Chapter 346: A Stare-Down
Chapter 346: A Stare-Down
Mr. Xia, who has a fiancée but maintains an improper relationship with another woman, is clearly being unfaithful.
Even though that woman is a goddess, it doesn’t excuse Mr. Xia’s wicked deeds.
He was violated by a goddess and accepted it so readily, with no intention of resisting.
How shameful!
And now, he’s even using “My Lord Goddess” to provoke her, how arrogant!
He clearly doesn’t put her, his nominal fiancée, in his eyes at all.
Therefore, it’s time to teach this foolish fellow creature another lesson! Make him thoroughly learn how to obey!
The wardrobe was very quiet at the moment. Xia Feng turned his head, somewhat surprised that Mu Qingtong suddenly stopped talking.
Was she rendered speechless by me?
He narrowed his black eyes, quietly gazing at the woman’s face, which was so close.
After shedding her Bronze Mask disguise, the World-Ending Witch’s fair and delicate face, though unadorned, still possessed unparalleled beauty.
A half-frame pair of gold-rimmed glasses hung on her perky jade nose, a strand of silver hair fell on her brow. Even though confined by Xia Feng, her posture beneath the graceful black dress remained straight, exuding a naturally cool and serene, elegant temperament.
“What, can’t speak now?” Xia Feng’s lips curled, his thin lips moving forward, mocking and smiling.
Mu Qingtong’s light gold beautiful eyes were calm and waveless, meeting Xia Feng’s black eyes. The corners of her eyes suddenly curved into a crescent, and she let out a light, soft smile, “Mr. Xia, I must say, you have great courage. That much is commendable.”
Xia Feng smiled, “I know you’re very angry right now, but Miss Mu, I still suggest you’d better not use the Fate Stone for revenge.”
After all, the Fate Stone’s effect is very potent, and he couldn’t control the volume of his voice. If the commotion was too great, it would be very easy for Jiang Qiue to perceive something unusual. At that time, neither of them would be able to escape.
Mu Qingtong naturally had these concerns as well. If she could, she naturally wouldn’t want to…
“Moreover, Miss Mu, my Lord Goddess said that if you dare to humiliate me again, she will come to settle the score with you~”
“…!!” Very—good! Mu Qingtong’s golden eyes imperceptibly narrowed. She raised her eyes and quietly stared at Xia Feng, the crescent smile in the corners of her eyes becoming even gentler.
Xia Feng instantly felt a bone-chilling coldness.
[You have been attacked by Fate·Greed 2. Not a Spirit Artifact. Copy failed—]
Xia Feng subconsciously clenched his fists. His ink-black pupils trembled, then suddenly dilated. Under the power of the laws, he couldn’t help himself, nor could he endure it.
[You have been blessed by Fate·Greed 1. Not a Spirit Artifact. Copy failed—]
[You have been attacked by Fate·Greed 2.]
[You have been attacked.]
The rule power attacks from 1 and 2 alternated, and Xia Feng’s face instantly turned red. He was dizzy and his lips parted, a sound wanting to escape his throat involuntarily. But in the end, he managed to suppress it forcefully and did not make too much noise.
Mu Qingtong quietly stared at the man’s gradually distant and moist black eyes.
She reached out and roughly gripped the man’s jaw, her light smile and beautiful eyes calmly looking down, “Mr. Xia, I’ll give you one last chance. Beg for mercy, or completely expose your ugliness before me.”
Xia Feng was forced to look up, his distant black eyes suddenly focused. A bizarre and strange light flashed in his gaze, and he let out a hoarse, low laugh,
“Miss Mu, why do you think I dare to provoke you?”
“Hmm?” Mu Qingtong was stunned. As if sensing something, she suddenly looked down and only then discovered that Xia Feng’s right hand, which was wearing a strange ring, had somehow destroyed the fabric at her lower abdomen and, while her attention was diverted, stealthily moved.
Activate—Engage!
“You—” Mu Qingtong was about to say something, but her voice cut off abruptly. Her light smile and serene beautiful eyes suddenly widened, her gaze filled with disbelief.
Xia Feng’s other hand was still around her waist, his black eyes smiling as he met her light gold beautiful eyes.
