"Let me out!" Knox roared furiously.

"Even if this young master dies, I refuse to be locked up in this ghostly place! If you don’t let me go, I will sever my own meridians and commit suicide!"

"Commit suicide?" Adrian raised an eyebrow, mocking playfully.

"Do you think you have the ability to commit suicide?"

Knox froze. The next second, he discovered in horror that these shackles and chains on his body appeared ordinary and lifeless, yet they passed directly through his physical body to bind his dantian.

Not only did they render him completely unable to move an inch, but his spiritual energy was also unable to circulate in the slightest.

He couldn’t even commit suicide.

"Brat, just be content." Adrian said with deep interest.

"These are chains and shackles forged from Forbidden Magic Stones, which the Saint Lord specifically requested from the Heavenly Flame Empress back then. Even a Saint Realm mighty figure, as long as they are bound here, will turn into a cripple. Using them on a Nascent Soul Realm little brat like you can already be considered a reckless waste of heaven’s good gifts."

Knox’s face was full of terror. He gritted his teeth. "What exactly does Alex want by locking me up here?!"

"I don’t quite understand the Saint Lord’s intentions either." Adrian shrugged.

"However, as the Second Elder of the Hale family, I must unconditionally obey the Saint Lord’s orders."

With that said, Adrian stepped forward and grabbed Knox by the hair with one hand.

While Knox was still in a daze, the next second, Adrian wound up his arm and viciously slapped him hard across the face.

As a fifth level Mahayana Realm expert, even without using inner force,

Adrian’s physical strength was already formidable, this slap directly smacked Knox so hard his brain buzzed, stars spun in his eyes, and fresh blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.

"What are you doing?!" Knox was instantly enraged, his eyes splitting open with fury.

Adrian didn’t change his expression.

Closely following, another slap landed on the other side of Knox’s face. In the blink of an eye, Adrian delivered a full twenty slaps, evenly distributed across Knox’s left and right cheeks.

After taking these twenty slaps, both sides of Knox’s cheeks swelled up half an inch high. Blood flowed from his mouth and nose, his entire person slapped into a daze.

"Alright, that’s it for today." Adrian clapped his hands and smiled.

"The Saint Lord ordered me to slap you twenty times every day. Today’s slaps are done, you properly rest and recover for now. I will come back to hit you tomorrow."

Hearing these words, the corners of Knox’s mouth twitched slightly, his pupils quaking directly.

Did he violate the laws of heaven to be treated like this?

Knox secretly comforted himself in his heart.

At least being locked up here every day guaranteed absolute safety. It was just taking a few slaps. It wouldn’t kill him.

Moreover, there was even someone to deliver food when the time came, which wasn’t too bad.

In the beginning, Knox’s mentality was still quite optimistic.

But after a few days, his willpower directly collapsed.

Every day, he opened his eyes to an iron wall and closed his eyes to an iron wall, his hands and feet were bound by Forbidden Magic Stones, unable to move an inch, he couldn’t even scratch an itch on his body.

Enveloped every day by thick yin qi and resentment, he didn’t even have a single person to talk to.

The maids who delivered his food morning and night treated him like livestock, completely ignoring him no matter what he said.

The only person he communicated with was Adrian. However, seeing this person’s face every day meant he was about to get beaten.

This lightless, despairing life, devoid of day or night, made Knox feel suffocated and hopeless in just two or three short days.

Even if his various schemes against Alex previously were indeed extremely despicable and shameless, surely it didn’t warrant being locked up here to suffer this living hell worse than death?

After five or six days, Knox’s originally rather handsome face had been slapped into a bloody, mangled pig’s head. Furthermore, his mental state was like a madman, sitting in the cell every day, constantly screaming and howling.

"Alex! If you have the guts, then kill me! If you don’t kill me, I will definitely kill you one day! I will slaughter your entire Hale family, crush your bones, and scatter your ashes!"

The cell door pushed open, and Adrian unhurriedly walked in from outside. Looking at Knox screaming and howling, he said faintly.

"Brat, stop barking. It’s time for your beating."

...

[Detected the Chosen One being suppressed, and his mental state is frantic! The Chosen One’s Luck drops by 5,000 points. The host obtains 10,000 Providence Points!]

Listening to the system notification, Alex, who was lying on a bluestone basking in the sun, smiled in satisfaction and nodded. "Not bad, today’s batch has also arrived."

He knew that the moment Adrian returned to the Holy Land, he had immediately executed his orders.

Because over these past few days, he could punctually withdraw this sum of Luck every single day.

Locking Knox up in the dungeon and slapping him a few times every day to slowly strip away the Luck on his body was the method Alex had come up with after deep and careful consideration.

Right now, Knox had basically offended all the female leads, female supporting characters, and various noble benefactors around him.

It was basically impossible to massively strip away his Luck through the old methods.

Slapping him a few times every day to suppress him, driving his mental state frantic, and chipping away at his Luck little by little.

Although the amount stripped away was relatively meager, many a mickle makes a muckle.

After five or six days of face-slapping, it had successfully shaved off another 1% of his Luck.

The only drawback was that Knox suffering physical injuries would cause Alex to suffer a slight backlash from Heavenly Dao.

However, having now broken through to the peak of the Supreme Realm, his strength was several times stronger than before.

This minor degree of backlash was fundamentally not worth mentioning!