The Immortal Emperor Returns

Kongshan Prison!

Located on Broken Soul Mountain, 25 kilometers south of the Gujiang City.

With three cliffs and one gentle slope.

It was said that those who died there wouldn't be able to escape as ashes.

The only way out was to complete one's prison sentence.

Late night. Cell No. 4027.

The other prisoners were fast asleep. The sounds of farting, teeth grinding, and snoring interweaved in the air.

In a corner of the room near the urinal, a skinny teen was curled up into a ball.

Suddenly, his eyes flew open as if he had just woken up from a nightmare. Flames of gold flared up inside his pupils and burned for a long while.

The teen looked around, excitement beginning to color his expression.

"After sacrificing a thousand years' worth of cultivation, I, Chu Xun, have finally returned." His voice was so soft that it was inaudible but carried an undeniable coldness.

Three thousand years ago, a lifetime ago to be exact, Chu Xun was shackled and thrown in jail on false charges.

For three whole years, he suffered extraordinary torment.

His cellmates would find new ways to torture him every day.

During the day, they would beat him up until he was covered in cuts and bruises. During the night, he had no choice but to curl up in the corner near the urinal, too afraid to even close his eyes. Like a bird startled by the mere twang of a bow, even the slightest noise or movement was enough to make him shiver.

During the summer, his cellmates would strip him and toss him to the middle of the cell as a fodder for the mosquitos.

During the winter, they would drench him. Many times, he nearly froze to death at night.

Even though he had escaped death many times, he ultimately still died from his cellmates' torrent of fists the day before he was to be released.

However, the heavens were merciful. He found himself crossing the river of time and transmigrating to a different world of cultivation.

In the Great Immortality Odyssey, cultivation was the one true path!

Chu Xun was filled with regrets. Carrying the weight of his hatred, he began a painstaking journey in cultivation in hopes of becoming an Immortal Emperor. Only an Immortal Emperor could manipulate heaven and earth and travel through time.

Fortunately, he had demonstrated incredible talent in cultivation.

It had taken Cangming, the cultivation genius, an entire ten thousand years to become an Immortal Emperor. This caused a furor back then.

Yet, it took Chu Xun only three thousand years to do the same! His achievement sent a shockwave throughout the entire Immortal Continent.

After Chu Xun became an Immortal Emperor, he sacrificed all of his cultivation without hesitation and manipulated time and space to return to the day he was to be released from prison.

What was most regretful was that the great Immortal Emperor Chu was now just an ordinary human.

...

Chu Xun would be released from prison tomorrow. However, he knew that he would die inside this prison cell tonight.

He gently moved his battered body and felt a pain so intense that cold sweat formed on his forehead. He couldn't even begin to count the number of old and new injuries on his body.

His eyes glinted, cold and dangerous. He was no longer the Immortal Emperor Chu, but an ordinary human. In his current state, he had no hope of surviving his death tonight.

What he needed now was time and a peaceful environment. He must start cultivating again.

He must not let tragedy repeat itself.

Chu Xun took off his prisoner uniform and wrung it to form a rope. Like a ferocious beast on the hunt, he lay in wait...

The next morning, the first ray of sunshine filtered into the cell through the spaces between the iron grating on the window.

Chu Xun finally moved. With his teeth clenched, he stood up and walked toward a burly man lying on the bed.

The man was named Li Hu, nicknamed Old Tiger. Li Hu joined the cell on Chu Xun's fourth day here and the latter lived in a nightmare ever since.

Chu Xun bound Li Hu's neck with his uniform-as-rope.

Li Hu jolted awake from his dream. He saw a malevolent face as soon as he opened his eyes. So shocked was he that his soul nearly flew out of him and he began to struggle.

The veins on Chu Xun's arms bulged and his gnashed teeth creaked as he used all the force that he could muster.

Li Hu's face began to turn purple and his eyeballs were protruding from their sockets. The sudden strangulation, coupled with the fright that he had suffered, slowed his reaction. All he could do was put up a struggle.

His violent movements aroused the other prisoners in the cell.

They were dumbfounded to see the scene before them. Chu Xun, who usually wouldn't fight back when getting beaten up or retorting when getting scolded, had exploded. They couldn't quite respond.

