If I Tell You to Kneel, Don't You Dare Lie Down

Their conversation was not quiet, and it soon caught the attention of the people outside.

Creak.

A young man radiating a chill all over, with blood still staining the corner of his mouth, pushed the door open and walked in.

He wore a black robe, his face as pale as paper and his eyes cold to the extreme.

One look was enough to tell that he was no good person.

"Awake?"

Seeing that Xu Yuan had regained consciousness, the young man licked the corner of his lips with the tip of his tongue. He looked somewhat deranged, his eyes burning with heat.

"Don't be in such a hurry. The best things taste best when saved for last."

Hm?

Xu Yuan narrowed his eyes. "You know me?"

He had only arrived in Spirit City two days ago. When he had entered the city with Yue Guan, plenty of people had seen his face.

But Xu Yuan did not believe these Evil Spirit Masters would dare show themselves at that time.

That meant the Evil Spirit Masters had learned of his identity and come for him on the very night he had been exposed at noon.

Were they really that well-informed?

Was there a mole within the organization?

Spirit Hall was massive, so having moles was inevitable.

But for someone to risk such outrage by cooperating with monsters as depraved as Evil Spirit Masters was far from normal.

The young man did not answer.

After staring greedily at Xu Yuan for a while, he told him to behave himself, then slowly walked out and shut the door again.

Inside the room.

The atmosphere fell silent.

Xu Yuan furrowed his brows as he considered how to escape.

Hu Liena watched him for quite some time before she finally spoke slowly. "What are you thinking about? Still trying to run away?"

Xu Yuan did not reply. With a thought, a glowing yellow Spirit Ring rose directly from beneath him.

Xu Yuan let out a breath of relief.

Good. His Martial Soul had not been sealed.

If he waited for Yue Guan and the others to receive word of his disappearance and come looking for him, his corpse would probably already be cold.

He summoned his Martial Soul, the Elemental Canon.

Turning to the page representing the metal element, Xu Yuan guided it with his mind and quickly condensed a saw made from gathered metal-element energy.

Then he began sawing.

It was not as though he had not considered burning the ropes with fire-element energy, but the ropes binding his hands and feet were specially made from the main tendons of Soul Beasts. Fire would not work at all.

In barely over a minute, the rope binding Xu Yuan's hands was sawed through.

Then came his feet.

Who would want to die when they could live?

Watching Xu Yuan stand up beside her while rubbing his wrists, Hu Liena smacked her lips twice.

"Um, Xu Yuan, we're roommates and all. Could you untie me too?"

Xu Yuan gave her a faint glance. He still held a grudge over the left whip kick Hu Liena had thrown at him without asking questions the night before, and his voice was indifferent.

"Call me Dad."

"You... don't go too far!"

Hu Liena glared at him through gritted teeth, her chest rising and falling with anger.

She was young, but she was quite well-developed?

Xu Yuan calmly withdrew his gaze. "You don't have to call me that. But surely you don't want the Evil Spirit Masters to slice you into thin pieces and eat you one bloody bite at a time, rich but not greasy?"

Hu Liena: "..."

That was clearly what she had used to scare Xu Yuan earlier. How had it been turned back on her so quickly?

Still, Hu Liena could not bring herself to call a brat so much younger than her Dad.

She snorted and simply stopped talking.

Her head could be cut off and her blood could be spilled, but her dignity could not be lost. At worst, she would die!

Xu Yuan glanced toward the door. The longer they delayed, the more dangerous it became, so he looked back at Hu Liena.

This girl was still too naive. If he threatened not to untie her, she could just threaten to shout. What could Xu Yuan do then?

Without knowing how many Evil Spirit Masters were outside or how strong they were, he definitely did not dare alert the enemy first.

He stepped over to Hu Liena and crouched in front of her. As the fragrance from her body drifted into his nose, Xu Yuan condensed the little saw again.

"Let's make this clear first. I'll untie you, but you'll owe me a favor. From now on, whatever I tell you to do, you'll do it. If I tell you to kneel, you absolutely can't lie down. Got it?"

Did this brat have nothing but bad ideas in his head?

Hu Liena met Xu Yuan's eyes and stared at him for a long while before slightly raising her snow-white chin.

"I'll owe you a favor. The rest is non-negotiable."

Xu Yuan said nothing, but his hands did not stop moving, which counted as agreement.

Very soon.

Hu Liena's body relaxed under Xu Yuan's movements, a faint blush appearing on her face.

Their hands had been tied behind their backs, right above their buttocks. Some skin contact was unavoidable while he untied her.

As an unmarried young woman, blushing was perfectly normal.

"Let's go."

Xu Yuan tossed the rope aside, took a deep breath, and crept toward the door on tiptoe.

Hu Liena followed his example and trailed closely behind him.

The room where they had been held was completely enclosed, without windows. It was a wooden structure, and while they could break through the wall, it was best not to alert the enemy if possible.

The Gold Soul Coins, Silver Soul Coins, and everything else they had carried had all been taken, so Xu Yuan could not use Railgun now.

He gently opened the door.

The scene outside immediately entered Xu Yuan's sight.

This was likely an inn somewhere in the city, and they were probably in its rear courtyard.

There were quite a few people in the courtyard. Seven or eight of them were in circumstances similar to Xu Yuan and Hu Liena's earlier state, with their hands and feet all tied.

They were all talented people!

There was probably a Soul Guidance Array around them that blocked sound, so the captors were not worried that those who had been tied up would cry for help.

Three figures in black robes were sitting at a stone table enjoying a meal. One of them was unmistakably the man who had entered the room earlier.

A figure also lay sprawled on the ground nearby, with hands and feet tied as well, except there was no longer any movement.

Judging from the three people at the stone table, their mouths smeared with blood as they ate, what they were consuming was most likely the person lying nearby.

Xu Yuan surveyed the scene.

He discovered that the materials he had bought earlier, along with the bag holding his Gold Soul Coins and Silver Soul Coins, had been placed on a wooden table not far from the person lying on the ground.

There were also some women's clothes beside them. If he was not mistaken, they belonged to Hu Liena.

"What do we do? With them guarding the place like this, we can't get out."

Hu Liena poked her head out from above Xu Yuan's.

Feeling the soft sensation against his back, there one moment and gone the next, Xu Yuan's expression became somewhat unnatural.

"How strong are they?"

"No, no."

Hu Liena was startled and quietly explained, "The one in the main seat is a five-ring Soul King, and the ones on either side are both four-ring Soul Ancestors.

Not to mention that these Evil Spirit Masters are stronger than ordinary Soul Masters at the same level, even if they weren't Evil Spirit Masters, their levels alone would crush us."

Yet Xu Yuan remained very calm.

"What if I can kill that Soul King first?"