I drew a talisman to save the sun from its bleeding state.

Chapter 44 Mercy reserved for family, cruelty bestowed upon enemies

"Master Zhou, I have taken control of the mother and child."

Shen Gang remained still, turning his eyes to the left: "Don't touch her. They don't know anything. It was all my doing."

Zhou Zheng slightly shook his Five Thunder Palm: "Don't look around, or I might accidentally strike you down. Xiaoxue, take out two talismans for suppressing evil and exorcising evil from his notebook and stick them on his forehead."

Xiaoxue hurriedly took out her notebook from her waist bag, found the compartment marked with the talisman for suppressing evil and the talisman for exorcising evil, took out two of each, put the notebook back, slowly walked forward, and carefully affixed the talisman to Shen Gang's forehead.

Then he continued to hold up his phone and play music to create atmosphere.

Unable to contain his anger any longer, Xu Fan threw off his hat and spread his arms. Two jet-black, soul-snatching chains flew out from his palms like lightning, coiling around Shen Gang's neck like venomous snakes, and restraining him with his arms and legs.

Zhou Zheng gestured with his lip: "Xu Fan, do you know him? If you don't, do you know Xu Xiaoye? Confess, who told you to harm Xu Xiaoye?"

He paused for a moment.

Zhou Zheng added, "Don't answer wrong. You must have something you care about. If you're not honest, I guarantee I'll make you wish you were dead."

Shen Gang's eyelids twitched slightly: "I...I don't know."

Zhou Zheng laughed: "These are very familiar interrogation answers, how interesting."

Back when he was abroad, Zhou Zheng had formed a mercenary squad and personally interrogated enemies. Whenever he encountered enemies who refused to say anything, Zhou Zheng enjoyed studying just how tough their resolve could be.

For an unorthodox interrogator, the most important quality is ruthlessness. Zhou Zheng believes he meets this requirement—a person who is ruthless and disciplined enough to be ruthless to his enemies is a natural fit.

Without hesitation, he grabbed Shen Gang's raised right pinky finger with his left hand, activated the power talisman on his body, and forcefully snapped it off. "Crack!"

Shen Gang was in so much pain that he was covered in cold sweat. Fear and excruciating pain overwhelmed him, and he growled, "I really don't know!"

Zhou Zheng sighed, grabbed the ring finger of his right hand again with his left hand, and snapped it off forcefully. "Crack!"

Zhou Zheng: "You still have eight fingers, and I admire your courage. If you can't come up with any valuable clues, I'll break every single bone in your body."

Xiaoxue swallowed hard and silently turned off the music. She realized her father was right; she knew too little about Brother Zhou.

Shen Gang curled up against the shelf behind him in pain, tears streaming down his face. His right hand trembled as he clutched it: "He used a dream-entering technique. He was only responsible for giving orders and rewarding me with cultivation techniques. I don't know anything else. I really don't know anything."

Zhou Zheng pondered for a moment, then said loudly, "Tang Ying, bring that mother and child over." Since Shen Gang could withstand the physical pain, let's try psychological tactics.

Tang Ying led the mother and son out of the back room, pressed them against the counter, and made them kneel on the ground, unable to move.

Zhou Zheng gathered five-colored lightning in his left hand and aimed it at Shen Gang, while his free right hand pressed down on the top of the young girl's head: "I want to hear valuable clues."

Shen Gang's pupils constricted sharply, and he hurriedly shouted, "Don't hurt her! I'll talk! I'll tell you everything! He claims to be from the Ninth School! He keeps all his important treasures and secrets in a factory in the suburbs; we sometimes trade there!"

Zhou Zheng began to move the five-colored lightning in his right palm, wrapping it around the young girl's neck.

Shen Gang knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly, tears streaming down his face, pleading, "I'll talk! I'll really tell you everything! Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"

Once the Five Thunder Palm is activated, the daughter-in-law will die, and the grandson will also die. Even cultivators cannot withstand it, let alone ordinary people.

Zhou Zheng laughed heartily: "I was just teasing you. The Five Thunder Palm can't strike ordinary people. Look at your ignorant and incompetent appearance."

With tears streaming down his face, Shen Gang pressed his head to the floor, his body pressed tightly against it: "Immortal Master, I'll tell you everything, I'll tell you everything."

Thunder cultivators must not recklessly unleash thunder magic, but they are not only capable of using thunder magic to harm people.

Zhou Zheng sighed, "It would have been so much better if we had done this earlier. Now lead the way, take us to the factory in the suburbs."

Tang Ying: "Master Zhou, what should we do with these two?"

Zhou Zheng looked at the two talismans for suppressing evil and exorcising evil on Shen Gang's head, dispelled the lightning in his hand, and took out two talismans for calming the mind from his pouch and handed them over: "Put these on. If we don't come back, these two will die of thirst or starvation. If we come back, I will remove the talismans myself."

Xu Fan, who was binding Shen Gang with the Soul-Hooking Chains, couldn't hold back any longer and asked, "Brother Zhou, were you a demonic cultivator who switched to lightning cultivation?"

This clean and efficient style, this skillful approach, makes even Shen Gang, this heretical cultivator, seem naive in front of Brother Zhou.

Zhou Zheng glanced at Xu Fan sideways: "Don't tell me you're going to do something charitable."

Xu Fan: "...I don't have any charitable intentions." I just suddenly felt a little noble.

Zhou Zheng glanced at Xu Fan's status bar, ultimately deciding to ignore him, and kicked Shen Gang in the shoulder, knocking him to the ground: "Lead the way, stop playing dead. If you dare to make any move, I'll make you regret it for the rest of your life. Including but not limited to castrating your son and folding him in half. See this guy with the soul-snatching chain? The Book of Life and Death in his hand contains your entire family's information. If you dare to disobey my will, I'll call out your names one by one from your household registration."

