Ronghua was entertained by his dread, “Are you terribly scared?”

Xu Xin s.h.i.+vered, fearing that her sword would move closer, “Of… of course!”

Then he heard the evil response from Ronghua with an angel smile, “When you tortured Mo penally, had you ever thought about this moment? You teased him when I was absent, but now I am back. I will avenge all the wounds he was suffering from on you. Considering his unhealthy state, I think it must be a huge price for you to pay.”

Xu Xun could not help quivering for fright. He could only feel panic since this woman showed up in front of him.

He did not know who she was and what she would do to him. He only heard from the people back from the mysterious territory that Xia Pumo was accompanied by a powerful woman. They had planned to kill him after entering the mysterious territory, so they ambushed along the road, whereas things did not go on as they expected. They were defeated by that woman on the contrary.

She managed to trap them all alone and treated them ruthlessly, which was much more than they could bear.

Was that woman the one next to him?

Those people were punished by her even though they did not do anything while he had commanded his man to caught maimed Xia Pumo and penalized him when she was not here. He even destroyed his Dantian, and this woman was likely to know this. What would then happen to him? What should he do?

An idea suddenly came to his mind, “Father! Yes, I can ask my father for help!” A string of beads was wrapping around his wrist. Beyond Ronghua's sight, he hid his hand behind his back, moved the beads in his hand, and crumbed one stealthily. Then he began to make time for his father to come.

“We did not torture him! Those wounds were made by others instead of us!”

Ronghua raised an eyebrow, “Well, do you mean it was some else that harmed him?”

Xu Xin smiled obsequiously, “Yes, yes! They abused him, and I am just responsible for bringing him over for judgment.”

Ronghua looked at his hypocritical face with her constant fake smile. Did he treat her like a fool? There were both old wounds and new scars on Xia Pumo, which was not likely to be made by the same person at the same time apparently. Was not he trying to conceal his atrocity by killing Xia Pumo in advance?

However, he insisted that he had nothing to do with it. This human was really ludicrous.

Ronghua sneered, “His injuries, some are old, but some are new. There's one newly added. Do you mean the new ones are made by himself?”

Xu Xin was wordless. He just said that to put off her movements.

“Do you think I am easy to dupe?” Ronghua asked.

Xu Xin immediately shook his head, “No, absolutely not!”

Ronghua questioned him coldly, “No? When I left, Mo was strong and healthy, without one scar. Only after a few days pa.s.sed, now he had wounds all over his body, and his Dantian was damaged. How do you explain?”

She finally explicitly stated the point.

Xu Xin was sweating. This woman would not give up until she found the one to compensate for Xia Pumo's damaged Dantian. However, he knew it better than anybody that the Golden Pellet in his Dantian was destroyed and could never restore!

Ronghua did not want to waste time on this meaningless talk. Her sword turned into the whip and wrapped more and more tightly around his neck. Xu Xin could feel his throat was pressed, and he was hard to breathe. He realized that she wanted to kill him.

“Come… come and save me….” He screamed exhaustedly to let his men hear him.

They shouted, “Release our young master! Quickly!”

Then they rushed forward with their swords promiscuously.

Ronghua would be willing to fight with them for a while when she was in a better mood, but now, she was not. She was furious for Xu Xin's behaviors.

Ronghua looked at Xu Xin. Her eyes turned red again without knowing when. She played with her fingers and did not give those people even a glance, “I found Mo's Dantian did not react, no matter how much spiritual power I transferred to him. He might lose his life if I were not highly cultivated with ample power. Tell me the truth. What have you done to his Dantian? Who took his Golden Pellet away?”

Ronghua clapped another hand to the air, and then a dark blue flame flew towards Xu Xin's followers, who were burned to ashes at once.

Xu Xin was stunned and even forgot there was a whip around his neck. How could this fire be so terrible! Even Samadhi True Fire could not be compared with it!

“In my view, only your death can make up for the pain Mo had suffered!” After saying that, Ronghua added power to her hand, and Xu Xin could not make any sound now. His eyes bulged, and he had less strength to struggle.

“Let him go!” Suddenly, there sounded an august but old voice from the air. A flash of lightning dropped upon them along with that voice. Ronghua noticed that and dragged Xu Xin to stay away. Only a deep fissure remained at the place they stood on before.

