"You… you dare hurt me? My husband is a Guest Elder of the Alchemy Dao Immortal Sect! You've offended me—I'll make sure you have no place left in the Totem Galaxy!"
The vicious woman shrieked through her wailing.
"The Alchemy Dao Immortal Sect? What a coincidence."
"Using the Alchemy Dao Immortal Sect to intimidate me? Go to hell."
As Chu Feng spoke, he swung his sword once more, cleanly severing the woman's other arm.
This was no ordinary attack—it didn't just cut through flesh. It severed her soul as well.
The woman bared her teeth in agony.
"I ask you a question and you won't answer? Quite the stubborn mouth, eh? Fine—let's see how long you can keep it up."
Having said that, Chu Feng produced a gourd, opened it, and tilted it toward the ground.
"Aaaah—!"
A piercing scream rang out—Yue Ling's.
Because from that gourd, countless worms poured out, blanketing the ground.
They were small, only half a foot long, with bodies resembling centipedes but entirely blood-red. The moment they landed, they writhed and swayed, emitting eerie chirping sounds.
A single one would have been chilling enough. But this dense, writhing mass crawling across the ground was nothing short of nightmarish.
"What are you—what are you doing?! Stop! Make them stop, hurry!"
The vicious woman grew even more terrified at the sight.
Those worms were crawling toward her body.
"You say stop, so I stop? Who do you think you are?"
"Weren't you tough? Let's see how long that lasts."
Chu Feng let out a cold laugh.
In his eyes, this was already showing mercy. If he weren't trying to find out the whereabouts of Yue Ling's father, he would have given this vicious woman no chance to speak at all—only endless screams.
Under Chu Feng's control, the worms burrowed through the woman's skin and flesh, wriggling deep inside her body at alarming speed.
There were so many of them that the woman's body swelled grotesquely, ballooning into a massive, bloated sphere of flesh. But beneath the skin, things continued to squirm and shift—the worms inside.
The sight was truly horrifying. Yue Ling, gentle-natured as she was, would normally never be able to watch something like this.
Yet she forced herself to stare at the vicious woman, watching her suffer. Her whole body trembled with fear, but she didn't look away.
Because this vicious woman was the one who had killed her mother—and she wanted to see her torment with her own eyes.
"Stop—I'll talk, I'll talk!"
The vicious woman finally broke, crying and wailing as she begged.
"Out with it," Chu Feng said.
"My husband had business and left this world already."
"My son… he finally got out from under his father's control and went off to enjoy himself."
Chu Feng could tell the woman was telling the truth. She wasn't particularly bright to begin with, and under extreme terror, she no longer dared to lie.
But oddly enough, those words actually set Chu Feng's mind at ease.
Earlier, when the vicious woman had claimed that Yue Ling's father was nearby, Chu Feng had genuinely been alarmed. If someone of that caliber showed up, even his concealment methods might prove useless—let alone fighting him.
But if the man wasn't in this world, then things were manageable.
"Went off to enjoy himself? Your son sure is hardworking," Chu Feng sneered.
"I've told you everything you asked—I didn't lie! Just stop, please let me go!"
"I swear I won't tell my husband about today. If you spare me, I'll pretend nothing happened. I guarantee your safety!"
The vicious woman begged through her tears.
"You think I'd believe any of that? You think I'm as stupid as you?"
"Besides, you killed Yue Ling's mother and did what you did to Yue Ling—and you want me to stop?"
"Let me tell you something—not just the two of you. That beast of a husband of yours will die too, sooner or later."
Chu Feng sneered, and as he spoke, he condensed a barrier dagger from his power.
"Yue Ling—do you have the nerve?"
Chu Feng held out the dagger and looked at Yue Ling.
He wanted her to take her revenge personally.
"I…"
Yue Ling bit her lower lip tightly, hesitating.
"It's fine. If you can't do it, just stand aside and watch—I'll deal with her for you."
As Chu Feng spoke, he was about to carve the vicious woman's face with her own cruelty, turning the dagger against her.
"I CAN!!!"
But at that moment, Yue Ling stepped forward, reaching out with her own hand to take the barrier dagger from Chu Feng's grasp.
Yet Chu Feng noticed that Yue Ling's entire body was trembling violently. She could barely even stand steady.
It was fear that made her this way.
"Yue Ling, in the world of martial cultivators, the weak are prey to the strong. You can be kind to everyone under heaven, but you must never show mercy to your enemies."
"Think of your mother. She could have been by your side—but now you're all alone, all because of this vicious woman standing before you."
"Even the cultivation you painstakingly built up over so many years was destroyed in an instant because of her. If you show her mercy, can you face your mother? Can you face yourself?"
Chu Feng placed a hand on Yue Ling's shoulder.
On the surface he was encouraging her, but in reality he secretly channeled barrier energy into her body, steadying her trembling form and making it strong.
"I'll kill you! I'll KILL YOU!!!"
Perhaps thinking of her mother, Yue Ling's eyes suddenly reddened. She gripped the dagger, rushed toward the woman, and began swinging wildly.
"Aaaaah!!!"
In the next instant, heart-piercing screams erupted without cease—the vicious woman's screams.
Yue Ling's cultivation may have been destroyed, but the barrier dagger was imbued with Chu Feng's own power.
So in Yue Ling's hands, it was still more than enough to make the vicious woman pay.