Chapter 155: I Can Save You! (Monthly Votes Please!!)

On the iron ship.

Shi Yan wore a grim expression, pacing the deck as leisurely as a stroll in a courtyard, yet moving like the scythe of the Grim Reaper as he harvested the lives of the pirates one by one.

The deck was littered with corpses.

Three warriors of the Hundred Tribulations Realm had been effortlessly slaughtered by Shi Yan, not a single one of them managing to put up even a brief, stubborn resistance against his assault.

Lin Xiaochan's shattered, icy crystal corpse radiated a chilling mist as it stepped onto the wheelchair, its life having long since vanished.

Old Man Kong and the bearded man had also met tragic deaths at Shi Yan's hands.

Old Man Kong's death, in particular, was bizarre. Though his body had plunged toward the open sea, he seemed to have been grabbed back by an invisible giant hand, stripped of any power to fight back as Shi Yan effortlessly pierced his throat.

Other pirates who shared Old Man Kong's idea had also leaped toward the ocean, but five of them were easily cut down by Shi Yan right on the ship.

The remaining six plummeted into the sea, swimming desperately toward the distance as if their lives depended on it.

Shi Yan leaped down into the sea as well. In the water, he resembled a giant shark with its cavernous maw agape, running down the fleeing men one by one. Not a single survivor was left behind as he slaughtered them all.

Having finished all this, Shi Yan climbed back aboard the vessel via a rope ladder.

On the ship, Linda remained lost in profound astonishment, staring blankly at him.

More than twenty warriors—three in the Hundred Tribulations Realm, ten in the Human Realm, and over a dozen in the Innate Realm... The vital essence of so many people, down to the last drop, had all been drawn into Shi Yan's acupoints!

Upon absorbing their vital essence, Shi Yan's acupoints began to throb with a dull ache as various negative emotions started to dissipate outward, attempting to assault his consciousness.

Back on the ship, Shi Yan merely glanced at Linda, an irrepressible thought taking root in his mind.

To utilize Linda's body to release the negative desires churning within his body, thereby allowing his physical state to return to its peak in a short amount of time!

Once this thought surfaced in his mind, it could no longer be suppressed. His inner demon was unleashed, Shi Yan's desires boiled over, and the sight of Linda sent his thoughts wandering wildly.

Still mired in deep shock, Linda remained completely unaware that Shi Yan, having absorbed a massive amount of negative energy, had developed an inner demon concerning her. She simply continued to gaze at him blankly.

"So, it really was you who saved me from the mouth of the Green-scaled Beast last time," Linda murmured, her beautiful eyes shimmering with brilliant colors while her face radiated an extraordinary luster, her entire being brimming with renewed vitality. "Why wouldn't you admit it? With your incredible power, why subject yourself to humiliation on this ship? Given your abilities, you could easily crush Karmon like an ant. Why choose to swallow your pride and endure?"

Shi Yan frowned slightly and said indifferently, "My power recovers very slowly. Even now, I haven't returned to my peak."

"You haven't returned to your peak yet?" Linda asked, utterly astonished, staring at him in a daze. "I feel like you should only be at the Hundred Tribulations Realm cultivation level. Why can you so easily slaughter so many people? Among them were three Hundred Tribulations warriors, yet in your hands, they didn't even have the power to fight back!"

Linda took a deep breath, her eyes shining brightly as she fixed her gaze on Shi Yan and demanded sharply, "Who on earth are you? You are so young, yet you possess such terrifying power. You are definitely not a nobody!"

"I am not from the Endless Sea," Shi Yan shook his power, explaining calmly. "I wasn't in the past, but I might be in the future. Even if I told you who I am right now, you wouldn't know."

Believing that Shi Yan was intentionally hiding his identity, Linda sighed softly and murmured, "I know. A figure like you would never look down on small fries like us. If you won't say, you won't say. I'm bound to find out who you are eventually anyway." Abruptly, Shi Yan sat down on the deck, his breathing somewhat rapid. He raised his gaze slightly toward Linda, his eyes burning with intensity.

Linda's heart suddenly skipped a beat in panic.

She was far too familiar with the look in Shi Yan's eyes right then! Many men displayed that exact gaze when looking at her. Having traveled far and wide over the years, Linda was no naive woman; she could clearly read the naked male desire in Shi Yan's eyes!

"Go! While I'm still conscious! Get away from me!" Shi Yan growled through clenched teeth.

Having absorbed so much energy, those negative emotions finally showed signs of spinning out of control. The desire to possess Linda that had surfaced in his mind—which Shi Yan had been fighting desperately to suppress—was gradually becoming uncontrollable.

His inner demon slowly seized the initiative, bit by bit devouring his rationality as it seemingly seduced him toward the abyss of sin step by step.

"What's wrong with you?" Linda suddenly cried out in alarm. "Are you injured?"

If Shi Yan had ordered her away sternly, she might have felt frightened and consciously kept her distance.

Yet now, while Shi Yan's gaze was nakedly consuming, he was clenching his teeth and urging her to leave quickly. This paradox made Linda realize something was amiss, and instead of fleeing, she stayed. "You were completely fine a moment ago. Why did you suddenly turn abnormal? How can I help you?"

"Don't mind me! Get as far away from me as you can!" Shi Yan roared again. "If you don't want to lose your purity, hurry up and get out of here!"

