She Didn't Really Want to Run Anymore

Xiao Yu walked toward the woods with a wicked grin on his face.

After all, she could not get out of the formation, and it was already dark.

In a place like this, she could cry to heaven and heaven would not answer, call to earth and earth would not heed her!

Xiao Yu kept walking forward. "Don't be afraid. We know each other so well already, and I'm not going to kill you! What are you scared of?"

"Didn't you eat what I gave you? I forgot to tell you, I really didn't put anything in it..."

"Oh, oh, maybe you drank your fill a little too well these past two days~ You're hungry again now, aren't you?"

Hua Lian's eyes instantly turned bloodshot when she heard that from within the woods.

She had never seen such a brazen, shameless bastard!

Was he ever going to stop?

She was on the verge of tears. She had finally broken free of the chains and planned to fight back.

Who would have thought this bastard even had a puppet beast?

He had even tampered with her clothes...

"Damn it!"

"Damn it!"

"You bastard, just you wait... Just you wait for your auntie!!!"

Xiao Yu strolled along leisurely. No wonder he used to think movie villains were sick in the head when he watched films before.

Why were they always so long-winded...

But now that it was happening to him, he understood how satisfying it was.

Looking at Hua Lian fleeing ahead in blind panic, he really wanted to see her expression when she discovered the formation!

She would probably burst into tears on the spot...

And because of her clothes, she probably would not be able to run very far anyway.

Xiao Yu called out from behind her, "Lian'er~ I've actually always thought you were pretty cute. You're even a little goofy!"

"You really dared to dream big. You're already crippled and can't cultivate anymore, yet you still thought of joining forces with your master to harm me? Aren't you just hilarious..."

"How did you even dare? You tampered with things right in front of me while refining pills. Did you never go to school?"

"Do you know why I like playing with you? Because you're still young, still inexperienced, and there are many things you don't understand! Unlike your master, that good big sister who has lived for over two hundred years. Her willpower is far stronger than that of an eighteen-year-old child like you!"

"I probably won't be able to handle her in less than a year or half!"

Xiao Yu shouted from behind her with a smug look on his face.

When he looked up, Hua Lian ahead had been frightened into falling to the ground.

Her body was swaying unsteadily too.

When Hua Lian heard Xiao Yu rapidly catching up, her lovely face drained of color. She grabbed the woodcutter's blade and slashed her own arm.

She instantly sobered up!

No matter what, she had to escape today!

But before she had taken even two steps, she suddenly crashed into something.

She looked up, and her face immediately turned as white as paper. "The... the Black Tortoise Formation... Why is there a formation here? Why is there even a formation here..."

Her pupils abruptly constricted.

The color vanished from her beautiful face in an instant!

Her delicate features dimmed, her cherry lips parted slightly, yet not a sound came out.

The skin on her cheeks, smooth as congealed fat, took on a faint pallor. Her terrified eyes darted about like those of a startled deer, filled with helplessness and fear.

"How can there be a formation... Master... Master..."

Hua Lian's body trembled faintly. Her hands clenched the hem of her skirt tightly, her fingertips turning white from excessive force.

Her dark hair was in disarray, drifting gently in the faint breeze and making her look even more flustered.

She could not escape...

Looking at the Black Tortoise Formation, vast as a dome, despair filled her heart.

She no longer dared to think about what would happen next.

Xiao Yu was right. Her master had lived for so long; her willpower was extraordinary.

But how old was she...

The moment she thought about what had happened between her and Xiao Yu before, her entire body began trembling uncontrollably.

When she looked again, her palms were covered in cold sweat.

Xiao Yu walked over with a heartbroken expression. Looking at Hua Lian, who had been frightened to the ground, he spoke teasingly. "Don't be afraid. I'm not going to kill you. I don't even have enough time to dote on you~"

"Be good~ Haven't you gone a long time without eating? Big brother prepared lots of delicious food for you~!"

"As long as you behave, I guarantee this place is much better than your Jade Maiden Sect!"

As he spoke, Xiao Yu took out some roasted meat and tea, then sat beside Hua Lian and began eating by himself.

Based on what he knew about the Judgment System,

if he wanted to raise her sin value toward him, he first had to treat her a little better.

Then he could trigger an increase in her sin value.

Seeing Hua Lian across from him glancing at the roasted meat from time to time, Xiao Yu slowly took out a Recording Pearl.

Before going to find Zhang Ziling, he had specifically traded pills for it.

Then he placed it directly in front of Hua Lian.

Hua Lian shuddered instinctively.

What was this bastard going to do?

Looking at that Recording Pearl, her face instantly turned deathly pale.

She was the Jade Maiden Sect's chief senior disciple. If he got something on her,

she would never have a chance to turn her life around again.

This bastard actually wanted to...

Just then, Hua Lian's vision suddenly began to blur.

Her heart beat faster and faster, as though it might leap from her chest at any moment.

Her face flushed as well.

Looking at the bloody gash on her arm, why did she feel even dizzier than before?

Could the powder from the aphrodisiac have entered her wound...

This bastard!

He was too awful. How could anyone be this awful?

Why was he treating her like this?

Seeing Xiao Yu nearly finish the roasted meat, Hua Lian grabbed the woodcutter's blade without another word and hacked at him.

That slash did not even break Xiao Yu's defenses.

