A dowry of one billion, and I'll marry him!

"I told you to beg her, then go die and wait for her in the underworld." Shen Lianchu was like a madman.

Seeing this, Shen Ming tried to dodge, but unexpectedly she swung her hand instead. He felt something spraying out of his neck. He widened his eyes and raised his hand to cover his neck in disbelief.

The bright red liquid stained his clothes, and he raised his hand to look at the blood covering it.

"You actually killed me? I was your first man!" Shen Ming said in disbelief.

Upon hearing this, Shen Lianchu raised the dagger again and swung it towards his crotch, staining his pants with blood. She laughed wildly and said, "I'll fucking kill you, your first man."

"I've lived several lifetimes, and I've slept with more men than you've ever eaten salt. Who do you think you are, bringing up your first time with me?" Shen Lianchu's eyes were full of disdain.

Shen Ming fell heavily to the ground, pressed against Shen Qinghong.

Blood seeped from their bodies, staining the grass on the ground. They tried to struggle but knew they had to die today. They just stared blankly at Shi Yanxia.

They wanted her to come forward and save them, but she didn't even glance at them.

"You want to use their blood to activate this formation, revive everyone planted here, then uproot the dragon vein, and burn Bai Nuannuan and the others here, using them as bait to use me to help your formation, is that right?" Shi Yanxia seemed to have seen through her plan.

Shen Lianchu remained silent.

Her eyes were bloodshot, and she was panting heavily.

Shi Yanxia took a step towards Shen Lianchu, grabbed Shen Lianchu's hair, and ran her fingertips across her cheek, saying, "Well? Your father still won't show up?"

"Master, if you don't come out soon, Shen Lianchu is really going to die."

“She was already injured and hadn’t had time to recover. Now she’s been seriously injured by Zhang Feng. Are you sure you still want to hide in the shadows?” Shi Yanxia said with a smile.

Ever since she realized that the person behind the scenes was her master, all feelings she had for him had vanished.

As soon as she finished speaking, a figure slowly emerged from the shadows. He was dressed in black clothes and wore a black robe. The wind blew and his robe fluttered as he took off his hat.

The old man had a long white beard, but his eyes were sharp and his whole demeanor was very dignified.

He stood there looking at Shi Yanxia with a complicated expression, and said, "Now that you know, why don't you release her?"

"Ah." As soon as he finished speaking, Shi Yanxia kicked him hard again, knocking Shen Lianchu to the ground. She stepped on Shen Lianchu's back and looked at the man in front of her with a smile.

"Last time at school, you arrived just in time, making me suspect you were always around. After the incident, you withdrew all your energy, trying to distract me."

"Master, aren't you overestimating yourself? You think that by withdrawing your energy, you can make me anxious to find you and divert my attention?"

"Unfortunately, you've guessed one thing wrong. From the moment my soul left my body and returned to the Taoist temple, I suspected something was amiss. Everything I saw on the mountain differed from reality. It wasn't until Zhan Jinglin and I returned that night that I discovered the secret passage in your bedroom."

"The soul suppressed within that Bagua formation, is it Shen Guishi's? Shi Yannan placed her birth information on the ancestral tablet, originally intending to give her a chance to live again."

"But he didn't expect you to suppress her soul and use that to drive a wedge between him and the capital. You even wanted to use him to oppose the Zhan family. Am I right?"

"The division of the powerful families in the capital must be orchestrated by someone behind the scenes. You wanted to lead the Zhan family to suspect the Shi family, so that you would have a better chance to take advantage of the situation. But you didn't expect that Shen Lianchu would kill Qin Jiali."

"The people you created yourself were ultimately destroyed by Shen Lianchu, thus cutting off the Qin family as a supporter," Shi Yanxia said with a smile.

But a hint of sadness flashed in her eyes. After all, the old man in front of her was her master, who had raised her since she was a child.

Now, however, he is a murderous demon. Everything was orchestrated by him. He even wanted to use her to destroy the world. If she didn't destroy it, then she would be the fuel for him to destroy the world and extinguish the dragon vein.

Why was such a terrible person so kind to me back then?

Her heart ached slightly; it would be a lie to say she wasn't upset.

"Now that you know, then die," the master said.

As soon as he finished speaking, a sense of oppression began to rise from all around, the tree branches swayed constantly, and the people standing behind Shi Yanxia were so oppressed that they could hardly breathe. Zheng Jiao even spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Quickly cover your mouth and nose, and hold your breath." Zhang Feng was startled.

When the others realized what was happening, blood was seeping from their nostrils, and they collapsed to their knees.

"Oh no, it's on fire! He's going to burn us all to death here!" Zhang Feng turned around and found that the surroundings had been lit up.

All the trees were on fire, and these trees weren't real trees, but living people who had been captured and planted here. They had even touched them before and found that these people who were planted still had body temperature.

"Yan Yan, these trees are people, how can we save them?" Zhang Feng asked anxiously.

Shi Yanxia looked around, shook her head, and said, "They're all dead, beyond saving."

"When these people were lured here, they signed contracts, voluntarily giving him their lives and fortunes. So they can't be saved. Even if they still have body temperature, they are living dead," Shi Yanxia explained.

The living dead are those who are dead in life; there's no way to save them.

“It seems you’ve improved even more since returning to the capital. If you obediently offer up your luck and become my fuel to help me seize the dragon vein here, sever it, and make it work for me, perhaps I can give you another chance,” the master said.

Shi Yanxia smiled and turned her head to look at him.

"Didn't you notice that Zhan Jinglin isn't here?"

The master was stunned for a moment.

"Didn't you notice that Li Qinghong is missing?"

The master was somewhat taken aback.

"Didn't you notice that Shi Yannan disappeared after being brought back to the Zhan residence?" she continued.

The three questions made the master's eyes flicker. He seemed to think of something and suddenly looked up at Shi Yanxia, ​​only to find that she had grabbed Shen Lianchu and kicked him hard.

"Your daughter is back to you," Shi Yanxia roared.

The master tried to dodge, but Shen Lianchu had already fallen on him. He was knocked back half a step by the impact. Unexpectedly, there was a Taoist talisman on Shen Lianchu's body.

He tried to avoid it, but the talisman had already landed on his Taoist robe before he could take it off.

With a deafening roar, a thunderbolt struck down from the sky.