"Stop." One of them finally recovered his senses and began running toward Chu Xun.

Chu Xun let go of his hold. He grabbed the bed frame and pulled with force.

The beds in the cell were bunk beds with metal frames. Chu Xun yanked the top bunk, pulling the entire bed down.

"Boom."

The bed crashed loudly on the floor, sending the ground shaking along with it.

While his audience was still stunned, Chu Xun walked up to the toiletry shelf in front of the cell door.

The shelf was made from wood and contained the toiletry of all eight prisoners in the cell. Like a madman, Chu Xun began trashing the shelf. The jar containing the toothbrushes, tooth cup, washbowls... Plastic fragments flew everywhere.

Chu Xun only stopped after pushing over the shelf.

Meanwhile, disarrayed sounds of footsteps rang outside the door.

"Clang, clang..."

Someone pounded the metal door so hard that it clanged.

"What are you doing? Revolting?" The little window on the metal door slid open, revealing Warden Li's fierce face.

Including the still frightened Li Hu, everyone squatted down with their fingers interlaced behind their heads.

Li Hu was a prison tyrant, but his influence was contained within this cell. The truly powerful people were these prison wardens. No matter how powerful one was outside the prison, the wardens had the last say here. Whatever they wanted to do was dependent on their mood.

Warden Li had a particularly hot temper. If those who fell into his hands didn't die, they would at least be skinned.

The metal door flung open and Warden Li entered with an ashen face. He looked at the mess in front of him with anger brewing in his eyes.

"What happened? Have you gotten sick of living, to cause trouble under my nose?"

"Warden Li, it's that kid. He tried to strangle me to death," Li Hu cried, raising his head and pointing to Chu Xun.

"Warden Li, this kid has gone mad. Not only did he try to strangle Sir Hu, but he even pushed over our toiletry shelf."

"..."

The prisoners subconsciously banded together.

Warden Li looked at the squatting Chu Xun, his brows furrowed. Chu Xun wasn't wearing his shirt, revealing a skinny upper body marked with bruises and crisscrossing scars.

However, to him, these people were all criminals guilty of horrible crimes, the scum of society, and absolute trash. They were not worthy of sympathy in the least.

"Did you do all of these?" Warden Li asked, narrowing his eyes at Chu Xun.

"Yes," Chu Xun answered calmly.

Warden Li was taken aback. He thought that Chu Xun would at least find an excuse for himself.

"You have ten minutes to tidy up," Warden Li told Li Hu and the rest. He then pointed to Chu Xun. "You, come with me."

Li Hu and the other prisoners smiled maliciously. They knew what Warden Li meant. There was no doubt that Chu Xun would be locked in that little dark room.

The so-called small, dark room was built out of hard rocks. The floor was covered in hard stones with sharp, rough edges. This was one of the ways the prison used to deal with misbehaving prisoners.

The small, dark room was surrounded by stones with sharp edges all around, forcing whoever was inside to stand on their tiptoes. One careless move and one would find the base of their foot sliced. If one wanted to lie against the wall, one would find his body cut by the stones.

Pitch-black darkness would fill the room once the door was closed. The prisoner inside could neither sit nor sleep. The dark, sealed environment tested both the physical and mental capability of a person. If one was locked inside for too long a time, he could very well suffer a nervous breakdown.

Up until now, no one had survived for more than three days inside the small, dark room.

Thus, every prisoner's expression changed when they heard about the place.

Chu Xun followed Warden Li out without resistance.

However, he flashed a strange smile at Li Hu before leaving.

"Sir Hu, what should we do now? The kid has been taken away. How do we make our move now?" a sturdy prisoner asked, his voice filled with ferocity.

"What's the rush?" Li Hu barked, impatient. "Just look at his body condition. He'll be let out after ten hours or so. We're still a day away from his release date. That's more than enough time for us to make our move."

"Let's wait for the night to be over. Once the kid is dead, we'll be able to leave. I'm sick of this d*mned place." Another prisoner spat, a murderous glint flickering in his eyes.

...

...

Chu Xun followed Warden Li to a small, dark room.

