Lin Zhen was fascinated by what he heard: âThatâs indeed impressive, but itâs also a miracle that he managed to survive.â
âIsnât it? Because of this incident, the Crown Princess is still a prospective Crown Princess since she had not yet married into the family at the time. The Crown Prince has been brooding over this matter, so the two of them havenât had a big wedding yet.â
âDo you have any information about this person?â
âI do; Iâll send it to you.â
Soon, Lin Zhen received Lin Fengâs information.
âHua Hua Taisui, also known as Hua Hua, World King, Peak World King, Purple Gold Divine Clan, estimated Star Power of 6.5 millionâ¦â
Lin Zhen glanced at his Star Power, and was secretly surprised. A Peak World King with such a high level of Star Power, no wonder he could escape from the encirclement of Longevity Experts.
Purple Gold Divine Clan is one of the top clans in the universe, with a high probability of producing Longevity Experts. If nothing unexpected happens, Hua Hua Taisui will eventually become a Longevity Warrior.
It is said that the Purple Gold Divine Clan has the most formidable bodies, possessing extraordinary defensive power, and ordinary weapons canât harm them in the slightest.
Furthermore, the bounty on this person is impressively high, reaching a whole 100 billion! However, that is only circulated among Longevity Warriors because the person who issued the bounty knows that ordinary Peak World Kings canât deal with Hua Hua Taisui, so thereâs no point in offering a bounty to them.
âHow do you know heâs still in Xianle County?â
âItâs something my father accidentally found out. But my father doesnât like the current Emperor, so even though he knows the whereabouts of Hua Hua Taisui, he hasnât revealed it. Maybe he doesnât care about that 100 billion bounty, and told me not to tell anyone.â
âWould you be able to tell me?â Lin Zhen didnât have much hope.
âOf course, no problem!â
Lin Feng, who had no integrity, immediately discarded his fatherâs orders and gave Lin Zhen an address.
âBoss, donât make a fuss, and donât be too anxious. Even though the bounty is huge, you have to stay alive to collect it.â
Lin Zhen didnât go into a deeper discussion on this issue and left the restaurant after eating for a while.
Afterward, he had Lin Feng stay at the Alchemist Guild to watch over the courtyard and the shop for him while he left.
Hua Hua Taisui lived in a mansion on the outskirts of Xianle County and led a low-key life.
Perhaps knowing he had caused a huge disaster back then, the young man dared not show his face in public. The mansion was staffed with servants of the Star Realm Level, leading an ordinary life.
Upon arriving, Lin Zhen first found an opportunity to detain the chef who cooked for Hua Hua Taisui.
The chef quickly confessed about his masterâs situation.
He didnât know much about his master, only that his master was injured and had been recuperating all these years. His daily task was to cook medicinal dishes for his master, and then deliver them to the door.
The master had a black-clothed bodyguard whose job was to taste the food for poison, ensuring absolute safety for the master. In fact, the chef had never actually seen what the master looked like.
Lin Zhen got the information he wanted and used the Soul Lock Skill to turn the chef into his loyal subordinate, then followed him quietly into the mansion.
Now, when Lin Zhen cast Soul Lock, as long as one didnât scan the Spiritual Consciousness Sea, it was impossible to detect any anomalies. He stayed in the mansion undisturbed.
About a month later, Lin Zhen roughly figured out the situation here.
All signs pointed to Hua Hua Taisui indeed residing here, and it was normal for him to be injured. Having been able to escape from the many Longevity Warriorsâ hands back then already spoke of his great fortune.
Even if he was injured, Lin Zhen was no match for him. However, Lin Zhen naturally had his own methods.
As a fifth-grade alchemist and an apprentice of dark alchemy skills, Lin Zhen had many techniques that were difficult to detect.
He took the Ice Lotus from the top of the snowy mountain and prepared the medicine for Hua Hua Taisui in person.
This method was to deceive the bodyguard, as Lin Zhen could see that the bodyguard knew a bit about medicine. He instructed the chef to prepare more good medicinal materials for his masterâs recuperation, so the Ice Lotus naturally entered the menu.
After that meal, the medicinal cuisine received Hua Hua Taisuiâs praise, indicating that he wanted this kind of ingredient in every meal afterwards.
Thus, Ice Lotus and lotus seeds were put into the dishes and sent to Hua Hua Taisui.
While this cold-attribute medicine indeed had detoxification and healing effects, one thing to note was that the coldness would quietly accumulate in the body. If one didnât take fire attribute elixirs, it would gradually build up. However, Lin Zhen had also put an appropriate amount of fire snake grass in the dishes to temporarily suppress the coldness without being discovered by the user.
Lin Zhen was waiting for an opportunity when the Ice Lotus seedsâ coldness reached a certain point, which would be his chance to take action.
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A month passed, and dark clouds filled the sky with heavy snowfall.
The winter season of Xianle County had arrived.
On this chilly day, the master ordered that he did not feel well and would not eat Ice Lotus today. He wanted the kitchen to prepare something warm.
Lin Zhen personally prepared a medicinal dish, putting a fire lotus seed inside, but only the outer shell, as the inside was compressed Ice Lotus.
As the meal was brought in, Lin Zhen quietly waited.
