Chapter 0: Twenty. Each One More Ruthless Than the Last
“What nonsense are you spouting?” Qin Gou couldn’t help but frown, feigning anger as he scolded, “Are you tired of this Seat being too gentle with you now?”
Yi Chengying removed her socks and gently placed her delicate, snow-white feet on the table. Blinking her beautiful eyes, she shyly said, “Doesn’t Celestial Master My Lord want to play with Little Chair’s feet? Little Chair has heard that some men have such fetishes, but if Palace Lord My Lord finds out about this, Little Chair will certainly die a terrible death.”
“Bastard!” Qin Gou was almost angered to death by the imaginative little wench. He glared at her fiercely, “This Seat will interrogate your words and actions. You’d better show some respect!”
“Oh…” For a moment, Yi Chengying didn’t know whether to be happy or beg for mercy, finding herself in a situation where she didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Amidst Yi Chengying’s delicate cry, Qin Gou grabbed her right foot. A special spiritual power from his Enlightenment True Body emerged from his fingertips, and he questioned, “This Seat is showing great mercy by giving you one last chance. Are you willing to confess or not?”
“I am willing, but Little Chair simply doesn’t understand Celestial Master My Lord’s questions, so how can I answer things I don’t know?” Yi Chengying deliberately averted her gaze, speaking in a soft tone.
“You asked for this.”
With that, Qin Gou pointed at the red spot on the tip of Yi Chengying’s right toe. A scream was heard. Yi Chengying’s little face turned red. She felt an indescribable sensation, but she knew it was absolutely deadly.
“What exactly did Celestial Master My Lord do to Little Chair? Little Chair truly knows nothing.” At this moment, Yi Chengying seemed to have completely forgotten her own powerful strength, panicking and struggling like a naive young girl.
Qin Gou tightly gripped her small foot, preventing her from escaping, and gritted his teeth, “Speak, or not?”
Yi Chengying tightly shut her small mouth, staring straight at Qin Gou. The sight made the Celestial Master feel a bit embarrassed, so he stopped talking.
“Heavens…”
Yi Chengying let out another delicate cry. She wanted to ask for help from others, but all the maids in the cave mansion had already been driven out by her. If she were to use her spiritual power to alert the Palace Lord My Lord, she might be directly killed by a palm strike from the incredibly powerful Celestial Master My Lord in front of her. At this moment, she was utterly despairing, suffering under the Celestial Master My Lord’s torment.
After the duration of one incense stick burning.
“Cel… Celestial Master My Lord, Little Chair confesses! I really can’t take it anymore, please stop.”
Qin Gou quickly let go. At this moment, Yi Chengying didn’t even have the desire or the strength to withdraw her small foot. She was thoroughly defeated. The ingenious methods of a generation’s Celestial Master were indeed not something an ignorant junior like her could fathom.
“Palace Lord My Lord indeed knows that Celestial Master My Lord has arrived at Mystic Maiden Palace and has been looking for you, making all sorts of attempts to find your true form,” Little Chair said with a dazed expression, as if she had been played with.
Upon hearing this, Qin Gou’s expression sank, and he asked gravely, “Then what is her objective? After finding This Seat, what does she plan to do?”
“Palace Lord My Lord’s objective is…” Yi Chengying only spoke half of it before changing the subject, her face pleading, “Celestial Master My Lord, I won’t pretend anymore. Little Chair does know all of Palace Lord My Lord’s plans, but I really can’t say. If you force me, you’re practically asking for my life.”
Qin Gou helplessly grabbed Yi Chengying’s small foot again. “You haven’t suffered enough, have you?”
“I…” Just then, Yi Chengying’s little face suddenly turned red. She used her spiritual power to activate and quickly said, “I, Yi Chengying, swear a spirit oath. If I dare to leak Palace Lord My Lord’s secrets, may my cultivation be destroyed, my belly burst and intestines spill, and my corpse be unburied. Heavenly Dao be my witness!!”
A mysterious Heavenly Dao power flashed by as the spirit oath was formed.
For a moment, Qin Gou’s eyes widened. How come every little wench by Ye Qishuang’s side was more ruthless than the last, and so formidable?
“Celestial Master My Lord, now even if Little Chair wanted to speak, she can’t. If you want to interrogate me with words and actions, just come at me,” Yi Chengying bit her pink lips, her gaze resolute.
Qin Gou chuckled helplessly. “Since that’s the case, This Seat won’t waste any more time. If you don’t speak, This Seat can find someone else! However… I’m afraid that once I leave, you’ll immediately report all of what just happened to Ye Qishuang, right? This Seat has other plans in Mystic Maiden Palace, and I absolutely cannot let you, this little wench, ruin the great matter, so I can only ask you to bear with it.”
Hearing this, Yi Chengying could no longer hold back the tears in her eyes. With a tearful voice, she said, “Celestial Master My Lord, are you planning to silence Little Chair? After all, only the dead can keep secrets the best. Little Chair understands this principle.”
Qin Gou smiled and waved his hand. “Don’t think of me as so cold-blooded and ruthless. You’ve clearly been taught badly by that wench Ye Qishuang. How can you imagine this Celestial Master as such a ruthless villain? Haven’t you seen that This Seat hasn’t done anything too excessive to you from beginning to end?” Not to mention that the current Qin Gou couldn’t do it, even if he could kill Yi Chengying directly, the news of the dignified Lone Shadow Saintess disappearing the next day would spread throughout the Mystic Maiden Raksha Palace, which would only make Ye Qishuang more vigilant and ruin the larger plan.
Yi Chengying, who was almost dehydrated, nodded desperately like a chick pecking at rice.
“That’s right.” As he said this, Qin Gou took out a jet-black oil lamp from his Nas, ignited the wick with spiritual power, and said nonchalantly, “This is a Silhouette Lamp, not an unusual item. Its only function is to preserve a series of images for a long time.”
Yi Chengying, with her survival instinct at its peak, obediently nodded and agreed, “Little Chair knows this. It’s a very convenient disposable magic artifact.”
“Sensible,” Qin Gou gave Yi Chengying an appreciative look. Then, under her disbelieving gaze, he said with a smile, “Now, This Seat will activate this Silhouette Lamp, and as long as you are enveloped by the radiance of this Silhouette Lamp, you kiss This Seat without hesitation, and everything will be fine. What do you say, isn’t it very simple?”