Warden Li opened the door expressionlessly.

"Get in."

Chu Xun smiled and said nothing. He was about to step in when Warden Li stopped him.

"Take off your shoes."

A dangerous glint flitted across Chu Xun's pupils. He stooped down and took off his shoes.

He had just straightened his body when Warden Li sneered and pushed him inside.

Chu Xun couldn't help groaning when his foot landed on the floor. The jagged stones cut into the base of his foot.

The door closed behind him and pitch-black darkness enveloped him.

In the darkness, Chu Xun bore the intense pain with a profound smile.

Allowing the stones to cut into his skin, he began feeling about in the dark. Even though he couldn't see, he started collecting the stones on the floor with his sharp senses.

He made piles of stones and placed them in five different directions. It looked like a mess, but there was actually a rule to it.

An hour later, Chu Xun put down the last stone in his hand.

"Boom."

The stream of air inside the small, dark room began to erupt at the same time the stone in his hand fell. It was as if a massive, incorporeal hand was disrupting the airflow, forming layers of ripples.

Chu Xun wiped the sweat on his forehead, the corner of his lips upturned.

"Five Ghosts Transportation Formation, complete!"

The Five Ghosts Transportation Formation was a spiritual formation with the sole purpose of transporting spiritual energy, that was, to suck in all surrounding spiritual energy.

Of course, this was a crudely-made Five Ghosts Transportation Formation.

Chu Xun entered the heart of the formation, sat down cross-legged, and began forming seals with both hands. Surprise crossed his face.

The prison was built on the deserted Broken Soul Mountain, where not a single soul could be seen for 50 kilometers. This meant that the area was fairly unpolluted. The spiritual energy here was much denser than he had imagined.

What a happy surprise this was.

Chu Xun had so little time that he dared not tarry. He immediately calmed his mind and began cultivating.

The path of cultivation: Qi Refinement, Foundation, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Severance, Integration, Great Ascension, Tribulation Transcendence, Space Demolishment.

The beginning was always the most difficult part!

The Qi Refinement Stage appeared elementary, but it was the most crucial part of all.

Some people called this stage the Nirvana. In other words, one would use spiritual energy to cleanse all the spiritual channels in his body and reconstruct his body. It was akin to rebirth.

If he refined Qi and his body at the same time, it would take half the work and produce twice the effect!

"What technique should I use?"

After pondering the question for a while, Chu Xun decided to use the technique he used in his past life: Azure Dragon's Tyrannical Physique Technique. This body-tempering technique was a technique that the Dragon Race kept to themselves. The only reason he had it was a lucky coincidence.

Now that everything was ready, Chu Xun wasted no time and immediately dived into the cultivating state.

"Huff!"

Chu Xun's chest heaved up and down rhythmically, inhaling and exhaling two continuous streams of white Qi as he breathed. Upon closer look, it seemed as if a mischievous snake was hiding under his skin, swimming across his energy channels.

His bones creaked in protest. Sweat began beading on Chu Xun's forehead and his face was nearly contorted. The pain of having one's energy channels and bones shattered and reconstructed wasn't something that the average person could bear.

Chu Xun gnashed his teeth loudly. His entire body was shaking. Like a wounded animal, a muffled howl emerged from his throat.

He didn't know how much time had passed since.

He was beginning to calm down. However, the stream of Qi entering and leaving his body as he breathed was becoming even quicker. His skin was beginning to radiate a clean luster. His face was beginning to turn as sleek as jade.

...

...

Time gradually passed.

The Five Ghosts Transportation Formation drew in the spiritual energy all around and poured it inside Chu Xun's body.

Chu Xun's body lit up every now and then, like a flickering star in the darkness, and carried with it a faint aura.

The corner of his mouth was upturned. Cultivating was second nature to him now. The speed and effect were much better than he had imagined.

He didn't just enter the beginner Qi Refinement Stage, but his Azure Dragon's Tyrannical Physique Technique had also reached the First Transformation Stage.

He owed this to the cultivation experience he had accumulated over ten thousand years.

His only regret was that he didn't have a drop of the Ancestral Dragon's blood with him.