The distance between their breaths was barely half an inch. Xia Feng’s lips curled slightly, “Miss Mu, how does it feel?”
The black-dressed woman bit her lips tightly, her golden eyes still wide open. This was a feeling she had never experienced before, her mind temporarily unable to process.
However, she quickly reacted, and a look of extreme humiliation and anger rose in her eyes. She turned and was about to raise her leg to kick this scoundrel. But a mocking whisper in her ear instantly stopped her movement, “Miss Mu, look ahead. Jiang Qiue seems to have discovered us~”
As he spoke, Xia Feng continuously used his activated ability.
Mu Qingtong bit her lip and tilted her fair swan-like neck, suppressing the muffled sounds deep in her throat. At the same time, through her Eye of Deconstruction, she looked ahead.
In the main control room, the green-robed woman standing with her hands behind her back suddenly sensed something and turned to look back. Through layers of walls, her ethereal beautiful eyes met Mu Qingtong’s trembling and serious golden eyes.
“Miss Mu, guess what? Did she see your embarrassing state?” Mr. Xia’s teasing low laugh sounded again in her ear.
The anger brewing in Mu Qingtong’s eyes grew even more furious!
The light crescent smile at the corner of her eyes completely disappeared, and her flushed cheeks turned icy cold.
“Xia! Feng!!”
[You have been attacked by Fate·Greed 2.]
[You have been blessed by Fate·Greed 1.]
Xia Feng’s expression also changed slightly. The intertwined attacks of the Fate laws sped up several times. He could only lean on Mu Qingtong to maintain his stance.
*!*
The two of them gritted their teeth tightly together.
However, fortunately, only a hint of doubt flashed in Jiang Qiue’s eyes before she looked away.
“Teacher, what’s wrong?” Yuji Pao asked suspiciously.
“Nothing,” Jiang Qiue shook her head. She had vaguely sensed the fluctuation of laws just now, a power that only gods could command.
It was probably the will of some god passing by this place, and it was gone in an instant.
“Let’s get back to the main topic. According to intelligence from the Grand Tutor, the wielder of the Yin-Yang Mirror, Che Tai Xian, is currently preparing for a ‘Becoming Venerable Ritual’. And the Yin-Yang Mirror is the key to it.”
The so-called Becoming Venerable Ritual refers to achieving the state of a Venerable.
“Becoming Venerable requires several difficult conditions. One of those conditions is consuming the Taiji Fruit.”
Jiang Qiue frowned and said in a deep voice, “According to the intelligence, the Yin-Yang Mirror needs to select a partner of the opposite gender for dual cultivation. The power from dual cultivation can not only improve the overall strength of both parties but also has a very small chance of condensing the Taiji Fruit, an extremely rare spiritual fruit.”
“Taiji Fruit?” Yuji Pao’s pupils contracted slightly. He nodded thoughtfully, “If that’s the case, then the rarity of this A-class Spirit Artifact is indeed much more precious than I imagined.”
He knew how rare the Taiji Fruit was. Every appearance of one was enough to make True Martial powerhouses scratch their heads and stage countless betrayals fueled by love and hate.
“However, why must the Yin-Yang Mirror select a partner of the opposite gender for dual cultivation?” Yuji Pao asked doubtfully.
Jiang Qiue shook her head and said softly, “This ‘dual cultivation’ is not the ‘co-brain dual cultivation’ like ordinary Spirit Robes that analyze the Spirit Particle Structure. The dual cultivation of the Yin-Yang Mirror is a form of male-female union, referred to in many ancient and old texts as the union of Yin and Yang.”
“Uniting Yin and Yang before the Yin-Yang Mirror can form the manifestation of Taiji.”
Hearing the Saintess introduce the Yin-Yang Mirror, all the Knights in the main control room were stunned.
There was such a Spirit Artifact with this kind of ability. They could only say it was worthy of a Burning Heaven Evil Disciple. The Spirit Artifacts they possessed were so evil, they liked them so much—
*Pah!* They disdained it to the extreme!
Yuji Pao also disdained it to the extreme. Such an evil artifact, if it couldn’t be used by the Black Moon Holy See, must be destroyed!
