"Under orders... to kill you!"
As Xiao Ying laid his feelings bare, cheerful and full of anticipation, Battle Immortal King Shi Nanqing suddenly changed her tone and snapped coldly. Dense killing intent locked onto him like a bone-chilling current.
"Hm?!"
Xiao Ying's heart instinctively tightened, and he almost activated his Totem Power and the formation's power outright. Then his thoughts shifted, and he understood what Shi Nanqing meant. He could not help giving her an exasperated glare.
He did not know whether to say a woman's heart was a needle at the bottom of the sea, or that women were simply fickle.
Fortunately, Xiao Ying possessed a steady mind. Otherwise, Shi Nanqing's dizzying leaps of thought-feints mixed with truth, coaxing mixed with bluffing, and lightning-fast changes-really would have thrown him into turmoil, startling him at every turn!
"You don't believe me?" Shi Nanqing asked in a low, displeased voice.
Unfortunately, Xiao Ying could not see any changes in Shi Nanqing beneath her black robe and Sacred Armor. He could only judge by her tone!
"I do! Of course I do!" Xiao Ying answered with a smile. "But I know the emphasis is on being under orders, not on killing!"
Shi Nanqing fell silent for a moment before asking in a complicated tone, "Are you so certain I won't kill you?"
"Of course. We had such a wonderful time that night, and you aren't a heartless, faithless woman. How could you bear to kill me?"
Xiao Ying deliberately answered with flirtatious cheer. Sensing Shi Nanqing's aura tighten, on the verge of erupting, he hurriedly changed his tone and continued, "Whether you would or not doesn't matter. As I said before, this is the Ritual Altar. It isn't that you don't want to, but that you cannot! Otherwise, how would I dare