Jun family, who had dominated the capital for decades and had one foot in the Grandmaster realm.

By that man...

It was forcibly torn in half from the middle.

Blood and pieces of internal organs splattered all over Jiang Chen.

He was expressionless.

He casually tossed the two still-warm "things" in his hand onto the ground.

He flicked the blood off his fingertips and turned around.

Those eyes, burning with dark golden flames, swept over the few remaining shadow guards in the underground palace.

"Who else?"

"Want to die?"

Those shadow guards seemed to be frozen in place.

They stood there, knives in hand, too afraid to move.

It's not that I don't want to move.

My body is no longer under my control.

Fear, like an invisible hand, gripped their hearts and their souls.

thump.

A shadow guard dropped his knife to the ground.

Then came the second, and the third.

Their legs buckled, and they all knelt down in unison.

He kept kowtowing.

"Spare me... King Qin, spare me..."

They didn't even dare to look up at Jiang Chen.

"elder brother……"

A trembling voice called out from the side.

Jiang Chen turned his head.

Shen Suxin was holding Jun Yao tightly, but Jun Yao's body was undergoing a strange change.

Something was moving rapidly beneath the girl's originally pale skin.

They were black lines.

It's a Gu worm!

It's the natal Gu King that Junyao has been feeding with her essence blood for over ten years!

It smelled blood.

It got excited.

"Crunch...squeak..."

From Junyao's body, there was a sound of bones being forcibly twisted.

Her body is being stretched and deformed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The innocence in those dark purple eyes was fading.

A primal, brutal, hungry will is awakening.