The Female CEO's Personal Bodyguard

Chapter 1170 I'd like to see who comes next to kill me.

"The Spirit-Locking Pill is one of the most effective ways to deal with cultivators, but it is extremely difficult to refine, and each one is very valuable and unavailable..."

Lin Chen sat calmly in his seat, looking at the middle-aged man who had been burned to ashes, and said softly, "I wonder who has such a deep grudge that they would hire someone to kill me and even use a Spirit-Locking Pill..."

Qiao Wei said softly, "He calls you the Human Emperor, so is he trying to kill Lin Chen or the Human Emperor?"

Lin Chen shook his head: "Who knows? I originally wanted to ask him for clarification, but he just set himself on fire and didn't even leave a trace. He's a ruthless character, probably a very professional assassin. It's either success or death."

Qiao Wei asked, "Why didn't he just kill you directly?"

Lin Chen shrugged: "Perhaps he wanted to use the conversation to observe closely whether I had fallen for his trick, or perhaps he thought that killing the Human Emperor was a rare opportunity, and wanted to see the Human Emperor's fearful and desperate expression before verbally trampling on him?"

Qiao Wei couldn't help but chuckle: "Do villains die from talking too much?"

Lin Chen laughed and said, "Even if he makes a direct move, the result will be the same. If it is a Void Realm expert who makes the move, and they catch him off guard, then they might succeed."

Qiao Wei looked at Mei Nu's contracting vines with a rather subtle expression.

The vine demon Mei Nu almost killed Lin Chen. It was Qiao Wei who arrived in time and killed the tree demon. After Mei Nu escaped with her nascent soul, she possessed the Vajra Vine, but was still captured by Qiao Wei and eventually given to Lin Chen as a contracted demon servant.

When Mei Nu possessed the Vajra Vine, she was incredibly weak, but in just a few years, she has grown to such a terrifying level.

The assassin, a powerful figure in the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, was like a toddler in front of it, easily knocked to the ground with a few lashes of its whip.

By unleashing her full power in such a confined space, Mei Nu even managed to withstand the immense impact of the collision. Otherwise, even if the entire airship wasn't completely obliterated, it would have been blasted into a huge hole, resulting in its destruction and countless deaths and injuries.

"Mei Nu, what's your strength now? You seem really powerful..."

Lin Chen smiled and said, "Great Demon, early stage, equivalent to the early stage of Void Realm."

Qiao Wei exclaimed in surprise, "How did she advance so quickly? Her cultivation level is even higher than yours..."

Lin Chen laughed and said, "She can devour the primordial spirit or body of a cultivator, but I can't, so naturally I'm not as fast as her."

In the Silent Sea, Lin Chen had the three demons devour the body and primordial spirit of the Immortal Slave. This was no ordinary cultivator; it was a half-immortal even more powerful than the Tribulation Transcending stage!
Having absorbed the body and spirit of a half-immortal, the three demons all received a tremendous boost, advancing to the early stage of the Great Demon realm.

The three demons would definitely be no match for Luo Yuan, Murong Yan, or even those at the late Void Transformation stage or the Great Perfection stage. However, dealing with that Nascent Soul stage assassin from before would be a piece of cake.

"What was that that ran onto you just now?" Lin Chen shook his head: "I don't know, I'll check later."

The effects of the Soul-Locking Pill were not long-lasting. Soon, the locked dantian of Lin Chen and Qiao Wei gradually loosened, and then everything returned to normal.

After compensating the ship owner, Lin Chen returned to his room, checked his body, and then discovered that his primordial spirit had been "branded".

Lin Chen tried to remove the brand, but to no avail. It seemed to be deeply integrated into his primordial spirit and inseparable from it.

The voice of Fairy Xuanji rang out in the room: "No need to bother, you are under a curse."

"curse?"

Lin Chen looked surprised: "What kind of curse is this? What are its effects? I don't feel like it has any effect."

Fairy Xuanji replied, "A positioning curse that costs one's life."

Lin Chen's eyes widened: "Location, so if this curse is on me, someone can find me by following this curse?"

"Correct!"

Fairy Xuanji chuckled: "You've been marked by a curse. As long as the curse doesn't disappear, they'll sense your location and be able to find you easily, unless you hide in another realm, such as the mortal realm, a secret realm, or the immortal realm..."

Lin Chen smiled bitterly: "He even left me a curse before he died, which means there are other, even more powerful assassins coming to deal with me later?"

Qiao Wei interjected, "That's probably it. There will definitely be more people coming to kill you later. After all, he said before he died that he was waiting for you down there..."

Lin Chen sighed, "In that case, let's continue on our own. If the fight in the restaurant had been any more intense, the entire airship would probably have been blown up, and countless people would have died."

"I'd like to see who's so eager to kill me. Could it be the Ten Thousand Ghosts Sect? I killed quite a few of them last time, they must hate me to the core. Knowing they're not confident of killing me head-on, they've hired assassins to kill me?"

"The Central Divine Continent Alliance is also a possibility. After all, I destroyed the sect leaders of three sects, including Youyan Pavilion. That's a huge grudge. They're in the wrong and don't dare to retaliate directly, so they hired someone to kill me..."

Qiao Wei laughed and said, "It's not easy to kill you head-on. Even if you can't beat them, you can run away. With your ability to shrink distances, they won't be able to catch you."

Lin Chen laughed and said, "Now that I've marked you, I'll wait and see who comes to kill me."

(End of this chapter)