Shi Yan did not ask her to bind him with the iron chains on the ship.

Linda was not Xia Xinyan; Shi Yan could not fully trust her. Furthermore, although the pirates here had been wiped out, other pirates still operated in the vicinity. Once his body was restricted, if another group of pirates approached, it would be extremely difficult for him to fend them off.

"Ah!" Linda covered her mouth, her face blushing crimson, her beautiful eyes filled with panic as she retreated step by step toward the stern.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" Right at that moment, the centipede that had previously vanished toward the stern suddenly lunged out fiercely once more.

A mouthful of toxic liquid sprayed abruptly from the centipede's jaws, splashing directly onto Linda's panicked body.

"Ah!" Linda screamed again, wielding her short sword and immediately engaging the centipede in close combat.

The pale green toxic liquid covered Linda from head to toe, reeking with a foul stench. As she brandished her short sword, her body gradually grew numb, and her limbs slowly lost their strength.

Over on his side, panting heavily, Shi Yan saw Linda fall into danger, gritted his teeth, and stood up. Once again, he condensed a mental shockwave and viciously stabbed it into the centipede's soul.

Simultaneously, Shi Yan casually grabbed the spiked club dropped by the bearded man and charged forward with a ferocious expression.

Struck by Shi Yan's spiritual power, the centipede plummeted from mid-air. Seeing Shi Yan charging at it, the centipede whipped its numerous legs into a frenzy and fled in terror.

It knew that the one attacking it was Shi Yan; it could sense the fierce murderous aura radiating from his body, and it was terrified.

"Running? Still running? Let's see you run!" Brandishing the spiked club, Shi Yan strode past the rapidly weakening Linda and viciously hammered the club toward the centipede.

Channeling his strength once more, the spiked club in Shi Yan's hand burst with a pale white light.

"Crack, crack!" After just a few strikes, the centipede's head was beaten into a bloody pulp by the club. The centipede's body was not particularly tough; its strength lay in its agility and ability to spit venom.

Normally, it might not have been killed by Shi Yan so quickly. Unfortunately, having repeatedly endured Shi Yan's mental attacks, its soul was on the verge of shattering, and its physical movements were no longer as agile as usual, allowing Shi Yan to dispatch it with ease.

The moment the centipede died, Shi Yan tossed the club aside and gazed at Linda with burning eyes.

Linda's delicate body felt numb and limp, and a piercing, heart-wrenching pain gradually began to rise from deep within her. Under Shi Yan's intense gaze, her pretty face grew pale, her eyes lost their luster, and she murmured, "I, I'm afraid I won't make it. Shi Yan, please promise me—bring my crew out alive, and don't let the pirates slaughter them! I beg you!"

Panting heavily, his expression ferocious and his eyes burning with the fires of primal desire, Shi Yan growled, "Linda, I'll take you! That's the only way to save you!"

"Wh-what?" Linda's voice grew increasingly faint, her beautiful eyes filled with bizarre confusion. "What did you say? You can save me? The deadly poison of this centipede can only be cured by the special antidote pills of the Fifteen Great Factions. Do you have that pill?"

"I don't have any antidote pills, but taking you will save you!" Gritting his teeth with veins bulging visibly on his face, Shi Yan growled ferociously, "Make your choice: your purity, or your life!"

Linda froze, a flash of clarity crossing her beautiful eyes. As she felt her soul slipping away, she suddenly lowered her head and murmured like the buzzing of a mosquito, "I, I've never been with a man before... Please, please be gentle..."

As she spoke these words, a blush unexpectedly crept up her pale neck, filling her heart with boundless shyness.

Lying sideways on the deck, Linda's curvaceous figure was fully displayed, her plump buttocks raised high, covered softly by her chestnut hair, outlining an alluring silhouette that set the blood racing.

Gritting his teeth as he watched her, Shi Yan let his gaze linger on her mesmerizing, exquisite body for a moment longer before finally letting out a low roar and pouncing forward like a wild beast.

Linda's garments were torn to shreds piece by piece.

In an instant, she was stripped down to a snowy white sheep. Her skin was as smooth as snow, plump and tender, possessing an exceptional elasticity to the touch.

Without standing on ceremony, Shi Yan reached out to cup Linda's full breasts, pressing his waist and abdomen directly against her most striking, snowy-and-plump hips from a sideways posture, entering Linda from behind.

On the ship, the roars of a beast echoed endlessly. Those cries of supreme pleasure reverberated across the sea, accompanied by layer upon layer of soft, weeping, low-pitched cries of pain.

"Didn't, didn't you promise to be gentle? You, you've made me so I can't even stand up! How am I supposed to face Karmon and the others?"

A long, long time later, the roars ceased, and everything seemed to return to tranquility. A woman's complaint drifted across the ship.

"In that moment, I couldn't control myself either," the man chuckled softly. "Well, is the toxic injury on your body gone?"

The woman fell silent for a moment, seemingly probing her physical condition, before speaking with a hint of pleasant surprise after a long while: "The poison is really gone! And, and inside my body, it seems... it seems a brand-new power has appeared! I feel like a certain part of me has changed!"

"Oh?" The man let out a surprised cry, hesitated for a moment, and muttered, "Could it be that your Martial Spirit has awakened once more?"

"Ah!"