Chapter 114: The Abyss
The spewing blood stained the blade, Tong Xin’s hands, and splashed all over her body.
The three women, Hua, Xue, and Yue were extremely scared. Looking at Tao BaiBai, all they thought of was escape, and without any intention to go against her. Every one of them had limits on what they could endure, and the fear Tong Xin brought had already exceeded the bottom line of what they could endure. She had easily dissolved all the fight they had in them.
The problem though, was how they would escape from Tong Xin.
Almost in an instant, Hua and Yue’s heads spurted out blood. They did not even see the attack before dying; they did not even get the chance to scream out their fear.
The escaping Yue staggered and fell to the ground. She wanted to get up, but her legs seemed like they did not belong to her, trembling out of control and unable to gather any strength. She could only crawl, wishing for nothing but to escape from the sight of this demon. The moment she turned her head around to look, she was met with pitch-black eyes, before her internal organs shook violently and the sound of exploding flesh echoed in her ears.
Her body had burst wide open from the middle, showering rain of blood from the sky.
One Heaven-Level and four highest Spirit-Level experts were all being considered supreme masters in the Heavenly Star Continent, but one by one they were mutilated by the Cursed Woman as easy as cutting tofu. All of them…died with mangled corpses.
The only reason she killed them was because they were human.
Fresh blood, terrible screams, fear, and the feeling of desperation were things she enjoyed the most.
Her body was now dipping red from the rain of blood. She was not disgusted, instead her face was full of excitement and satisfaction. After twenty years, she could finally enjoy this thrill of killing again.
Ye Wuchen’s face was so awfully pale. If not for his endurance, he have already thrown up the food he ate nights before. Without any more targets Tong Xin joyfully headed back towards him, like a young woman returning from her stroll.
“Don’t come near me!” He furrowed his brows and scolded at the approaching Tong Xin.
Tong Xin ceased her steps. The shout of anger made the smile on her face disappear in an instant. Switching to a frightened expression, she did not know what to do. Her eyes misted over with a layer of pitiful liquid. Not knowing what she had done wrong, her heart was full confusion, nervousness, fear… absent of excitement and satisfaction.
“I don’t like blood… No matter the situation. If your body is stained with blood, you must not come near me.”
Tong Xin grew terrified as she quickly looked over her body. Hands, feet, body… everything was already stained with red blood. She rub her dress to wipe off the bloodstains from her hands, the blade now discarded. No matter how hard she tried to wipe them clean, her hands still had remnants of blood. In her grievance and fear, her tears of panic finally fell from her eyes.
Ye Wuchen’s heart softened. He could understand Tong Xin’s reaction. Killing people was almost instinct, she did not know that it was a crime. She possibly did not even have a reason for killing people. She had become the Cursed Woman as a result.
Sighing, Ye Wuchen moved forward and gently said, “Tong Xin, stand there and don’t move.”
Tong Xin held her tears back and stood there without moving while her eyes looked at him miserably.
Ye Wuchen extended both his hands at the same time. His palms flickered with a faint blue light. Immediately, the water in their surroundings gathered on top of Tong Xin’s head, concentrating into pure and clean water to wash her body clean.
Tong Xin carefully extended her hands to catch the water. The refreshing water lead to an innocent smile. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the relaxing shower.
After a while Ye Wuchen stopped, and Tong Xin’s body, from the top to bottom, no longer had any traces of bloodstains. Tong Xin opened her eyes to look at her hands and body. In her excitement, she ignored her dripping body and threw herself at Ye Wuchen’s chest, fawningly soaking his body.
“Tong Xin, you should remember. From now on, unless someone desires to bring danger upon you, me, or those people I want you to protect, without my approval, you cannot kill again. You are even not allowed to breath without it. Do you understand?”
Tong Xin lifted her head from his chest and, taking a very long time to completely understand his words, she nodded obediently.
“Even if you are to kill, your body should not be stained by blood. Or else, I cannot hug my Tong Xin.” Ye Wuchen finally laughed gently, then he hugged her like he hugs Ning Xue. Her body, like Ning Xue’s, was delicate and graceful. Ye Wuchen’s laugh had somehow made the worried and scared Tong Xin joyful. She grabbed onto his neck tightly, then used her tongue to naughtily lick his neck and face. This kind of feeling was surely more enjoyable than killing people.
Before him was the scene of bloody purgatory in the human world. Ye Wuchen looked ahead to divert his attention. The reason he did not stop Tong Xin from killing was because he did not want any of the people here to leave this place alive. News of the Cursed Woman leaving the Devil’s Trap Pagoda could not be known by any other. This super killing device could be used to fulfill the enemy’s nightmare.
