14: You want to be a hero and save the damsel in distress? Qin Feng will be bleeding on the spot!

"No—!!!"

Facing the Purple Lightning Thunder Lion's desperate strike that burned its life and Divine Soul, a scream torn by fear into a distorted pitch erupted from Qin Feng's throat.

He wanted to flee.

But that destructive pressure had pinned him completely to the spot; the surrounding space was as viscous as Ten-thousand-year Profound Ice, stripping him of even the strength to move a finger.

He wanted to explain.

But in those scarlet beast eyes before him, only a madness that burned everything remained; any words were meaningless in the face of such rage.

Why?

Why did the script collapse to this extent!

He was clearly the oriole coming to play the hero saving the beauty, so how did he become the mantis being ganged up on by the lion and the cicada in the blink of an eye?!

Boom!!!

The dark red sea of world-ending lightning gave him no time to think, instantly swallowing his tiny figure completely!

"Aaaaaagh—!"

A shrill scream, barely human, exploded within the sea of lightning, only to be instantly crushed by the even more violent thunder.

The protective Magic Treasures on Qin Feng's body shattered one after another like fragile glass!

His meticulously groomed, magnificent blue robe turned to ash in the very first instant!

His skin and flesh were ruthlessly torn and carbonized under the violent rampage of the lightning, yet under the support of his powerful cultivation, they underwent Rebirth with extreme difficulty.

Flesh torn open, charred black and blood red intertwined!

In just a few breaths.

Qin Feng, who just a moment ago was handsome and elegant, considering himself a leader of the Righteous Path, had now become a blood-matted, human-shaped piece of charcoal emitting black smoke.

He was in an utterly pathetic state!

"Pfft!"

He violently spat out a large mouthful of scalding blood mixed with organ fragments, his entire body blasted away by that peerless power.

His body slammed into the distant mountain wall, smashing a deep, human-shaped crater into the hard rock.

If he weren't a Child of Luck with many trump cards, this single strike would have been enough to destroy both his body and Soul.

Even so, his Dao foundation was now cracked, his Meridians shattered, and less than ten percent of his strength remained.

He was embedded in the stone crater like a dead dog, breathing more out than in.

The Purple Lightning Thunder Lion, having unleashed this desperate strike, had also completely exhausted everything.

Its massive body swayed violently, its scarlet beast eyes staring fixedly at Qin Feng's direction with endless resentment before it crashed to the ground.

Its life force was severed.

Dead silence.

The entire valley fell into a deathly silence.

Only Qin Feng's weak and painful gasps, like a broken bellows, remained.

Ling Qingzhu floated quietly in mid-air.

Her white clothes were as pure as snow, untainted by a single speck of dust.

It formed an extremely sharp irony against the human-shaped charcoal not far away.

She gazed at Qin Feng's miserable state; in those cold eyes, there wasn't a hint of pity, only a bone-chilling indifference and a trace of unnoticed pleasure.

This was the consequence of plotting against her!

But this was still far from enough!

She wanted to ruin his reputation!

She wanted him to taste a despair more painful than death!

Just as Qin Feng was struggling, trying to fish out a Medicinal Pill from his Storage Ring to save his life.

"Swish! Swish! Swish!"

Several crystalline chains condensed from the Divine Laws of Profound Ice, like living ice snakes, shot through the air!

In an instant, they tightly bound his limbs and Dantian, sealing all of his spiritual power!

Qin Feng was already at the end of his tether, and now he was even more powerless to resist, only able to watch helplessly as he was tied up securely.

"You... Ling Qingzhu... what are you doing?!"

Using the last of his strength, he squeezed out a raspy question from his charred throat, his eyes full of malice and confusion.

"Quick... let me go! I did this to save you..."

Before he could finish, he was ruthlessly interrupted by Ling Qingzhu's words, which were so cold they held no warmth.

"Accomplice."

Ling Qingzhu looked down at him from above, her gaze like she was looking at a pile of stinking trash.