Interesting! Ronghua raised her head and saw a large number of humans standing in the void and holding a long sword, respectively. The man who stood in front of them was in his forties with a black whip in hand. Ronghua guessed that he was the leader.

Hearing that, Ronghua increased the strength of her hand instead, and Xu Xin's face grew paler.

That wrinkly couldn't stand by anymore. He dashed towards them, “You monster! Leave my son alone!”

Ronghua j.a.ped at him, “If you came one step closer, I might be frightened and lose control of my hand. With a sudden shake, the head of your son may not be on his neck.”

He took a step back angrily due to her threat and did not move forward again. Someone had heard about Ronghua's cultivation, so he came close to that man's side to report, “Patriarch, this woman was high-cultivated. The Gaos were all defeated and still lay there because of the severe injuries. We need to be careful.”

The patriarch felt funny about the advice, “Ugh! The Gaos? They were just the dogs of our family. Just let them die.”

“But her fire….”

Ronghua looked back at those three humans. They were lying on the ground and seriously injured. None of the people above wanted to save them. Neither did she. She would not waste effort on those that attempted to kill her.

Ronghua pointed at him and decreased a little strength of the other hand, “Why didn't I see my zither? Where is it?”

Xu Xin's father looked at her, “What zither?”

Ronghua pulled Xu Xin forward and slightly loosened the whip, “Tell him what I want?”

Xu Xin coughed severely as soon as he could, “Daddy, help me! Now! Give… give the zither to her. The one belonged to Xia Pumo! The zither had the soul of Mu Rongzhe inside. Give her now, or I will die! Dad!”

His behavior was such a disgrace!

Even Ronghua felt shameful for him. Xu Xin said that with tears and sobs, which made Ronghua frown. How much did he fear death?

“Bring me that zither!” The patriarch of the imperial clan of Sword gave the order quickly and then lowered his voice, “Inform the people of the imperial clan of Zither!”

“Yes, master.”

Ronghua watched their communication. She did not know their ideas, but she was not afraid of that!

The plots on the platform were full of high lights and excitement, and the crowd below witnessed these with delights. The fight between superiors was really brilliant! But should not they hide to a safe place now? Why did they remain here?

Xia Pumo was lying on the ice bed. He was too feeble to open his eyes and could not see things clearly. Was Ronghua fighting for justice for him? Then something like smog was floating around his body. Is he…Murong Zhe?

“Mo, how do you feel?” The fog seemed to make a sound, which proved that he was Murong Zhe!

Xia Pumo became nervous, “Why did you come back? I told you to go!”

The fog came near to his ear, “If I were injured like you and asked you to go, would you do it?”

“Of course not!” Xia Pumo answered, without any hesitation.

The fog chuckled, “That's it! Why do you ask me to go if you won't?”

Xia Pumo fell to silence. He was frail now and did not want to make too much explanation.

A few spots of golden light appeared near Xia Pumo's feet and then slowly went around his whole body. The wounds were healed as the golden light pa.s.sed by. Xia Pumo sensed the power of these light spots.

He was surprised, “What is this? Its effects were even stronger than the elixir!”

Murong Zhe smiled, “These are Ronghua's innate golden light, which could cure all the injuries, regardless of number and severity.”

Xia Pumo noticed the word innate and realized that the golden light should be hard to obtain.

“What's the price you paid?”

Murong Zhe antic.i.p.ated that he would ask about this, “Not much. I just signed a contract with her.”

“What contract?” Xia Pumo suddenly had a gloomy prediction.

Murong Zhe hesitated, “It's fine. Just share my life with hers!” It's the soul contract!

Xia Pumo was shocked, “What?”

Then he fell to silence and did not speak anymore. Murong Zhe became anxious, and then he heard Xi Pumo whimpering.

He was panicked immediately.

“Mo, don't cry! Please! It was my own free will, not compulsory. It's true! You can ask Ronghua if you don't believe me!”

Xia Pumo wiped tears away with a recovered hand, saying with a trembling voice, “Come out! Let me see you.”

Murong Zhe paused, but the fog still changed to his figure next to Xia Pumo. They stared at each other.

Xia Pumo looked at his pale face and stretched out a hand to touch his face. Murong Zhe's temperature was different from that of an average human body.

“Why did you do this? You have lost your freedom ever since. Aren't you eager for freedom the most?”

Murong Zhe smiled, “No, you're the most important in my heart.”

