"Jiaojiao, you don't need to give me so much. I'll be fine." Ye Feng still felt grateful to Hua Jiao.
He actually had a plan of his own: to ask Hua Jiao's father to refine pills for him.
To become a man again.
Unfortunately, Hua Jiao's father was only a fourth-grade alchemist, not yet fifth-grade.
"How is this too much? It's nowhere near enough, okay?"
As Hua Jiao spoke, she took out quite a bit more for Ye Feng.
"Senior Brother, Junior Sister Hua Jiao, dividing the spoils?" Jiang Yantian deliberately asked as he approached.
Hearing his voice, Hua Jiao looked up and saw Jiang Yantian.
Her expression immediately fell.
She knew about Jiang Yantian forcing Brother Ye Feng to kneel, kowtow, and apologize.
She had been holding herself back all this time.
No one was allowed to humiliate Brother Ye Feng.
Now that bastard had come along at just the right moment. She had to vent Brother Ye Feng's anger for him.
"Do you even know how to talk? What spoils? These are mine."
"I'm nothing like a certain someone who cultivated who-knows-what evil, demonic art, then started bullying the weak after his cultivation shot up. Disgusting!"
Hua Jiao folded her arms and lashed out without sparing him any dignity.
Startled, Ye Feng hurriedly tugged at Hua Jiao.
Others might not know Jiang Yantian, but Ye Feng did.
He was like the savage beast Yazi, repaying every slight, an extremely sinister man.
Besides, they were about to enter the Spirit-Imprisoning Forbidden Land, and Ye Feng truly did not want too much friction with him.
Jiang Yantian remained utterly composed.
People in the protagonist's group were there to attack him in the first place. Besides, Hua Jiao was a chatterbox. This was perfectly normal.
Once she died, her mouth would shut too.
"It seems Junior Sister Hua Jiao has quite a prejudice against people with exceptional cultivation talent!"
Hua Jiao snorted. "I've never been prejudiced against anyone. Oh, sorry. Maybe you aren't human."
Hua Jiao curled her lips and gave a soft snort.
"Oh, when your Brother Ye Feng cultivates quickly, you jump around squealing. When I cultivate quickly, it's an evil, demonic art."
"By that logic, you're 'flat as a plain' right now, so when your peaks grow bigger, can I say you've stuffed something in there?"
"You... how dare you humiliate me!" Hua Jiao instantly flew into a rage, glaring with wide eyes.
"Heh, haven't you done the same?" Jiang Yantian smiled and glanced at her peaks. "When you speak to someone in the future, you'd better face them. It's rude to talk to people with your back turned!"
"Rice cracker~~" Leaving those words behind, Jiang Yantian flicked his black robe and walked straight away.
When had Hua Jiao ever suffered such humiliation? She immediately moved to charge after Jiang Yantian and demand an explanation.
But Ye Feng hurriedly held her back. "Jiaojiao, don't go. At a critical moment like this, don't provoke him for now."
Facing Ye Feng, however, Hua Jiao revealed a gentle smile. "Brother Ye Feng, don't worry."
"My father is an Attendant elder of the sect's Pill Lineage, on equal footing with that bastard. He wouldn't dare do anything to me."
Utterly confident, Hua Jiao followed him straight away.
Today, she would make Jiang Yantian learn just how formidable Young Lady Hua was.
"Jiaojiao, you... sigh..." Ye Feng sighed helplessly.
They had definitely made another enemy of him, but fortunately, Jiang Yantian would not dare do anything to Hua Jiao.
At most, he would find fault with them after they returned.
Naturally, Jiang Yantian noticed Hua Jiao following him.
Since she was so impatient to die, he really could not disappoint her.
Once they were far from the camp, Jiang Yantian stopped behind a tree.
Hua Jiao arrived just then and sneered. "Jiang Yantian, you knew I was coming to scold you, didn't you?"
"You're quite self-aware, knowing to get away from the crowd and save yourself a little dignity."
"Since that's the case, apologize to my Brother Ye Feng in front of everyone today, and we'll call this settled."
