The Master and His Wealthy Fiancée

According to the jade slip, the Marriage Pill Technique was a way to transfer a Profound Pill to someone incapable of Core Formation. The person who transferred their Profound Pill would not only die, but their very soul would be annihilated, utterly vanishing from the world.

The quality of the transferred Profound Pill would also degrade; both its grade and its cultivation layer would drop. Furthermore, the person who received the pill would be unable to advance their cultivation for the rest of their life.

For example, after a single transfer, a Fourth-Layer Sixth-grade Profound Pill would become a Third-Layer Seventh-grade Profound Pill. Moreover, a Profound Pill could be transferred more than once; the technique described a process that could be repeated without limit.

Annihilating soul after soul to pass it down limitlessly, even until the Profound Pill became the most useless of dregs... to call this technique sinister and vicious was no exaggeration at all.

Chen Dong considered destroying the jade slip for a moment, but on second thought, he placed it into his Storage Ring instead.

'In the Three Thousand Great Realms, there are countless malevolent arts,' he thought. 'Ultimately, their nature depends on the one who wields them.'

Seeing Chen Dong's grim expression, Li Zhixuan asked, "What's wrong? Is there a problem with the jade slip?"

Chen Dong shook his head and remained silent. 'If Cai Feiyu has access to this technique, then Xiao Pan must know it too. He's probably been planning to transfer his Profound Pill to Cai Feiyu all along.'

Chen Dong sighed again, not wanting to get involved. 'It's someone else's Profound Pill,' he thought. 'There's nothing I can do to change their mind.'

As long as the Cai Family was willing to hand over the company as compensation, Chen Dong's objective for this trip would be accomplished.

However, Luo Hua seemed less than satisfied with the trip's outcome. He had been frowning deeply ever since they got in the car. Who would be satisfied, seeing their family crushed like this? But this trip had also revealed that the Xuanwu Sect stood behind the Cai Family, forcing Luo Hua to shelve many of his plans. The only one he could rely on now was Chen Dong, and since Chen Dong was unwilling to deal with the Cai Family in one fell swoop, Luo Hua didn't dare to object.

Halfway through the drive, Chen Dong's brow suddenly twitched. 'Not good, something's happened at the Luo Family estate.' His Divine Sense could already reach the manor, and a quick probe confirmed his ominous feeling. Something was definitely wrong.

Li Zhixuan turned to look at Chen Dong as well. It seemed he had sensed it too.

Luo Hua and Meng Xuejing also noticed something was amiss. "What's wrong?" they asked.

Chen Dong grabbed Luo Hua and said to the others in the car, "I'm all that's needed!" He then opened the door, tossed Luo Hua out, and enveloped him in a brilliant glow, flying with him toward the Luo Family estate.

When Chen Dong and Luo Hua landed at the Luo Family Manor, the surrounding members of the Luo Family didn't notice them at first. But when they did, their expressions turned strange. They watched the pair with cold, wary eyes. Sounds of fighting and enraged roars echoed continuously from the mansion!

"You'll die a miserable death, you traitor!"

"Even if we die, the Young Master will avenge us!"

Chen Dong and Luo Hua tried to enter the mansion, but the men outside surrounded them. At that moment, a Luo Family elder ran out, leading a group of people.

"I sensed the Young Master's aura and found it incredible. I never thought you'd actually make it back!"

A cold glint flashed in Luo Hua's eyes. "What do you mean by that? Did you think I wasn't coming back?"

The elder laughed. "Since things have come to this, I won't hide it from you. Miss Cai promised to support me if I took control of the Luo Family. Your return to the manor must mean you never went to the Cai Family's ancestral home! That's fine, too. Now I'll just capture you and deliver you to Miss Cai myself. Perhaps I'll win even greater favor!"

"When a tree falls, the monkeys scatter." Given the Luo Family's decline, the elder's betrayal didn't surprise Luo Hua. It just sent a pang of pain through his heart. The ranks of those who would indulge him had just shrunk again.

The elder looked at Chen Dong and sneered, "What, only the two of you came back? Did Miss Cai take pity on you and let you go?"

At that moment, Luo Hua could only hate his own powerlessness. The reek of blood wafting from the mansion spurred him on. He turned to Chen Dong and begged, "Mr. Chen, please, kill them!"

Chen Dong smiled faintly, killing intent flashing in his eyes. He despised men like this. "Leave it to me," he said. "I've been needing a good slaughter."

The elder roared with laughter, as if he'd just heard the world's funniest joke. "Luo Chengwu, that big oaf, isn't here! I'm the only Outer Appearance realm expert in the Luo Family! What are you going to kill me with, boy?"

Amid his arrogant laughter, he failed to notice the flames that had already ignited on his body. In the span of a few breaths, all the Luo Family members surrounding the pair were burned to ash, including the bellowing elder.

Chen Dong and Luo Hua charged into the mansion, where many people were still fighting. Luo Hua roared hoarsely, "All of you, stop!"

The fighting stopped. The traitors saw Luo Hua enter and realized the elder who had gone outside was gone without a sound. They immediately split into two groups: one made a break for the mansion's exit, while the other dropped to their knees on the spot.

Those who tried to flee spontaneously combusted before they could even make it out of the mansion, turning to ash in an instant.

The ones who knelt began to cry and shout their excuses. "We were forced! Please, Young Master, spare our lives! Spare us..." Seeing the fate of those who had fled, their wails grew even louder.

Chen Dong himself couldn't distinguish the good from the evil among them, but the Saint's Dao Light Pillar in his sea of consciousness could. The catch was, he would only know after he killed someone.

When he first killed the men outside the mansion, the light from both the Saint Dao and the Asura Dao in his sea of consciousness had grown. But as he killed the ones who fled, he found that for certain individuals, his Saint's Dao Light Pillar didn't grow but instead shrank. The reduction was drastic—the negative impact of killing one such person was equivalent to the positive impact of saving ten.

Although the light pillars for the Asura Dao and Yellow Springs Dao in his sea of consciousness grew significantly, the Saint's Dao Light Pillar was nearly depleted. In its place, a dark glow began to emerge.

Chen Dong cursed inwardly. 'Damn it.' Now, he couldn't just kill the ones kneeling before him.