Chapter 1168: Still Calling Her Young Miss Fatty? To Me, You Look Like a Dead Brat, Smashing the Matriarch!

Refining spirit stones by absorbing Heaven and Earth's Spiritual Energy with one's own hands? How could that ever compare to the convenience and speed of directly seizing it from another person's body!?

One pull, one yank, and that was an entire lifetime of Spiritual Energy storage from a Fifth Restriction Qi Refiner.

This feeling...

Taking shortcuts just felt too damn good.

Lu Ding crushed the flesh-ball in his hand with a squeeze, then spoke: "A wicked servant bullying the master, is this how the Shen Family teaches their people!?"

"Don't they understand the way of respecting rank and status!!"

"A miss is a miss, whether it's Eldest Miss, Second Miss, Third Miss, whatever, just call her by her ranking! But 'Young Miss Fatty'? To me, you look like a dead brat!!!"

Lu Ding was absolutely savage in this moment.

The half-open Red Coffin looming faintly behind him only added to his eerie, menacing aura.

That technique of draining living people dry into withered flesh-ball mummies, compared to demonic arts, it was practically worse.

It genuinely terrified the people pouring out of the Shen Family's main gate, scaring them pale as sheets.

Lu Ding looked at them: "What are you standing around gawking for? Announce the arrival, welcome the guest!!!"

Everyone remained rooted in place, frozen with fear.

Only the young man wearing a cap hurried over to Fatty in three quick strides, performed a grand salute, and loudly announced: "Welcoming Young Miss Jiannan back to the estate!!!!"

Lu Ding was satisfied.

His peripheral gaze swept toward those Shen Family servants who were just about to parrot the words and follow suit.

He raised his hand and directly seized them.

A violent yank.

Several people exploded into clouds of blood mist on the spot, their entire bodies' Spiritual Energy extracted, refined into spirit stones that Lu Ding tossed into the Red Coffin.

"Being a servant without proper situational awareness means you have no reason to exist."

Lu Ding walked forward.

The young gatekeeper boy who had announced the arrival quickly guided Fatty: "Young Miss Jiannan, please, right this way."

Up ahead, Lu Ding kicked the half-open Shen Family gate to splinters with a single strike.

He turned back: "You know her name?"

The boy kept his head down, staring at the ground, not daring to look the man ahead of him in the eye: "To report to you, sir, my father is Butler Wu."

That was all he dared to say.

Lu Ding understood.

No wonder this young man knew Fatty's name. So his father was the Butler Wu who had let Fatty go.

And Butler Wu had once received kindness from Fatty's mother.

Remembering the name, and telling his own son about it, it seemed this Butler Wu was a decent enough man.

Lu Ding nodded: "Lead the way!"

The boy walked forward.

Lu Ding followed close behind, stepping into the Shen Family estate.

At this moment, inside the main hall of the Shen Family courtyard, the Matriarch was still waiting for her servants to bring Fatty to her.

She sat there with all the airs of the Shen Family Matriarch, perfectly poised.

But she never expected that when she looked up.

She would see three figures walking toward her!

The Matriarch frowned. Where were all the others!?

But there was no time to ask questions now.

Her gaze settled on Lu Ding, sweeping up and down, taking in his clothes. The materials were average, the style was passable, but the cloak on his back was rather extraordinary. Most importantly, his temperament and bearing were definitely not something an ordinary person would possess.

One glance gave her a feeling of unfathomable depth.

The Shen Family Matriarch immediately formed her judgment.

She stood up and hurried over: "Fatty, my darling Fatty, where have you been? You've worried your mother to death."

Anxious steps, a concerned voice.

If Lu Ding hadn't already gotten the full story from Fatty beforehand, with that acting of hers, he might have actually been uncertain.

But now?

Facing the woman who rushed over anxiously, not even sparing Lu Ding a glance, spreading her arms wide to embrace Fatty...

