“Fine.”
“Fellow countryman, so where are we sleeping tonight?”
Zhu Lan asked this question.
“Right here.”
After Ye Feng finished speaking, he suddenly took a chain out of his storage ring.
Zhu Lan: ?
“Wait, fellow countryman, what is that in your hand?”
“A chain.”
“What is it for?”
“You’ll find out in a bit.”
Ye Feng held the chain with both hands, a sunny smile on his face.
“Fellow countryman, fellow countryman, don’t come any closer!!”
……
“Fellow countryman, the chain is a bit icy. My feet are so cold, can I take it off?”
Zhu Lan tried to negotiate.
Ye Feng shook his head: “No, I need to cultivate tonight to digest the insights from this period. You’ll definitely try to run. If I tie the chain to your feet now, you won’t be able to run fast when you try to escape, and it’ll make a lot of noise that I’ll be able to hear.”
Zhu Lan showed a menacingly ‘kind’ smile.
The stupid male lead had actually taken out a chain to link her two feet together.
Although she could still walk, she could only move quite slowly.
How was she supposed to run away now?
“By the way, what’s your name? It doesn’t sound right for others to hear me calling you fellow countryman all the time.”
Ye Feng asked casually.
“Your father!”
Zhu Lan regretted it immediately after she finished cursing.
“Fellow countryman, I was just joking. My name is Zhu Lan. Zhu as in blessing, and Lan as in wind beneath a mountain. I just turned twenty this year, and I’m currently at the seventh level of Qi Condensation…… Fellow countryman, I was wrong!”
It was already too late to back down.
The iron chains on Zhu Lan’s feet were pulled tight together, and now she couldn’t even walk at all.
Zhu Lan spent a long time heapingly praising Ye Feng before he finally gave up on the idea of tying her hands up as well.
“My name is Ye Feng.”
“Who doesn’t know that?”
Ye Feng: ……
Zhu Lan’s words immediately shut down Ye Feng’s conversation.
“Zhu Lan, right? Do you know that you’re not very good at chatting?”
“That depends on who I’m talking to.”
Ye Feng stopped his movements and looked at Zhu Lan, who was covered by his shadow, looking pitiful with her feet bound by chains.
Sigh, forget it.
Beauty is its own justification.
He wouldn’t hold a grudge against this fellow countryman’s low EQ.
Ye Feng sat back in his original position and began to cultivate: “Tonight, you can cultivate or sleep, but you’re not allowed to run. If you behave yourself, I might consider undoing the chain tomorrow.”
Zhu Lan nodded obediently for once.
Only then did Ye Feng completely enter a cultivation state.
After seeing Ye Feng begin to breathe in spiritual energy, the clear look returned to Zhu Lan’s lowered eyes.
From the looks of it, the male lead could be persuaded by kindness but not by force.
(Of course, it was absolutely impossible that she, Zhu Lan, simply couldn’t act tough.)
Furthermore, she discovered that the male lead saying her face suited his aesthetic seemed to be true.
Several times after she tested him, the male lead looked like he was going to make her suffer, but after taking a few looks at her face, he gave up.
This had its pros and cons.
She still wasn’t clear on where the male lead’s bottom line was, but at least there was a little more room for error.
The downside was that it was easier to get bent over.
Zhu Lan couldn’t imagine a big man holding her down and bending her back and forth, nor did she dare to think about it.
Therefore, she was destined to never accept the male lead’s conditions; she had to run away.
She had to wait for an opportunity.
……
“Ye Feng, my feet are so cold.”
With her feet tied, Zhu Lan moved toward Ye Feng bit by bit and poked his waist with her finger.
Ye Feng opened his eyes instantly.
He had exited his cultivation state the moment Zhu Lan started moving.
The reason he didn’t call her out was because he wanted to see if she really wanted to escape.
Zhu Lan appropriately put on a pitiful expression, her voice turning soft as she spoke: “Ye Feng, I’m sorry. I said the wrong things, I shouldn’t have made you angry. My feet are freezing right now; I can’t cultivate and I can’t sleep. Can you take the chain off? I definitely won’t run.”
The beauty trap was very effective, and Ye Feng’s heartbeat quickened significantly in an instant.
