Chapter 406 - The Voodoo Curse of the Three Corpses (1/2)
“Oh, Gods in Heaven?! I’m sorry! I’m so, so sorry! Err… But I’m afraid I still can’t let you go.” Xiao Chen cleared his throat, his face blushing to full red as he moved his hand away from her chest to the shoulder, making full sure that he got it right this time.
Her face grew red with anger as she blurted, “HOW DARE YOU! Do you even know who I am!?”
“Of course not,” Xiao Chen replied, “I’m not a member of this bloody order.” His head swiveled to face the Black and White Supremes. “And what are you waiting for?! Let her go! Or are you waiting only for a corpse to collect?”
That made the Black and White Supremes shudder. They knew how terrible and excruciating a punishment would be in store for them if anything were to happen to this woman who clearly held a special position in the Sect. A frown formed on Mo Ran’s face. “Please be calm, my friend. We’ll do the exchange. Then we’ll decide if we’ll have to fight…”
“AS IF I WANT TO! NOW RELEASE HER!” Xiao Chen spat and his hand threatened to crush the woman’s larynx. He needed to leave with Su Lianyue quick before every single soul in the Ridge of the Fallen Drake discovers their presence.
Ashamed and flustered, the woman screamed, “What are you two idiots waiting for? Tell Ye Wuxin now! Ignore me!”
“Shut up!” Xiao Chen growled at her.
“Go!” She pressed, “Go NOW! Or I’ll make you suffer a pain so great that you’d wish for death!”
The final threat was enough to make Mo Ran move at last. Both the Supremes and the Black Supreme shuddered, darting towards the Rock to alert the others. “Oh, d*mmit,” Xiao Chen cursed, “This woman is a feisty one!” In a desperate and vain attempt to buy more time, he yelled, “Stand just right where you are!” Ye Wuxin must not hear about this, otherwise Su Lianyue and him will never be able to once again see the light of day.
Between his panic to stop Mo Ran and his vehement attempts to keep the struggling woman pinned, his hand inadvertently grabbed at the woman’s chest again. Su Lianyue watched with her mouth hanging open. The woman in red let loose a surprised Arggghh! which was just enough to make Mo Ran stop in his tracks. The Black Supreme muttered, seething with suppressed fury, “You are a distinguished mage learned in the sacred arts! Have you no shame!”
Even her tears were drying up now, but the woman never stopped doling out curses and threats for the humiliation she felt. Xiao Chen feigned a cough and said, “I’m warning you all, stay where you are. Otherwise… otherwise…” His voice broke as if he had forgotten what to say.
Su Lianyue turned her head away indignantly and spat under her breath, “Disgraceful and demeaning…”
The woman’s heart was racing as her lungs pumped for more air. The Black and White Supreme did not dare move an inch. Anymore damage to the Lady Ambassador already-battered pride, and they’d suffer a greater price for this travesty.
“You shameless pervert… You, you…”
“What!” Xiao Chen burst, his voice suddenly stern and steady, “I am a famous ravisher of fair and gentle maidens notorious especially in the South-eastern regions! Countless fair ladies I have defiled first by stripping them bare and dipping them into ice… Then… How about a taste yourself!?”
That seemed to frighten the woman as she looked visibly terrified beyond her wits. Even the Black and White Supremes did not expect Xiao Chen to be blurting something such bold and outrageous. Su Lianyue’s head lowered as she breathed something oddly along the lines of “immoral deviant.” All of a sudden, she flicked a wrist and there was a burst of purple flash. Caught off-guard, Su Lianyue delivered a magical bolt, sending the White Supreme careening backward for several yards. He crashed to the ground and struggled to his feet, only to catch a strange, sweet, floral scent and he collapsed, fainted.
Su Lianyue had exploited the chance to free herself from the magical restraints when the Supremes were distracted by Xiao Chen. Bai Yu was easily dispatched with the element of surprise and Mo Ran was drugged before he could even do anything.
Xiao Chen’s shameless words had provided the ideal diversion for Su Lianyue to plan her retaliation and operate unnoticed.
The woman looked absolutely despondent seeing both the Supremes falling. Her hopes of salvation were utterly dashed and she began dreading the worst. Su Lianyue added another soporiferous touch to her enchantment for good measure to make sure they remain unconscious while she magically pushed them off the banks of a stream with a wave of her weapon. She would have readily taken their lives if not for the fear of alerting Ye Wuxin.
Su Lianyue walked calmly to Xiao Chen when she was done and saw, to her annoying revulsion, Xiao Chen still struggling against the woman with a hand on her chest. Her face turned to stone. “Are you developing an affinity to women’s chest?”
“Err… Ahem…” Xiao Chen realized finally what was wrong and he withdrew his hand, releasing the woman in red finally. Despite steaming with anger, the woman knew full well she was no match against the two intruders. “Who are you people?!” She hissed at Su Lianyue. “What is your purpose here!?”
Su Lianyue walked near her, circling her like a lioness. “I believe the status quo now affords us the right to ask questions, not you! Now tell me why is the Corpse Refinery Sect abducting girls born on the seventh day of the seventh month? Where are they now?!”
That somehow flipped a switch. The woman looked neither angry nor flustered; instead, she uttered a scaldingly cold remark, “I see. This is purpose of your visit.”
Ice flashed in Su Lianyue’s eyes. “So you refuse to admit…” She jabbed a hand at the woman and the woman sneered suddenly. “A hypnotic spell? You’re welcome to try.” She accurately predicted what Su Lianyue was trying to do to obtain more information.
Su Lianyue’s hand stopped in its tracks, barely inches away from grazing the woman’s head. Then she realized it: the woman wielded at least the powers of the Nascent Soul Realm. That made her able enough to defend herself or even redirect the hypnotic enchantment back at its caster.
Xiao Chen walked up to the woman and muttered with a frown, “Please, my lady. I would urge you to be frank and honest to spare yourself from suffering.” “Spare me from your nonsense instead,” the woman screeched with complete lack of fear in her voice, “You’ll never stop us. Too dead to stop us instead…” And she began to cackle viciously.
Listening to the woman cackling made Su Lianyue felt a shudder crawling down her spine. She pried open the woman’s mouth and waved her other free hand, conjuring something that Xiao Chen could not quite see clearly before she shoved it into the woman’s mouth. Then she gave her a slap and forced whatever it was down the woman’s throat.