Chapter 336: 336. Lin Zhengnan

336. Chapter 336: Lin Zhengnan's Treacherous Scheme

"Who are you? Why do you not dare to let this old man see your true face? Are you afraid?"

Lin Zhengnan furrowed his brows, feigning composure.

Yet the sense of unease in his heart grew increasingly intense.

"What if this Young Master were to appear before you right now?"

Su Chen laughed immediately upon hearing this and flashed directly in front of Lin Zhengnan.

His speed was so fast that the other several Quasi-Emperor Peak powerhouses present did not even notice how he had arrived there.

By the time they regained their senses, Su Chen and the group behind him had already reached them.

Lin Zhengnan squinted his eyes and recognized at once that the person before him was none other than Su Chen.

"It's actually you."

Lin Zhengnan gritted his teeth, spitting out the words one by one.

"It is I. Are you surprised?"

Su Chen curled his lips into a smile, his eyes filled with deep contempt. "Your father here has come to settle accounts with you. Are you surprised? Are you shocked? Are you ready to kowtow and beg for mercy now?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Zhengnan could not help but mock Su Chen for his wishful thinking; he was merely a cultivator at the Great Saint Realm, yet he dared to be so arrogant and conceited.

Thinking of this, he instinctively retorted: "Bullshit, that is simply wishful—"

Before he could finish his sentence, Yi Zhuyue, who was beside Su Chen, struck directly.

A sharp surge of Spiritual Power, carrying terrifying destructive force, wiped out the throat of the person behind Lin Zhengnan in the blink of an eye.

That surge of Spiritual Power grazed Lin Zhengnan's neck; had it been an inch closer, it would have instantly sliced through his throat and sent him from this world.

The Elder behind him collapsed to the ground instantly, having had no chance to even resist; his eyes were wide open, and blood gushed out in a steady stream from the wound in his neck.

So fast!

So strong!

Everyone present was secretly shocked; they had not even seen how this strange woman had struck before that Elder was already dead.

In an instant, cold sweat broke out on Lin Zhengnan's forehead, and for the first time, he felt death was so close to him.

The youth opposite him merely laughed nonchalantly and once again cast his sharp gaze upon Lin Zhengnan's face.

"And now?"

Su Chen asked.

The short three words felt like a thousand pounds, slamming heavily into everyone's hearts.

Cold sweat poured down Lin Zhengnan's face, dripping from his forehead into his clothes, soaking his entire back.

One of the Elders, unable to bear such terrifying pressure, plopped onto the ground.

"I beg you, spare me, I don't want to die yet."

That Elder kowtowed desperately, the sound of his forehead hitting the ground echoing with a thudding rhythm.

Lin Zhengnan looked at that Elder with disappointment, wanting to retort, but his knuckles cracked as he clenched his fists, and he could not utter a single word.

His face turned beet red; in the face of death, he admitted he was not that detached.

"Lin Zhengnan, when you fled back then, you should have expected that this day would come."

Su Chen yawned and looked at Lin Zhengnan lazily. "When there is no tiger in the mountains, the monkey claims to be king. This Young Master thinks your peaceful days are coming to an end." Lin Zhengnan's expression turned ugly upon hearing this, and he said nothing.

"What do you want?"

After a long while, Lin Zhengnan finally squeezed these words out from between his teeth.

Although he did not know where Su Chen had found such a profound female cultivator—not only was Yi Zhuyue, who had just struck, unfathomable, but he could not see through the cultivation levels of the others either.

Under these circumstances, he dared not act rashly; no one wanted to gamble with their own life.

Thinking of this, he felt incredibly humiliated, but he could only grit his teeth and ask those words.

"Do you think you have the opportunity to negotiate with this Young Master?"

Su Chen looked at Lin Zhengnan's appearance and could not help but laugh. "You probably still haven't grasped the situation. Your life, and the lives of all these people, are in the hands of this Young Master with just a single thought."

This was indeed the truth. Lin Zhengnan gritted his teeth, his bones cracking as he clenched his fists. Finally, he let out a heavy, turbid breath and said, "What do you want me to do?"

"Whatever you took before, spit it all out for this Young Master now. If it isn't yours, don't covet it."

Su Chen sneered, and seeing his aggrieved look, he could not help but laugh out loud.

"What do you mean 'took'? It was clearly ours..."

Before he could finish, at a single glance from Su Chen, Yi Zhuyue killed another Elder.

Her movements were sharp and clean; before anyone else could react, that Elder had completely stopped breathing, still maintaining his previous posture.

Lin Zhengnan forcibly cut his words short, his expression looking worse than if he had eaten excrement. The remaining two Elders looked no better, staring at Su Chen as if they were looking at a cold-blooded demon.

"If I give those things to you, can you spare me?"

Lin Zhengnan said through gritted teeth.

A gentleman takes revenge, even ten years is not too late.

The most important thing now is to survive.

He could feel that his life and death were now entirely in Su Chen's hands.

"That depends on your sincerity. Everything you swallowed from the Lin Family before, this Young Master wants; and everything you obtained here, this Young Master also wants."

Su Chen curled his lips into a smile, looking at Lin Zhengnan with a mocking expression.

Lin Zhengnan could not help but curse inwardly. Why didn't Su Chen just say he wanted everything from their entire Lin Family? Why be so high and mighty about it?

It was as if they had stolen his things, when in fact these things were all from their Lin Family! Even though Lin Zhengnan was filled with extreme dissatisfaction, he dared not show it at this moment, fearing he would follow in the footsteps of those two Elders.

Thinking of this, Lin Zhengnan forced a smile: "This is, after all, a secret of our Lin Family; it cannot be seen by so many people. Would Young Master Su be willing to come with me?"

He had a good plan in mind: Su Chen was only formidable now because he had people by his side. Once Su Chen went with him alone, a mere Great Saint Realm cultivator—could he not handle him?

When the time comes, by holding the Emperor hostage to command the vassals, even if that woman is formidable, so what? She will still have to obediently listen to him.

Thinking of this, Lin Zhengnan's eyes held a touch of fanaticism, as if he had already foreseen the scenes of his own future.

Moreover, they could sense that Su Chen's cultivation level was improving so rapidly now that it must be with the help of some spiritual pills or magical treasures; if they could seize the opportunity to obtain them, their own strength would certainly rise to a higher level.

"Why should I listen to you? Whether you live or die now depends entirely on a single thought of mine. I advise you best not to be ungrateful, otherwise, whether your heads remain on your necks or not, that would be hard to say."

Su Chen naturally knew what Lin Zhengnan was thinking. (End of chapter)