Chapter 497: Let’s Talk Properly
“So, you’re this excited?~~” The man’s evil whisper, like a lingering echo in a valley, snaked into her ear, sending ant-like currents through her nerves in an instant.
Jiang Qiue’s scalp tingled, her heart lurching.
“You—” Her ethereal, indifferent beautiful eyes froze, suddenly contracting. In shock, she turned her head to look. Xia Feng’s dark, gleaming black pupils were filled with teasing mockery as he gazed at her. The large hand clinging to her body moved wantonly, just like in the Water Curtain Cave, its actions full of provocation.
Jiang Qiue felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar. As her heart chilled, threads of electricity surged from the back of her neck down her spine to her curved hips, causing her long legs, hidden beneath her skirt, to press tightly together, leaving not a sliver of space.
At this moment, her mind was frozen. Before her fear could even register, the terrifying k-mask moved closer, its thin lips almost brushing against her red ones, sneering contemptuously, “Saintess, what are you getting excited about?”
“!!!” Jiang Qiue immediately regained her senses. The flushed, hot skin of her small face steamed with heat. The ethereal, indifferent depths of her eyes were now filled with panic and unease. Disbelievingly, she commanded with her will again, her thoughts in a frenzy: “Clear! Clear ‘Xia Feng personality’! Return to the blank Bee Swarm Will!”
Xia Feng ignored the command, meeting her foxy gaze, and with a light smile, directly activated the Excitation Ring.
The familiar feeling, sudden and overwhelming, surged into Jiang Qiue’s mind like a collapsing dam, mixed with the explosive shame of social death and the heart-wrenching despair of being publicly executed by Xia Feng—
Numb currents shot from her tailbone to the crown of her head. The unique and extreme sensation made her elegant back arch into a crescent moon.
Her beautiful, cold eyes widened, faintly misting with tearful vulnerability. Her red lips parted, and her ethereal, soft voice murmured sweetly, “You—you bastard!!!”
*Hiss—*
Wisps of honey dripped from the lower half of Xia Feng’s face, from his lips and nose, and the upper half of his k-mask. However, these nutritious substances quickly vaporized and were absorbed by him, further expanding the Bee Swarm Will within his consciousness.
Xia Feng’s gaze flickered with a hint of surprise, the corner of his lips twitching. Looking at the Saintess before him, who was on the verge of toppling backward, he deliberately cursed mockingly:
“So disgusting~”
“!!!” Jiang Qiue’s heart was struck like a heavy hammer, her face turning completely red. “Xia Feng!!”
Her tear-misted beautiful eyes instantly returned to normal, ethereal and indifferent. What was different was that now they were filled with a flushed, bloodthirsty killing intent!
A chill ran down Xia Feng’s spine, and it felt as if the blood in his heart and throughout his body was being pulled out of thin air, about to plunge into an icy, void-like dark abyss.
Death had arrived!
But he was not panicked at all. Instead, he used the Four Symbols Array to instantly teleport behind Jiang Qiue.
“Boom!!!!”
The woman in the dishevelled green dress had a flash of green light between her eyebrows, and her glass long sword shot out, transforming into a sun that annihilated everything. It illuminated a hundred-mile radius ahead, making it as bright as daytime, like a blue sky falling into an abyss, blindingly intense.
Xia Feng, from behind her, repeated his previous move, grabbing the green-dressed woman’s vulnerable spot.
While activating the Excitation Ring again, he tore off the pocket watch hanging at her heart. Then, he let out a low laugh and turned to run, “Stupid fox, thank you for taking care of me these past few days. We’ll meet again sometime~”
Jiang Qiue clutched her chest, bending down, her forehead beaded with sweat. Her legs remained tightly pressed together, forcefully suppressing her physiological reaction, while her flushed, angry beautiful eyes turned to look behind her.
The scoundrel’s back quickly disappeared into the darkness. Her glass long sword and eighteen talismans were simply unable to catch up.
However, Jiang Qiue had no intention of pursuing.
As the effects of the Excitation Ring were suppressed by her, the flush on her face rapidly receded, her expression returning to an ethereal indifference, her beautiful eyes calm.