The Azure Dragon's Tyrannical Physique Technique was also called the Azure Dragon's Nine Transformations Technique. The nine transformations happened to coincidence with the nine levels of cultivators. If he could cultivate using the Ancestral Dragon's blood, he could rely on his physical body alone to contend with similar-ranked cultivators.

Chu Xun opened his eyes wide. Rays of golden light swam inside his pupils. He suddenly threw a powerful punch at the stone wall next to him and the entire small, dark room shuddered from the force. The sharp-edged stones on the wall were reduced to powder.

It was fortunate. Even though he merely reached the First Transformation Stage of the Azure Dragon's Tyrannical Physique Technique, he could now withstand a force with a weight of 500kg. That was good enough for his time on earth.

...

...

"Creak!"

The door to the small, dark room opened, letting the sunshine in.

"You can come out now," Warden Li yelled from outside.

Chu Xun strolled out of the room, where he was greeted with the dark sky. Those ten hours had passed in the blink of an eye as he cultivated.

For a moment, Warden Li was dumbfounded. He had the feeling that the current Chu Xun was different from before. Upon closer look, he found that Chu Xun was still skinny and weak. There didn't seem to be any difference but Warden Li couldn't help getting that feeling nevertheless.

...

Back at Cell No. 4027.

Warden Li left after threatening the entire cell that he would stuff them all into the small, dark room if they caused any more trouble.

"Kid, how did you like the little dark room?"

After Warden Li left, Li Hu smiled sinisterly at Chu Xun while feeling the strangulation marks on his neck.

"It's not bad."

Chu Xun walked up to his bed, lay down, and closed his eyes.

Everyone's attention was on him, their eyes filled with vicious murderous intent.

They were waiting.

So was Chu Xun. He was waiting for nighttime.

The arrival of the night brought upon the moonlight.

Li Hu and the other prisoners exchanged gestures and sneaked up to Chu Xun's bed, surrounding him.

Right then, Chu Xun opened his eyes with the corner of his mouth upturned to form a sneer.

"It's still early. Are you all that impatient?"

Chu Xun's sudden voice gave Li Hu and the others a fright.

He sat up and looked coldly at them.

"You're awake?" Li Hu was astonished. He never thought that Chu Xun would be awake.

"I was waiting for you to make your move," Chu Xun replied icily.

"You..." Li Hu's expression changed. How did Chu Xun find out that they were going to make their move tonight?

"You want to ask how did I know, don't you? Of course I know, except the price for this information is a little steep." When he thought of his humiliating and inexplicable death in his past life, brought upon by these scum's punches, the malevolence inside his heart surged straight into his brain.

Even though he was reborn, this death remained a thorn in his heart. For each day that he didn't pluck the thorn out, his demons would haunt him for another day.

"Who sent you?" This was what Chu Xun was most curious about: the identity of the person who wanted him dead.

"Go down to hell and ask Yama." Li Hu had a nasty temper. Now that Chu Xun had nearly strangled him to death, he wouldn't let the former off even without external instructions.

Li Hu was a martial artist. Before he was imprisoned, he was the boss of a small gang. Even though his gang operated on a small scale, it was established on the strength of his punches and kicks alone. He wasn't at all afraid of a teen whose thigh wasn't even as thick as his arm.

Li Hu charged up to Chu Xun in just a few steps, his punch producing a strong wind as it aimed for Chu Xun's head.

If this punch landed, Chu Xun would be handicapped, if not dead.

The rest retreated when they saw how fierce and terrifying Li Hu's punch was. They were afraid of becoming innocent victims of his attack.

Chu Xun's gaze was ice-cold. He reached out and grabbed Li Hu's fist, stopping his fierce punch in midair.

Li Hu's expression fell. He felt as if his fist hit a steel plate, not Chu Xun's palm. The force sent an intense pain shooting up his arm and half of his body went numb from the sensation.

All the rest saw was Chu Xun raising his hand and intercepting Li Hu's punch. They couldn't help widening their eyes.

Chu Xun suddenly kicked.

His kick sent Li Hu flying and crashing hard against the wall. The pain was so sharp that he nearly fainted.

