Fairy Qiongxiao Was Stunned on the Spot

Lin Feng's voice rang out again, still calm and devoid of the slightest ripple.

"I'll only give you three breaths to consider."

He raised a finger, his gaze indifferent as he looked at the stunningly beautiful face on the ground, filled with humiliation and struggle.

"After three breaths, your depleted Immortal Essence will trigger a chain reaction. Your Dao foundation will suffer irreversible damage, and your immortal path will be severed. You'll become a cripple."

"Become my maid, and not only will I ensure your safety, but I'll also give you hope on the Great Dao."

His words were like a heavy hammer smashing fiercely into Qiong Xiao's heart.

Every word carried cold reality—and a hint of fatal temptation.

Qiong Xiao's delicate body trembled violently.

Humiliation!

Endless humiliation burned through her soul like the most vicious flames, scorching the pride she held as an immortal of the Interception Sect and the mistress of the Three Immortal Islands.

A maid?

He actually wanted her to become his maid?

That was even worse than killing her!

Rage shot straight to her head, and she nearly wanted to activate the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors without regard for the consequences. Even if it meant her soul being destroyed, she wanted to perish together with this madman.

But when she raised her head and met Lin Feng's unfathomable eyes, all her anger was like a flame doused by icy water, extinguished in an instant.

What kind of eyes were those?

There was no disdain, no greed, not even the slightest emotional fluctuation.

There was only absolute control and a domineering attitude that regarded all things as natural.

It was as though making her his maid was neither a demand nor an insult, but a gift.

A supreme honor she should never have received, yet one he had exceptionally bestowed upon her.

Absurd!

The moment that thought surfaced, even Qiong Xiao found it utterly absurd.

Yet the innate confidence emanating from Lin Feng, along with his composure that treated heaven and earth as nothing, made her begin to waver involuntarily.

In her mind, the scenes that had overturned her understanding replayed uncontrollably.

With a mere raised finger, he had laid down the perfected Heavenly Dipper Great Array, which even she had yet to fully comprehend, instantly vaporizing four Golden Immortals.

With his bare hands, he had crushed the artifact spirit's will within the top-tier Innate Spirit Treasure, the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors, more easily than crushing an egg.

Through it all, he had not even used a trace of Immortal Essence!

What kind of terrifying existence was he?

Even those senior brothers and sisters who were Master's direct disciples could not possibly possess such incomprehensible means!

Could it be...

A thought so horrifying that it frightened even her began to grow wildly in her mind.

Could he truly be some ancient demon god who had survived since primordial chaos? Some Hidden World Great Being whom even the Dao Ancestor had to treat with courtesy?

Only such an existence could explain the ordinary appearance of Return to Simplicity around him, utterly devoid of Mana Fluctuation.

Only such an existence could treat Innate Spirit Treasures as toys and Golden Immortals as ants.

And only such an existence had the right to say, "I'll give you hope on the Great Dao!"

Qiong Xiao's heart was in turmoil.

Dignity and life.

Freedom and the Great Dao.

The two scales swayed madly in her mind, tearing at her soul.

If she refused, then given her current condition, damage to her Dao foundation was practically inevitable.

Once her foundation was ruined, forget attaining the Dao of the Great Luo—even maintaining her Golden Immortal cultivation would be as difficult as reaching heaven. Her future immortal path would be shrouded in darkness.

But if she agreed...

Would the dignified Fairy Qiongxiao become a man's maid, subject to his every command?

That pride, that dignity, made her unable to accept it.

"One."

Lin Feng's icy voice sounded out. The first number fell like a death knell.

Qiong Xiao's delicate body shuddered. The Immortal Essence already exhausted within her seemed to be completely scattered by that voice, and a piercing pain surged from her dantian and sea of qi, making her vision go dark.

She could clearly feel her immortal body collapsing. Fine cracks had already appeared across her Dao foundation.

She was afraid.

She was truly afraid.

She was not afraid of death, but she feared having her immortal path severed. She feared falling from a lofty immortal into a cripple worse off than a mortal.

That was a torment ten thousand times more terrifying than death!

She looked at Lin Feng again, at that face so handsome it was beyond reproach, yet so cold it made one's heart tremble.

Those eyes still held that absolute confidence.

It was as though nothing in this world could trouble him, as though his promise was the Heavenly Dao Laws themselves—Words Manifest as Law.

Perhaps...

A thought absurd to the extreme completely seized her mind.

Perhaps becoming his maid was not a humiliation.

Perhaps it was a heaven-defying opportunity that even a Saint's disciple could only dream of?

To follow an existence this unfathomable, even as nothing more than a maid, the sights she could witness and the heights she could reach would surely surpass cultivating bitterly in Bixia Palace!

A casual word of guidance from him might surpass her own painstaking efforts of tens of millions of years!

Once that thought took root, it could no longer be restrained. Like wildly growing vines, it instantly entwined her entire soul.

Dignity?

Before immortality and the supreme Great Dao, what did dignity amount to?

Having understood this, the scales in Qiong Xiao's heart finally tipped decisively.

"Two."

Lin Feng spoke the second number, and his voice now carried a trace of impatience.

Just as he was about to speak the third number.

"I..."

A weak, hoarse, yet incomparably clear voice was squeezed out from Qiong Xiao's throat with difficulty.

She bit down hard on her lower lip. Bright red blood slid from the corner of her mouth, bringing a faint metallic taste.

That humiliation carved into her bones still made her entire body tremble.

Yet her eyes had never been more resolute.

She raised her head to meet Lin Feng's gaze and exhausted the last shred of strength in her body to utter the word that would decide her future fate.

"...I'm willing."

As the words fell.

It felt as though every bone in her body had been pulled away.

Qiong Xiao's vision went dark, and her delicate body collapsed forward limply as she completely lost consciousness.

The last trace of pride supporting her completely crumbled along with those two words.