But the fist hidden in her sleeve was clenched tightly, veins bulging. Her eyes, as if dead, stared silently at the spot where Xia Feng had disappeared.
In fact, she had even suspected that after the Bee Swarm Will was endowed with the ‘Xia Feng personality,’ its ‘self’ had awakened, becoming a real person.
But when Xia Feng used that familiar, humiliating spirit artifact, she completely collapsed and was utterly convinced that this humanoid doll she had painstakingly cultivated had long since become the real Xia Feng.
Perhaps, from the very beginning, when he was an infant, this scoundrel had already come alive!!
And then he had been… playing… with her!!! Jiang Qiue had never been so angry. She felt her mind was about to explode, the kind of explosion that would give birth to inner demons.
But luckily, she had long considered this possibility, so she was well-prepared.
Xia Feng’s body was marked with various marks and curses by her, even her Nine-Tails mark was inscribed on him.
This was her contingency plan, and it would also help her turn Xia Feng into a true humanoid doll!
So, what if he was revived?
Moreover, compared to taking revenge on a false doll, making the real Xia Feng feel humiliation was clearly more meaningful!
Jiang Qiue adjusted her mood, her expressionless face silently and quickly tidying up her upper garments. The long sword transformed back into a glass green hairpin, and she re-tied her dishevelled hair that had fallen onto her lips and chest.
Her elegant long dress was cool and aloof. She regained her detached immortal aura, as if unstained by dust. Her ethereal, beautiful eyes gazed afar, as if she could see Xia Feng, who was rapidly fleeing with spatial spirit artifacts, from a great distance.
After a moment of silence in the darkness.
A red light flashed in the corner of Jiang Qiue’s pure and jade-like face, and the corner of her lips curved upward in an almost imperceptible, eerie smile before quickly retracting. She murmured, barely audible, like a mosquito’s hum:
“Xia Feng, do you think you can escape?”
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Xia Feng felt a chill run down his spine and looked back.
!
Jiang Qiue hadn’t chased after him. Seeing that it was just an illusion, Xia Feng breathed a sigh of relief and began to examine his own body.
The character ‘姜’ (Jiang) was imprinted on his side neck. Grotesque green and gold lines were faintly visible on his abdomen, thighs, ankles, and wrists.
At the same time, the gradually expanding Bee Swarm Will in his soul had not been recovered by Jiang Qiue.
Xia Feng urged Spirit Particles, shattering these green and gold patterns of unknown effect on his body. However, the Bee Swarm Will and the ‘姜’ character imprint could not be destroyed.
He could sense that Jiang Qiue could accurately locate him through the Bee Swarm Will and the ‘姜’ character imprint, estimating that she had no intention of letting him go.
But as he destroyed them, these scattered green and gold spiritual lights actually gathered rapidly, outlining a formation.
A spatial crack tore open above the formation, and the green-dressed woman stepped out from within. Her ethereal, cold eyes seemed to glance down from above the clouds.
That was the aura of the Venerable First Realm!
Xia Feng’s expression changed slightly, and he turned to run.
Damn it! This woman had this level of cultivation, yet she hid it when dealing with Olivia and Jin Jili before! Xia Feng wanted to curse, but he also clearly understood that if he were caught by this woman now, there would be no good end for him.
Moreover, even if he could kill Jiang Qiue across realms, Jiang Qiue could sever her tail and be resurrected, with her cultivation continuing to skyrocket.
This was simply outrageous!
His only chance to deal with Jiang Qiue now was the Refining God Tower, but the Refining God Tower required the other party to voluntarily enter the Tower Gate; it didn’t have the ability to suck them in without a word.
As his thoughts raced, Xia Feng fled frantically, glancing at the map and pointer on his pocket watch. He unexpectedly discovered another fact that made him dumbfounded.
He and Jiang Qiue were actually in the Black Abyss!
“Xia Feng, you should understand that you can’t escape.”
At the same time, Jiang Qiue’s will transmission sounded in his mind, distant and ethereal, “So why not stop, and we can talk properly.”