The others trembled from the shock, having never thought that the violent Li Hu would be done in by Chu Xun with just a single move.

Chu Xun once again moved, his action like that of a phantom, and instantly threw six consecutive punches.

"Thud! Thud!"

The other six prisoners fell to the floor at nearly the same time, all of them knocked out.

Chu Xun walked over to Li Hu and looked at him from above.

"I'll ask the questions. You'll answer. If you dare to lie, I'll make you beg for death."

Li Hu nodded, frightened.

"Who ordered you to kill me?"

"I, I don't know."

Seeing the change in Chu Xun's expression, Li Hu became frightened out of his wits. He scrambled to crawl up and kneel in front of Chu Xun. "I really don't know. Please believe me."

Chu Xun said nothing, indicating for him to continue.

"I'm sentenced to death for committing the crime of homicide. But on the second day I entered this cell, someone sent me a message and promised to save my life if I follow their orders."

"And their order is for you to torment me?" Chu Xun sneered.

Li Hu shivered and subconsciously shrunk his neck. He said cautiously, "Yes. They wanted me to torment you day and night, not giving you even a day of peace but without taking your life. I didn't believe it at first, but I should've been fired to death the week after I came here. It wasn't until a month had passed that I believed them."

"They ordered you to torment me, but why are you trying to kill me?"

"It's not me. It's them. Knowing that you'll be released tomorrow, they wanted me to kill you tonight. Then, they'll make arrangements for our release," Li Hu hastily replied.

"They received the same orders, didn't they?" Chu Xun pointed to the unconscious prisoners.

"Yes." Li Hu nodded. "They even said..."

"What did they say?"

"They said that if we didn't get the chance to kill you, we should feed you this." Li Hu fished out a paper packet from under the bed.

Chu Xun took the paper packet from him and opened it. Inside, he found a white pill. He put it under his nose and sniffed. A cold glint flashed in his eyes.

Even though he didn't know the name of this pill, he knew it was a pill that targeted one's mental state. The consumer of this pill would suffer tremendous damage to his mind. Even if he somehow survived, he would suffer from insanity and become an idiot.

Just who was the mastermind using such an insidious trick against him? Chu Xun's body emanated a strong murderous aura.

Insanity... Idiot... An idea came to him.

He hadn't thought of how to deal with these men before, but he did now.

Chu Xun threw an abrupt punch and Li Hu fainted before he could even groan.

Staring emotionlessly at the unconscious men, Chu Xun walked up to one of them and squatted down. He placed his palms on the man's temples and poured in a stream of True Energy. He repeated this on the second man, the third... There were no exceptions!

Chu Xun's eyes were without emotion. Seven days later, the True Energy that he buried in them would erupt and they would all become idiots.

He would be out of prison by then.

...

...

The next day.

The main doors of Kongshan Prison slowly opened.

"Kiddo, don't look back once you leave this place."

The elderly prison guard at the doors reminded Chu Xun, repeating his advice to every prisoner who left this place. Even so, there would always be people who would find themselves imprisoned again.

Chu Xun nodded. He was wearing the same clothes from when he entered the prison three years ago. It was obvious that they were one size too small for him now and even the style looked dated.

He walked away with light, quick steps. He knew no one would be here to receive him.

To be honest, there was something that he couldn't quite understand even now. Why have his parents never visited him throughout his three years in prison?

When he reached the bottom of the Broken Soul Mountain, he saw no one for 50 kilometers, but he didn't mind.

He saw a forest up ahead and stepped inside, where he swiftly took off the T-shirt that he was wearing.

Whoever saw him now would surely be dumbstruck.

That was because the scars on Chu Xun's body were healing and then falling off at a speed observable by the naked eye. Before long, his skin looked so dewy and glossy that it looked like jade...

Minutes later, Chu Xun walked out of the forest.

His straight, well-defined eyebrows were raised. His long, narrow eyes seemed to be shining. His thin lips formed a beautiful arc, lending him a languid and aloof temperament.

No one would have thought that this good-looking young man was the same skinny Chu Xun who was tormented in the prison.

Stepping into the Qi Refinement Stage equaled being rebirth and reaching Nirvana. His figure and appearance would be restructured along with it.

