He took a step forward.
The ground seemed to tremble.
"Could it be a landslide?" Hu Zhicheng, sitting in the car, felt the tremor and was the first to think of this.
The next second, the ice that hadn't had time to approach Lin Xiao had turned into a sky full of ice crystals.
"This is your last chance." At this moment, Lin Xiao's clothes began to fluctuate violently with his true qi. Under the blood moon, he looked more like a newborn demon king, his eyes also flickering with light, but different from ordinary light, his eyes were filled with a golden glow: "Either confess, or..."
"I'll beat you to your knees and make you confess."
This aura...
As Lin Xiao's aura shifted, the cult leader's eyes changed.
For the first time, his eyes held a hint of panic.
This level of power... was no longer something the Earth Ranking experts could contend with!
He had always believed that over the years, his strength placed him within the top fifty of the Earth Ranking, but facing Lin Xiao now, he could only feel one thing – helplessness.
They were simply not from the same dimension.
Such a person now stood before him, offering him only two choices, yet he remained calm.
At least, he knew that no matter how desperate he became, he had no chance of defeating Lin Xiao.
His pupils darted. If he had any remaining leverage, it was the cult followers behind him. They were his hostages... Lin Xiao wouldn't...
As his gaze shifted, he saw Lin Xiao and Ming Yi's hands move almost in unison.
True qi flowed rapidly onto the cult followers, and countless silver needles were forced out from their heads.
The silver needles reflected light under the blood moon.
This was no longer an opponent he could resist, or even entertain any misguided thoughts about.
"I'll go with you."
The cult leader uttered the words he least wanted to say.
However, discretion was the better part of valor, and he had no desire to die.
He raised his head and looked at the blood moon in the sky: "What a pity..."
"Still regretting?" Lin Xiao raised an eyebrow. "You still want to absorb innate qi under the blood moon, trading a child's life for your youth and a decade of lifespan? Believe it or not, I'll send you on your way right now?"
As he spoke, Lin Xiao raised his hand. This old fellow showed no signs of repentance.
"So you know."
The cult leader grinned. "This cultivation technique is a top-secret inheritance of the Ning family. If one cannot comprehend the three skills and six texts, it's absolutely impossible to master... The three skills should be simple for you, and the six texts might take a little time, but not much... So, you can also comprehend this peerless secret art and hoard the innate qi for yourself!"
"..."
Lin Xiao was somewhat speechless at the cult leader's fanaticism, and filled with deep disgust. This man would do anything, no matter how wicked, for his own gain.
He then gestured to Ming Yi and said, "Tell him about its drawbacks."
"The Ning family completely destroyed this cultivation technique thirty years ago," Ming Yi said, looking at the man who was, by blood relation, his great-grandfather's generation, word by word. "Because this technique has enormous flaws."
"Flaws? What flaws?"