582: Chapter 582 Brother, do I still have a chance?

"With just you?" Well-Princess sneered.

How dare such a young kid say something like that to her?

Even his grandfather wouldn't be as old as she was!

However...

Ye Chen raised his right hand, pressing his index and middle fingers together into a sword gesture, and pointed into the air.

"The Mystic Sect of Heaven and Earth, the root of all Qi."

"Cultivating through billions of kalpas, to witness my divine powers."

"Within and without the three realms, Dao alone is supreme."

"A body of golden light, enveloping and reflecting upon me."

His voice wasn't loud, but every word was like thunder, echoing in the night sky.

As each word fell, the faint golden light on his fingertips grew more intense.

When the last word left his mouth, the light was so blinding that one couldn't keep their eyes open.

Well-Princess's expression changed abruptly.

Those eerie green ghost fires flickered wildly, as if sensing something terrifying.

"Is this... Daoist arts?!"

"Impossible!"

"Daoism has long declined, how could someone still know true Daoist arts?!"

Her voice was filled with terror.

Ye Chen did not answer.

He slashed his sword fingers through the air, and a golden rune formed at his fingertips, radiating a majestic heavenly aura.

"By the mandate of the Supreme, drive away evil and bind the spirits."

"Swiftly as the law decrees!"

His sword fingers suddenly pointed forward.

The golden rune turned into a streak of light and plunged into the well.

The next second.

"Ah!!!"

Well-Princess let out a shrill, miserable scream.

The black mist billowed violently, and that pale face twisted and deformed, as if grabbed by an invisible hand and dragged out with force.

"No... don't..."

She screamed, desperately trying to shrink back into the bottom of the well.

But that force was too strong, so strong that she couldn't resist at all.

The black mist surged out of the well bit by bit, the face becoming clearer, then the neck, the shoulders...

Finally.

Thud!

A figure flew out of the well and slammed heavily onto the courtyard floor.

The black mist dissipated, revealing Well-Princess's true form.

She wore a tattered white kimono, her hair draped messily over her shoulders, her skin transparently white, showing the dark blue veins underneath.

Her body curled up on the ground, trembling all over, her eyes full of fear.

"Bro... do I still have a chance?"

Yan Qingwu: "???"

Li Mu: "???"

Wow!

Arrogant one moment, begging for mercy the next...

This speed of dropping to her knees was too smooth!

Ye Chen looked down at her, expressionless.

"Now you know to call me bro?"

"Weren't you quite wild just now?"

Well-Princess lay flat on the ground, shivering, not daring to say a word.

She had lived for three hundred years, seen countless people, and killed countless people.

But she had never seen such a person.

Daoist arts...

That was what she feared most.

Because she was a monster born from a human mutation, an anomaly of the world.

And Daoist arts were the power that most countered dark entities in the world.

In the face of Daoist arts, she was like an infant, with no power to fight back.

Seeing her silence, Ye Chen asked indifferently: "How many people have you killed?"

Well-Princess shuddered and spoke hurriedly.

"I... the ones I killed were all Japanese!"

Li Mu couldn't hold back and blurted out: "Wow, even this Well-Princess knows how to resist the Japanese?"

Well-Princess lay on the ground, and a hint of shame actually appeared on her pale face.

"I... I had no choice."

"I can usually only kill Japanese people."

"Dragon Country people are too rare here, I couldn't get my hands on them even if I wanted to..."

Ye Chen raised an eyebrow and asked again: "Then those few people from recently, you were the one who abducted them, right? Where are they? Are they dead?"

Well-Princess shook her head repeatedly.

"Not dead, not dead!"

"They're all in the well. I didn't suck them dry all at once; I just took turns sucking from them."

Hearing this, Yan Qingwu's face darkened, and a flash of anger crossed her eyes: "You even took turns sucking?"

Well-Princess shrank her neck, looking helpless.

"I have to survive too..."

"After all, Dragon Country people are ninety-nine percent rare items here!"

"I couldn't bear to..."

"Besides, someone told me to do it."

She paused, her voice getting a bit quieter, "Most importantly... that person told me to kill them all directly, but I didn't. Can that count as redeeming myself through service?"

Li Mu was speechless, his mouth twitching several times: "This monster is quite trendy, she actually knows about 'redeeming oneself through service'?"

Ye Chen ignored Li Mu's commentary, his gaze landing on Well-Princess as he spoke indifferently.

"Who was that person?"

Well-Princess hesitated for a moment, but finally bit her lip and gave the answer.

"It's the Onmyoji Lord..."