Not only did they need to die, even their corpse could not be discovered. The Southern Empire Clan would investigate it, and their cruel deaths might lead them to certain conclusions. Even if there was only a small possibility, Ye Wuchen would not risk it.
“Tong Xin, can you dig up a huge hole and bury all the people that you killed?” Ye Wuchen suppressed his nausea and pointed at the spot where the brutalized corpses lay.
After a short moment of bewilderment, she eventually understood and nodded. She leaped from Ye Wuchen’s chest and floated to the air. Once she reached her target spot, she put her hands together, where a round black light formed. The next minute, she waved her hands downwards, and strong black ray shot downward.
With a loud boom, the earth vibrated like an earthquake erupted. Ye Wuchen had been so shaken, he temporarily lost his hearing. Below Tong Xin’s feet, the limbs and bodies had completely disappeared, replaced by a big hole more than ten meters deep.
He quickly proceeded to the hole, and breathed in cool air. This could not just be some hole… looking into it, there was nothing but darkness—so deep that the bottom could not be seen.
This was leagues different from the hole his explosives made. For Tong Xin, with just a simple hand movement and so little effort, she was be able to construct a small abyss. The ground below had been completely destroyed, like the air dispersing from the earth.
Ye Wuchen had again been shocked by Tong Xin’s strength. Tong Xin dropped to the ground, light as a feather, and wrapped her hands around his neck to cling to him. Her small face looked up anxiously at him, face full of anticipation and thirsting for his compliments.
“En, you’ve done very well.” Ye Wuchen’s hand propped her bottom up as he spoke to her with a strange tone.
Tong Xin laughed, satisfied. She used her body to rub against his chest, like she intended to melt into his body.
What she did was indeed very good… better than the best. With a hole as big as this, what could fill it up?
Since there was no way to fill it, then he would let it be. Ye Wuchen closed the stone door of the Devil’s Trap Pagoda once more, removing traces of it having been opened recently. He carried Tong Xin and walked in the direction of Tian Long City. Tong Xin’s feet were bare, even though no amount of roughness on the ground could hurt her feet, he could not stand to see her walking with him barefoot. After all, Tong Xin looked like a pitiful young woman.
This time, there was a very large hole in front of the Devil’s Trap Pagoda. Legends would tell of this place as the number one killer, Tao BaiBai’s burial. For a hole as huge as this to have been made, a very powerful device must have been used.
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In the meantime, in the Royal Palace of Tian Long City.
“I don’t want to! I don’t want to! I don’t want to get married!” Princess Fei Huang yelled with a face full of grievance. Stamping her feet, she almost threw the things on her table.
If any other child was this presumptuous in front of him, Long Yin would have already scolded them loudly, but his Long Huang-er could not anger him. Instead, he consoled her with a bitter smile, “Huang-er, the husband that I have arranged for you is definitely a dragon among all men. Not only at present, but even in twenty years, there would be no man better than him. Moreover, you are still young, I have specifically indicated that you will only marry after three years.”
“I said no! I will not marry anyone.” Long Huang-er yelled unyieldingly.
“You cannot refuse!”
“I will not marry!”
“A noble does not go back on his word!”
Being rude and unreasonable was obviously not working. Long Huang-er had no choice but to use her “gentle and soft” tricks. “My sovereign father… I’m still very young. Does this mean that you don’t want me anymore? Waaa… Huang-er is so pitiful. My mother has already abandoned me, and now my father is sending me away. Waaaa… Huang-er doesn’t want to live anymore.”
To even mention her deceased mother, Long Yin panicked and promptly consoled her, “Don’t cry Huang-er. I always love you. Don’t you believe your father? Let’s try this, I will bring you to see that person, okay? Maybe you will be excited after you see him.”
Long Yin’s eyes flickered with a deceitful light.
These words had worked and Long Huang-er quickly stops her fake tears. Sniffling, she said, “En, Huang-er would like to see.”
Inside her mind she was scheming up a plan to trick that person into avoid the marriage. For an independent princess like her, marriage was a very terrible matter.
How could Long Yin not know his own daughter well? He knew what she was thinking and he smiled helplessly. Just like what Ye Wuchen had expected, the marriage he had promised was indeed just a pretense. He would certainly not allow Ye Wuchen to live after three years; After tomorrow, even.
Translated by: Fatty_Uncle
Edited by: seriouspotato and patrick_father_of_crayons