"Otherwise, once I get back, I'll definitely tell my daddy you humiliated me. You know my daddy-he's the sect master's younger clan cousin. Do you dare offend the sect master?"
Jiang Yantian looked at her nonchalantly. "Why should I apologize?"
Hua Jiao frowned and sneered disdainfully. "Because you made my Brother Ye Feng kowtow every three steps."
Jiang Yantian nodded. "Then do you know why?"
"I don't need to know. Doing that was bullying my Brother Ye Feng. That alone means you have to apologize. You have to kneel and apologize too!"
Jiang Yantian licked his lips. "Even if you don't want to know, I'm going to tell you. No, I'll show you!"
As he spoke, Jiang Yantian flicked out a recording stone, and the images within immediately appeared.
Jiang Yantian explained as well. "He knelt and apologized because he insulted me during law enforcement. And the reason for that enforcement was that I falsely accused Ye Feng of committing adultery with Elder Qi's daughter-in-law..."
"And... the punishment was castration. Your Brother Ye Feng isn't a man anymore. Heh heh heh..."
Looking at Jiang Yantian's devilish smile before her, Hua Jiao broke out in a cold sweat.
Fear rose from deep within her heart.
In the images, Jiang Yantian really had chopped off that part of Ye Feng.
"You... how dare you? How dare you! I... I'll send word to my father right now. I'll make sure they punish you!"
Hua Jiao was utterly furious. She had to expose Jiang Yantian and have him castrated too. No, she had to make him suffer a fate worse than death!
Just as she was about to turn around, she suddenly discovered she could not move.
"Sigh, a pampered upbringing really does make you stupid. I wonder if devouring your soul will affect me!"
Jiang Yantian's abruptly ringing voice plunged Hua Jiao into an icy abyss.
She wanted to scream, but could not make a sound.
What Jiang Yantian had just done had filled Hua Jiao with resentment, and that resentment would make her soul even more delectable.
The next moment, Hua Jiao's entire body moved, turning to face Jiang Yantian.
"You're a beauty too. Unfortunately, your kind can never be tamed. Can't keep you!"
As his words fell, Jiang Yantian's pupils abruptly turned into something like black holes.
The Devouring Demonic Art circulated.
Hua Jiao trembled all over, her mouth gaping wide.
From her eyes and mouth, strands of dim cyan light connected to Jiang Yantian's eyes and mouth.
They were all absorbed.
"My... my father and the sect master... won't... let you... get away..."
Hua Jiao trembled increasingly violently, forcing out those words as tears rolled uncontrollably from her eyes.
She could already smell death and could feel her soul being stripped away, in unbearable agony.
In the mere blink of an eye, Hua Jiao turned to dust, leaving only a set of luxurious clothes to fall to the ground.
Jiang Yantian licked his lips, a smile spreading across his face.
"Your father? The sect master? Heh... sooner or later, they'll be my nourishment too!"
"Mmm~ as expected of the Pill Lineage's young lady. You took plenty of pills. Even your soul carries their fragrance. They've marinated you right through."
Jiang Yantian snapped his fingers, and the clothes, secret treasures, and storage pouch that were all Hua Jiao had left on the ground vanished.
Of course, Jiang Yantian still kept Hua Jiao's magic artifact, a red cauldron for refining pills.
If Hua Jiao chased after him and failed to return for a long time, Ye Feng would definitely go looking for her, and would certainly suspect him.
Since that was the case, there was nothing wrong with leaving Ye Feng a memento of Hua Jiao.
He had to let Ye Feng know that he had killed her, while leaving her without any evidence.
She could not bear the charge of framing an elder, so what could she do to him?
The deeper Ye Feng's hatred for him and the stronger her desire to trample him beneath her feet, the higher the humiliation points would be.
Having finished everything, Jiang Yantian reached the camp set up by the Law Enforcement Lineage in an instant.
Every disciple of the Law Enforcement Lineage obeyed his every command. How could he not like such obedient disciples?
He was an elder of the Law Enforcement Lineage. He still had to take some care of the people under him.