Turns Out, I’m In A Villain Clan! Chapter 670 Suppressing the Li Clan
Previously on Turns Out, I’m In A Villain Clan!...
Li Jianhong's expression instantly changed as he watched his elders fall one after another without any apparent reason.
"What happened?!"
None of the fallen elders had been struck.
No one had attacked them.
Yet they had collapsed simultaneously as though afflicted by some invisible curse.
Even Bai Ren's eyes flashed with surprise.
Initially, he hadn't understood what Bai Zihan was trying to accomplish by coming to the Li Clan with only him as company.
But now...
He finally understood where Bai Zihan's confidence came from.
(What did he use?)
Even Bai Ren couldn't understand.
Was it some kind of poison?
A poison that couldn't be detected?
That was the only explanation he could think of.
Li Jianhong arrived at the same conclusion almost instantly.
"It must be poison!"
Without the slightest hesitation, he flipped his hand.
A jade bottle appeared.
He immediately swallowed several antidote pills.
Grade-6 Detoxification Pills!
The highest-grade antidote the Li Clan possessed.
The surrounding elders reacted just as quickly.
One after another, they hurriedly consumed their own antidotes.
For a brief moment, relief appeared on many of their faces.
Since they had seen through Bai Zihan's trick, then there was nothing to fear.
However, the next moment—
"Ugh!"
Li Jianhong's pupils violently contracted.
A heart-piercing pain suddenly erupted from deep within his chest.
It was several times stronger than before.
His body stiffened.
Thud!
He fell heavily onto both knees.
Large beads of cold sweat instantly covered his forehead.
His breathing became ragged.
"W-What..."
"How..."
His face was filled with disbelief.
The Grade-6 Detoxification Pill was completely ineffective.
Impossible!
A Grade-6 antidote could neutralize virtually every poison below Grade 6.
Even if it encountered a Grade-7 poison, it should at least suppress its effects to a considerable degree.
Yet...
Nothing changed.
The pain continued to intensify.
It was as though he had swallowed nothing at all.
Around him, the other elders experienced exactly the same fate.
One after another, they collapsed onto the floor.
Cries of agony echoed throughout the hall.
"Aaaagh!"
"It still hurts!"
"My meridians..."
"What kind of poison is this?!"
No matter how desperately they circulated their Qi...
No matter how many antidotes they swallowed...
Nothing worked.
Within moments, every Li Clan expert who had cultivated the Heavenly Mandate Assimilation Art had collapsed.
Only two elders remained standing.
Both were Great Ascension Realm cultivators.
Both wore pale expressions as they instinctively retreated several steps.
Bai Zihan glanced at them before calmly withdrawing his gaze.
He didn't expect everyone to cultivate the Heavenly Mandate Assimilation Art.
Perhaps they had remained suspicious or perhaps they simply hadn't found the opportunity.
Either way, it didn't matter much.
Two Great Ascension Realm cultivators alone posed no threat whatsoever.
Even Bai Zihan himself could easily suppress them.
Not to mention, Bai Ren still stood quietly behind him.
This was precisely why Bai Zihan had brought Bai Ren with him, to deal with the individuals who had never cultivated the Heavenly Mandate Assimilation Art.
Meanwhile, Li Jianhong struggled to lift his head.
His eyes were bloodshot.
Fear, confusion and overwhelming fury filled his gaze.
He glared at Bai Zihan.
"You! What... did you do to us?!"
His voice was almost a roar.
Every elder inside the hall stared at Bai Zihan with the same question.
Bai Zihan merely smiled faintly.
"You don't need to know."
He calmly looked at everyone present.
"You only need to know one thing."
"Your lives are now in my hands. If I wish..."
"I can take them whenever I please."
Those words immediately reminded everyone of a similar incident.
The Ancient Ruins!
After obtaining the inheritance of the Immortal Emperor by Bai Xueqing, Bai Zihan had threatened every major power.
He claimed he could kill any of their geniuses… whenever he wished.
At that time, almost everyone had dismissed it as an empty threat.
Until he killed geniuses from the sect that has made their move against them.
No one knew how.
No one could stop it.
The unknown had become their greatest fear.
And now, that same nightmare had descended upon the Li Clan.
The only difference was that this time...
It wasn't their juniors.
It was them.
Li Jianhong's face turned deathly pale.
He frantically examined every inch of his body.
His spiritual sense swept through his dantian.
His meridians.
His sea of consciousness.
His blood.
Again and again.
He searched for poison.
For cursed seals.
For anything unusual.
He still found… nothing.
The same was true for every other elder.
No matter how many times they inspected themselves…
No matter how thoroughly they searched, they couldn't discover the source of their suffering.
Yet Bai Zihan could suppress them with a single thought.