Chu Xun didn't alter his appearance inside the prison out of fear of unnecessary trouble. Out here, he didn't have anything to worry about.

There were a hundred kilometers away from Gujiang City. Even at his current state, walking there would take him an entire day.

But he wasn't worried. He began strolling as if he was taking a walk.

Wherever he walked, it felt as if a large, intangible hand was stirring the airflow around him.

Chu Xun was cultivating while he was walking. Even though there was little spiritual energy here, it was better than nothing.

...

"Boom!"

It was the roaring of an engine! A black, off-road vehicle appeared in Chu Xun's vision.

The vehicle closed the distance of more than a hundred meters in the blink of an eye.

The engine once again emitted a thundering noise. The vehicle, like a bull going berserk, charged in Chu Xun's direction.

Chu Xun could see clearly through the windshield the middle-aged driver with a crew cut and dark skin. The man was laughing, flashing him a set of white teeth.

The off-road vehicle zoomed past Chu Xun before drifting beautifully with an ear-piercing screech and stopping ten meters away from him.

The middle-aged man jumped out of the car. The stainless steel dagger in his hand glinted. He looked wary.

That was because the target that he wanted to run down earlier had vanished.

The middle-aged man looked around, his guard raised.

"Looking for me?"

Chu Xun's voice drifted from the top of the car. The middle-aged man's head snapped up, as if he was just bitten by a snake.

"Bit arrogant, don't you think? To try and kill me in broad daylight?" Chu Xun looked cold and detached. To think that someone would assassinate him as soon as he left the prison. Who was so desperate for his death?

The middle-aged man tightened his grip around his dagger and looked at Chu Xun, fully cautious. He cursed in his mind, "D*mn it. Didn't they say he's a weak student? How was that stunt earlier something a student could do?"

"What do you mean, kill you? You must have misunderstood. I didn't expect to see people on this road, so I nearly hit you out of carelessness. I'm sorry... It's a misunderstanding..." The middle-aged man was all smiles.

His senses were very sharp and they had saved his life countless times. He could tell that Chu Xun was no ordinary person. A moment of carelessness and he might end up dying here. He was planning to retreat.

Chu Xun looked at the middle-aged man, his gaze overbearing.

"How do you explain the dagger in your hand? Please don't tell me that you're using that to peel your fruits."

The middle-aged man's expression changed. He looked at Chu Xun and said, "What do you want?"

"Shouldn't I be the one asking you that?" Chu Xun jumped off the car roof and slowly walked up to the middle-aged man. "Who sent you to kill me?"

The middle-aged man's pupils shifted uneasily as he watched Chu Xun coming closer to him. A sharp glint flashed in his eyes and in the following moment, the dagger left his hand and ferociously flew toward Chu Xun's chest.

"Go to hell!"

The middle-aged roared fiercely.

Chu Xun looked at the oncoming dagger with cold eyes and then thrust his fist. Though he made his move later than his opponent, it was his attack that struck first.

"Thump!"

His punch sent the middle-aged man flying and left an obvious fist mark on the latter's chest cavity.

"Since you won't answer me, then you can answer to Yama!"

Chu Xun looked at the middle-aged man lying more than ten meters away, who no longer showed the sign of living.

To an Immortal Emperor, human lives were as insignificant as insects!

"Want my life? Come at me! I, Chu Xun, am waiting!"

Chu Xun's tone was light, but the murderous aura that seeped from him was enough to strike fear in anyone.

...

Hours later, a black off-road vehicle sped into Gujiang City.

After three years, the city had only become more prosperous.

Chu Xun couldn't care less now, however. He drove the car at lightning-fast speed toward a high-class neighborhood.

He came from a well-off family. His father, Chu Tianhe, and mother, Liu Ran, were executives at the same company.

But after standing in front of his house and knocking the door with a hopeful heart, he was told that the owners had been changed a long time ago.

Chu Xun felt like someone had poured a basin of cold water over his head. He also felt somewhat uneasy.

Immediately, he drove toward Tianyuan Corporation. That was where his parents were working.

Chu Xun once followed his father to the company.

Relying on his memories, he made it to the place.

