NOVPUBIn the silent hall, black pupils met golden eyes in a wordless stare.
Miss Mu ignored Xia Feng’s provocative words and simply smiled, "Follow me."
Xia Feng followed the woman in the black dress onto the high-tech hover vehicle, which wove through the forest of towering buildings like a ghost, quickly arriving at the bustling Princeton Avenue.
To Xia Feng’s surprise, the hover vehicle drove into a low-key but luxurious villa nestled among the trees.
Looking at the garage filled with twenty identical black ghost hover vehicles, Xia Feng’s eyes twitched. How much did this witch like these cars?
It might have been for another reason—Miss Mu’s vehicles often ended up wrecked, so to make replacements easier, she simply bought so many in one go.
"Stay close to me. Don’t get lost."
After exiting the garage, Xia Feng followed closely behind the woman in black, his keen senses picking up on military-grade Spirit Science weapons hidden among the seemingly ordinary garage, garden, and pool areas, traps everywhere.
Could this be her den? Xia Feng hesitated. Was it really safe to follow the Destructive Witch inside like this...
But whatever... I’m already here! Xia Feng shook his head. What’s there to fear from the little Destructive Witch~
After several twists and turns, they arrived in front of a pitch-black door.
Xia Feng stood outside, peering into the gloomy void beyond the door.
The walls of this room seemed to be specially made, with several pieces of Infinite Stone embedded within, forming a small Barrier.
After observing for a moment, he roughly figured it out—this room was a secure room, completely enclosed. It could not only soundproof but might also withstand hundreds of attacks from a Grade B Spiritual Clothes.
Xia Feng frowned at the door that resembled the gateway to hell, hesitating.
Just then, the woman behind him leaned close to his ear, her soft voice tinged with playful banter, "Is Mr. Xia scared?"
"Heh~" Xia Feng tilted his head and glanced sideways at the cool beauty approaching him, "Miss Mu, I’m just wondering whether it would be better to spank your left cheek~ or your right cheek?"
With his cheeky smirk, Xia Feng walked straight into the room. 𝒏𝒐𝙫𝙥𝙪𝙗.𝒄𝙤𝙢
Still thinking about spanking me? The woman in black followed with a smile, stepping in and then casually pulling the door shut.
The lock clicked several times, followed by a long beep.
The high-tech silver door issued a mechanical female voice: "Entering full lockdown mode for the secure room."
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Xia Feng forcefully suppressed the urge to swallow nervously; he absolutely couldn’t let this detestable woman see that he was nervous!
As he pondered, he frowned and looked around. The fully enclosed room lacked a ventilation system, the air feeling a bit stuffy, and it remained pitch black all around.
"Why not turn on the lights?" he asked, puzzled.
"What’s the matter, Mr. Xia? Are you afraid of the dark?"
A woman’s faint voice penetrated the darkness, laced with a hint of laughter.
Xia Feng even detected a touch of excitement in it. His eyelids twitched. What exactly did this witch want... Did she get this thrilled about a fight?!
"Let’s talk about how to determine the winner. We can’t just kill each other, right?" Xia Feng asked calmly.
"It’s simple. The fight ends when one party is knocked out or begs for mercy and admits defeat."
Miss Mu explained in a light tone, "Don’t worry, we have complete medical facilities here. As long as the heart doesn’t explode, even if the brain is chopped off, it can be fully healed."
"Heh, that’s good to know. I’d hate to accidentally kill you," Xia Feng retorted casually.
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It really was, way too much! Mu Qingtong’s beautiful eyes narrowed slightly, no longer wasting words, she coldly said, "The dice have landed, the competition begins!"
As she spoke, she tossed the glowing dice high into the air.
Xia Feng’s expression turned sharp, his attention fully focused!
Da—The light sound of the dice landing crisply echoed in the silent and sealed space. Xia Feng’s pupils dilated slightly, just about to move, when his body suddenly froze in place.
The ink-colored pupils scattered apart in an instant, then reassembled into pale gold ☩ symbols, slowly rotating clockwise in his eye sockets.
"With such weak spiritual power, Mr. Xia, I am very curious as to where your confidence comes from?" The woman in the black dress spoke with a soft voice, her lips curved in a disdainful smile, slowly walking towards the man who was frozen on the spot.
However, she had taken only a few steps when her brow furrowed.
Hum—
She sensed a blood-red ※ symbol suddenly light up on the back of Xia Feng’s hand.
A slender Gui Blade appeared out of thin air in front of Xia Feng, with pale red spiritual waves rippling out, forming a bloody domain that covered the entire room.
Mu Qingtong looked around in confusion and did not notice anything unusual.
Shaking her head, she dashed towards Xia Feng, electricity flashing beneath her feet.
But just as she flew halfway, her eyes suddenly widened, her body instantly stiffening and crashing to the ground. For some inexplicable reason, her nervous system went haywire, with a disorder occurring right where the spinal nerves in the back of her neck connected, causing her to be instantly paralyzed.
Even more absurd was that the usually stable and orderly structure of the Spiritual Particles suddenly and coincidentally became congested and disordered, resulting in a direct interruption of her Spiritual Pressure!
Fortunately, the Spiritual Artifact required so little Spiritual Pressure that it was negligible and unaffected.
Is this the Princess’s ability? Interesting... Mu Qingtong looked up with interest, glancing at Xia Feng, who was being punished in place in the darkness.
Just like her, Xia Feng suddenly collapsed to the ground, his body occasionally twitching, clearly experiencing a nervous disorder as well.
But the next scene made her frown tighten.
Because the floating Gui Blade slowly turned its edge and, with a swoosh, charged straight towards her!
"Fei."
With Mu Qingtong’s call, a vermillion pattern lit up on her forehead, and a petite maid with rose-colored hair appeared behind her. The maid’s small hand passed through Mu Qingtong’s armpit, encircling her and lifting off to rapidly retreat backward in the air.
The bloody Gui Blade trailed behind the two, drawing a long line of blood through the darkness.
Strangely enough, the maid seemed completely unaffected by the bad luck of the Gui Domain, her movements agile, easily avoiding the Gui Blade’s assassination attempts time and again with Mu Qingtong.
The Gui Blade was not designed for speed and offense, and upon seeing that she couldn’t catch up, the Princess directly turned the blade’s edge towards Xia Feng!
"Fei, block her."
"...Master, I can’t be in two places at once," the maid said expressionlessly.
The blade’s edge pierced through Xia Feng’s chest in an instant, and Xia Feng convulsed a few more times, his life force quickly dissipating.
Seeing this, the maid began to survey her surroundings with a vigilant expression, knowing that her master’s counterpart possessed a weird Spiritual Artifact that allowed resurrection and strength enhancement after death.
Xia Feng, having finally freed himself from the constraints, did not immediately exit his invincible phoenix-like state, but instead began to observe the entire battle situation from a divine perspective.
He recognized the maid with scarlet hair; when he had met Mu Qingtong in the car for the third time, the maid was driving, apparently possessing a lie-detecting ability.
He had first thought this maid called Fei was a trusted subordinate of Mu Qingtong, but now it seemed that she was also a being similar to the Princess.
But thinking about it, it made sense. Someone like Mu Qingtong, who loved solitude and looked upon humans as ants with such arrogance—how could she possibly allow a maid to follow her every day unless the maid was part of her ability?
With fifteen seconds of invincible time in resurrection, Xia Feng was not in a hurry, carefully watching for an opportunity to strike, patiently waiting for the maid to reveal a flaw.
At that moment, he suddenly realized that the maid seemed to be... a Spiritual Body?
