Chapter 9—Silent Strike.
"No, the marriage contract must be dismissed; I'll change it to another one. In the future, Holy Sword Sect will help me once," Mu Chen changed his condition, rubbing his forehead.
He couldn't think of a better condition, so he decided to leave it for the future.
"Xiao Ying, accept it," Li Yang said, believing it was very good compared to giving a Divine Candidate token.
"Good; from now on, our marriage contract is officially dismissed," Mu Chen declared, as he walked to Mu Patriarch.
Seeing Mu Chen coming towards him, he tried to get up, as he didn't want to be looked down on by Mu Chen, but he failed.
Mu Chen extended his arm, reducing the pressure on Mu Patriarch for final respect to the man, for he did help him when he was still a genius.
He stood up and shouted ferociously, "This isn't your powe—" But… he was cut short as… thud… his legs hit the ground, kneeling down as Mu Chen increased his pressure again.
"Give me the contract," Mu Chen said coldly, looking down at Mu Patriarch.
Mu Patriarch took the marriage contract from his storage ring and gave it to him with his trembling hands due to the pressure.
Grr!
Mu Chen's hands emitted flames; the contract was burned to ash. He then walked over to Le Yang.
"I'll let you go if you make a heavenly vow that you and your Holy Sword Sect will not come after me or my family," Mu Chen said with a grin; he looked at the ferocious eyes of Le Yang.
"Damn it." Le Yang was expecting him to let them go; then he would take revenge in the future. And Holy Sword Sect wouldn't fulfill the three conditions!
"Very well. I, Le Yang, hereby take a solemn vow, with the heavens as the guarantee, that I and Holy Sword Sect will not harm Mu Chen and his family," Le Yang made the vow under the careful eye of Mu Chen.
A ray of light fell on Le Yang from the heavens, and it turned into a chain around him.
The chain tightened around him and then disappeared.
"Add 'directly or indirectly' and take another vow," Mu Chen said, trying to spot any hate in his eyes.
Le Yang's eyes jerked; he wanted to contact assassins to kill him, but his plan failed before he could even put it into action.
"I…" He made another vow.
Another chain formed around his body.
And then Liu Ying made the vow.
After she made the vow, Mu Chen asked, "I think you know what a heavenly vow is? You won't dare to attack, right?"
"I know it! Heavenly vow is a vow made by a practitioner to another practitioner, with heavens as witness; unless the practitioner has power to overcome Heavenly Dao, he or she won't dare to break it," Liu Ying explained, so that Mu Chen would let her go.
He smiled and turned his head to end things with Zhen Jie. But he wasn't in the room at all!
'Wait, where did he go?' Mu Chen looked around the entire room, but he was nowhere to be found.
A few minutes back…
'I have to reduce his luck and weaken him. He doesn't hesitate to kill people; I don't think he will leave me alive. System, open the shop menu. I would like to buy,' he shouted in his mind.
The most powerful weapon of the system is the shop menu, which allows users to buy anything from the heavens!
System replied in a panicking tone, "No… I cannot open the shop; you cannot buy from me right now."
"Why?" Zhen Jie asked, his eyes enlarged due to the tense situation.
He knew that only with the shop menu could he turn the situation around.
The system replied; its tone still had a hint of worry in it: "The moment host came into contact with the Son of Destiny, we are under the watchful eye of Heavenly Dao."
"So what—does it make any difference?" Zhen Jie asked, as he had already killed a Child of Destiny before; Heavenly Dao didn't do anything to them.
System clarified, "You are a person of this world; if you kill a Child of Destiny, it doesn't matter much. But I am the one helping you and hiding within you; Heavenly Dao doesn't know of my existence. It is watching carefully over you because already predicted that someone is helping you out. And the shop works in a unique way, due to which it cannot be used under Heavenly Dao's vision."
"When you pay luck points and villain points to me, I will use the power generated from those points and stealthe objects you want from a practitioner who has them."
"The stronger the weapon, elixir, and armour you want, the costlier the price. Afterall, the one who owns them are even more powerful, and it takes more power to steal from them," System finally explained how its shop works.
He couldn't believe it and exclaimed, "It means you are stealing from another practitioner; you don't have anything in you."
System mocked him, "Yes, I don't have anything in me, and why do you think a system carries everything in it? We only steal everything by using your power of luck and negative emotions. Due to this, heaven will notice if I steal."
"Is there no way to turn the situation around?" he asked System, as he couldn't tolerate prostration, much less in front of a Son of Destiny.
System stayed silent for a few moments and replied, "There is a way, but it's very costly."
"How much does it cost?" Zhen Jie asked, ready to spend half savings to turn the situation around.
"If you allow me to use 1,000,000 villain points and 20,000 luck points, I can let you turn the situation around," The System calculated the cost.
"What? That much?" Zhen Jie was utterly overwhelmed.
He was expecting that it would be costly, as system stated; and he was ready to spend. But it was close to his full savings; he never expected that.
"Damn it. Damn it," Zhen Jie was screaming. After a few moments, he decided.
"Mu Chen already has more than 10,000 luck points; it would be possible for me to recover half of the luck spent. And it's my face which is far more important, and points can be earned in the future." He calculated his actions and agreed to spend.
His body shone with a golden light and disappeared from Mu Chen's domain. Since the system spent luck as well, Mu Chen didn't know Zhen Jie's disappearance.
Back to the present…
'Where could he go? Where could he be? I don't have much time.' Mu Chen looked at everyone and mused for a moment.
"Zhen Jie's target should be related to me, and it is… Dad." Mu Chen, understanding the next move, rushed to his courtyard. He ran fast.
The only thing he had was his father, so it was easy to find.
He quickly reached his courtyard and entered, but he was too late, as he is not a practitioner.
Though his domain can help him kill even a Rank 5 cultivator like an ant, he's still a human—an ordinary human without cultivation; he doesn't have speed comparable to even Rank 1.
He quickly entered his father's room. The moment he pushed the door and entered—
"Kkekkeke." Zhen Jie's laughter echoed through the entire room.
End of the chapter. ________________________________
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