I risked my life, using the butterfly effect to shatter the immortal realm.

boom!

A hundred feet away, the mound evaporated into thin air.

The rotten coffin board, mixed with black mud, was hit by a foul-smelling downpour.

The empty grave was filled with a deathly stillness.

Yu Liang didn't move.

He stared at the piglet in his arms, his eyes even more greedy than the lightning outside.

The pink-skinned little beast had just gnawed off the divine sense mark on his wrist, let out a burp, and exhaled a faint black smoke ring.

That was a bone-deep infection left by a Golden Core cultivator, now turned into pig's snack.

"Exquisite".

Yu Liang ran his fingertips across the piglet's warm chin.

The piglet grunted, its wet nose rubbing against my palm, clearly not full.

"Don't rush." ​​Yu Liang looked up, his gaze piercing through the gaps in the withered grass, locking onto the arrogant golden figure in mid-air. "There's a big guy up there, big enough to make you burst."

Mid-air.

The golden shuttle atop Master Huanglong's head emitted a burst of light, tearing the night to shreds.

Can't find it?

Then plow the land three feet deep.

"Monster! Show yourself!"

The roar, mixed with spiritual pressure, caused Su Xiu's eardrums to bleed.

She covered her ears, shrank behind Yu Liang, and muttered tremblingly, "How can that old bastard have such a loud voice... If I deafen him, won't he have to pay compensation...?"

Sudden.

A streak of icy blue sword light surged upwards against the current.

Ling Qingxuan did not leave.

The sword light was thin, revealing a foolishness akin to a moth drawn to a flame.

"Huanglong! There are still villagers guarding the tombs here. How dare you kill them indiscriminately! What do you think of the laws of Heaven?!"

His voice trembled; he was at his last gasp.

A cruel smile curled at the corner of Huanglong Zhenren's lips: "Heavenly law? My act of eliminating demons and protecting the righteous path is Heaven's will!"

The golden shuttle transformed into lightning, piercing straight into the icy blue.

boom!

Ling Qingxuan's protective sword energy shattered, and he fell down like a kite with a broken string.

The landing point was directly opposite the empty grave where Yu Liang was hiding.

Yu Liang sighed, "That woman is as stubborn as the grass on this grave."

He didn't dodge.

This woman cannot die now; she is the last "pawn that has crossed the river" to restrain Huanglong.

Bang.

Ling Qingxuan was smashed in the mud in front of the grave, his neat official robes now stained with the stench of death.

The long sword, symbolizing the majesty of the Suspended Mirror Bureau, slipped from his hand and became lodged diagonally in the rotten wood.

She dug her fingers into the soil and coughed up a mouthful of black blood.

Corrosive and malevolent.

Ling Qingxuan's face was deathly pale, and dark energy gathered between his brows.

It’s over.

Just as despair began, an annoying voice rang out overhead.

"Oh, Your Excellency, this place has bad feng shui; it's easy to have nightmares. Are you planning to go to sleep already?"

Ling Qingxuan suddenly opened his eyes.

Through my blurred vision, I saw the swindler squatting in front of me.

His clothes were tattered, and his left hand was translucent, like a piece of cheap crystal.

In his arms, he was also holding a... pig?

"you……"

"Don't move." Yu Liang pressed a finger on her shoulder. "The poison is attacking your heart. Even if a celestial being came, they'd have to collect your body before they could even talk about saving you."

"Get out..." Ling Qingxuan gritted his teeth.

She would rather die at the hands of this scoundrel than live as a ghost.

Yu Liang ignored her, lowered his head and patted the piglet's bottom, speaking as if coaxing his own child: "Piglet, it's time to eat. This is fine, tender food from the government, so be mindful of your table manners."

The piglet was brought up in front of Ling Qingxuan.

The pink and moist pig nose was less than half an inch away from that cool and beautiful face.

The smell of swill and mud hit Ling Qingxuan's nostrils.

Shame and indignation surged to the top of my head.

A scholar can be killed but not humiliated!

He actually sent a pig to humiliate him?!

"You dare—"

Open your mouth.

Yu Liang grabbed her chin and forced the pig's snout against her.

Su Xiu, watching from the side, gasped in shock and stamped her feet in distress: "Hey! Take it easy! This pig just ate that old Taoist's mark and hasn't even digested it yet. What if it gets poisoned to death by this woman? This is our only possession right now!"

"Don't worry, Pigsy has a good appetite."

Yu Liang didn't turn his head back.

call.

The pig's snout opened, and a strange suction force erupted.

Ling Qingxuan felt a chill between his brows.

The chilling, malevolent energy surging within his body actually flowed out from between his eyebrows and was completely swallowed by that pig's snout.

*Smack.* *Smack.*

The piglets ate with great relish, their saliva dripping onto Ling Qingxuan's high, straight nose.

In just three breaths, the excruciating pain subsided.

The piglet burped contentedly and licked Ling Qingxuan's cheek with lingering satisfaction, leaving a glistening, sticky trail of moisture.

Ling Qingxuan froze.

My mind went completely blank.

The 20-year-old belief in cultivation has been shattered into pieces.

What saved her was neither a magic pill nor a master's teachings.

It is a pig.

"Not bad, right?" Yu Liang smiled as he carried the pig back, casually wiping its snout on Ling Qingxuan's priceless ice silk official robe. "It's only because of you that this pig is willing to serve anyone else."

"Found it!!!"

A furious roar came from above.

The fleeting glimmer of life just now was particularly dazzling amidst the pile of corpses.

hum!

The pressure of divine sense enveloped an area of ​​ten miles.

This time, it's truly locked down.

Ling Qingxuan's expression changed drastically. He forced himself to grab the broken sword and tried to get up.

