Drip... Drip...
The room fell completely silent. Both Yue Ying and Qianye Ying'er stood still, as if frozen in shock. The only sound in the room was the soft patter of red blood dripping from Qianye Ying'er's nose and landing on the ground.
Because of the backlash, all of Qianye Ying'er's orifices were bleeding. Her soul sea churned as if struck by a giant meteor, and her head rang with a painful headache. Yet, she ignored all of this, as if she didn't notice her condition at all, and stared at Yun Wuji with wide, astonished eyes
"I told you you'd regret it, but you didn't listen. Why are you so stubborn?" Yun Wuji's smile remained as he calmly spoke, staring at her pale, blood-streaked face. The light surrounding him slowly faded, revealing his body. Every injury had vanished without a trace, leaving behind smooth, unblemished skin.
"Light... Profound... Energy..." Qianye Ying'er stretched out her hand, grabbing his neck and lifting him off the ground. Her voice was cold as she demanded, "What is your relationship with the Dragon Queen?!"
"My Lady!" Her voice snapped Yue Ying out of her shock. Seeing Qianye Ying'er's condition, her face turned pale. In her hundreds of years serving her Lady, she had never seen her bleed. She rushed toward her Lady in a panic, crying anxiously.
"I'm alright."
Qianye Ying'er spoke without even glancing back. "Leave."
"But..." Yue Ying hesitated, but the icy aura surrounding her Lady made her swallow her words. She quickly lowered her head and whispered, "As you wish, my Lady."
She cast one last glance at Yun Wuji before turning around and leaving the room.
"Hey, although I don't hate clingy women, aren't you holding me a bit too tightly?" Yun Wuji lowered his eyes, glancing at the hand grasping his neck, and spoke.
Bang!
"Hmph!" Qianye Ying'er snorted coldly, swung her hand, and tossed him into the air, slamming him against the room's wall.
The impact caused the walls to tremble, and the tools hanging on them to fall. Some of them landed directly on Yun Wuji's head.
"Ouch, that's dangerous, you know?" Yun Wuji rubbed his head and stood up. He walked slowly toward her and added, "Although you're slightly beautiful, you need to be more gentle. No one likes barbarian girls, ya know?"
"...Shut up!" Veins bulged on her forehead. She was dealing with a splitting headache from the backlash, and this guy's provocative words only worsened her mood. She balled her hand into a fist, resisting the urge to blast his head with a single punch.
"Sigh, young women these days are so emotional. Hmm, wait, could it be because of those few days you have each month?" Yun Wuji let out a sigh, as if disappointed with her lack of composure. Then, suddenly, he banged the bottom of his fist against his palm and exclaimed, as if he had finally understood something.
"I understand now. It's normal to get angry easily. Don't listen to the nonsense about drinking brown sugar and warm water, just use..."
"Say, one more word and you are dead," Qianye Ying'er's eyes twitched violently. This damn man! She had met countless arrogant, shameless, and fearless people in her life, but never had she encountered someone so brazenly asking for a beating.
"..." Yun Wuji knew he was pushing his limits and stopped talking. He walked until he was about 50 meters away from her and sat cross-legged on the ground, staring at her.
Although he hated looking up at people, it also depended on who the person was. For example, if it were another man, he would naturally break their knees. But if it were one of the two most beautiful women in the current universe, he wouldn't mind at all. In fact, the view from down here was quite good.
"Answer my question. What is your relationship with the Dragon Queen?" Qianye Ying'er glanced down at him and asked coldly.
"Why should I answer you? You hunted me down for months, tortured me for days, and just a few moments ago, you tried to plant the Brahma Soul Death-Wishing Mark on me," Yun Wuji smirked at her and replied mockingly. "Do I look like a masochist?"
"Do you think I won't kill you?" Qianye Ying'er frowned, her cold killing intent permeating the entire room.
"Of course, I believe you'll definitely kill me if you want to," Yun Wuji nodded calmly, but then added with the same annoying smile, "But you won't, right? At least not until you've extracted all the answers you want from me, right?"
He knew Qianye Ying'er's personality from the novel. This woman was extreme in everything she devoted herself to. When she was young, she loved her mother dearly and went to the extreme to ensure her mother had a better life. After her mother's death, she turned her focus to her father and the profound way, desperately seeking a path to reach the legendary True God Realm. She did everything possible to achieve that goal, no matter the cost.
When she ran away from the Brahma Monarch God Realm and fell in love with Yun Che, she also loved him to the extreme, becoming increasingly obsessive, like a clingy yandere.
Right now, she was still obsessed with two things: living up to her father's expectations and pursuing the profound way. So, as long as Yun Wuji was valuable to her, she wouldn't kill him, as long as he didn't provoke her killing intent. And Yun Wuji knew this very well.
"Last time, you talked about making a deal, what is it?" Qianye Ying'er asked calmly as if all the anger from earlier had disappeared. It was quite remarkable how easily she managed her emotions. Compared to the idiots Yun Wuji had met ever since he came to this world, like Ming Ao, she was quite impressive.
Or maybe it was because she was a jade beauty that made her smarter than the random trash?
"Right, I can not only answer all your questions, I can even help you with things that are troubling you, like translating the fragment of the World-Defying Heaven Manual," Yun Wuji said, resting his elbow on his thigh and his head in his palm, speaking in a casual tone.
"!!!" Qianye Ying'er's body froze, and she involuntarily took a step back. "How... how did you know about... the World-Defying Heaven Manual?!"
Very few people in the whole Brahma Monarch God Realm knew that she had a fragment of the World-Defying Heaven Manual. Even among other King Realms, only the Moon God Realm, which specialized in gathering information, had any knowledge of this. How did this man, at the Divine Origin Realm, manage to learn such an important secret?
"What's the big deal? It's just a fragment of the World-Defying Heaven Manual. Why are you reacting so dramatically? Besides, there are very few things that can elude me," Yun Wuji shrugged his shoulders and answered. His tone made it sound as if he were talking about something insignificant, but his attitude radiated immense confidence.
Qianye Ying'er stayed silent for a long time, her gaze fixed on Yun Wuji. She wanted to scoff at his arrogance, but when she remembered how she had been slapped in the face many times before, it held her back. Instead, she chose to remain quiet, her cold eyes scanning his face as if trying to discern something from it.
Yun Wuji wasn't in a hurry. He calmly stared at her, his eyes roaming up and down her body. The golden leather tightly wrapped around her perfectly outlined her figure, her perky ass and big breasts complemented her slender body flawlessly. No matter where one's eyes landed, no matter which inch was seen, it was so alluring that it could make one's soul go limp.
No one would ever get tired of looking at something so perfect.
"What do you want?" Finally, after a long silence, Qianye Ying'er spoke. Originally, she had thought that after catching him, she could easily bring this man under her control. Who knew this guy would be so perverse that nothing worked on him?
"As expected of the Lady Goddess, you're so flexible and open-minded," Yun Wuji said, clapping his hands in admiration. With a wide smile, he stretched out his hand and held up three fingers as he spoke. "I only have three simple requests."
"First, I want you to apologize to me. Because of you, I've had a very hard time recently. Do you know how annoying it is to always keep up a disguise?"
"Second, since you took me from my sugar mommy, you'll have to take her place. I want a large amount of cultivation resources."
"Third, although I'm usually not a curious person, after hearing so many people praise your beauty, I'd like to see your face for myself."
Yun Wuji clapped his hands together and grinned. "What do you think? I'm being pretty reasonable, right?"
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