Supreme Emptiness-Chapter 54: Getting Caught in One’s Own Web

Just as he grabbed the wooden sword, ready to take it away.

Jiang Fan suddenly activated the Thunder Strike effect in the wooden sword.

A powerful current immediately surged into Zhu Jianshen’s body.

He screamed in pain and then went stiff on the spot.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Jiang Fan swept across, kicking him onto the wooden frame and said, "Tie him up!"

The servants immediately stepped forward, tying him up tightly to the pig slaughtering rack.

By the time he regained consciousness, his hands and feet were already immobilized. He could only roar with anger: "Let me down! Let me down now!"

Jiang Fan ignored him and ordered him to be moved to the stove rack for roasting.

The intense heat made him scream incessantly: "What do you intend to do to me?"

Jiang Fan calmly said, "Of course, it’s to cure you."

"However, a key material is still needed."

He opened the bundle Zhu Jianshen had brought back and found the golden Soul-stealing Thorns.

He couldn’t help but be slightly stunned.

"Where are the bronze thorns?"

A servant said helplessly, "The Young Master found it too cheap, so he threw it away on the way back."

Jiang Fan reluctantly picked up the Soul-stealing Thorns and walked up to Zhu Jianshen.

"No choice, you threw away the Iron Blood Thorns, so we’ll have to use this to treat you."

Seeing this item, Zhu Jianshen was terrified, his face turning ashen.

"Wait! You’re going to use Soul-stealing Thorns to treat me? Do you know what this is? It will kill people!"

Apparently, he recognized the item and knew its terrifying nature.

Jiang Fan displayed a playful expression: "Oh? Young Master Zhu, weren’t you competing with me for this? Weren’t you planning to use it to treat yourself?"

"I thought you knew its medicinal effects."

What?

Zhu Jianshen’s face turned as red as a pig’s liver.

He spent a huge amount of money to grab these thorns, only to find out they were for the No.1 Shadow Guard!

This made him feel extremely aggrieved!

But what terrified him...

...was that this thing was going to be used on him!

The worst part...

...was that he had thrown away the less painful Iron Blood Thorns and kept only the Soul-stealing Thorns!

"No.1 Shadow Guard, I’m warning you, stay away, stay away..."

"Ah!!!"

As Jiang Fan pressed the Soul-stealing Thorns onto him, he immediately felt spiritual pain.

It was as if a sharp knife was wildly stirring in his soul.

The pain was ten times worse than a physical knife wound.

He instantly let out a pig-like scream, convulsing and twitching violently in extreme agony.

Zhang Yuxiu was tormented by the sound, just about to call for a stop, when she noticed black liquid seeping from Zhu Jianshen’s skin.

Under the high heat of the stove, it gradually evaporated into black gas and dissipated.

This method actually worked!

She gritted her teeth and held back her heartbreak, covering her ears and turning her back: "Shen, hold on, it will be over soon!"

At first, Zhu Jianshen could still scream.

But as the treatment progressed, the pain left him unable to even cry out.

He kept twitching all over, foaming at the mouth.

The pain he had endured in his entire life was nothing compared to this moment!

Ye Qingxue looked on, amazed.

Even those sentenced to death by lingchi didn’t suffer as much as Zhu Jianshen, right?

However, it was deserved.

He paid a little bit for plotting against the Chen Family Master.

An hour later.

Jiang Fan finally stopped as no more black drops seeped from Zhu Jianshen’s body.

"Alright, the corpse poison is removed!"

Zhang Yuxiu hurriedly had someone lower Zhu Jianshen.

Watching her son, barely alive and twisted in pain, looking almost unrecognizable, she cried in pain.

With trembling fingers, Zhu Jianshen weakly pointed at Jiang Fan and said, "Get... rid... of... him..."

Jiang Fan shrugged and said, "Sorry, Young Master Zhu, but I’m afraid I won’t be leaving anytime soon."

"Because I still need to collect Fire Spirit Pearls from your Zhu Family’s thousand-year-old well!"

What?

The Zhu Family was actually giving him Fire Spirit Pearls?

Despite torturing me like this, the Zhu Family still intended to gift him Fire Spirit Pearls?

"You... you..."

Already mentally scarred, Zhu Jianshen couldn’t handle such a blow and fainted on the spot in anger.

The Zhu Family members were thrown into chaos!

After checking on him, Zhang Yuxiu sighed in relief, finding no serious issues.

She said to Jiang Fan, "Thank you, Divine Doctor. The corpse poison is completely gone. My son will recover soon."

"Come with me."

Led by her, Jiang Fan came to the forbidden area of the Zhu Family, the Fire Well.

The well was very deep.

And the bottom was very spacious, not small at all compared to the Zhu Family mansion.

"Be careful with your steps when you go down," Zhang Yuxiu reminded, "Every time we collect Fire Spirit Pearls, we lose some manpower."

Is that so?

Jiang Fan looked down and saw that the bottom of the well seemed very calm.

Except for being somewhat warm, there was nothing special.

Zhang Yuxiu grabbed a handful of stones and threw them down.

One of the stones just landed when a pool of red-hot magma appeared below, instantly swallowing the stone.

Jiang Fan’s pupils slightly contracted.

Zhang Yuxiu stared at him, "If you’re too afraid to go down, you can wait a few days until our Zhu Family finishes collecting."

"If there are any, we can give you one."

"If not, we’ll compensate you with something else, how about it?"

What a calculation, trying to bluff him away.

If Jiang Fan wasn’t there, how would he know if the Zhu Family had collected any?

If they collected any and hid them, giving him something random, what could he do about it?

"No need, I’ll go down myself."

Jiang Fan said calmly.

With movement techniques, even if he accidentally stepped into the magma, he could quickly dodge.

Zhang Yuxiu looked displeased and said, "Then be careful."

She didn’t reveal any more details about the Fire Well and went back to check on her son.

Ye Qingxue worriedly said, "Young Master Jiang, you must be careful. This Fire Well has indeed claimed many lives."

"Don’t worry." Jiang Fan leaped down.

Using his movement technique, he began searching at the bottom of the well.

The area near the wellhead had been searched countless times by the Zhu Family and was long devoid of Fire Spirit Pearls.

To find any, he had to go to the deepest part where the Zhu Family dared not venture.

Time ticked by.

Jiang Fan still hadn’t come up.

Meanwhile, a recuperating Zhu Jianshen began to wake up.

After the corpse poison was removed, his body was much better. With a few healing pills, he could get out of bed.

But currently, his concern wasn’t for his body.

It was whether Jiang Fan had obtained any Fire Spirit Pearls.

"Mother, why did you let the No.1 Shadow Guard go to the Fire Well? The three Fire Spirit Pearls this time, I promised them to Senior Brother Zhong from the Inner Sect."

"With his care, I can prosper in the Green Cloud Sect."

Zhang Yuxiu frowned and said, "There’s no need to worry."

"The Fire Well has been harvested over the years, and places that can still produce Fire Spirit Pearls are very few."

"The safest place is quite hidden, he may not find it."

"As for the deepest part, even your father dared not venture there."

"Him going there is asking for death."

Zhu Jianshen felt slightly at ease.

But he still wasn’t reassured: "Let’s go to the well to keep an eye on things!"

"Otherwise, he might take out his frustration on the well and ruin our family’s treasure."

Zhang Yuxiu was startled: "How did I forget about that? Let’s go and check immediately."

Deep in the well.

Jiang Fan stood in front of a rock wall, looking intrigued.

As he walked, other rock walls were covered with thick magma dust accumulated over the years.

But this particular rock wall had noticeably less dust, looking quite out of place.

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