Lu Ding simply raised his leg and delivered a straight kick with zero warning!!

"You're really putting on that loving mother act?!!!"

This kick came without any forewarning, fierce and overwhelming, completely beyond the Matriarch's expectations as it slammed heavily into her chest.

It sent her flying backward, crashing into the hall, vomiting a mouthful of blood as every bone in her chest shattered.

One stone stirred a thousand waves.

"The Matriarch!!!"

"How dare you! This is the Shen Family, and you dare to lay such vicious hands on our Matriarch!!!"

"Guards!!! Guards, get in here!!!!"

At the cries.

The Shen Family's guards flew out from all directions, charging at Lu Ding in a pincer attack.

But.

One by one, their cultivations were just so-so, their combat power just so-so.

Lu Ding didn't even want to use the Way of the Jinche, because those killed by the Way of the Jinche couldn't have their Spiritual Energy extracted to form spirit stones.

These people, though their cultivation wasn't especially high, were at least at the Spirit Refinement realm.

Their bodies were brimming with Spiritual Energy.

If he drained and extracted them one by one, that would be another huge windfall!!!

Right now, Lu Ding had no interest in playing fist-and-foot games with them.

No need for any more words.

He let his aura explode outward, radiating searing heat in all directions, and True Samadhi Fire directly ignited the dozens of Shen Family guards who had come running at the commotion.

Screams of agony immediately filled the air.

"Ah!!!! Fire!!! Fire!!!!!"

"Sir!!! Sir!!! Please spare us, Sir!!!!!"

"We won't dare again, Sir!!!!!"

"Please let us go, Sir!!!"

Lu Ding didn't waste words with them. Now that it hurt, they knew to beg for mercy, but where was that arrogant attitude from just moments ago when they were ready to throw hands over nothing!?

Celestial Shift activated on the spot, Lu Ding continuously blinked in and out of existence. In the blink of an eye, his form rapidly vanished and reappeared dozens of times. Screams and pleas for mercy followed in succession before abruptly cutting off.

By the time Lu Ding returned to his original position.

His Red Coffin had already gained yet another substantial fortune in spirit stones.

In the courtyard, charred corpses lay strewn everywhere.

Lu Ding strode into the hall.

The Shen Family Matriarch propped herself up on the ground, leaning against the floor, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth.

A maidservant shielded her from the front: "What do you think you're doing!!! Our Matriarch is the..."

BANG!!!!!!

Before she could finish her sentence, she exploded on the spot.

Lu Ding's voice rang out: "So noisy!!!!"

His gaze locked directly onto the Matriarch. She instinctively scrambled backward, but before she could, Lu Ding raised his leg and stomped directly onto her ankle, grinding it!!!

"Ah!!!!!!!!"

"Who the hell are you! What do you want!!!!!"

"My brother is Jin Tianran, the Lord of Wushuang City, and my husband is Shen Lingfeng, the Grand Creation Immortal Lord!!! If you dare hurt me, they won't let you get away with it!!!!!"

"Lift your leg, lift your leg!!!!!"

CRACK!!!!

The woman's ankle was ground to pieces, stomped clean through!!!!

Only then did Lu Ding lift his leg.

With a wave of his hand, he dragged a nearby chair over, turned around, and sat down.

Lu Ding finally spoke: "Send someone to go make the call."

Through the haze of pain, the Matriarch asked in disbelief: "What did you say?"

She had heard him. Asking again was both her habit and her refusal to believe her own ears.

But Lu Ding wasn't about to indulge her.

He raised his hand and sent a palm strike cracking through the air.

SMACK!!!!!

It landed on the woman's face with such force that her skin split open, half her facial flesh peeled clean off the bone, dangling from her jaw in a horrifying sight as blood gushed like a fountain.

"Ah!!!! My face!!! My face!!!!!"

The woman screamed in agony, her trembling hand reaching toward her severely injured, agonizing face, yet not daring to touch it.