The courtyard was deathly silent, filled with a strange smell of blood, burnt food, and a chilling, malevolent aura.
Zhang Shaozhong collapsed to the ground, unconscious, his body twitching occasionally.
Ling Qingxue and Ye Meier were also almost exhausted, leaning against the wall and panting heavily, not wanting to move even a finger.
The sound of police sirens grew closer in the distance.
Just then, something unexpected happened!
The man lying on the ground, who was thought to have passed out, suddenly twitched. His scarlet eyes snapped open, revealing not the murky look of someone about to die, but a burning flame of extreme madness and resentment!
"Cough cough... It was you... who forced me to..."
His voice was hoarse like a broken gong, each word dripping with blood and foam, "You've destroyed my foundation... none of you... will survive!!"
A ferocious and desperate smile appeared on his face. His hands suddenly formed a self-destructive hand seal, and he used all the remaining divine sense and power to frantically activate the fake pill that was already full of cracks and had no light!
"Let's go to hell together! Golden Core... Explode!!!"
He's going to self-destruct the fake pill!
The power of a pseudo-Golden Core cultivator's self-destruction before his death was enough to level this small courtyard and even the surrounding area within a hundred meters!
Even if Ling Qingxue and Ye Meier were at their peak, it would be extremely difficult for them to withstand such a blow, let alone now that all three of them are completely exhausted!
Once it explodes, it will definitely result in mutual destruction!
"not good!"
Ling Qingxue and Ye Meier's expressions changed drastically. They wanted to stop them, but their bodies wouldn't obey them at all, and they couldn't even stand up!
They could only watch helplessly as the black pseudo-core on Cai Peng's head rapidly expanded like an inflating balloon, emanating terrifying, destructive, and extremely unstable energy fluctuations from within!
The scent of death instantly gripped everyone's throats!
Just when things were at their most critical, and even Ling Qingxue felt a sense of despair—
Buzz!
Deep within the souls of the three, the contract mark that had always emitted a faint, warm light seemed to sense this deadly threat capable of destroying everything, and suddenly burst forth with an unprecedentedly brilliant light!
The light did not spread outwards, but rather shot out instantly from between the three people's eyebrows like three incredibly strong chains, ignoring spatial distance and precisely wrapping around the pseudo-core that was about to explode!
This is not a constraint of energy, but a deeper force of rules originating from the soul contract!
It was that life-saving trump card of "sharing life force" and "sharing damage" that was automatically triggered at the critical moment of life and death!
The three chains formed by the light of the contract tightly restrained the expanding pseudo-core, forcibly delaying its self-destruction!
Cai Peng felt as if his connection with the pseudo-core had been severed. The destructive energy seemed to be frozen, surging and struggling inside the pseudo-core, but unable to fully erupt!
"No! Impossible! What kind of power is this?!"
Chai Peng let out an incredulous scream, feeling as if he were fighting against the very rules of the world!
This was completely beyond his comprehension!
And in that brief moment when the contractual chains temporarily imprisoned the pseudo-core—
Zhang Shaozhong, who was originally unconscious, suddenly opened his eyes as if driven by some kind of instinct, or as if the restless chaotic energy in his body sensed the temptation of the "highly nourishing substance"!
Those eyes were unfocused, just a chaotic gray!
As if sleepwalking, he struggled to his feet and staggered toward the pseudo-core, which was tightly bound by contract chains, constantly trembling, and radiating destructive and pure Yin energy!
"Don't lift it too high! No!"
Ling Qingxue saw through his intention and exclaimed in horror! Although the pseudo-core was temporarily imprisoned, its internal energy was extremely violent and full of resentment. Forcibly devouring it would have unimaginable consequences!
"Head of household! Are you fucking crazy! That thing is going to explode!" Ye Meier shouted anxiously.
But Zhang Shaozhong seemed not to hear their voices at all; his entire mind was drawn to the fake pill.
The chaotic energy within his body was screaming and roaring wildly, conveying an intense desire!
He walked up to Chaipong, and under Chaipong's terrified gaze, he stretched out his trembling, blood-stained right hand and grabbed the black pseudo-core that was bound by contract chains and pounding violently like a heart!
"Come...to me!"
He let out a hoarse roar, and the Chaos Technique began to operate at an unprecedented speed!
The gray chaotic energy surged out like a burst dam, flowing down his arm and instantly enveloping the entire pseudo-core!
Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!
The gray airflow clashed violently with, eroded, and devoured the violent Yin energy within the pseudo-elixir!
Zhang Shaozhong's arm was cracked and bleeding profusely, but he held on tightly!
The light of the contract chains mingled with the chaotic energy, on one hand imprisoning the pseudo-core to prevent it from exploding, and on the other hand seemingly assisting the chaotic energy in devouring and...purifying it?
Cai Peng let out a final, desperate, and unwilling wail. He could clearly feel that his last connection with the pseudo-core was being forcibly severed and devoured by that gray current of energy! The core of power he had painstakingly cultivated throughout his life was leaving him!
"No--!!"
Amidst Cai Peng's shrill screams, the cracked pseudo-elixir was finally completely enveloped and pulled into Zhang Shaozhong's body by his chaotic energy!
Boom!!!
A massive, pure, yet filled with countless resentments and negative emotions, Yin energy erupted within Zhang Shaozhong's body like a volcanic eruption!
His body was like an inflated balloon, with more wounds cracking on his skin and black blood seeping from his seven orifices!
He let out a painful roar that sounded inhuman, and his whole body was enveloped in a thick cocoon of dark gray energy. He fell straight backward and fell into a coma again, his body convulsing and spasming violently on the ground!
"Slightly heavier!"
"Head of household!"
Ling Qingxue and Ye Meier struggled to crawl over.
Having lost the pseudo-elixir, Cai Peng was as if his spine had been removed. His eyes dimmed instantly, his last glimmer of life died off, and his emaciated body quickly turned ashen and fell completely silent.
Inside the courtyard, only Zhang Shaozhong's figure, enveloped in a dark gray energy cocoon and struggling in pain, remained, along with the anxious calls of the two severely injured fairies and witches.
The sirens finally stopped outside the courtyard, followed by footsteps and shouts.
But at this moment, Ling Qingxue and Ye Meier's entire attention was focused on the boy enveloped in the energy cocoon.
Devouring a pseudo-elixir... this is an absolutely insane act with a nine-out-of-ten chance of death!
Can he... pull through?
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