That phrase "chase her" was the most peculiar, as it unexpectedly gave Xu Shu a strong desire to follow the other’s suggestion, wanting to hunt down the beautiful woman first—in fact, because everything happened too quickly, the young beautiful woman hadn’t even had time to react and flee, she remained foolishly in place.
When she realized she wanted to escape half a second later, Xu Shu had already torn apart the space cage and pressed her waist down onto the ground, binding her once again into a bundle.
He really did as the other instructed, "chased the beautiful woman" first!
Since they were close enough, he caught her directly on the spot, barely wasting any time.
The tiger-faced man saw this and cursed under his breath at the useless waste, then ran faster to escape.
What he used was the ’Prison Director’ special skill, ’Incite’!
Incite can, through mental suggestion, manipulate the enemy to make judgments and actions that are more beneficial to oneself to some extent.
For example, just now, Xu Shu under this mental suggestion subconsciously captured the obviously weaker, lower-priority young beautiful woman instead, giving the tiger-faced man the opportunity to escape.
If it were an ordinary person facing this unexpected series of moves, they really would have allowed him to escape.
Even if he could catch up later, it would certainly waste some effort.
Seeing that the enemy was about to escape the tower, rushing towards the outside town.
Once he truly leaves here with the special ability ’Shadow Stealth’, it would be like a bird soaring in the sky or a fish swimming in the sea, unrestrained.
However, Xu Shu didn’t show any signs of urgency.
He smiled faintly and uttered a word: "Explode!"
With that demonic whisper, the tiger-faced man who should have been able to escape detached from his ’shadow’ state with a bang, trembling on the ground.
His already smashed body was now covered with black web-like cracks, his internal organs and flesh began to corrode, revealing large patches of decay.
It was the ’Black Widow’s’ ’gaze’ toxin!
Xu Shu was extremely cautious, even after suppressing the enemy, he still planted the ’gaze’ toxin in their bodies through prolonged eye contact.
The explosive power of ’gaze’ is actually not very high, especially when dealing with a Third Rank Late Stage expert, it is somewhat inadequate, rather forgettable.
It can’t directly kill the tiger-faced man, instead, he was able to forcefully suppress the toxin’s spread and corrosion by desperately swallowing a large amount of pills.
However, the effect was sufficient.
Within those two seconds, Xu Shu leapt forward, appearing in front of the man.
"No! Stop!"
Seeing Xu Shu approaching with terrifying momentum, the tiger-faced man hurriedly shouted, "Stop! I give up! No matter what you ask I’ll confess, spare me!"
He was indeed decisive, seeing his escape plan failed, he knelt immediately, adopting a submissive posture.
What a pity.
He misunderstood his enemy’s temperament.
"Old thing, you were given a chance."
Xu Shu’s eyes cold and emotionless, raised his elbow mercilessly.
This time, he didn’t hold back, delivering several powerful punches, shaking the entire Town Mayor Mansion several meters down, smashing the tiger-faced man into a pulpy mess, dead beyond recovery.
Coincidentally, his position now almost overlapped with the previous spot where Xu Shu caught him; it was a fated second death.
Xu Shu conveniently twisted off the mask on the man’s body—this mask had a peculiar design, resembling a tiger whose abdomen had been split open by a slide tackle. And hanging in its heart’s position was a concealed upgrade drive (after appearance transformation).
Back inside the increasingly crumbling tower, Xu Shu looked at the beautiful woman with interest, saying, "Only you are left. Are you going to try and escape?"
"..." The young beautiful woman swallowed, staring at Xu Shu dumbly.
After hesitating for a moment, she shook her head like a rattle, saying in terror and despair, "Not running, not running. Whatever the Master wants to ask, feel free to ask, even if it’s caustic I can tell, I just want to stay alive, hope Master will spare me!"
Saying this, the beautiful woman thoughtfully picked up the broken rope and tied a knot to reconnect it, then proceeded to bind herself with a Turtle Shell Binding.
Tighter than before.
"Slap!"
Xu Shu slapped her right cheek hard, causing her entire face to swell high, and cursed: "Get lost, who wants lye for you? What lingering charm does a faded flower imagine to seduce me, do you match up? Answer honestly, if you dare to have any little thoughts, you know what the consequences are."
"Yes, yes! Dare not hide!" The beautiful woman nodded fiercely, tears wetting her cheongsam dress, her third-tier middle stage expert’s figure revealed clearly.
Xiao Ya watched this scene from the rooftop, her gaze passed over the pair of heavy fruits on the beautiful woman’s body, thinking, Xu Shu truly lives up to being Yu Mingluan’s apprentice, not bending for beauty like this, indeed has a gentlemanly demeanor, didn’t misjudge him.
Just unsure why when he entered this relic, he bumped into me like that... cough cough!
Honestly, if Xu Shu hadn’t caught up with that person initially, I would have made a move too, wouldn’t let him escape.
In league with the ’Red Emperor Army’, who knows what they’re up to, perhaps they’re Voodoo’s subordinates?
Xiao Ya continued holding the ’Optical Prism’, invisibly, watching Xu Shu interrogate the enemy with great interest.
At this time, the young beautiful woman, who was already scared to death, no longer dared to have any lucky thoughts.
She confessed everything to Xu Shu without reservation.
After a phase of interrogation, Xu Shu was quite surprised.
He found out not only that the Red Emperor Army’s Holy Knight was a "familiar face," but these four guys with special animal masks were "acquaintances" too.
She, along with the tiger face, chicken face, and horse face, turned out to be high-ranking members of Penglai District’s dead cultivator special organization "Annihilation Association"!
Her alias was "Deep-Fried Mao Tu," the two initially sung dead by Narrow Sleeve Guanyin were "Suilu Wuma" and "Red-braised Chicken."
The strongest Third Rank Late Stage ’Prison Director’ was surprisingly the ’Executioner’ of Annihilation Association, "Abdominal Yin Tiger."
This trip was because they happened to be heading for Luling County, originally unwillingly to support the Red Emperor Army, having heard whom they offended.
En route, they received the news of the ’Four Sufferings Mysterious Sect’ surfacing, becoming exceedingly happy, eventually catching up with parts of the Red Emperor Army, joining them in exploring relics.
After all, as Penglai’s most famous relic, everyone knows about the Four Sufferings Mysterious Sect’s mountain-like treasures, crystallized into a sea, anyone with even a bit of strength wouldn’t want to miss such a great opportunity?
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