She paused, as if suddenly remembering something, and hurriedly changed her tune, "No, that son of a bitch Onmyoji!"

Everyone: "???"

Yan Qingwu and Li Mu looked at each other, their expressions quite a sight.

Wow!

This speed of changing faces was faster than flipping a book!

Ye Chen was also amused by her antics, the corners of his mouth turning up slightly: "You're quite sensible."

Well-Princess lay on the ground, looking at him pitifully.

"Bro, I've told you everything I know. Can you give me a chance?"

"I can spare your life," Ye Chen said indifferently after a moment's thought.

A flash of wild joy appeared in Well-Princess's eyes, and she hurriedly kowtowed: "Thank you, bro! Thank you, bro!"

"But..."

Ye Chen's tone shifted, and Well-Princess's body suddenly froze.

"You have to release the people and return the essence you sucked from them."

"Also... for a period of time, you'll work for us first."

Well-Princess looked mournful: "Huh? I have to return what I sucked out?"

"You're unwilling?" Golden light rose again from Ye Chen's fingertips.

Well-Princess was scared out of her wits and hurriedly shrieked: "No... I'm willing! I'm a hundred times willing!!!"

After Well-Princess finished speaking, as if afraid Ye Chen would change his mind, she scrambled up from the ground and stumbled to the edge of the well.

She leaned over the well's edge, reached her hands into the dark hole, and pulled outward with force.

One.

Two.

Three.

...

One figure after another was pulled out from the bottom of the well and lined up neatly in the courtyard.

Men and women, old and young, all of them clearly Dragon Country faces.

Every person's face was pale, their eyes tightly closed as if asleep, but their breathing was so weak it was barely detectable.

Ye Chen did a rough count; there were nineteen people in total.

After Well-Princess finished pulling the people out, she crouched beside each person, pressing her hands against their chests as streams of eerie green light seeped from her palms into their bodies.

That was the essence she had sucked away before, now being returned strand by strand.

Once all this was done.

Well-Princess looked up at Ye Chen pitifully.

"Bro, are you satisfied?"

Ye Chen glanced at the nineteen people on the ground and said indifferently.

"A little bit satisfied."

"But you have to answer one more question for me."

Well-Princess nodded hurriedly, her pale face full of fawning: "No problem! Forget one, even a hundred is fine! Ask away, bro!"

Ye Chen looked at her and spoke indifferently.

"Why did the Onmyoji want to target them?"

Well-Princess's smile instantly collapsed.

"Bro, it's not that I don't want to say, I really don't know."

"I'm just a working monster. I do whatever the higher-ups tell me to do; I'm not qualified to know the reason at all."

"And..."

She looked up, a flash of fear in her eyes.

"The moment I don't cooperate, I'm definitely dead."

"That son of a bitch Onmyoji has a hundred ways to make my soul dissipate, without even a chance for reincarnation."

Ye Chen stared into her eyes and was silent for a moment.

It didn't look like Well-Princess was lying.

It seemed nothing more could be asked from Well-Princess's side.

The Onmyoji's way of doing things was watertight; even a monster doing his bidding didn't know his true purpose.

This matter would likely have to be approached through someone else.

Ye Chen took a deep breath, crouched down, and pressed his index and middle fingers together, lightly tapping the first person's brow.

A strand of faint golden true Qi passed from his fingertip into the person's body, circulated through the meridians, and finally gathered in the energy center.

The person's eyelids flickered, and they slowly opened their eyes.

Then the second one.

The third one.

The fourth one.

...

In less than the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea, the nineteen people lying on the ground woke up one by one.

Their first reaction upon opening their eyes wasn't confusion, but fear.

The kind of fear that goes deep into the marrow.

They even...

Curled up into balls one by one, shivering all over.

Until one of them saw Li Mu standing nearby, and his eyes instantly turned red.

"Ma... Manager Li?"

"You've come to save us?"

Li Mu stepped forward quickly, crouched down, and reached out to support the Middle-aged Man's shoulder.

"Old Zhao, it's me. I'm late."

Old Zhao's tears instantly surged out, and he threw himself into Li Mu's arms, wailing loudly.

"Manager Li, I thought I was dead for sure..."

"There's a monster in that well!"

"She dragged us in, sucked our essence, and said she'd take turns sucking, sucking slowly..."

As he cried, he suddenly saw Well-Princess nearby.

The monster even waved at him warmly.

"Ah!!!"

The man shrieked and fainted from fright again.

Ye Chen: "..."

Li Mu: "..."

Yan Qingwu: "..."