One person: Starting with the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, his grandmaster uncle emerges from seclusion.

With that final whispered remark, Chen Duo's world plunged into complete darkness.

Her petite body fell straight backward.

"Chen Duo!"

Zhuge Qing reacted quickly and caught the unconscious Chen Duo in his arms.

This young master Zhuge, who always paid great attention to his demeanor, now had tears streaming down his handsome face.

Not far away.

Liu Tianxian stared blankly at Zhang Tianyi, who was kneeling on one knee a few steps away from her.

"Are you an idiot...?"

"Why...why did you do this?!"

Her beautiful face was covered in tears, and she struggled desperately forward, ignoring the [God-Devouring Thorn] pressed against her lifeline.

The sharp magical weapon cut through her skin, and golden dragon blood gushed out, yet she seemed to have lost all feeling of pain.

"I don't need your help! I don't need it!!!"

Liu Tianxian's voice was hoarse, and her originally cold eyes were now burning with a violent and desperate intent to destroy everything.

Fine dragon scales began to appear on her fair skin.

"Bastard! I'll kill you! I'll skin you alive and tear your tendons out!!"

Liu Tianxian screamed hysterically, like a maddened, trapped beast.

That once lofty divine pride was shattered the moment that man knelt down.

"It's truly a heart-wrenching and tragic drama."

Shen Yan looked down at Zhang Tianyi, who was kneeling on one knee.

As he felt the completely dissipated thunderous pressure around him, his previously tense nerves finally relaxed completely.

"Our ancestor is mighty!"

Seeing this scene from a distance, Shen Zhong and Shen Que's faces were filled with relief at surviving a disaster.

Shen Yichen broke free from Feng Baobao's stunned silence, and at this moment, he could no longer suppress the ecstasy on his face.

"Everyone says that Master Tian Shu acts without any scruples, but now it seems that his biggest weakness is precisely his ridiculous loyalty and righteousness."

Shen Yichen shook his head, the exhilarating feeling of victory making even breathing feel incredibly easy.

"Hahahaha-!"

Shen Yan could no longer contain his joy and threw his head back to laugh.

That laughter was filled with the ultimate arrogance of trampling the best in the world underfoot.

"Zhang Tianyi, oh Zhang Tianyi."

Shen Yan lowered his head, his eyes filled with condescending pity and mockery:

"I once thought you were a person who had seen through the great Dao in this world."

"But look at yourself now!"

He gripped the God-Devouring Thorn, pointed it at Zhang Tianyi's swaying body, and shouted curses:

"For a mere demon, for that laughable promise, you actually willingly destroyed your centuries of cultivation!"

"The Great Dao is ruthless! You fool, bound by personal feelings and swayed by the seven emotions and six desires, do you even deserve to call yourself 'Celestial Pivot'? Do you even deserve to stand at the pinnacle of the world of extraordinary beings?!"

Shen Yan laughed so hard that tears almost came out.

He reveled in the thrill of forcing his once invincible enemy to cripple himself.

This is even more exhilarating than killing him outright.

"Since you are so righteous, then I will grant your wish."

Shen Yan's laughter gradually subsided, and a sinister look appeared in his eyes.

He not only wanted the dragon, but he also didn't intend to let go of Zhang Tianyi's body, which had been tempered by thunder magic for a hundred years.

"Don't worry, I won't let you die so easily."

Once your crippled body is refined into a protective puppet for my Shen family, you'll naturally have the chance to spend every day with this dragon…

"Today, I not only received the fortune of this true dragon, but also witnessed the end of a legend."

"In this world, who can stop the Shen family's century-long plan?"

Shen Yan was completely absorbed in the moment, feeling that everything was over.

The enormous shadow that had been looming over the Shen family has been completely extinguished by him in the safest way.

He turned and ordered Shen Yichen and the others to come and close the net.

however.

Just as he was feeling smug and Zhang Chulan and the others were plunged into boundless despair.

"Boom—"

A bolt of golden lightning appeared out of nowhere.

It was like an aurora that transcended space, ignoring Shen Yan's protective true qi.

"Pfft!"

That golden lightning bolt pierced straight through Shen Yan's right arm!

The God-Devouring Thorn rolled down.

"..."

The laughter stopped abruptly.

Shen Yan's arrogance froze on his face.

He slowly lowered his head, looking at his completely gone arm.

After a half-second delay, the excruciating pain overwhelmed his brain like a tidal wave.

"what!!!"

Shen Yan let out an incredulous scream and staggered back several steps.

A sudden and shocking change.

This caused Zhang Chulan, who was originally grieving, Liu Tianxian, who had gone mad, and Shen Yichen, who was preparing to celebrate, to be shocked.

They were all petrified on the spot.

Everyone's gaze, filled with extreme shock and bewilderment, slowly followed the trajectory of the lightning that had not yet completely dissipated.

On the ice.

The white-robed youth who was kneeling on one knee, who should have lost all his cultivation.

He slowly straightened up.

Chapter 481 Soul Extraction and Refinement, A Warm Sunrise by the Heavenly Lake

Shen Yan tightly covered the clean cut on his right shoulder, blood dripping continuously from between his fingers.

His once arrogant face was now twisted with terror.

"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible..."

Shen Yan stared intently at the white-clad youth who had straightened up again, his eyes filled with horror.

"I saw with my own eyes that you shattered your dantian! The very foundation of your life is clearly destroyed!"

"Who taught you these rules, saying that cultivating the Tao requires that damn dantian?"

Zhang Tianyi patted the snow off his clothes and casually unbuttoned two buttons at the collar.

As he moved, wisps of pure golden lightning emanated from his body as naturally as breathing.

He looked at Shen Yan, a hint of amusement in his eyes:

“You bunch of people who practice unorthodox methods have such narrow vision.”

Only ordinary people need to use their dantian to gather their true qi, afraid of leaking even the slightest bit.

"My body has long since become one with this thunder."

Zhang Tianyi pointed to his chest, his tone nonchalant.

"What's the use of the dantian? It's destroyed, so what? Do you really think I, a Taoist priest, breathe with that thing?"

These casual words were like a resounding slap across Shen Yan's face.

Zhang Chulan, still kneeling in the distance, remained kneeling.

He listened to these words in a daze, looked down at his hands covered in mud and blood, and then looked up at the lively Zhang Tianyi.

After a while, Zhang Chulan wiped the tears and snot from his face and got up from the ground, cursing.

"Damn it! Second Master, this is outrageous!"

Zhang Chulan was sniffling, laughing and crying at the same time, his mouth wide open:

"You should have told me sooner that you're having such a lucky break! Now I've been planning how much paper money to burn for you every Qingming Festival! My tears are precious!"

Wang Ye, Zhuge Qing, and the others burst into laughter through their tears, while Feng Baobao remained expressionless, staring blankly at Shen Yichen, who was preparing to escape.

Guan Shihua's legs went weak and she sat down in the snow, wiping away tears while laughing: "That little bastard, he scared this old woman to death..."

The laughter and merriment on this side, however, sounded like the most chilling death knell to the ears of the Shen family.

Shen Yan's defenses completely collapsed.

His years of planning, which he was so proud of, seemed utterly laughable in the face of such an overwhelming disparity in power.

Ignoring the excruciating pain in his right arm, he turned and transformed into a wisp of black smoke, attempting a final, desperate struggle to escape this deadly place.

"Did I say you could leave, Daoist Master?"