Hu Ya was closest to the exit. She watched as Hua Jiang gradually transformed into a beast, and she stumbled backward step by step, her face draining to white with terror.

“I told you from the start… I told you from the start that he couldn’t be killed!” she suddenly shrieked hysterically. “I told you! Only the last bride can make it out alive!!!”

With those words, she stopped caring about the others, turned, and fled.

No one paid her any attention.

Su Man refused to give up. “Why won’t you die?! If stabbing your heart doesn’t work… then I’ll cut off your head!”

The beast continued to rage, rearing its head back with a roar, completely unaware that Su Man had already raised the iron sword high above her—

*Bang!*

The sharp, heavy iron weapon struck the side of its neck with a dull thud. But the beast’s thick mane shielded it from the blow; not a drop of blood was drawn.

“Run!” Yu Yaqing grabbed Su Man’s arm and pulled her toward the exit. “His wounds heal fast! It’s useless!!!”

Zhu Shu grabbed hold of Bai Youwei’s wheelchair and hurried backward toward the door.

The transformed “Hua Jiang” let out a roar and lunged toward the doorway, trying to block their escape.

Suddenly, a massive bolt of blue-violet lightning struck him!

The beast crashed to the ground!

The attack came without warning—not just the beast, even Yu Yaqing and Su Man stood frozen in stunned disbelief.

Yu Yaqing had seen Bai Youwei use an electric shock device before, but that time it had only caused a person to convulse. She had never known—had never imagined—that Bai Youwei could release an electrical discharge of this magnitude.

That blue bolt of light just now had been like a bolt of lightning striking from thin air.

The air was faintly suffused with the smell of scorched fur…

They all went still.

They stared in astonishment at the beast sprawled on the floor.

The beast-in-human-form hadn’t died. He lay face-down, the broad expanse of his back rising and falling slightly, his mane bristled and splayed, a low, rasping wheeze rumbling from his throat.

Bai Youwei’s brow furrowed. She released a second bolt of lightning!

*BOOM!*

Blue-violet light exploded!

This time, it was bigger than the last—brighter, louder.

The white shirt on the beast’s body was completely carbonized into ash. His fur showed scorched, charred black marks. The thinner skin around his mouth, nose, and eyes began to fester and slough away, seeping thin threads of blood—a hideous, horrifying sight.

He lay there in silence, motionless.

But before long, that low, ragged wheeze sounded again—

The massive torso heaved in and out with each breath. His claws scraped and grated against the floorboards, a creaking sound grinding through the air.

Seeing this, Bai Youwei’s expression turned grim. “He’s unkillable right now. No matter how we attack him, he’ll come back to life. I can discharge this lightning twice more. Use that time to find somewhere to hide!”

“What about you?!” Su Man asked urgently.

Bai Youwei bit her lip, glanced back at Zhu Shu, and said, “Zhu Shu stays with me. You and Yu Yaqing—go!”

This was no time for courteous hesitation. The beast on the floor would recover at any moment. Su Man and Yu Yaqing exchanged a glance, then bolted decisively out of the torture chamber, their running footsteps fading rapidly into the distance.

With hundreds of rooms across multiple floors, as long as they hid themselves, even if the beast searched room by room, he might not find them.

The beast ground its teeth together with a grating creak and hauled itself upright. The scorched eyelids had completely rotted away and were crumbling off in flakes, leaving two bloodshot eyeballs that glared furiously at Bai Youwei.

Bai Youwei’s expression was ice-cold. She let loose another bolt of lightning with a thunderous crack!

The beast collapsed again!

Zhu Shu gripped the wheelchair and hurried out into the corridor, her heart pounding wildly, her palms slick with sweat.

They had barely made it to the hallway when the beast crawled out through the doorway, covered in burn marks, his entire body charred black, closing in on them one step at a time—

The air was thick with the stench of burning and the reek of blood.

Bai Youwei unleashed another bolt of lightning, trying to drive him back!

The blue-violet radiance fell upon the beast like a broad, sweeping sword—but this time, the blazing ring of light appeared slightly smaller than before.

She had said earlier she could only release it two more times. This was already the second.

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