Achieving physical sainthood begins with the Iron Shirt technique!

Lu Chen gripped the edge of the hidden compartment lid with one hand.

Use your knuckles to generate force.

Pull it upwards suddenly!

"Bang!"

The heavy wooden lid was blown off on the spot, crashing heavily against the stone wall of the warehouse and shattering into pieces of wood.

The space inside the hidden compartment was completely exposed.

A dozen or so dirty-looking young apprentices huddled in the innermost corner.

These children were so thin they were skin and bones, barely clothed, and the oldest looked no more than seven or eight years old.

The outermost figure was a skinny boy.

The teenager spread his arms to protect a girl who was unconscious behind him.

He was trembling like a leaf, but he refused to move an inch, baring his teeth at the people outside and not letting anyone get close.

The old merchant who followed Lu Chen in craned his neck to peek inside.

The old vendor's eyes instantly turned red.

"Master Lu! This is a terrible thing!"

The old vendor stomped his feet in anger and pointed at the child in the hidden compartment, cursing loudly.

"These dolls are all from the surrounding medicinal herb villages!"

"Those beasts in the city thought hiring people to gather herbs was too expensive, so they just kidnapped these kids who hadn't been tested for spiritual roots!"

The old vendor's voice was trembling.

"They're using the dolls like 'drug residue for labor'!"

"They're forcing all those newly refined poisonous pills and discarded rotten herbs into their mouths, practically using human lives to test the toxicity of those pills!"

Lu Chen didn't speak, his large black iron boots crushing the scattered wooden planks on the ground.

He strode up to the boy and reached his large right hand directly into the back of the unconscious girl.

On the girl's withered back was a piece of yellow paper that glowed with an eerie red light.

Experience the poison talisman live.

Lu Chen's fingertips had just touched the edge of the yellow paper.

It's sizzling!

The yellow paper glowed brightly with red light, and the entire talisman seemed to come alive, suddenly tightening inward!

The girl's back was instantly marked with several deep bloody marks from the edge of the talisman.

Fresh blood was seeping out.

The girl was in a coma, convulsing in pain and emitting muffled groans of extreme agony.

Outside the warehouse, a junior law enforcement officer, hiding in some alley, was laughing wildly through a loudspeaker.

The sound echoed throughout the entire livestock pen area.

"You scoundrel! Go ahead and touch me! Keep touching me!"

"The seeds of that poison-detecting talisman have long been sown in the hearts and minds of these little beasts!"

"If you dare to touch the talisman root again, the poison seals inside these dozen or so dolls will explode all at once!"

The young commander laughed hysterically, his laughter filled with mockery.

"They'll blow your guts out! Let's see how you save them then!"

Lu Chen's finger hovered in mid-air.

The thin boy who was protecting him suddenly turned his head, his big eyes bloodshot, staring at Lu Chen's stubble-covered face.

"Big guy, don't save us!"

The boy bit his lip until it bled, his teeth filled with blood and foam, and his voice was hoarse, unlike that of a child.

"My parents are both working in the seventh mining area! They're waiting for medicine to save their lives!"

He suddenly knelt on the ground and banged his head against the bluestone slab.

"You're strong, no one can beat you. Please take the cold grass from this warehouse and use it to save them!"

Lu Chen looked down at this half-grown bastard who couldn't even stand up straight.

He rubbed his rough thumb against the pad of his index finger.

"Can you bear the pain?"

A rough voice rang out above the narrow, dark compartment, without uttering a single unnecessary word.

The boy paused for a moment, gritted his teeth, and nodded vigorously.

"OK."

Lu Chen completely ignored the ridiculous rules set by the immortal sects outside.

He bit his fingertip, forcing out a drop of dark golden, pure Yang blood.

He dissipated eighty percent of the violent power from that drop of blood.

With a flick of a finger.

The blood droplet landed precisely on the corner of the Living Experience Poison Talisman.

The pure yang energy instantly burned through the outer layer of the talisman's seal, severing the causal thread connecting the skin and flesh.

Lu Chen extended his two thick fingers.

Fingers, like iron clamps forged from fine steel, gripped the root of the talisman!

With a burst of muscle strength, pull upwards!

"Rip—"

The entire poison talisman, along with the layer of blood scabs attached to it, was forcibly peeled off!

The poisonous energy within the talisman exploded on the spot, pouring out with a deafening roar.

A large patch of flesh on Lu Chen's palm was charred black by the poisonous blood, emitting extremely pungent green smoke.

He didn't even blink, casually tossing the useless talisman into the mud.

Just then.

From the direction of the city lord's mansion at the very heart of the immortal city, an extremely powerful magical array suddenly rose up.