He was waiting, waiting for the lotus seedâs outer shell to be dissolved by stomach acid, and the cold air inside to be fully activated. After that, the external and internal forces would freeze Hua Hua Taisuiâs dantian at once, freezing his star power!
A World King who had lost his star power was of no concern to Lin Zhen.
As for his follower, who was merely a Domain King, Lin Zhen cared even less.
About half an hour laterâ¦
âAh~! Whatâs going on!â
A sudden roar erupted from the previously quiet room. This uncontrollable scream trembled, and there was no hint of deception.
Lin Zhen had been waiting for this moment. He kicked the door open and charged in.
The Domain Kingâs dantian was also frozen, as he had always been the first to taste the medicinal meals and would often dine with Hua Hua Taisui. He couldnât escape the same fate.
A dazzling spear light flashed, and the Domain King fell dead.
Lin Zhen finally saw Hua Hua Taisui.
A man who was already covered in ice from head to toe, his star power completely sealed by Lin Zhenâs dark alchemy skill, couldnât use it for a short time.
However, despite this, Hua Hua Taisui didnât care about Lin Zhen. A cold voice came from his mouth: âJust another fool who doesnât know how to live. Your tactics are indeed cunning, and I fell for them. But, itâs useless. As an insignificant Star System Level 8, youâre just seeking death in front of me!â
A flash of light appeared before his eyes, and a small figure covered in silvery light flew out from Hua Hua Taisuiâs brow, heading straight for Lin Zhenâs Spiritual Consciousness Sea!
A Divine Infantâs outburst!
This Divine Infant was on the verge of advancing to gold, and it was, strictly speaking, much stronger than Lin Zhenâs Divine Infant.
But Lin Zhen was not afraid. Hua Hua Taisui couldnât move, and his Divine Infant did not have the power to instantly kill. It wasnât even clear who would kill who.
With a thought, Lin Zhenâs Divine Infant, which had been sleeping within him, opened its eyes and let out a scream, rushing out from the Spiritual Consciousness Sea!
The two Divine Infants clashed, and the otherâs Divine Infant was more powerful, knocking Lin Zhenâs Divine Infant far away.
However, Lin Zhenâs Divine Infant launched a spear strike, piercing directly into the silvery figureâs chest!
Strands of spiritual power started to leak out, and a massive amount of energy began to dissipate.
Lin Zhen resisted the dizziness, took a step forward, and slashed sharply at Hua Hua Taisuiâs neck with his palm!
The intense rebound force nearly shattered Lin Zhenâs hand bones, his power unable to break through the defense of the Purple Gold Divine Clan member.
âKidâ¦let us negotiate. Iâll give you all my wealth, and youâll spare me. I promise there will be no grudges. Otherwise, once I recover, you wonât benefit eitherâ¦â
Seeing his Divine Infant heavily injured, and himself unable to move, Hua Hua Taisui finally showed fear.
But at this point, how could Lin Zhen back down? He picked up the Yin-Yang Spear and struck Hua Hua Taisui again.
Shallow wounds appeared on his body, but they werenât fatal. Instead, the cold air around him was released even faster.
âSuch a formidable Purple Gold Divine Clan body. If he were in perfect condition, I wouldnât even be able to touch a single hair on his head.â
Lin Zhen became resolute, using the spear to pry open Hua Hua Taisuiâs mouth, and threw in a black elixir.
The black elixir was the one Lin Zhen had learned to refine from the memories he obtained from Xu Xingyao. It was specifically for exorcism.
While Hua Hua Taisuiâs Divine Infant was injured, Lin Zhen wanted to forcibly exorcise him!
The exorcism elixir was swallowed, and Hua Hua Taisui let out unwilling whimpers. But at this moment, he had no strength to fight back. His silver-level Divine Infant shouldnât have been defeated so easily, but his carelessness and eagerness led to Lin Zhenâs Divine Infant injuring him, and his mental power gave way.
He would never have dreamed that a Star System Stage martial artist would possess a Divine Infant, and that the Divine Infant would have a weapon.
Now he had no control over what happened next. Lin Zhen ruthlessly destroyed his Spiritual Consciousness Sea, rendered his body immobile, and began forcibly searching his soul!
With the exorcism elixir and Lin Zhenâs powerful spiritual power and soul, Hua Hua Taisui, the supreme World King who had escaped from many Longevity Realm warriors, perished under Lin Zhenâs ambush.
His soul, his memories, were completely and utterly stripped by Lin Zhen!
Only a Purple Gold Divine Clan corpse, akin to a humanoid weapon, and a silver-level Divine Infant on the verge of disintegration, remained.
At this time, the exorcism elixir took effect. Lin Zhen occupied his body and forcibly restored his will, directly taking the heavily injured and unconscious Divine Infant back into the Spiritual Consciousness Sea.
This would be his future avatar. This Divine Infant still had great uses, and Lin Zhen could not give up on him.
Thus, Hua Hua Taisui, as a person, was completely annihilated, leaving only an empty shell.
Lin Zhen was not at ease this time either. Hua Hua Taisuiâs memories were much richer than Xu Xingyaoâs, and in an instant, tides of memories came rushing in!
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