Zhu Lan kept her face lowered, peeking at him from the corner of her eye.
Ye Feng’s heart beat even harder.
He cleared his throat and tried his best to sound serious: “It’s only for one night. Just endure it and it’ll pass.”
Seeing that there might be a chance, Zhu Lan looked aggrieved: “A woman’s feet are naturally cold; often they’re still cold even after waking up. Now with an even colder chain binding my feet, I can’t sleep at all.”
The young girl’s breath was like orchids, and her beautiful face was filled with sorrow.
No matter how firm Ye Feng was, he was still a man full of vigor.
He removed the restraints from Zhu Lan’s feet and said softly: “How is it now?”
Having gained an advantage, Zhu Lan didn’t dare to continue testing his limits.
She nodded quickly: “It’s better, much better! Thank you, Ye Feng, you’re such a good person!”
Zhu Lan retreated to her original spot and focused on cultivating.
Ye Feng didn’t even notice himself, but as the fragrant and jade-like young girl cautiously retreated to her original place, he felt a bit disappointed.
……
The sky had just begun to turn a murky gray at dawn when a sudden change occurred in the firmament of the secret realm!
A vast and terrifying power tore a hole in the sky, making the entire secret realm look as if the world was being turned upside down again.
Both people who were cultivating were startled awake.
Ye Feng’s expression was grave: “This is… the aura of the Nascent Soul stage.”
Zhu Lan watched the sky being torn open, her mind incredibly shaken.
Following that, five cultivators emerged from the gap in the sky, standing suspended in the air.
They took up a specific formation at the gap, and five golden phantom figures that covered the sky rose from the ground, blotting out the sun.
Zhu Lan blurted out: “Nascent Soul Avatars!”
These were avatars that only Nascent Soul stage cultivators could cultivate, their forms massive enough to cover the sky and the sun.
Such methods were simply a dimensional suppression against those below the Nascent Soul stage.
Even if the male lead in the original novel could cross realms to kill people at will, he would still have to run if he encountered a Nascent Soul pursuit during the Golden Core stage.
Now, five Nascent Soul Avatars had appeared above the secret realm……
“Our tearing of the void cannot be sustained for long. Cultivators remaining in the secret realm, come out immediately!”
A clear and heavy voice rang in Zhu Lan’s ears.
To be able to make a voice condense without scattering even from a hundred miles away—is this the Nascent Soul stage?
Zhu Lan’s heart couldn’t settle for a long time.
If she had Nascent Soul stage cultivation, wouldn’t she be unrivaled in the world?
Then, beneath the distant void, dense black spots like ants entered the void one after another.
“That’s…… there are other people in the secret realm besides us!”
Zhu Lan cried out in surprise.
It seemed that with the sudden mutation of the secret realm, the number of cultivators staying behind was not small.
What felt strange to Zhu Lan was that the other cultivators staying in the secret realm seemed to be gathered in one place, while on their side, there only seemed to be the two of them, with no other cultivators in sight.
“Ye family trash, you actually dared to kill my son?”
An untimely voice suddenly rang out from behind Ye Feng.
“Ye Qing?”
Ye Feng was a bit surprised, but then his expression instantly became playful: “It’s rare that you were able to chase me all the way here to seek revenge for your useless son. But unfortunately, the Ye family’s Second Master is also going to die in the secret realm.”
Zhu Lan understood the current situation after a bit of thought.
Although the void torn by the five Nascent Soul cultivators was mostly to let the cultivators inside the secret realm out, it could also allow cultivators from the outside to come in.
Ye Qing laughed from extreme anger: “I’ll see if your strength is even half as great as your mouth!”
After speaking, Ye Qing directly used his full strength to attack Ye Feng.
“Ninth level of Qi Condensation?”
Ye Feng was slightly surprised after sensing the aura on Ye Qing’s body.
“I was wondering why a coward like you would dare to come in to avenge your son. It turns out that the eighth level of Qi Condensation you stayed at for eight years has finally broken through. Let me test if your ninth level of Qi Condensation is solid!”
The two of them quickly clashed in battle.
Meanwhile, our Zhu Lan had also recovered quite a bit.
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