Chapter 290: Never Provoke A Woman (2/2)

Ruxue glared at the two and scowled: “Feng Feiyun, only time will tell. Don’t regret this in the future.”

She picked up her clothes on the ground and covered her naked body before turning into a white shadow heading for the forest.

Feng Feiyun stared at her departing back with inexplicable melancholy. The pleasure from before was no longer there; it was replaced by a sense of guilt. If she truly degenerated to that level of debauchery, would he really not feel the slightest heartache?

“Boom!” Feng Feiyun felt a sharp pain in his chest. A powerful force blew him away. His body slammed into the snow, burying him inside completely.

“Bah! Bah! Ey, I was just joking in order to persuade Bai Ruxue from not straying down the wrong path, yet you hit me so hard. You’re gonna kill someone like this.” Feng Feiyun climbed out of the snow while shuddering. A bunch of snow fell from his clothes.

She replied in a serious tone: “If I really wanted to kill you, would you still be able to crawl up?” Her demonic pupils were extremely frightening.

“Then why didn’t you kill me?” Feng Feiyun couldn’t help it. He was indeed stirred by Ruxue’s words. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have dared to touch the Evil Woman’s finger, let alone embracing her.

It was because she was a devil, not a woman; a ferocious sword, a cold iceberg, a hell full of corpses and blood. Anyway, this was not a human being and definitely not a woman.

Hugging the Evil Woman was more dangerous than hugging an extremely poisonous snake or a man-eating scorpion.

The more he thought about it, the more scared he got. His scalp felt numb and even his back broke out in cold sweat. He could only be thankful for still being alive and well right now.

“It is because my cultivation has not recovered completely, so you need to be my servant.” Her voice was unquestionable like that of an angel from the sky.

Feng Feiyun retorted: “I’ve never been a servant before.”

She ruthlessly stated: “Then you can only die.”

He asserted: “Death is better than being your servant!”

She elaborated: “You are wrong. After you die, you will become a Corpse Evil. Not only will you no longer be eligible to be a servant, you can only become my slave to be ordered around by me. A servant and a slave, although it is only a difference of a single word, they are fundamentally different worlds.”

Feng Feiyun knocked his head in realization: “A servant is still a human while a slave is no more.”

She said: “Clever, which is why I pick you to be my servant.”

“So I should feel honored?” Feng Feiyun could only helplessly smile.

“You should, even if it is simply from being able to talk to me so much. This is not a treatment ordinary people could enjoy.”

Feng Feiyun smilingly nodded: “This is the treatment of a servant.”

“You can think of it like that.”

“Can we change the title?” In the end, Feng Feiyun chose to compromise. After all, being alive was still better than a good death. Plus, dying to the Evil Woman would definitely not be a good death.

“Whatever.” The Evil Woman compromised as well because she was grievously injured and needed to keep him behind. Otherwise, her near future won’t be pretty either.

Furthermore, she had other calculations. The Azure Bronze Spirit Vessel had been taken back by Feng Feiyun, so how could she let him leave so easily?

“How about the Messenger of the Evil Woman then?” Feng Feiyun mused for a while and finally came up with a title that could leave him with some face.

“Messenger of the Evil Woman.” She repeated.

Suddenly, a woman’s scream came from afar. It was especially discomforting when carried by the gales.

Feng Feiyun and the Evil Woman both stared at the forest.

“Swoosh!” His body flew like an arrow leaving a bow. He rode the wind and, after a few short breaths, he was already more than ten miles away and inside the forest.

He stood there, astounded by the appalling sight before him.

This was a bloodied female corpse with both hands pierced by two iron chains connected to black trees. Her skin had been flayed and her eyes were ripped out. Her tongue was cut off and two nails pierced her eardrums as well. Blood was dripping down all over.

What kind of terrifying torture was this? What kind of hatred justified such torment?

She was beyond recognition. Only her extremely long hair could prove that she was Bai Ruxue. But now, her name should be “red-as-blood”. 2

No wonder why the screams earlier were so desperate. Her killer was simply too cruel.

Feng Feiyun was familiar with this method of killing. Only the mysterious master could be this ruthless. So he actually came to Trinity and presented such a big gift. This murder was him telling Feng Feiyun that he had arrived!

1. This will be a notion unfamiliar to the West to an extent. In China’s literature, especially in a historical setting, sleeping with someone carries great significance, at least in their beliefs about virginity and chastity. There is one prominent phrase that I paraphrase loosely — one passionate night connects the pair for one hundred years. This shows just how important the first sexual contact is. These literatures even romanticize this type of kinship to the point where a raped victim occasionally falls in love with her rapist because he was her first and she wouldn’t marry a second man for a variety of cultural reasons/beliefs. So when Bai Ruxue said this, she is using this type of belief to say that hurting her is also hurting him because of their “connection”.

2. I’ve mentioned this before, but Bai Ruxue = White as snow.