Full-time Creation Master

"He deserves to die...he deserves to die..."

The three people's voices sounded like they were being squeezed out of rusty iron pipes, hoarse and unrecognizable.

Chu Ming stood before them, his eyelids slightly closed, making no extra movements, and not even glancing at them again.

The air in the corridor suddenly froze, and the lights began to flicker eerily, as if an invisible force was surging from the depths of the void.

Buck, the werewolf king kneeling on the outermost edge, suddenly let out a short scream. He watched as Graham's massive werewolf body was crumpled into a ball of paper by an invisible hand. His gray-black fur mixed with flesh and blood melted away into thin air, leaving not even a trace of blood.

Buck's fur stood on end, his limbs trembled uncontrollably, and his teeth chattered, making a "clucking" sound.

Serafina's lace dress suddenly became empty, and the swarm of bats she had transformed into were about to scatter and flee when they were trapped by an invisible barrier and turned to dust in the crackling blue lightning.

The vampire pseudo-monarch was so frightened that he shrank back abruptly, his delicate face drained of all color.

She covered her mouth tightly with both hands to keep from screaming, but her body shook violently like a leaf in the autumn wind. Her long fingernails dug deep into her palms, drawing blood, but she didn't even notice.

The most bizarre one was Thorne, whose frail old figure seemed shrouded in the morning mist.

It gradually faded away in place, and eventually even the bloodstains on the ground disappeared without a trace, as if it had never existed.

The Skrull monarch, Pike, collapsed to the ground with a thud, his deep blue skin instantly losing its luster.

His mouth was open, but he couldn't make a sound. His eyes were filled with extreme fear, as if he had seen the most terrifying sight in the world.

His legs were pushing against the ground uncontrollably, trying to move backward, but he couldn't move at all.

The remaining three sub-monarchs/pseudo-monarchs fared no better; they were instantly stripped of their souls, their bodies turning into a pile of mud!

The whole process was so fast that it took everyone a while to react.

There was no sharp crackling of spatial rifts, no intense light bursting forth with energy, only an eerie silence that was almost deathly still.

Nine monarch-level beings died in the blink of an eye, each by different means!

It didn't even struggle at all—terrifying!

It touches the very core of my heart!

Gao Yucai, Gao Qisheng, ... Lester, Kane, Roy ... who had been standing to the side for a long time were filled with indescribable shock and fear!

A buzz.

Chu Ming slowly opened his palm, and three wisps of pale blue soul fire danced in his palm.

Inside, one could vaguely see Graham's wolf-like phantom howling, Serafina's vampire silhouette struggling, and Thorne's Skrull form trembling.

Immediately afterwards, six other dimly colored soul flames were also drawn by an invisible force, forming a rotating soul ring in his palm.

"Failed to protect them, they deserve to die!"

Chu Ming's voice was as calm as an ancient well, yet it carried a soul-piercing majesty: "I pronounce—"

He raised his hand and clenched it in the void, and the soul fire in his palm suddenly contracted.

It transformed into nine soul crystals the size of broad beans, their surfaces swirling with patterns of pain.

"He was suppressed for 100,000 years at the Great Millstone of Guixu, subjected to torture, until his resentment dissipated, only then could he be reincarnated."

The moment the words fell, a ripple spread across the void at the end of the corridor.

The nine soul crystals seemed to be swallowed by an invisible vortex and disappeared without a trace.

That seemingly casual thought just now was a million times more terrifying than the tearing apart of space!

The Guixu Great Millstone is on par with the "barracks" in my memory!

His name is known, but his voice is never heard!

That is the ultimate judgment from which even the soul cannot escape.

Chu Ming withdrew his hand, the residual warmth of the soul fire still lingering on his fingertips.

He didn't even glance at the terrified agents and demon guards, and closed the morgue door that had been blown open by the wind.

The corridor lights returned to normal, but the invisible pressure in the air lingered, as if silently proclaiming: some debts must be repaid not only in blood, but also by nine generations of one's family.

..........

A magnificent villa in the Tang Dynasty!

The autumn rain pattered against the villa's expensive glazed tiles, its patter like an incessant murmur.

Li Muyang stood by the railing, the sleeves of her plain white dress lifted by the wind, revealing a faint scar on her fair wrist—a mark left by the reins when she was learning to ride and shoot as a child.

Her mother once carefully applied wound medicine to her skin, saying, "A girl's skin is more precious than porcelain."

"Miss, the family has sent some books."

A maidservant entered carrying a carved wooden box, her footsteps as light as if afraid to shatter the moonlight on the ground.

The box contained several ancient books, with the cover of the top book, "Admonitions for Women," having a worn, yellowish patina.

Li Muyang's fingertips brushed against the spine of the book, and he suddenly burst out laughing. The laughter echoed in the empty living room, sounding particularly desolate.

"Are they trying to get me out of this bad habit?"

She turned and walked toward the chessboard, the black and white pieces clinking between her fingers. "Go tell the head of the family (father) that if he truly believes women should be manipulated like chess pieces, he might as well play a game with me himself."

If he can truly change the "fine traditions" that the Li family has inherited for thousands of years, then I concede defeat in this round!

"Hehehe~~~~"

........

"You've come!" Li Muyang looked at Chu Ming, whose expression was cold and indifferent.

The guards who had been following them tactfully left, surrounding the villa in layers.

"Do you know that the Li family sacrificed three industries to plead for you in order to protect you?" Chu Ming's voice was indifferent, as if he were talking about something that had nothing to do with him.

"Do I know?"

Li Muyang raised her eyes, her gaze sparkling. "I know that my father used me to buy himself three months of respite, and that my brothers and sisters raised their glasses in celebration in the ancestral hall, saying, 'Luckily, I'm a girl,' and 'Luckily, we didn't go all the way to the end.'"

As a descendant of royalty, the Li family's rivals have never been the 49 member families, but rather other families of equal standing!

Even if his attempt at "filth" fails, it will give other families an opportunity to seize a portion of his profits!

Not to mention the infighting within the family!

She placed her second piece, firmly blocking the white pieces' path. "Chu Ming, do you think I hate you?"

I only hate this world, where a man's mistakes are considered a matter of nature, but a woman's falling in love is seen as a sin.

"It's been like this for thousands of years!" Chu Ming said. "In this era, it took humanity thousands of years to evolve from a matriarchal society to a patriarchal society, and we were still in a primitive state. But it only took a few hundred years to go from primitive society to a civilized patriarchal society!"

"History is nothing more than a record made by subjective historians!" Li Muyang sincerely disagreed. "However, this time, I lost, and I admit defeat!"

"Perhaps it's the fate of the women from the Li and Wu families!" Li Muyang shook his head and smiled.

Since Wu Zetian stepped onto the historical stage as the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, she has instilled in the daughters of the Li and Wu families endless self-reliance, self-confidence and independence!

When it comes to gender equality, the Li family is definitely the earliest and most steadfast one!

However, this is both their strength and their weakness!

"I do love you a little!"