"You fought with this beast and drove it mad, intending to destroy the sacred medicine my Jade Pool has its eyes on. And now you want to escape?"

"What?!"

Qin Feng's mind exploded with a "buzz," nearly dying of anger on the spot.

Accomplice?

Destroying her sacred medicine?

What nonsense was this woman talking?!

She actually defined him as an "accomplice" attacking the nine-leaf reincarnation grass?!

She actually cleared herself so completely, as if the person who just "bitterly fought" the thunder lion for hundreds of rounds wasn't her at all!

She even used such a high-sounding reason to seal him and prevent him from healing!

Shameless!

Too shameless!

Qin Feng considered himself dark-hearted and ruthless, but today he realized that compared to this woman, he was as pure as a white lotus!

This ability to distort black and white and shift the blame was at a level where even members of the Demonic Sect would want to become her disciples!

"You... you're talking nonsense!" Qin Feng trembled with rage, aggravating his wounds and spitting out another mouthful of black blood. "It was clearly you and this beast fighting! I... I was just passing by!"

"Passing by?"

A cold arc curved at the corner of Ling Qingzhu's mouth.

She made a gesture with her jade hand across the air.

The God-Fallen Needle buried deep in the back of the Purple Lightning Thunder Lion's head turned into a streak of black light and automatically flew back to her fingertips.

Holding the tiny poisonous needle, she slowly descended and stopped in front of Qin Feng, her voice growing even more frigid.

"Then tell me, what's the deal with this poisonous needle dipped in God-Fallen Powder?"

"Would someone 'passing by' carry this kind of ancient poison that has long been lost to time?"

"Or are you trying to tell me..."

Her voice paused, each word like a heavy hammer smashing against Qin Feng's Divine Soul.

"...that this Purple Lightning Thunder Lion stabbed the needle into the back of its own head?"

Qin Feng's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of dangerous needle tips!

She... she actually even knew about the God-Fallen Powder?!

How was this possible?!

He had only learned of such an ancient forbidden item by chance in a ruin. How did she know?!

A bone-chilling coldness suddenly rushed from Qin Feng's tailbone to the crown of his head!

He finally realized that all of this was not an accident at all!

This was a setup!

A meticulously arranged death trap for him from beginning to end!

Ling Qingzhu had been acting all along!

She pretended to be defeated to lure him into acting, then borrowed a knife to kill, making him bear the thunder lion's most violent rage!

How cruel!

What a poisonous scheme!

This woman was no dust-free ice mountain Fairy at all; she was a black lotus blooming in the depths of Hell, eating people without spitting out the bones!

"You... who exactly are you?"

Qin Feng's voice couldn't stop trembling. Looking at this face that was peerlessly beautiful yet cold enough to freeze his Soul, he felt true fear for the first time.

Ling Qingzhu just looked at him coldly, enjoying the wonderful expressions on his face that turned from shock and malice to ultimate despair.

By defining Qin Feng as an "accomplice," she not only had no fault but instead had merit.

It was Qin Feng who fought the thunder lion, while she, Ling Qingzhu, only came to stop him and "captured" the culprit who tried to lay hands on the sacred medicine.

He had no way to defend himself!

He was at her mercy!

At this moment, Qin Feng finally understood what it meant to truly toy with people's hearts.

He looked at Ling Qingzhu, his eyes filled with nothing but endless confusion.

Why?

We have no grievances, so why did she go to such lengths to plot against me?

Just as he was racking his brains for an answer.

"Clap, clap, clap."

A crisp sound of clapping, carrying a bit of laziness and playfulness, suddenly rang out from the nearby dense forest.

"Giggle... wonderful, truly wonderful!"

A seductive figure swayed out, her eyes like silk, sizing up the two protagonists of this farce with great interest.

"Yaochi Saintess, when it comes to acting, you are far more cruel and ruthless than those of us from the Demonic Sect."