The more they failed to understand it, the greater the fear growing inside their hearts became.
Li Jianhong's breathing became increasingly ragged.
His entire body trembled uncontrollably.
Cold sweat soaked his robes as he struggled to endure the unbearable agony.
Bai Zihan calmly looked at everyone before speaking once more.
"So, have you decided?"
His gaze slowly swept across every elder lying on the ground.
"Will the Li Clan submit?"
Silence!
However, the silence itself was the answer.
Not a single person nodded.
Not a single person agreed.
Even after reaching such a miserable state, they still refused.
After all, they were the Li Clan.
One of the three greatest clans of the Desolate Heaven Empire.
For countless years, they had stood at the peak of the empire.
Although they acknowledged the Bai Clan's superiority, they believed the difference between them wasn't insurmountable.
Perhaps the Bai Clan was stronger… but only by a little.
Yet now, without even exchanging a single real blow, they were being forced to bow their heads because of one mysterious move.
How could they possibly accept such humiliation?
Li Jianhong clenched his teeth.
Veins bulged across his forehead.
He desperately circulated his Qi, attempting to suppress the strange force tormenting him.
The other elders did the same.
Boom! Boom!
Powerful spiritual Qi erupted throughout the hall.
However, it was completely useless.
No matter how much Qi they mobilized, the pain remained.
If anything, it only became worse.
Seeing their futile resistance, Bai Zihan's eyes gradually turned cold.
"You stubborn old bones..."
He slowly shook his head.
"It seems that unless you truly suffer, you simply won't learn."
The moment those words fell—
"Aaaaaaaah!"
An incomparably miserable scream erupted from Li Jianhong's mouth.
Then the other elders also followed.
The pain increased severalfold.
It no longer felt like someone was merely squeezing his heart.
Instead, it was as though countless invisible needles were repeatedly piercing his very soul.
Every elder inside the hall let out heart-wrenching screams.
"Aaaagh!"
"Stop!"
"It hurts!"
Several elders slammed their heads against the stone floor in a desperate attempt to distract themselves from the agony.
Others clawed at their own chests until blood flowed freely.
Some even wished they could knock themselves unconscious.
Unfortunately, they couldn't.
Their consciousness remained incomparably clear.
Every second of agony was experienced in its entirety.
Ten minutes passed…
To those Li Clan elders, those ten minutes felt longer than an entire lifetime.
No...
Longer than a hundred lifetimes.
By the end, every trace of resistance had disappeared from their eyes.
Their pride…
Their dignity...
Their unwillingness…
Everything had been completely crushed beneath that unbearable torment.
Many had already begging to be spared and had completely surrendered.
Li Jianhong lay weakly on the ground.
His body twitched slightly.
His eyes had long since lost their previous arrogance.
They now contained nothing but terror.
He would rather die once than endure that pain ever again.
Bai Zihan calmly walked forward.
He stopped before Li Jianhong.
Looking down at the once-proud Clan Leader, he asked the same question again.
"So, do you surrender?"
The pain coursing through their bodies left them with only one possible answer.
There was no room for hesitation.
No room for pride.
No room for resistance.
Li Jianhong's body trembled violently.
His lips quivered uncontrollably.
The moment Bai Zihan repeated the question, whatever dignity he had desperately clung to completely collapsed.
"I... I surrender!"
His answer came almost instantly.
He didn't dare delay even a single breath longer.
"Our Li Clan surrenders!"
His voice echoed throughout the hall.
Although he tried to maintain the bearing expected of a Clan Leader, there was nothing dignified left about his appearance.
His robes were soaked with sweat.
His hair hung in complete disarray.
His face had long since become deathly pale.
He lay kneeling on the ground like a defeated prisoner.
The once lofty Clan Leader of the Li Clan no longer possessed even a trace of his former arrogance.
Only endless fear remained.
The moment those words left his mouth, the unbearable agony abruptly vanished.
It disappeared as suddenly as it had come.
"...!"
Li Jianhong's eyes widened.
He greedily inhaled mouthful after mouthful of air.
His entire body went limp as he collapsed onto the floor.
Only after the pain disappeared did he realize that every inch of his body had already been drenched in cold sweat.
His robes clung tightly to his skin.
His heartbeat was still wildly out of control.
He had escaped.
He had finally escaped that nightmare.
Around him, the other Li Clan elders experienced the same thing.
The horrifying pain that had tormented them for what felt like countless lifetimes vanished without warning.
One after another, they collapsed weakly onto the ground, gasping for breath as though they had just been pulled back from the gates of hell.
Bai Zihan looked at the scene before him before letting out a faint chuckle.
He slowly shook his head.
"People truly are strange. When offered the easy path..."
"They refuse to walk it. They insist on choosing the difficult one instead."
