Chapter 289: Playing a Game (1/2)

“A toad lusting after a swan’s flesh!” Song Li cursed, looking at Shen Wei’s severed head with disgust filling her face, as if she had put up with Shen Wei for a long time and finally found a vent.

At that moment, her pretty face was filled with coldness, and not a smidgen of delicate charm could be seen.

She bent down and took Shen Wei’s bracelet of holding, along with Yin Tuo and the other two’s. Only after that did she smile lightly. “At least my gains on this trip have been pretty good.”

Then, she took out a prismatic Sound Stone, held it close to her mouth, and whispered something into it.

Afterwards, she sat down and started recuperating with spirit stones.

What she didn’t know was that Nie Tian had already seen everything she had done via his Heaven Eyes.

At a location far away, Nie Tian opened his eyes and said with a grim expression, “Song Li!”

He had long since had the feeling that this woman had been hiding something. After all, she had been the one who had urged everyone to march deeper into the dense forest and hunt high grade spirit beasts.

Lu Yan had been strongly opposed to her proposal, and thus she had been kicked off the team.

During their most recent battle with the Golden Stone Rhino, Nie Tian had noticed the exchange of glances between her and Shen Wei via his Heaven Eyes. That was when he had first speculated that Song Li and Shen Wei had been planning together.

However, he had never expected that, soon after he had left them, Song Li would kill Shen Wei when he attempted to be intimate with her.

Shen Wei’s death made Nie Tian realize that even Shen Wei had been used by Song Li, and had been part of her plan.

Nie Tian couldn’t help but look back to examine himself. He thought to himself that if it weren’t for his Heaven Eyes, he might have been murdered by the woman without even knowing it.

With those thoughts, a rush of coldness ran through Nie Tian’s body.

He realized that even though he was strong enough that he wouldn’t be killed by the Golden Stone Rhino, she would have come up with more evil ideas and eventually get him killed.

If he possessed strength that matched his own cultivation base, he would have been killed already, just like Yin Tuo and the other two cultivators.

“The Void Illusion Mountain Range is truly a dangerous place where people are especially deadly…!”

With a cold look in his eyes, Nie Tian sprung to his feet and marched towards Song Li’s location.

The fact that Song Li had remained in that location after killing Shen Wei made it clear that she was recovering her strength and waiting for him to return.

Nie Tian was curious as to how she would explain Shen Wei’s death.

Furthermore, he wanted to know if Song Li was waiting to kill him as well, or if she had other plans.

As he stepped closer, Song Li sensed his footsteps.

When he was still 1,000 meters away from her, Nie Tian noticed that the tip of one of her eyebrows rose, as if she knew it was him.

“What? This guy returned so fast this time…” Song Li muttered to herself, her face cold and indifferent.

Apparently, she didn’t feel the need to hide her true colors when no one was around.

At this moment, she was true to her heart and the real Song Li.

With a disgusted look in her eyes, she glanced at Shen Wei’s headless body before she raised her hand and grasped at the air. In the next moment, a stream of blood flew out of the corpse’s cut-open neck and into her palm, forming a ball of blood.

With a grim expression, she smeared the blood on her milky white neck, the corner of her mouth, and her full chest.

She was apparently very uncomfortable having her clean battle garments and jade-like skin stained by Shen Wei’s blood. Eyebrows knit together, she cursed in a soft voice.

However, when Nie Tian appeared in her sight, she had already assumed a completely different attitude, like she had become a different person.

She sat in a pool of blood, a helpless look filling her face. Tears flowed out of the corners of her eyes and rolled down her cheeks as she shook her head and wept towards Shen Wei’s corpse, “Why? Why did you have to do this? You already had everything. Why did you still not let me off?”

“Ah?!” Nie Tian exclaimed loudly. “Big Brother Shen is dead?!”

Song Li lifted her chin to look at Nie Tian. Looking extremely pitiful, she said, “Soon after you left, he suddenly changed and demanded that I hand over everything I have so that he could go back to Shatter City and purchase the spiritual tool he had set his mind on. I-I handed him my bracelet of holding, but then he… wanted to force himself on me.

“While I struggled I killed him by accident. I didn’t want this to happen… He forced me!”