The twenty-two-story tower in front of him appeared to have been reconstructed. It was a lot grander than before.

Chu Xun parked the car and then got out. Just as he was about to enter the doors, his footsteps paused. Flabbergasted, he raised his head to look at the top of the tower.

"Such intense murderous aura."

To his surprise, there was a gigantic blade formed out of murderous aura hovering above the tower. It looked as if it was going to fall anytime.

Murderous aura was a discipline in Feng Shui or Chinese geomancy. Chu Xun didn't know much about it, but during his free time in the alternate cultivation world, he would study a secret technique called Evocation of Heavenly Secrets.

Like Feng Shui, the Evocation of Heavenly Secrets could decipher Yin and Yang and discuss the Heavenly Secrets as well. However, it was even more profound. Following one's growth in cultivation, one could peek into many Heavenly Secrets.

With his current cultivation, though, his Evocation of Heavenly Secrets technique was pitifully weak.

Of course, this was what Chu Xun thought.

He was just curious about something. Surely, they would have hired a Feng Shui master to examine the land before building a tower on it. So why was there such potent murderous aura here?

But this was none of his business.

Chu Xun walked into the tower and went straight to the reception.

A short distance away, two security guards looked at him cautiously.

"Who are you looking for?"

The beautiful receptionist flashed an occupational smile at him.

"Please put me in touch with your HR Manager, Chu Tianhe. If he's not around, then get me Manager Liu Ran from your Marketing Department."

Chu Xun sounded rather urgent.

The receptionist looked at Chu Xun in surprise and said, "Manager Chu and Manager Liu resigned a year ago."

Chu Xun's heart twisted painfully.

"Do you know why they resigned?"

The receptionist shook her head politely. Never mind the fact that she didn't know. Even if she knew something, she would never reveal it to a person of unknown origins.

Right then, the escalator next to them dinged.

Two men and a woman stepped out.

"Hello, Chairman Chen! Hello, Director Bai!"

The receptionist and the two security guards subconsciously straightened their backs and greeted the three of them in unison.

"Hey! You can't go there..."

Before the receptionist could finish her sentence, Chu Xun was already walking up to the three people and blocking their way.

The two security guards were alarmed. They gripped their rubber batons and ran up to Chu Xun.

The three people paused in their steps when they saw someone blocking their way. They looked at Chu Xun unhappily.

"Who are you?"

Chen Hanlong frowned at Chu Xun.

"I'm here to find someone. You look like you're C-level executives in this company. I have some questions for you."

Chen Hanlong looked even more upset and barked, "Nonsense! You should talk to the receptionist if you're looking for someone! What are you stopping us for?"

"We're so sorry, Chairman Chen! This guy is mentally ill. We'll remove him immediately."

The security guards rushed over, nodding their heads and bowing. Their job was to maintain the security of this place but now, this young man had offended the chairman. If the chairman was upset, they might very well get fired.

Chen Hanlong nodded. To think a person of his caliber would be stopped and questioned. This made him very unhappy.

The security guards reached for Chu Xun's arms, wanting to drag him out.

With the little shake of his arms, Chu Xun sent the security guards flying.

"Answer my question and I'll keep you safe. Other else, a fatal disaster will befall you the moment you step out the door," Chu Xun said coldly.

He wasn't sure where the murderous aura atop the tower came from before, but he was now certain that it had something to do with the man in front of him. Out of the three people that he saw, only this man had a black line between his eyebrows. That was a sign of disaster.

Of course, outsiders wouldn't be able to see the black line at all.

The moment the words left Chu Xun's mouth, the three people became even more certain that the security guards were right. This young man was indeed mentally ill.

Chen Hanlong's face was turning green. He built his fortune using illegal means and only whitewashed his finances later in life. The evil in him was still alive and well. It was upsetting for him to be suddenly cursed with a fatal disaster. Were it not for his status, he would have kicked Chu Xun out of the door long ago.

"Give the mental institution a call," Chen Hanlong said, turning to address the receptionist. Then, he gave his orders to the security guards who had just climbed up from the floor. "Keep an eye on him, or you can forget about coming to work tomorrow."

The receptionist and security guards hastily nodded.