Chapter 131: The Racing Heartbeat
The Blood Prison Enchantment was, in fact, an exceptionally formidable enchantment.
Even a demon king like Aldrich spent a long time and a lot of hard effort just trying to break through it.
Such enchantments with great power were usually used against adversaries who were in the Illuminating Soul Realm.
If it were someone else who found that his normal enchantment had failed to trap Zen, he would end his efforts and give up immediately.
However, Yolande had a unique and controlled personality. When Zen lightly broke her enchanted barriers, the girl's levelheadedness never faltered. Instead, she did not hesitate to cast the Blood Prison Enchantment.
Her colorful dress swayed as she leaned on the edge of the Blood Prison Enchantment, wearing a pair of small clogs. “Can you break through the Blood Prison Enchantment, too?” she challenged Zen who was in the enchantment, a faint smile slightly visible on her face.
Standing in the middle of the enchantment, Zen felt it emanating a bloody aura. With his eyes fixated on her face, he suddenly cracked into a grin and said, “I thought you couldn't smile. Surprisingly, you have such an attractive smile.”
His tough opponent blinked, revealing a hint of confusion in her grey pupils. Then, with a flip of her delicate hand, jets of bloody auras within the enchantment shot towards Zen.
From what he could remember, the bloody aura had the power to disturb the mind and drive people mad.
Under its influence, people with weak souls might even destroy each other.
When Zen felt hot while the bloody aura seeped into his mind, he could sense it striving to affect his soul. It made him a little excited.
Unable to deflect its invasion, he closed his eyes and felt himself entering the state of forgetting himself. When he opened his eyes again, however, there was only sobriety and calmness in his facial expression. To his surprise, it turned out that the Blood Prison Enchantment had little impact on him.
“I can crash the Blood Prison Enchantment as well!”
After the words left his mouth, he walked to the edge of the Blood Prison Enchantment and then swung a punch at it.
“Bang!”
The Emerald Crystal's power shot out of his left arm and into the enchantment.
Although the Emerald Crystal could restrain the Blood Prison Enchantment, the enchantment itself was exceptional. And as a result, when the Emerald Crystal's power condensed and formed a web, the enchantment's bloody aura began to devour the power.
Before Zen could enlarge the opening in the Blood Prison Enchantment, the bloody aura succeeded in swallowing and neutralizing the Emerald Crystal's power.
The triumphant girl's face broke into a thin smile again. “You said you could break the Blood Prison Enchantment. Then why don't you do it?” she taunted.
On hearing Yolande's provocation, Zen narrowed his eyes and contemplated, 'This Blood Prison Enchantment is much stronger than the transparent enchanted barriers. On top of that, it could also naturally fix itself. With my current strength, breaking through it is proving more difficult than I thought.
In theory, my demonic life energy could devour all kinds of life vitality. However, even though the enchantment possesses so much life vitality, it was futile trying to eradicate it that way last time.' He paused and frowned a little. 'As it can't be destroyed from the outside of the enchantment, what if I pour the demonic life energy inside the enchantment instead?'
A victorious glint flashed in his eyes. The idea did not sound farfetched. While creating a small gap in the enchantment using Emerald Crystal, he could transfer the demonic life energy to its insides as well!
The man had no idea if his method would work, but with the situation at the moment, it was worth a try!
With this in mind, Zen started to relax and even had a long and exaggerated stretch.
“Why should I break the enchantment? Having me locked up like this is good. You can keep me here if you want,” he said and laughed.
After Zen finished speaking, Yolande was at a loss for words. Although the girl was outstandingly intelligent, she was extremely simple. Now she had no idea that the man was deliberately trying to provoke her.
As she watched Zen stretch leisurely in the Blood Prison Enchantment, Yolande's competitive spirit finally burst. She did not realize that there were more expressions on her face today than in the last few years combined!
“You're hopeless if you give up. You have to keep trying anyway,” persuaded Yolande, leaning on the edge of the enchantment.
“No, I do not want to try. You are in the Illuminating Soul Realm, and I am only half-step into the nature level. How can I break your enchantment?” Shaking his head solemnly, he thought, 'Yolande is too simple for her own good. It's so much fun to tease her.'
“How would you know that you really can't do this when you haven't even tried?” Yolande persisted, shaking her head.
“I can't do that! I just know,” he said, waving his hand helplessly.
The girl's eyes flickered with disappointment.
For a moment, she just stood there as though she were thinking about something. Suddenly, she added, “Just have a try with all your might. If you ever do get to break this enchantment, I might consider giving you a reward.”
“Really?” A surprised expression spread across Zen's face. Somewhat suspicious, he examined her pretty face and asked, “What's the reward?”
“Any reward you want as long as I can do it!” Yolande spoke earnestly. “Well…”
The man raised his eyebrows slightly. It was just what he wanted her to say.
Although, Zen never thought that the girl could come up with such a solution so soon. For a brief minute, he wondered if he should not have tricked her into such a situation.