Xia Pumo was so moved that he pressed Murong Zhe's head closer and kissed him. When their lips met each other, Xia Pumo could not help kissing him harder. As time pa.s.sed at the place isolated from the outside, their erotic feeling grew.

Murong Zhe temporarily forgot Xia Pumo's wounds. In fact, he forgot anything else and could only focus on the man in front of him.

Their s.e.xual pa.s.sion gradually raised, and that emotional fluctuation conveyed from Murong Zhe's soul to Ronghua.

Ronghua amazed about what she felt. What were they doing? Even she could feel the strong desire of Murong Zhe.

Xia Pumo was biting Murong Zhe's lips.

This made it much harder for Murong Zhe to control himself, “Baby… that's too much…baby!”

However, Xia Pumo was already erotogenic and could not stop at all, not to mention what Murong Zhe had done for him, which could only make him crazier.

He left Murong Zhe's lips and moved to kiss his neck. Murong Zhe had tried hard to calm down, worried about his health, but now found Mo was too energetic to receive any extreme care!

Ronghua cut off the connection with Murong Zhe directly but still warned him, “Mo was still weak. Be careful! Otherwise, his injuries might be worse.”

Ronghua cared so much that she even forgot Murong Zhe could share her golden light after signing the soul contract. Besides, Murong Zhe was not an ordinary monster, so he had his way to apply the golden light to Xi Pumo. Xia Pumo was nearly recovered after that and was okay to take some exercise.

Even though he knew this, Murong Zhe still cared for Xia Pumo's physical condition and restrained his force, only letting Xia Pumo vent his l.u.s.t on him.

“Mo, all the thing I want is your safety, even the price is my life. Even if I could never get back, it's enough for me to know you live well in this world!” He said so in his heart.

“Patriarch, here is the zither.”

The patriarch of the imperial clan of Sword took over the zither. Looking at it, he asked coldly, “Can you exchange now?”

Ronghua came to her senses and saw the zither. She took the zither quickly before people of the imperial clan of Sword could react.

Xu Xin's father looked sullen. He tried his best to endure, and he asked, with great rage, “What do you mean? Let go of my son now that you have taken the zither.”

Ronghua stroked the zither, full of delight. But her coldness couldn't hide.

“I just let you take the zither here. When did I say I would let him go?”

Ronghua looked at the patriarch of the imperial clan of Sword. It suddenly occurred to her that Xu Xin was genetically stupid.

Xu Xin was shedding oceans of tears.

“Heroine. Haven't you said that you would let me go as long as you take the zither?”

Ronghua stared at him, “When did I say I would let you go?”

Ronghua lowered her head, “I let you take the zither here, but I didn't say I would let you go. Furthermore, the bitterness that Mo had suffered under your control would soon be doubled on you guys by me.”

Her words made Xu Xin tremble with fear. He realized that she would never let him go smoothly, so he regretted hurting Xia Pumo, thinking to himself, “Why did I seek death?”

Xu Xin said, “My father….”

“Hum.” Xu Xin stopped saying when he saw Ronghua's eyes.

Ronghua increased the force of her fingers, which impelled Xu Xin to stay still; otherwise, he might die. Therefore, Xu Xin kept silent.

Ronghua looked at her dirty clothes, “Wait!”

Ronghua made a snowflake-shaped ball, stepped on it, and snapped her fingers. Then the s...o...b..ll flew up slowly around her body. All the parts the s...o...b..ll touched turned into a bright ice blue dress. Ronghua had initially worn a red dress and a purple robe. She didn't like tying her hair, so it was loosened. Now her gown was also ice blue, and she had become the Ice Queen from the elegant Princess. She had long, smooth hair and golden pupils, just like a fairy.

“Okay! Go ahead!”

But people were startled by Ronghua, who dressed up like that.

This woman was so bold that she had changed her clothes so casually in front of many people.

People came to their senses until Ronghua snapped her fingers.

“What do you want to do?” Xu Chao said coldly. It appeared that she wasn't ordinary, for ordinary people must be afraid of the Xu Family.

Slightly waving her sleeves, Ronghua answered calmly, “Nothing. Just wait for someone, like you.”

Xu Chao was a little surprised and thought, “How could she know we were waiting for someone?”

“But,” Ronghua paused, and then she continued, “It's useless for them to come here. I will kill all of them!”

Xu Chao held his sword tightly and couldn't endure her anymore.

“You mess with me!”

