Are you really trying to cultivate immortality? Something feels off.

Su Boyu collapsed onto the altar, trembling violently, the last glimmer of hope in her eyes shattering completely.

He never imagined that the Southern Border Clan Chief, whom he considered extremely terrifying, would be so vulnerable and helpless under the pressure of the Dragon Clan, unable to even withstand Tan Suiting's sword strike.

Where the sword's edge swept, blood splattered.

His Highness the Crown Prince slowly withdrew Feng Lian.

With the clan leader dead, there was no hope for the Southern Frontier. The dragon scales in the air instantly returned and circled twice around Tan Suiting's wrist.

It even gave Su Boyu a malicious flick of its whip tail.

Su Boyu looked shocked, her jaw trembled slightly, and the clan leader's blood splattered on her cheek, the bloodstains were reddish-black.

He had never seen Tan Suiting like this before.

I used to only know that His Highness the Crown Prince was aloof and cold. Although he became famous at a young age and was somewhat arrogant, he always left room for maneuver in his actions.

But at this moment, Tan Suiting's eyes were cold and lifeless, and every move he made was aimed at killing.

He simply couldn't believe that a person's personality and aura could change so drastically in such a short time.

Tan Suiting held Fenglian in his hand, the blade hanging precariously on the ground, and slowly approached.

He stood amidst blood and gore, dressed in black and gold brocade, his expression calm yet chillingly cruel.

Su Boyu lay sprawled in a pool of blood, her face contorted with terror and disarray. She grabbed the person beside her and screamed, "Tan Suiting! Yu Xintang is still in my hands! If you kill me, he will die too! You dare touch me?!"

This was his last bargaining chip.

But Tan Suiting simply looked down at him, his eyes icy cold.

"Do you think I would be blackmailed by you?"

The Dragon Prince looked down from his high position; the Gu Ruins behind him had long since become a living hell.

Lightning crisscrossed the land, annihilating all the fleeing witchcraft clansmen. Houses collapsed, altars shattered, and witchcraft worms were burned to ashes.

A century-old family legacy was reduced to blood-red scorched earth in an instant.

Corpses lay scattered everywhere, blood pooled into small rivers, and the stench of blood mixed with the acrid smell of burning poison permeated the entire valley.

No one escaped unscathed, and no one was spared.

The Gu Clan of Southern Xinjiang was completely wiped out.

The entire world was filled with only deathly silence and bloodshed.

Tan Suiting's voice was devoid of any warmth, his sword tip lowered, and the lightning flashed within the blade: "Bring the person up."

The dragon soldiers obeyed the order and set out.

Lightning flashed through the ruins, and in just a few breaths, it brought two disheveled, pale-faced men and women through the blood.

They were Su Boyu's parents.

Bound by lightning chains, their spiritual power sealed, the two were terrified when they saw the corpses of their clansmen scattered on the ground and the horrific sight of their clansman being pierced through the skull by a sword.

Su Boyu's eyes widened instantly: "Mother! Father!"

For thousands of years, the Gu tribe in southern Xinjiang has practiced a tradition of inserting a "heart-sharing Gu" into a child's body at birth.

No matter how badly or cruelly parents treat their children, influenced by blood ties and the "Heart-to-Heart Gu," the children will still love and respect their parents wholeheartedly, and after adulthood, they will repay their families, even working hard without complaint and refusing to leave despite being beaten or scolded.

The man trembled all over, shouting fiercely at Tan Suiting in mid-air, his voice sharp but his voice weak: "Who are you?! You have already slaughtered all my Southern Border people and killed the clan chief, why do you still want to exterminate them all? This little beast is young and ignorant, his mistakes are his own doing, and have nothing to do with us! Don't drag the innocent into this!"

Su Boyu was stunned.

"innocent?"

Tan Suiting spoke coldly, slowly stepping down through the blood. His black and gold robe swept across the crimson ground, and his gilded crown reflected the blood-red scene, exuding both nobility and cruelty.