Xiao Yu watched her grow terrified again with an amused expression. "I told you that you're stupid. I have the Nine Yang Divine Body now, and you, a mere Body Tempering Level One cultivator, still want to fight me?"

"Didn't your foundation get destroyed? Want to come sit over here~ I can help you restore it?"

"Don't be scared~ I'm not going to kill you. What kind of look is that?"

As he spoke, Xiao Yu took another bite of meat.

Hua Lian suddenly began crying. She shoved Xiao Yu away and rushed to seize the last piece of roasted meat on the ground.

She was simply too hungry.

Elder Wu had locked her up for several days, and she had barely eaten while fighting before that.

This bastard actually dared to treat her this way again and again.

She really was a little...

Xiao Yu simply held her.

She stopped running and began stuffing herself with food and drink.

Four hours later

The bright moon hung high in the sky. Xiao Yu held Hua Lian in his arms and said, "From now on, you're my maidservant. Understand?"

Hua Lian's eyes were red-rimmed, and she was unwilling in her heart.

Yet her right hand covered her dantian.

Her spiritual roots had actually... actually truly been restored, and they were even better than before!

Not only that, she now felt as though her tendons and marrow had been cleansed.

Her whole body felt incomparably clear and unobstructed!

Her cultivation had actually reached Body Tempering Level Two!

It was simply inconceivable...

What shocked her even more was that the wound she had cut into her arm with the woodcutter's blade had actually healed!

Not even a scar remained.

Was this the one-in-ten-thousand-ages Nine Yang Divine Body?

For a moment, Hua Lian felt somewhat...

But for some reason, she felt a little uneasy.

Because this time, Xiao Yu had treated her too well, too gently.

She could not help recalling the time a steel hook had pierced through her pipa bones.

Wait... How could she think that?

This was too strange!

Actually, when she thought about it carefully, it seemed that she and her master had been the ones in the wrong.

If her master had not encountered Xiao Yu, her fate might have been even worse.

She might already have been refined into a human pill. How could she be lying here watching the moon?

At the beginning, he really had not done anything to them. Things only changed after she began urging her master to plot against Xiao Yu with her.

Perhaps he truly only wanted revenge against them.

She was confused.

In a place like this, she could not escape even if she ran, and if she wanted food, she could only rely on this fellow.

Her master was still imprisoned by him, and she did not know where she was.

What exactly was she supposed to do...

And now she was his woman too. Wherever she went, she would still be his...

When she thought of Lin Ce, the immortal seedling of the Profound Spirit Sect whom she had always yearned for, she felt helpless.

Shouldn't her man have been an upright immortal seedling? How had it become a bastard like this?

It felt like a dream...

She did not really want to run anymore.

She did not know why... Perhaps only by staying with this man could she save her master.

No, no, no!

What was she thinking? He was a demonic-path villain!

How could she, a righteous cultivator, join forces with him in wickedness?

But though she thought that, she did not move away from Xiao Yu.

Beside her, Xiao Yu's nerves had already been stretched to the limit: Hurry up and plot against me!

Just make your move already!!!

Your master is going to kill me later, so make your move already?

What are you doing?

You're planning to sleep after eating and drinking your fill?

You're not running anymore?

Xiao Yu's eyelids twitched. What did this woman mean?

She had not picked up the blade for so long. He had deliberately placed it right beside her.

If she did not kill him, how was he supposed to raise her sin value?

Just as Xiao Yu was thinking, a pair of warm, fragrant little hands wrapped around him.

With a faint, exhausted sound of breathing by his ear, Hua Lian fell asleep in his arms.

Tears still clung to the corners of her eyes.

Xiao Yu was momentarily stunned.

This woman had fallen asleep just like that?

Was she not going to run?

[System Notification: Wicked woman Hua Lian has begun repenting on her own, unlocking Judgment Mode ahead of schedule!]

[The host may conduct automatic judgments and manual judgments based on the target's repentance!]

Xiao Yu looked thoughtfully at the sleeping Hua Lian in his arms.

No matter how he looked at her, she was just a little girl scared out of her wits.

It would be better if her heart were kinder.

Or did she actually have Stockholm syndrome...

In modern terms, it meant that a victim fell in love with her abuser and would even help the abuser commit crimes.

It was a psychological illness.

Based on Hua Lian's previous personality, she should not have repented.

As a lofty candidate saintess, why would she repent to him?

Her personality was proud and arrogant, wild and untamed!

Could it be that she had developed unusual feelings for him?

Xiao Yu tried raising his hand and placed Hua Lian into the second Judgment Chamber.

He simply watched her sleep soundly.

When he opened her information panel again and saw the word "orphan" written in her background, he could not help letting out a breath.

But he also knew that Hua Lian had slaughtered countless demonic cultivators in her life.

In her eyes, everyone on Demon Island, young or old, deserved to die!

She must have suffered too much as a child.

That was why, after becoming an immortal cultivator, she had turned inhuman.

Or was she simply foolish?

Her mind could still be saved, so should he make her repent?

Xiao Yu did not activate the judgment function of the second Judgment Chamber. He merely let Hua Lian sleep peacefully inside.

His cultivation had already reached Body Tempering Grand Completion.

He was only one step away from Qi Refining, First Layer!

Xiao Yu's eyes gleamed with excitement as he turned and entered Judgment Chamber Number One.

Looking at Bai Yue, whose will was as hard as steel, he lifted his gaze. "You've waited long enough..."