People behind him rushed up to Ronghua, surrounding her.

Ronghua scorned them, “Did they want to besiege me?”

Ronghua threw Xu Xin out and shouted, “Shenyuan.”

Then people saw Ronghua throw Xu Xin away. A cloud of black haze emerged where Xu Xin fell, wrapping him before he could ask for help. Xu Xin disappeared in a blink.

Xu Chao shouted, “Demon, how dare you kill my son?!”

He couldn't stand it anymore. He had intended to let people of the imperial clan of Zither deal with Xia Pumo. But this woman said she was his elder sister and nearly killed Xu Xin.

Ronghua walked over gracefully and stroked her air, “Only one requirement!”

People surrounding her wondered why she dared make a request. Hadn't she realized the reality?

Ronghua said, “Don't dirty my clothes!”

Xu Chao rushed over with red eyes, holding a sword in his left hand and a whip in the right one. He wanted to chop Ronghua, but she dodged. Squinting it, she held the sword, with spiritual power gathering on her hand. She increased the power, which made the sword broken.

Xu Chao whirled several times till he could stand straight.

“Come on!” He ordered his subordinates.

He didn't believe that she could escape unscathed from so many people.

Ronghua thought, “What a shame to besiege me with such a large crowd!”

Ronghua had prepared, but no one dared approach her. They held their swords and flew in the air. Ronghua thought, “Did they think that I couldn't fly, so they wanted to use the formation to trap me in?”

Ridiculous!

Ronghua took out the fan and injected spiritual power into it. The fan became black immediately but emitted unusual light. What would she do?

Murong Zhe in the ice didn't understand. Although Ronghua cut off the contact with him, he still felt the current status of Ronghua. What was she doing?

Xia Pumo also felt his puzzlement, “What's wrong?”

Murong Zhe stared at him with a little anxiety, “Perhaps Ronghua intended to kill them!”

Murong Zhe wasn't sure about it, for Ronghua hardly used the fan. Although her fan often transformed into various spiritual weapons, it couldn't succeed on its own. In fact, Ronghua had the skill of forging weapons, so she made these spiritual weapons of similar power to the fan.

“The intention to kill?” Xia Pumo didn't believe it.

“Hmm.” Murong Zhe wished it were his illusion, but he could feel it. He said, “Her intention to kill is firm. If we didn't stop her, the whole city would be over.”

Xia Pumo was stunned, “How could this be?” Ronghua was so kind. How could she have a firm intention to kill?

Murong Zhe consoled him, “Don't be surprised. People coming from that place aren't normal.”

That place?

“Does she belong to the demon race?” Xia Pumo didn't believe it. She was so excellent, but why had the demon race never mentioned her?

“No. She's not a demon.”

Murong Zhe stroked Xia Pumo's face, “Her background was beyond our imagination. You will know her ident.i.ty later.”

Xia Pumo understood that everyone had his secret, let alone Ronghua, such a mysterious and powerful woman.

“Okay! We should go out!”

Murong Zhe held Xia Pumo around his waist with one hand and pressed the other hand on the ice. He pushed it hard, making the ice melt.

Ronghua was holding the fan, looking cruel and merciless. But she liked this free feeling as if nothing could restrain her.

“How do you guys want to die?”

As soon as Ronghua waved her fan, lightning flashed, and thunder rumbled. The sky changed its color as if something was going to come out.

Witnessing the changes, Xu Chao had a lousy presentiment, but he hadn't dealt with the present trouble.

“Crazy girl, don't be so presumptuous and complacent!” Xu Chao tried to be brave by shouting. Although he was scared, he was a patriarch who had experienced much before, including this. Although Ronghua was powerful, he wouldn't be afraid to fight with her.

As others approached her to attract her attention, Xu Chao said to his trusted subordinate, “Haven't the people of the imperial clan of Zither come here?”

“No. They haven't!”

“d.a.m.n it!” Xu Chao cursed and thought, “Do they come here so late on purpose?”

Ronghua had lost her mind. She indulged in the killing, with her eyes becoming blood red, which was a bloodsucking symbol.

Murong Zhe and Xia Pumo came out of the ice bed. They looked at Ronghua, concernedly, “What's wrong with her? Even though she wants to kill people, she shouldn't be that frenetic! Is there any problem?”