Nevertheless, all reason to sympathize was lost when he remembered that she had been keeping him in such a confined space for such a long time.
“Okay, I'll have a try!”
After that, Zen took two steps toward the edge of the Blood Prison Enchantment, found a proper position, and began to launch his demonic life energy.
According to the nature of the demonic life energy, a trace of it was more than enough to make his plan work. As long as it could consume the bloody aura from within, the amount of the demonic life energy would shoot up.
Finally, Zen took a deep breath and threw a punch at the Blood Prison Enchantment.
With the Emerald Crystal's red energy, he made a small gap in the enchantment. Immediately as he had expected, the bloody aura repaired the gap with visible speed. The result was a clear repeat of earlier, but with one exception.
In this instance, he had injected a wisp of the demonic life energy into it, which quickly spread like a dye in the water.
When the bloody aura surrounded the demonic life energy, the demonic life energy began to counter and devoured it like no tomorrow. It seemed that the tables had been turned!
The demonic life energy spread quickly, and more rapidly. Then a fist-sized black blob appeared on the Blood Prison Enchantment, and a small patch of it turned black-purple. After what felt like a few minutes, the entire Blood Prison Enchantment finally turned all black-purple.
'Yes!' thought Zen elatedly. It meant that he was in charge of the whole enchantment!
Before anyone else realized what was happening, he tapped his finger gently on the Blood Prison Enchantment and shouted, “Break!”
As soon as it received Zen's order, the demonic life energy in the Blood Prison Enchantment promptly dissipated between heaven and earth. It did not take long before he completely broke the Blood Prison Enchantment.
The eyes of the imperial soldiers who were watching widened in great surprise. No one could believe what he or she was seeing.
Evidently, a man only half-step into the nature level had shattered the renowned Blood Prison Enchantment!
Everyone in the imperial army knew about the illustrious legend of Yolande's Blood Prison Enchantment. Two years ago, during a war at the Heaven and Earth towers, the girl singlehandedly trapped three ordinary demon kings with it!
Albeit these three demons were not as powerful as the demon kings, Oceiros and Aldrich, they were still demon kings nonetheless! What was even more remarkable about this feat was that she trapped all three at once!
The siege of the three demon kings turned the war around. Imperial soldiers in the Illuminating Soul Realm cornered a powerful demon king and killed the three ordinary demon kings. Such an achievement provided a knockout blow to the demon army!
During that time, not only did Yolande round up the three ordinary demon kings, but she also valiantly defeated more than 3, 000 demon soldiers and generals. Ever since then, people called her the “Killer Girl” and the label had been widely known in White Emperor City. Soldiers who had participated in the war could clearly remember how bewitching and beautiful she was in her white dress stained with demon blood.
Still, a question remained in everyone's mind. Who was the man who had just broken through Yolande's Blood Prison Enchantment?
He wore a robe of an outer disciple of the Cloud Sect. Being half-step into the nature level, the man was just as strong as a centurion in the imperial army. The soldiers failed to fathom how a man of such low caliber had broken the enchantment.
Could Yolande have let him win?
Almost immediately, they dismissed this speculation. Although they were unlikely to encounter big shots like Yolande, they had heard many stories about her. According to old rumors about her personality, it seemed impossible for the girl to lose on purpose.
As the Blood Prison Enchantment disappeared, Zen approached Yolande with a bright smile and said, “Remember your promise? Now give me my reward.”
“Of course,” Yolande said with a nod. “Don't talk nonsense. Just tell me what you want.”
“Well, then… Give me a kiss?” he said casually, pointing to his face.
Upon hearing Zen's words, the soldiers around him nearly picked their ears on instinct. The man's words came as a bolt from the blue. With such an odd request for a reward, they wondered if they had heard him wrong. Not only was this person skilled, but he was also incredibly bold. Despite the girl's reputation, he had the nerve to flirt with Yolande in front of everyone!
More than that, the powerful girl's promise was precious, but this man spoiled it with such a trivial thing as a kiss!
With a strange look on her face, Yolande blinked and said, “This request is too simple, I can do much more than this. Think it over and change it.”
“No, this request is good enough,” Zen replied, smiling and bending his face close to hers.
While looking at Zen, Yolande scowled as though she did not understand his logic. Then quietly, she walked towards the man, stopped in front of him, and tiptoed on the small clogs while leaning close to him.
A soothing fragrance overpowered his senses as the girl drew closer; her moist lips touched his cheek as light as a chicken's peck and then quickly moved away from him.
Even though she did not turn a hair, she did not say anything else and left to retreat to her room.
As soon as Yolande was back in her room, she sat on the futon used for her daily training. Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes and tried to practice. To her surprise, she felt restless, which was a first as it was not in her nature to feel that way.
Bending her long legs, she rested an arm on the colorful dress while the other played with the hem. As her frown deepened, she stared blankly out of the window. “That's so strange. Why is my heart racing?” she murmured, sounding confused.