Xu Lai wasted no more words, wiping him out with a single thought.

Jiang Fu's body instantly vaporized into a cloud of blood mist. The pungent, bloody stench filled the air, causing Su Daiyi, who was standing nearby, to double over and vomit.

Duan Yan froze, his pupils contracting rapidly.

Seventh Grade Martial Ancestor Jiang Fu… is dead?! And Xu Lai didn't even attack…

Duan Yan stammered in terror, "Who… Who in the world are you?!"

"I'm just an ordinary person."

Xu Lai glanced at the time. It was already eight o'clock. He frowned slightly, remembering he had important business to attend to that night. He then asked, "Where's your trump card?"

"..."

This disdainful attitude. This arrogant posture.

Duan Yan, who had never suffered such humiliation, felt his eyes fill with bloodshot veins. "Since you're seeking death, don't blame me."

Duan Yan took a piece of cloth from inside his robes. It was densely engraved with various runes. He snarled, "This is a Thunder Forbidden Curse Scroll. Today, you will die!"

"Hurry up and use it," Xu Lai said impatiently.

Beside himself with anger, Duan Yan ripped the scroll apart, a cruel expression on his face. "Since you seek death, I'll grant your wish!"

RUMBLE!

Dark clouds had already gathered over East Sea City, threatening a torrential downpour. Now, the sky exploded with flashes of lightning and deafening thunder. Directly above the construction site, the clouds churned violently as a terrifying brightness began to converge within them.

This was no longer mere lightning.

This was Heavenly Thunder!

「Outside the construction site」

Ruan Lan and the other two women had run across the road. The tall Yu Xiaoxiao stopped in her tracks, gaping. "Is… is that a heavenly tribulation?"

"We're lucky we got out," Li Li said, sounding as if she'd had a narrow escape.

"Oh no, my brother-in-law is still in there!" Ruan Lan's expression changed dramatically. She spun around and started running back, and neither Yu Xiaoxiao nor Li Li could stop her.

Meanwhile, the person Ruan Lan was worried about, Xu Lai, was looking up at the condensing Heavenly Thunder. A world-ending pressure spread out, causing the ordinary Su Daiyi and Old Jiang Ba's vision to go black as they nearly fainted.

"HAHAHAHA!" Duan Yan laughed in astonished delight, his eyes filled with a crazed obsession. "This is a Thunder Element scroll I acquired from the West at a great price! Once it fully condenses, all Martial Artists below the early Ninth Grade will be utterly annihilated!"

Xu Lai's eyes lit up. "Heh, you've actually got something interesting there."

Duan Yan laughed triumphantly. Xu Lai is finally afraid!

"If clouds and rainbows can be eaten, then this thunder should be edible too, right?" Xu Lai mused, stroking his chin.

Duan Yan: ???

Just as Duan Yan was wondering if Xu Lai had been scared witless, the Heavenly Thunder finished charging. A bolt of Heavenly Thunder, a hundred feet thick and carrying the might to destroy the world, crashed down with a roar!

Duan Yan's expression turned cruel. Although the Jiang Family wanted you taken alive, Jiang Fu is already dead. You will die today too!

"It's over."

Scared out of their wits, Su Daiyi and Old Jiang Ba collapsed to the ground, staring blankly at the blinding light in the sky. We're going to die.

Su Daiyi, however, suddenly turned to look at Xu Lai and smiled sweetly. Dying with him isn't so bad, she thought. At least I'll have company on the Netherworld Road.

But then she grew puzzled. Why did Mr. Xu open his mouth?

To her utter astonishment, she saw Xu Lai swallow the terrifying Heavenly Thunder in a single gulp!

"..."

The site fell into an eerie silence.

Unlike the ordinary Su Daiyi and Old Jiang Ba, Duan Yan was keenly aware of the terror of this Thunder Forbidden Curse. He was so shocked his jaw nearly dropped.

"You… you ate it?" Duan Yan said in disbelief.

"Yeah, it tasted pretty good. Had the taste of first love," Xu Lai said, tilting his chin up. "Bring me two more. I want to take them back for my daughter and wife to try."

This is a damn Thunder Forbidden Curse, not some roadside cabbage! Duan Yan thought frantically. A forbidden curse scroll on the black market costs a fortune, leaving military missiles in the dust. After all, you can intercept a missile, but you can't intercept a forbidden curse!

Duan Yan's lips trembled. He knew the Jiang Family had provoked a powerhouse they couldn't afford to offend, and he'd been dragged into it. He mentally cursed the Yanjing Jiang Family's ancestors back eighteen generations. Still not satisfied, he went back a hundred.

"Don't tell me that's all you've got," Xu Lai's tone became blunt.

"There's… no more," Duan Yan said cautiously.

"Oh."

Xu Lai responded with a flat "Oh." Instantly, Duan Yan's body dissipated like a wisp of smoke, scattering in the wind.

Xu Lai turned his gaze to the dark clouds in the sky and said calmly, "Get out here."

RUMBLE!

The dark clouds churned, their aura terrifying, as if chastising Xu Lai for his impertinence.

Xu Lai smiled amiably.

He reached up and yanked, pulling two bolts of Heavenly Thunder from the massive cloud formed by the forbidden curse. They were even thicker than the first one. Feeling that wasn't enough, he reached up and pulled out a third.

As the three bolts of Heavenly Thunder were extracted, the huge dark cloud wilted. Deprived of its essence, it tried to drift away, but Xu Lai simply transformed it into a stick of cloud candy.

Plus three sticks of Heavenly Thunder candy.

Only then did Xu Lai reveal a warm, fatherly smile. "I wonder if Yiyi will like this flavor."

"..."

Su Daiyi and Old Jiang Ba exchanged glances, the shock and awe in their hearts beyond description.

Xu Lai… He's truly an immortal! Swallowing Heavenly Thunder was one thing, but pulling it out of the sky with his bare hands… Su Daiyi felt like her brain was about to crash.

"Brother-in-law!" At that moment, a choked voice came from nearby. It was Ruan Lan.

Tears streamed down her face, but upon seeing Xu Lai safe and sound, she broke into a relieved smile. "Brother-in-law, you're not dead! You scared me to death!"

Feeling a headache coming on, Xu Lai replied, "I'll try my best to die next time…"

But unless Xu Lai chose to pass on willingly, there was no one in the entire Universe who could kill him. In fact, very few could even harm him.

Ignoring the dissipating heavenly phenomena, Ruan Lan grabbed Xu Lai's arm and started running. "Let's get out of here, it's dangerous!"

"Alright." Xu Lai looked over at Old Jiang Ba and Su Daiyi and said lightly, "They were targeting me. Sorry for getting you two involved."

"Not at all, not at all!" Old Jiang Ba shook his head repeatedly, while Su Daiyi cast an envious glance at Ruan Lan's hand holding Xu Lai's arm.

If only she could be that close to Xu Lai as well…

After the group left the construction site, Ruan Lan's eyes darted over to Su Daiyi. "By the way, brother-in-law, who are they?"

I didn't have time to ask when our lives were on the line, she thought. But now that we're safe, as her younger sister, it's my duty to make sure he's not cheating on my sister, the main wife.

"This is Su Daiyi, from the Su Family in Hangcheng, and he is Old Jiang Ba, from Liu City…"

Before Xu Lai could finish, Ruan Lan's face fell. "So, he's the Eighth Master, my rumored boyfriend?"

??? Old Jiang Ba was completely bewildered. What's going on? Since when did I become Mr. Xu's sister-in-law's rumored boyfriend? Which bastard is trying to frame me?!

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