The real big shots in the city noticed the commotion and the great formation began to operate frantically.

Instead of retreating, Lu Chen advanced.

He pressed his left hand against the dark gold jade cocoon protecting his daughter on his chest, and suddenly raised his right arm.

He suddenly spread his five fingers wide, pointing at the dozen or so medicine boys in the hidden compartment!

The dark, extreme blood furnace inside his chest emitted a thunderous roar.

Dozens of extremely fine pure yang fire lines, as thin as cow hair, shot out wildly from his thick fingertips!

This domineering fire line, like an ancient beast opening its blood-red maw, lunged at the talismans on the backs of the dolls.

A thousand blows in an instant!

It didn't even take half a breath.

The ultimate, domineering micro-management exploded within the hidden compartment.

A dozen or so lines of fire pierced precisely through the poison-detecting talismans on the backs of all the remaining medicine boys.

Forced stripping!

Burn it on the spot!

"Bang bang bang—"

The dozen or so yellow papers, along with the insidious poison seal inside, all turned to black ash in mid-air.

More than a dozen children screamed in agony and fainted on the spot from the pain.

However, the poisonous marks and karma that the immortals forcibly planted in their flesh and blood were completely uprooted and severed by Lu Chen.

On the streets of the outer city.

The cultivators who had just been terrified and scattered by Lu Chen's Heaven-Suppressing Giant Stele took advantage of the moment when Lu Chen was fiddling with things in the hidden compartment to regroup.

A dense array of lights illuminated the street corner.

These people dared not engage in close combat, but instead prepared to form a series of killing formations to wear Lu Chen down in the medicine warehouse.

The old merchant turned his head and glanced at the approaching monks outside.

He gritted his teeth and picked up a discarded flying sword from the ground, the one whose array patterns had just been broken.

The porters who followed him into the city to pull the carts did not hesitate at all.

They all grabbed the flying swords they had captured from the ground and converted them into pickaxes.

These ordinary people, who usually only know how to bend over and do hard labor, lined up in a row for the first time ever.

They used their own bodies to block the warehouse door.

"Hold on, everyone!"

The old merchant's beard was sticking up in disarray, his hand holding the broken sword trembled violently, and his calves were cramping.

But he did not take a single step back.

"Let's buy some time for Master Lu!"

"We know we can't stop these immortals, but even if we die, we must get the children out of here alive today!"

For the first time, the survivors took the initiative to line up and fill in the gaps, protecting the extreme madman.

The junior law enforcement officer hiding in the street corner was so angry that his face contorted when he saw that all the poison talismans had failed.

"set fire!"

The junior commander waved the array flag and roared wildly at the cultivators under his command.

"Burn down the granary, you bastard!"

"Burn all those wild herbs and these lowly peasants to ashes! Then pin it all on that demon!"

More than a dozen fire gourd magic weapons were thrown into the air.

With the activation of the magic array, a large amount of raging fire poured down, directly engulfing the wooden medicine warehouse.

Flames shot into the sky.

Lu Chen's heavy black iron boots slammed down, his broad shoulders slamming against the bluestone warehouse wall!

The tenfold abyss force field expanded dramatically from his center.

That domineering and unreasonable weight rolled back directly from bottom to top.

The flames in mid-air were struck by the force field and flattened on the spot. The fire was suppressed and held in mid-air, unable to advance an inch.

Just as Lu Chen used Chongyuan to suppress the fire.

The dark gold jade cocoon that had always been pressed tightly against his chest trembled slightly.

A-Nan's extremely faint murmurs in her sleep came intermittently from the jade cocoon.

"Big guy..."

"There are needles... under the herbs..."

"A needle for pricking dolls..."

Lu Chen's muscles suddenly tensed up.

He turned his head sharply and looked into the depths of the hidden haystack.

The last unconscious girl lay on the withered grass, her face deathly pale.

Lu Chen strode over and pressed his large hand directly onto the back of the girl's head.

The skin and flesh were turned inside out.

A soul-controlling needle, as thin as a hair and invisible to the naked eye, was actually stuck in the crevice of the girl's skull!

It has become completely integrated with flesh and blood.

Before Lu Chen could even reach out to pull it out...

The soul-controlling needle hidden inside the girl's body suddenly glowed on its own without warning.

A blinding green light exploded in the dimly lit medicine warehouse.

Immediately afterwards, from the direction of the City Lord's Mansion, a chilling voice echoed across half of the Immortal City, sneering above the medicine warehouse.

That was the voice of the supply officer of the immortal city.

"You lowly scoundrel, that blind little girl can even see cause and effect, can't she?"

"These eyes are a menace if left unchecked, so I'll gouge them out first."