Ronghua killed people insanely. People approaching her were thrown away or torn apart by her fan. Ronghua grabbed one person as a s.h.i.+eld, and then she put the fan on his head, making it whirl. After he died, she kicked him off. She rushed up to the crowd. A beam of intense light emitted, all people approaching her were killed.

The rest of the crowd looked around, s.h.i.+vering. They all wanted someone else to go first, for Ronghua had become a killer, frightening them to death.

Ronghua was also looking at them. All the people around her had died, and she smiled coldly, “Don't you want to kill me? Come on!”

Ronghua raised her fan, and the blood remaining on the fan dripped on the ground, shocking everyone.

Ronghua's face had some bloodstains. Her white dress had become red, but she was still attractive. She pointed at the next one, with her fan rotating. She had intended to tease them, but they were scared to death.

Before Ronghua continued killing, a sound of the zither came out. Ronghua stopped smiling, feeling strange.

She heard someone call her, “Don't listen to it!”

It was too late. Ronghua had already listened to the song. She calmed down, with hands down and eyes closed, in a dormant state.

These people came here. All of them wore white and neat clothes, holding zithers and standing behind their leader. However, it was chaotic here, making them showy. Such a sharp contrast made Xu Chao unhappy!

He stood up slowly and walked towards them, “The Xias of the imperial clan of Zither, how could you come so timely?”

He had been exhausted, just clenching his teeth.

The leader put away the zither, stepped forward, and held fists calmly, “Patriarch Xu, I'm sorry. Something has delayed us on the way!”

Xu Chao sneered, “Not late. We haven't all died. You come too early!”

Although Xu Chao satirized him, he didn't get annoyed. It seemed that he had a good temper.

Xia Pumo had been trembling since these people came here.

Xia Pumo said, “Zhe, hold me!”

Murong Zhe held him tightly, “I did!”

Xia Pumo quivered, “Tighter!”

Murong Zhe said, “Yes!”

Xia Pumo was involuntarily frightened when he saw these people. But it was not his fault.

These people came from the Xia Family of the imperial clan of Zither. Their leader was Xia Pumo's elder brother— Xia Puyang, Young Master Xuanji!

Xia Puyang had never shown many expressions, with a cold face all the time, just like Xia Pumo in the past, which made people have an urge to beat him, but they couldn't find a good reason.

Xia Puyang had noticed Xia Pumo, who was frail and leaned close to Murong Zhe; he had also seen Murong Zhe, who was held tightly by Xia Pumo. Xia Puyang thought, “Murong Zhe, you made it!”

Xia Puyang ignored Xu Chao and directly walked towards Xia Pumo. Xia Pumo was scared, so he might not want to talk with Xia Puyang.

Xia Puyang looked at Xia Pumo and frowned, “Don't you think your behavior is indecent?”

Murong Zhe was surprised, “d.a.m.n it! Why could he come up scolding?”

Xia Pumo was afraid of them, so he immediately closed his auditory sense. He didn't have to hear their annoying words anymore.

Xia Puyang realized what he had done, so he sighed, “Mo, are you still unwilling to talk with me?”

Xia Pumo stayed still while Murong Zhe was happy. Xia Puyang didn't allow Mo to talk with him in the past. Now Mo spoke with him, as his sweetheart. They had intimate relations. Moreover, Mo usually said some honeyed words to him. But now, Mo didn't speak with Xia Puyang. G.o.d was fair!

Murong Zhe lighted up with pleasure!

Murong Zhe felt delighted that Mo didn't respond to Xia Puyang, so he held Xia Pumo more tightly.

Xia Pumo felt the change, so he slightly turned around, with his face leaning on Murong Zhe's shoulder. Murong Zhe also turned around. Then Xia Pumo saw Xia Puyang was still standing there from Murong Zhe's eyes!

Xia Pumo didn't want to talk with him. But he recovered his auditory sense.

“Mo, how is it going these years?”

“Do your wounds hurt? How do you feel?”

“Come back with me! You are still the second young master of the imperial clan of Zither, Xia Pumo.”

…

Xia Pumo felt painful when hearing Xia Puyang's promise, with tears in his eyes. Murong Zhe immediately felt his sadness. He patted Xia Pumo and consoled him, “Don't worry! I'm always with you!”

Meanwhile, Murong Zhe was mad at Xia Puyang, thinking, “You deliberately came here at this point, making my sweetheart unhappy. If I had enough power, I would let you pay the price!”