He looked down at the two men kneeling in disarray, his eyes devoid of any emotion: "You tried to reap the benefits without sowing, treating the lives of others as playthings to be trampled upon in order to satisfy your own desires."

"Now, do they even have the right to claim innocence?"

The woman, staring at the corpses strewn across the ground and overwhelmed by the stench, instantly broke down. Tears streamed down her face as she repeatedly kowtowed, begging for mercy, her body trembling: "Please spare our lives! We know we were wrong! We failed in raising our children; our sins are grave! Please, spare our lives, please!"

"Let you go," Tan Suiting approached step by step, his voice as cold as a frost-covered blade, "The witchcraft and sorcery of the Southern Frontier has taken countless lives, yet have you ever thought of giving others a way out?"

On that day at the Sword Tomb, Su Boyu first led the Dao Asking Sect to ambush and try to seize his senior sister's Phoenix Sword. Then, he manipulated the Reverse Heart Gu to control Yu Xintang and used the Four Directions Sword to stab Xie Weixing's heart meridian.

Such a sharp blade, such a cold edge.

When they manipulate witchcraft to harm people, did they ever think that those they harmed also had fathers, mothers, and loved ones?

Tan Suiting frowned slightly, as if he had felt a brief moment of pain.

That day, he cried and begged at the Sword Tomb.

He begged Heaven to have mercy and for Heaven's justice to be just, and to leave his senior brother a way out.

Did anyone hear that?

Does anyone pity him?

……

Yes.

Today's killings and all related matters will be borne by Tan Suiting alone.

I would rather die than regret it.

"Tan Suiting—!" Su Boyu cried out fiercely, "You dare touch my parents! I'll kill Yu Xintang!"

The words had barely left his lips.

Tan Suiting's brow twitched slightly, and he raised his hand to condense a wisp of fine lightning, which he precisely wrapped around the meridians of Su's father's limbs.

"A thousand threads of lock." He spoke calmly.

Subtle yet domineering lightning pierced through the skin and flesh, not destroying the body, but only eroding the soul and meridians, bringing a sizzling sound.

The man instantly convulsed, letting out a piercing scream: "Ah—!"

Unlike the pain of knife wounds and sword cuts, this is the extreme torment of having one's spiritual veins repeatedly burned and gnawed away. Every inch of the meridians is being torn apart, and even the spiritual sea is howling in agony.

"Ah—! It hurts! Let me go! Please let me go!"

He rolled on the ground, his head slamming against the cold, bloody soil. He lost all dignity, and the sinister aura of the Southern Frontier Gu Clan was completely gone, leaving only endless fear and excruciating pain.

"Father, Father!" Su Boyu's eyes widened as she glared fiercely at Tan Suiting. "You dare! Tan Suiting! Do you believe me?! Do you believe I really dare to kill Yu Xintang?!"

Tan Suiting's eyes remained unmoved, and his tone was indifferent: "I don't believe it."

He knew in his heart that this was Su Boyu's last trump card, and the other party would not dare to kill Yu Xintang.

"Sky-Splitting Shatter".

Tan Suiting exerted a slight force with his fingertips, causing the lightning threads to surge and directly shatter all of the man's meridians and foundations, crippling his life's cultivation.

"Tan Suiting!" Su Boyu's pupils trembled violently, his eyes instantly turning crimson. He slashed Yu Xintang's arm with his knife, and Yu Xintang, whose eyes were ashen, trembled as blood slowly flowed down her cheeks. "If you dare touch my parents again..."

His Highness the Crown Prince's expression was indifferent as he slowly extended his fingers, the lightning tearing away the man's flesh inch by inch.

The piercing screams abruptly ceased.

Su's father was charred black all over, his meridians were shattered, and he collapsed to the ground, his death extremely gruesome.

The woman beside her was terrified, her body stiffening, unable to even utter a plea for mercy. Only utter despair enveloped her as she murmured, "I don't want to die... I don't want to die..."