Despite the excruciating pain, Shen Gang clutched his right hand and staggered to his feet, leaning against the shelf, his forehead covered in sweat. "I'll lead the way. I need to catch my breath."

"Click."

Zhou Zheng snapped off his right middle finger: "Wrong answer. You still have seven fingers."

Xiaoxue shrank back in fear, looking at her boyfriend's calm face, and for the first time clearly understood what her father meant by the dangerous person.

Xu Fan unconsciously took two steps back, but the Soul-Hooking Chains were still binding Shen Gang, for fear that he would make any trouble.

Liu Zhen sighed, "If you were to become a demonic cultivator, you would be a menace to the world."

Despite the excruciating pain, tears and sweat streamed down Shen Gang's face as he staggered towards the back door, saying, "This way..."

Zhou Zheng watched Shen Gang's retreating figure and slowly followed, his palm filled with five-colored lightning, ready to unleash a devastating five-thunderbolt punishment at any moment and send him to his death.

Stepping out the back door, Zhou Zheng saw that the old man was in so much pain that he couldn't move, so he had Tang Ying bring the car over to prevent the old man from dying from the pain—although he was already in so much pain that he was about to die.

Zhou Zheng escorted him to the back seat and sat next to him to keep an eye on him. The others got into the car one after another, wary of Shen Gang. Tang Ying was in charge of driving, while Shen Gang sat in the back and gave directions.

The journey was bumpy, and Shen Gang even fainted from the pain at one point. However, Zhou Zheng kindly helped him move his injured finger and woke him up so that he wouldn't miss his time to suffer.

Zhou Zheng has never had any sympathy for such people who harm others.

Upon reaching their destination, Zhou Zheng kicked the dawdling Shen Gang out of the car and then got out himself.

Xu Fan controlled Shen Gang with the Soul-Hooking Chains, his expression strange. He secretly compared himself to Zhou Zheng and suddenly felt that killing someone's entire family was as gentle as being a living bodhisattva.

With trembling hands, Shen Gang gritted his teeth and pushed open the factory door, staggering inside. He even had to rely on the Soul-Hooking Chains for support to keep walking.

Shen Gang walked to the iron door on the inside of the factory building. It was an iron door leading to the basement. He flipped through the keys with his left hand and said, "All the secrets are down there. I need to recite the incantation to unlock the trap, otherwise I can't open this place properly."

Immediately afterwards, he began chanting incantations that no one could understand.

Shen Gang stood with his back to the crowd, his eyes swirling with resentment and malice. Beneath the iron gate lay the trump card left to him by the elder of the Nine Streams Sect. Once he unleashed this trump card, none of these guys present would be able to escape.

What's below is a second-tier Foundation Establishment Poison Dragon bloodline monster! Ordinary cultivators will die upon touching it, be injured upon rubbing against it, and even inhaling its aura will cause unbearable pain and a desire for a quick death!

Zhou Zheng's gaze swept across the area, landing on the health bar that had quietly appeared in the basement.

[Second-Tier Foundation Establishment Early Stage Poisonous Lizard Cursed Demon (Under Sealing)]

Looking at Zhou Zheng's eyes, Liu Zhen nudged him with his elbow, his eyes asking: You know what's down there, right?

Zhou Zheng returned a glance: I know.

Liu was shocked: Then why didn't you stop them?

Zhou Zheng: I want to see what tricks he can pull.

Xu Fan, who was standing next to him, couldn't hold back any longer and asked, "What are you two talking about? Can you tell me?"

Zhou Zheng explained, "Brother Liu asked me why I didn't stop Shen Gang from breaking the seal, even though I knew there was a Foundation Establishment stage poisonous lizard demon sealed down there."

Shen Gang's chanting abruptly stopped. He stood frozen in place, facing the iron gate, completely bewildered, his back soaked with sweat. He couldn't understand why the enemy knew that the Poison Lizard Demon was sealed here, a secret known only to the Nine Streams Sect elder and himself. For over ten years, this was the first time he had used this trump card; no one else should know.

Xu Fan was shocked: "Holy crap! He's going to unseal a Foundation Establishment demon?! And we're just going to stand here and watch?! Shouldn't we stop him?! Brother Zhou, move aside, you're too kind, you didn't break enough fingers!"

A few minutes ago: Brother Zhou is more ruthless than me.

Now: Brother Zhou, your methods are still too gentle, too kind, not ruthless enough, and not fast enough.

Zhou Zheng stopped Xu Fan: "Don't just stand there, keep solving it. I want to see what tricks you can come up with."

Xu Fan: "Holy crap! Brother Zhou, don't do this! We should break off his remaining seven fingers to interrogate him! Why did we let him release the Foundation Establishment monster?!"

Zhou Zheng: "I'm just curious if lightning magic can cause demons to plummet in power. Don't worry, I'll take responsibility if anything happens. Shen Gang, keep unraveling, or I'll break your legs."

Having finally found a decent test subject, it would be a huge waste not to try the Five Thunder Punishment.

Zhou Zheng took out a thunderstone from his waist pouch, held it in his left hand to empower himself, and drew the Demon-Slaying Dragon Sword with his right hand to condense the Five Thunder Punishments.

Five-colored lightning illuminated his calm and indifferent face, and his voice was like the presence of death itself: "Continue the deciphering."

Shen Gang swallowed hard, his left hand trembling as he continued to remove the seal on the iron gate. Sweat rolled down his fingertips and dripped onto the cold cement floor.

I think I underestimated Lei Xiu's strength.