66: Chapter 66 You didn't want him to die with his eyes wide open, did you?!

"Times have changed."

Qin Feng stopped less than half a meter away from her, looking at her as if she were a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

"Now, shouldn't it be my turn to take revenge?"

"Don't you dare!"

Lin Yuxi was, after all, a top expert at Mortal Stage 8. In this desperate situation, her instinctive desire to survive and her anger instantly overwhelmed her fear.

"Boom!"

Her Mortal Stage 8 Qi erupted violently. Her right hand transformed into a sharp palm blade, tearing through the air with a shrill whistle as it slashed fiercely toward Qin Feng's throat.

"Bitch, you are stubborn."

Qin Feng didn't even blink. Facing the lethal strike, he didn't retreat—he advanced!

"Bang!"

He struck after her but landed first. Without any flashy movements, his right fist, like a cannonball fired from its chamber, landed solidly in Lin Yuxi's abdomen!

"Wah!"

Lin Yuxi felt as if her internal organs had been struck by a heavy hammer. Her stomach churned violently, and she spat out a mouthful of bile mixed with blood.

Her Mortal Stage 8 Qi, which she had been so proud of, was like paper in the face of Qin Feng's terrifying strength; it collapsed instantly!

The intense pain caused her to curl up like a boiled shrimp, and her knees gave way, causing her to collapse onto the ground.

"Ugh… cough, cough, cough…"

Lin Yuxi clutched her stomach in pain, finding it extremely difficult to even breathe, while tears streamed uncontrollably from her eyes.

However, this was only the beginning.

Just as she hadn't even had a chance to catch her breath!

Qin Feng suddenly reached out with his large hand and grabbed her waterfall-like black hair in a tight grip!

"Ah!" Lin Yuxi let out a shrill scream as a tearing pain shot through her scalp.

Qin Feng's arm exerted sudden force, pulling her hair and slamming her head hard against the bluestone floor!

"Bang!"

A dull thud echoed through the mourning hall!

Lin Yuxi's smooth forehead split open instantly. Blood trickled down her pale cheeks and dripped onto her pure white mourning clothes, resembling blooming red plum blossoms!

"Ugh…" She was in so much pain that she nearly fainted, her brain buzzing.

"Bang!"

He showed absolutely no tenderness; the force was so great that it cracked the bluestone floor.

"Bang!"

With the final loud crash, Lin Yuxi felt the world go black, and she completely lost all ability to resist.

She lay limp on the ground like a pile of mud.

After slamming her three times, Qin Feng slowly let go of her hair as if he were discarding trash.

"These three slams serve as your apology for chasing me earlier."

Qin Feng looked down at her, his tone cold to the extreme. "Now, the debt is settled. Pack your things and get out immediately!"

Lin Yuxi lay on the freezing bluestone floor, her entire body trembling uncontrollably from extreme pain and humiliation.

She said nothing, nor did she beg for mercy.

In her beautiful eyes, only endless emptiness and despair remained.

She struggled to support herself with her hands, and it took her half an incense stick of time to shakily climb up from the ground.

Blood from her head dripped down her chin, hitting the floor with a "drip, drip" sound.

She didn't look at Qin Feng, nor did she look at Captain Luo Kun's coffin. Like a walking corpse, she turned around numbly and dragged her heavy feet toward the side room, preparing to pack her few old clothes.

"If you leave here, where can you go?"

Qin Feng walked unhurriedly over to Captain Luo Kun's coffin and tapped the lid lightly, producing a hollow echo.

His voice, in the silent night, slowly destroyed Lin Yuxi's last line of psychological defense.

"You'll just return to the bottom and continue being a mediocre Middle-tier Servant."

"Do you think your Mortal Stage 8 cultivation is enough to protect yourself? Don't be naive. Without Captain Luo Kun's protection, given your looks, you'll become a plaything for other captains within three days."

"By then, let alone taking revenge, you won't even know how you died."

Qin Feng sighed, his tone filled with mocking regret.

He continued, "Everything Captain Luo Kun fought so hard to build has vanished into thin air. When he was hacked to death by Zhang Zhongjiu, he was probably still muttering your name, wasn't he?"

"What a pity, he really died in vain…"

"Stop it!!!"

Hearing the words "died in vain," Lin Yuxi's steps came to a sudden halt!

Her whole body froze as if electrocuted, and she slowly turned her head.

Staring fixedly at Qin Feng, her voice became hoarse from extreme suppression. "What exactly… do you want?"

"I don't want anything."

Qin Feng shrugged, a wicked and arrogant smile on his face.

"I just wanted to tell you a cruel fact—if you want revenge, I am your only and best chance."

"Only I can kill Zhang Zhongjiu! Only I can let you see your enemy's head placed before Captain Luo Kun's spirit tablet with your own eyes!"

The cold words were like a heavy hammer, slamming fiercely into Lin Yuxi's scarred heart.

She knew that he was telling the truth.

The scene of Qin Feng killing Zhao Chong, who was at Stage 9, in an instant at the Martial Arts Arena was still vivid in her mind.

And if she relied on herself, even after ten years of hard cultivation, she would absolutely never be a match for Zhang Zhongjiu!

Because while she improved, her enemy would improve as well…

"Don't even think about it."

After a moment of consideration, Lin Yuxi still gritted her teeth tightly, squeezing these words out from between them, her eyes full of determination.

"Even if I die, even if I become a vengeful ghost, I will absolutely never beg you, you beast!"

"Oh? Is that so?"

Qin Feng didn't get angry but laughed instead. He walked slowly in front of her, reached out, and pinched her blood-stained chin, forcing her to look up.

He whispered, "Sister-in-law, don't be so certain. I guess you wouldn't want Brother Kun to die with regrets, would you?"

"Shut up, don't you dare mention him!" Lin Yuxi struggled frantically but was unable to break free from his ruthless iron grip.

"For the sake of ridiculous self-esteem, you'd rather give up the chance to avenge your lover…"

Qin Feng's voice was like a curse, piercing into her Soul, word by word. "Actually, you don't love him at all, do you?"

"No! You're lying!"

Lin Yuxi, as if her sore spot had been stepped on, screamed hysterically, tears and blood gushing out wildly. "I love him, I am willing to die for him!!!"

"Die? What's the use of dying? Can dying make Zhang Zhongjiu be buried with him?!"

Qin Feng suddenly increased the force in his hand. "Since you love him, and since you keep saying you're willing to die for him…"

"For the sake of your lover, for the sake of revenge. If you can give your life, then what does anything else matter?"

"Choose for yourself: either let Captain Luo Kun die with regrets, or for the sake of your lover, let go of everything and submit to me!"

Silence. A deathly silence.

In the mourning hall, only the faint crackling of the fire basin and Lin Yuxi's heavy breathing remained.

Blood dripped continuously.

She stood there blankly, looking at the thin-walled coffin not far away that held her husband's remains.

Everything from the past intertwined frantically like a kaleidoscope.

"Revenge… I want revenge…"

"Old Luo… I'm sorry… I have no choice…"

Lin Yuxi closed her eyes, two lines of clear tears sliding down, washing out two pale tear tracks.

In the end, all her pride and all her self-esteem collapsed in the face of cruel reality and overwhelming hatred.

"Thud." With a dull, soft sound,

Lin Yuxi's knees gave way, and wrapped in her pure white mourning clothes, she slowly and deeply knelt down.

She pressed her blood-stained forehead firmly against the cold bluestone floor, her voice trembling and desperate.

"I beg you… help me take revenge…"

"From now on, I, Lin Yuxi, am willing to be your servant and give up everything…"