It turns out Phoenix’s goal is that potion for everlasting youth; how could Nianyang possibly give it to her?

She chuckled softly, "Then you miscalculated. The beautiful master cares for me, but hasn’t given me any potion..."

Phoenix adopted a vicious demeanor, crouching in front of Nianyang, grabbing her throat, "I warn you, you’d better not play any tricks on me. Hand over the potion quickly, and I can make it easy for you. Otherwise, you know my abilities; I can have a thousand ways to make you die in unbearable pain."

Nianyang couldn’t catch her breath from the choking, yet she didn’t struggle. She had already lost the desire to live, and her eyes were dull, her voice weak, "I said I don’t have it, then I don’t have it. Whether you want to kill or to torture, do as you please..."

Phoenix could see Nianyang truly wanted to die, surprisingly without any desire to survive. How could there be such a person!

"You’re a lunatic, I think you’re just a damn lunatic!" Indeed, tough fears stubborn, stubborn fears reckless, reckless fears those who fear nothing.

Phoenix was exactly in this mood now. She let go of Nianyang, emitting a series of cold laughs, "Wanting to die is not so easy. I’ve spent so much effort to catch you. Without getting what I want, it’s not that simple to end it for you!"

With a command, she said, "Come on, beat her up, but keep it in check; don’t let her die. Beat her until she tells the truth!"

"Yes, Sister Phoenix!"

A few burly men responded and walked towards Nianyang, starting a round of punching and kicking.

Nianyang was limp from head to toe, bound tight, without any strength to resist, like a dead fish allowing them to turn her over and over, eventually spitting out blood.

Pain.

Excruciating pain.

Pain that almost led to death.

Nianyang lived through two lifetimes and had never felt this kind of pain, yet she didn’t let out a single moan, her stubbornness making the men furious, one of whom grabbed her hair and viciously slammed her head onto the ground a few times. Nianyang finally groaned, her vision went black, and she fainted without a sound.

"Boss, is she dead?" a henchman asked nervously.

The man holding Nianyang’s hair threw her onto the ground, wiping the blood from his hands, "Dead my ass, she’s just fainted."

Phoenix watched the scene without a bit of sympathy, arrogantly snorted, "This girl’s bones are as hard as Chu Lan’s. It’ll definitely be hard to make her submit at the beginning. Move her to the warehouse; once she wakes up, we’ll continue the slow interrogation."

A henchman asked, "But the CEO has been waiting to kill this girl personally, to avenge our boss."

Phoenix calmly replied, "Tell him not to worry. Once I get what I want, there’ll always be a chance for the young master. Keep her alive and bring her to him."

★

Meanwhile, Li Tingyan was on the other side, leading people to search the whole mountain for traces of Nianyang being taken away. After the observer’s inspection, they could only conclude that the suspects took Nianyang outside the city.

Outside the city...

Li Tingyan’s hand was continuously trembling, never stopping.

The area outside the city is vast, filled with towns and villages everywhere, nobody knows where they took Nianyang. Checking roadside surveillance at least requires four to five days.

But four to five days, Nianyang can’t wait, four to five days means retrieving a corpse. He can’t choose this path...