"Using me to lure him down?" Her eyes were icy as she stared at Yu Liang. "A clever tactic."

Yu Liang didn't look at her; he looked up at the sky.

The Cloud Shuttle is poised to launch, and the aura of destruction is gathering.

"Sir, if I wanted you dead, I could have just watched." Yu Liang shrugged, and the transparent arm swayed. "Now, the one upstairs is going to turn us into roast pigs."

Ling Qingxuan scrutinized the man, who seemed so weak he could vanish at any moment.

"Yu Liang, who exactly are you? What is the purpose of all this?"

Yu Liang lowered his head and looked at his almost completely transparent right arm.

The bones were stark white, and the tendons were twisted.

"Lord Ling, don't ask such a stupid question."

"See? I'm disappearing."

"I don't have time to talk to you about national righteousness, nor do I have time to care about the laws of nature and justice."

Yu Liang's lips curled into a self-deprecating smile, but his eyes were as cold as ice, revealing the ruthlessness of a desperate criminal.

"I just want to live."

"But this world won't even let me live as a beggar."

"Since it's sick, it still wants to drag me down with it..."

He suddenly looked up, his eyes flashing with the madness of a gambler going all in.

"Then I'll flip this table over and see what filth is hidden underneath! I want things to be the way they are, even if it means wiping them with these dirty hands!"

Ling Qingxuan was stunned.

There were no grand pronouncements, no lofty righteousness.

It's just a raw will to survive and hysteria after being driven to the brink.

It is more powerful than any logic.

"Su Xiu, let's go, don't get splattered with blood."

Yu Liang turned around, picked up the pig, and pulled Su Xiu, who was still worried about whether the pig had eaten something bad, into the tomb-raiding hole deep inside the empty grave.

Ling Qingxuan stared at that figure from behind.

The phrase "I just want to live" kept echoing in my mind.

"return!"

These two words were squeezed out from between his teeth.

At the entrance of the tomb, Yu Liang poked half his head out, his face once again bearing that cynical smile: "You've come to a decision? So, sir, you're going to repay my life-saving grace by marrying me?"

"If you survive... don't die at someone else's hands."

Ling Qingxuan gripped the broken sword tightly. "Your head is already reserved by the Suspended Mirror Bureau. One day, I will personally sever you, this scourge of chaos."

Yu Liang smiled and waved his transparent hand.

"Whatever you like. Whatever you prefer."

……

Mid-air.

Huanglong Zhenren's eyes turned bloodshot, and he crushed the magic seal.

"Go to hell!!"

The Cloud Shuttle crashed down, determined to turn the mass grave into scorched earth.

Just then.

The ground in the mass grave bulged out strangely.

It wasn't like an explosion; it was like the earth letting out a burp.

puff--

A muffled thud.

An intensely dense green mist gushed forth from the carefully chosen point in Yu Liang's plan.

The underground swamp gas, accumulated for centuries, is mixed with the highly toxic fumes from the decaying corpses.

While eating the mark, Pig Master casually nudged those weak points a few times, which were the "causes" that Yu Liang had already spotted.

The methane eruption struck a lightning strike.

Boom! ...

A pale green mushroom cloud rose slowly above the mass grave.

That wasn't fire, it was plague, the most vile retaliation from the mortal realm.

Determined to succeed, Huanglong Zhenren plunged headlong into the green cloud.

"vomit--!!!"

The golden elixir protecting the body emitted a sizzling light under the intense poison.

The stench seeped into his pores, making him dizzy and causing tears and snot to stream down his face.

Even more critically, the shockwave completely disrupted the airflow.

He swayed in the air like a fly with broken wings.

"Bastard! Bastard!!!"

Huanglong Zhenren was filled with impotent rage within the green mist.

He, a dignified Golden Core cultivator, was actually ambushed by a mortal using such vulgar and trivial methods!

Ten feet underground.

In the dried-up underground riverbed.

Three disheveled figures were propelled forward by the shockwave, rolling like gourds on the ground.

Yu Liang stayed behind, protecting Su Xiu with all his might.

Ling Qingxuan stumbled along, her hair disheveled, her face smeared with black ash.

Where is there even a trace of official demeanor left?

She turned around, listening to the angry roar coming from above, her heart pounding.

Pigs, manure pits, biogas.

That mortal used the dirtiest thing in the world to crush a Golden Core cultivator to the ground.

Is this his counterattack?

Absurd, despicable, yet... damnably effective.

"Don't stand there!" Yu Liang's heavy breathing came through the air. "The exit of the underground river is ahead, jump!"

Looking at the dark, bottomless river before her, Su Xiu's legs trembled. "I'm not jumping! It's too dirty! And I'm afraid of water..."

"It's better to die a dirty death than to be struck by lightning and turned to ashes!"

Yu Liang grabbed her, giving her no chance to hesitate, "Hold on tight to the pig! That's our lifeline!"

"Yu Liang, you bastard! If you dare lose the pig, I'll throw you down into the water to feed the fish!"

Su Xiu screamed, but instinctively hugged the piglet in her arms tightly, while her other hand gripped Yu Liang's collar tightly.

The water roared.

Three people and a pig plunged into the icy groundwater.

In the darkness, Yu Liang could feel Su Xiu trembling.

But he felt the piglet in his arms getting hotter.

By the faint light of the water, he saw faint golden lines appearing on the piglet's pink skin.

Ancient and mysterious.

Having ingested swamp gas and malevolent energy, this thing... has evolved?

A warm current flowed back up the pig's body.

Yu Liang's transparent arm, which was about to disappear completely, slowly grew a trace of flesh and blood in the water.

A smile tugged at the corner of his lips.

In the icy cold river water, he felt as if he had come back to life a little.

In this round, the dealer won all the points.