"I'm willing. I'm willing to do anything."
Nana stood before Chen Ping without the slightest hesitation.
Chen Ping nodded. The Vertical Pupil between his brows opened, then shifted from its original rose gold to gray.
The next moment, Nana's slender body shuddered instinctively. She could clearly sense Chen Ping's gray Vertical Pupil examining her soul from top to bottom, overlooking nothing at all.
Chen Ping raised his right hand. Strange runes danced in his palm before slowly merging into her body. Soon, she felt her soul beginning to form a faint connection with the man before her.
Illusory soul threads appeared out of thin air, linking the two of them. On the one hand, this established a connection between them.
But on the other, it also meant that if Nana betrayed him, Chen Ping needed only to tug the soul threads in his hand to slice her soul to pieces.
At this point, if Nana felt even a trace of resistance in her heart, these soul threads would be unable to connect fully to her. Yet she simply waited quietly for Chen Ping to finish everything.
"You don't need to worry that I'll go back on my word. You and your parents suffered persecution at the hands of Evil Soul Masters. So did my family and I."
Watching the faint trembling between Nana's brows, Chen Ping spoke gently. "I came from the Coiling Dragon Sect. A few days after my Martial Soul Awakening at six years old, Evil Soul Masters launched a surprise attack on the sect."
"Of the hundreds of people in the entire sect, not a single person survived except me."
"From the moment I crawled out of the pile of my fellow sect members' corpses, it was a fight to the death between those Evil Soul Masters