Chapter 224: Li Wanying Dies! Li Shanglin

Li Wanying also knew that top-tier university prodigies possessed the power to fight across ranks, which was why she had summoned all members of her guard unit to act together.

But she never imagined that two mid-tier fourth-rank and two low-tier fourth-rank guards were still slain by Xu Jingming, a third-rank upper-tier adept!

And it was instantaneous, with zero resistance! The power gap between both sides was utterly incomparable, terrifyingly vast!

Clearly, Xu Jingming, with such power, was no ordinary student of Magic University!

"Who are you? How could your strength be so terrifying?!"

Gazing into those golden dragon pupils, feeling the unmasked killing intent radiating from him.

Li Wanying, collapsed on the ground, couldn't help but turn pale with fear as she asked.

At this moment,

boundless regret rose in her heart—had she only known, she should have investigated deeper.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have been trapped in such a helpless situation.

"You said I'm Xu Jingming, a current student of Magic University—didn't you already investigate thoroughly and confidently prepared to kill and seize the treasure?"

"What? Now you regret it?"

Xu Jingming walked slowly toward Li Wanying, a sneer on his lips.

"No, don't kill me..."

Li Wanying, merely a second-rank adept, was paralyzed under the overwhelming pressure of Xu Jingming's Thunder Extreme State.

She couldn't even rise from the ground, only frantically kicking her long legs backward in a desperate struggle to retreat.

As she struggled, she begged in a trembling, tearful voice, utterly devoid of her earlier arrogance.

To an outsider unaware of the truth, it would seem Xu Jingming, like a beast, was the villain.

And the frail woman sobbing on the ground, scrambling backward, was the victim.

"I... I know I was wrong. If you spare me,

I swear on my honor that the Li family will never pursue any of what happened today.

Moreover, we'll give you a hundred billion in cash and guarantee your safe exit from the Lei Ting Secret Realm.

Even if you want to join the Lei Ting Martial Hall, I'll beg my father to make you a supervisor!"

Driven by the biological instinct for survival, Li Wanying had no intention of holding Xu Jingming accountable for killing Uncle Li and the others.

She only threw out one tempting offer after another.

Survival assurance, money, status—everything she could offer, trying to dissolve his killing intent.

Yet Xu Jingming merely stared coldly at her, not pausing his steps at all.

"By the way, weren't there two beautiful girls sitting beside you yesterday?"

"Women of that caliber—you want as many as you like, I'll find them for you, just spare my life..."

Li Wanying continued pleading, and Xu Jingming finally stopped walking.

Believing she'd found the key, Li Wanying's eyes lit up—as if grasping her last lifeline—and she hurriedly said:

"Beautiful women, yes, I'll find you even more. Even... even if I have to serve you personally, it's not out of the question."

With a rip, Li Wanying no longer cared about her modesty.

Ignoring all modesty, she tore open her crimson battle suit, exposing a vast expanse of snowy white skin across her chest.

Her magnificent, firm curves were perfectly revealed to the air.

Undeniably, she was a stunning beauty, voluptuous and graceful.

Paired with her tear-streaked, alluring face, she looked heartbreakingly vulnerable, maximizing the urge to protect her.

Such a scene would soften and trap 90% of men—but unfortunately, Xu Jingming was among the 10%.

He shook his head, his voice low and cold:

"I stopped only to tell you: those two girls are exceptional—you can't just find anyone like them.

And don't expose that body, so thoroughly corroded by lust and drugs, to tempt me.

It holds not the slightest allure for me. Besides, I have a cleanliness obsession—you're filthy."

To ordinary eyes, Li Wanying's figure was undeniably alluring.

But for the past two days, except when sleeping, Xu Jingming had been constantly with Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan.

He understood their physical states intimately—even had slight physical contact with them.

That unique, astonishing elasticity of virgin flesh, that full, rounded perfection—nothing Li Wanying, a withered flower, could ever match.

In short, Xu Jingming now carried a built-in "woman-immunity" buff.

"Bastard! Bastard! How dare you insult me like this? Don't let me live to go back!

Otherwise, I'll kill your entire family, flay you alive, tear out your tendons!"

"Even if you kill me, my brother and father will never let you live!"

Seeing her most prized beauty and figure dismissed as worthless before Xu Jingming,

Li Wanying finally broke, screaming curses wildly.

"Don't let me live to go back? Fine. As you wish."

Xu Jingming's eyebrows lifted.

Swish—

His spear swept horizontally, the tip slicing effortlessly through Li Wanying's neck.

A beautiful, perfect head flew off.

Puff—

Blood gushed like a fountain from her neck, then her slender body collapsed lifelessly.

Li Wanying, once infamous throughout the Lei Ting Secret Realm.

The thorny rose no one dared to provoke was slain in a single spear thrust by Xu Jingming.

"He who kills shall be killed in turn; if you wish to kill, prepare to be killed."

With a flick of the spear, the blood on the tip of the Flowing Cloud Golden Edge Spear was shaken clean.

If a normal third-rank upper-tier psychic had faced Li Wanying's group, they would have had not the slightest chance to resist.

Thus, Xu Jingming felt not the slightest psychological burden from killing Li Wanying and her companions.

"Such psychic families often wear space rings and equipment embedded with location crystals."

"Once they leave the Thunderstorm Zone, they'll be tracked."

"If that's the case, there's no point risking it to strip the space rings."

Crackling—

Brilliant golden lightning surged forth, consuming the corpses on the ground.

In but a moment, the five corpses and their space rings were reduced entirely to ash.

After completing this, Xu Jingming turned and swiftly departed.

The Li family has a sixth-rank peak patriarch; unless necessary,

he did not wish to summon Deputy Commandant Ling Shuang over a petty Li family matter.

Now that all evidence is destroyed, and Li Wanying herself had many enemies within the Thunderstorm Realm, surely the Li family wouldn't trace this back to him?

"Ding—"

"Ding—"

At the very moment Li Wanying was slain, in a luxurious villa within the Thunderstorm Realm's urban district,

Li Shanglin sat cross-legged, eyes half-closed, in his training room.

The smart bracelet on his right wrist suddenly blared a shrill alarm.

"Hmm?" Li Shanglin frowned and opened his eyes.

He tapped the smart bracelet, and instantly a blinding red holographic window appeared before him.

Simultaneously, urgent alarm tones rang out:

"Detected: Bracelet #003 user's heart has ceased beating. Vital signs vanished."

"Detected: Bracelet #003 user's heart has ceased beating..."

The entire training room was bathed in red light, the alarms echoing.

"Bracelet #003? That's Xiao Ying's!"

Li Shanglin's eyes instantly turned blood-red, his fury erupting skyward: "Who dares kill my little sister?!"