57: Chapter 57 Mo Fan's Conspiracy

Mysterious Maiden Sect, Servant Quarters.

In a dark, damp woodshed that reeked of mold, Chu Ying was holding an axe, mechanically chopping firewood.

Sweat slid down her pale cheeks and dripped onto her filthy servant's uniform, but she seemed not to feel the slightest bit of fatigue.

In her eyes, the former radiance and pride were gone, leaving only a deep-seated, bone-deep resentment and hatred.

With her Dantian destroyed and her cultivation base completely lost, she had fallen from being a high-and-mighty inner Sect Prodigy to a servant who was now inferior even to an Outer Sect Disciple.

To whom did she owe all of this?

Su Yun!

Lin Rou!

And those "good sisters" who used to flatter her, but pushed all the responsibility onto her after the incident!

She hated them!

She wished she could tear these people into ten thousand pieces!

Especially Su Yun!

At the thought of that man, Chu Ying's chopping motion suddenly halted. Because of her excessive force, the axe in her hand was deeply embedded into the log.

Involuntarily, the scene from that day in the Myriad Flower Secret Realm surfaced in her mind—how that man had effortlessly defeated Li Xuanyi.

And how he had looked at her with those cold eyes, as if looking at an ant he could crush at any moment.

And in the Xiuyun Peak main hall, how that bitch Lin Rou had destroyed her cultivation in front of everyone and cast her into this boundless Hell.

Why?

Why did she have to end up like this?

It was clearly Li Xuanyi who wanted to deal with Su Yun; she had merely stood on the right side, choosing the Li Xuanyi who seemed stronger at the time!

Was there anything wrong with that?

She was not reconciled!

Just then, a Talisman in her bosom suddenly grew slightly warm.

Chu Ying's whole body jolted, and she hurriedly looked around alertly.

After confirming no one was there, she cautiously hid in the corner of the woodshed and took out the Talisman.

When she saw the message coming from the Talisman, a trace of excitement and a sinister smile finally appeared on her deathly pale face.

Young Master Mo!

He had finally contacted her!

“Young Master Mo, it’s me,” she suppressed her excitement and sent a voice transmission to the Talisman.

A moment later, Mo Fan's cold and slightly raspy voice came out from the Talisman.

“Chu Ying, it’s me.”

“Young Master Mo... you finally contacted me!” Chu Ying's voice carried an uncontrollable sob and endless grievance.

Ever since her cultivation was destroyed and she was demoted to a servant, she had lived in despair and pain every day.

Mo Fan's appearance was like the only ray of light in the darkness, her only hope for revenge.

“What are you crying for? You useless thing.”

There was not a hint of sympathy in Mo Fan's voice, only cold commands.

“How is the matter I entrusted to you coming along?”

Chu Ying's sobbing stopped abruptly. She hurriedly wiped her tears and reported in a nearly fawning tone.

“Rest assured, Young Master Mo! Following your instructions, I have used some of the connections I previously built up in the Sect to quietly contact people from the Divine Blade Sect and the Vajra Sect.”

“They have long been dissatisfied with the Mysterious Maiden Sect occupying the best Spiritual Vein, and every one of them is incredibly greedy.”

“I just hinted slightly that there was a chance for them to get a share of the spoils, and they became excited like sharks smelling blood!”

“Very good.” A trace of satisfaction finally bled into Mo Fan's voice.

Chu Ying was delighted and hurriedly continued.

“I also told them that Sect Master Leng Hanshuang's cold poison remains uncured and her strength is greatly diminished, while that Su Yun, though somewhat strange, is ultimately just a Golden Core Stage kid. As long as we coordinate from the inside and outside, capturing the Mysterious Maiden Sect is just around the corner!”

She told him the intelligence she had gathered and her own guesses, embellishing them just to win his trust.

“Mm, I know all this,” Mo Fan's tone remained flat, “but it's not enough.”

“Our enemy is not just the Mysterious Maiden Sect. There is also one biggest variable...”

“The Empress, Phoenix Unrivaled!”

Hearing this name, Chu Ying's body trembled uncontrollably, and her voice carried a trace of heartfelt fear.

“Young Master Mo, Her Majesty the Empress Phoenix Unrivaled is a Soul Transformation Stage powerhouse who awes the entire Eastern Region. Moreover... moreover, rumors say she and Leng Hanshuang are like sisters... If we move against the Mysterious Maiden Sect, she will definitely intervene.”

“When that time comes, let alone the Divine Blade Sect and the Vajra Sect, even if a few more Sects come, they probably won't be her match!”

“Hmph, of course I know that.”

Mo Fan gave a cold laugh, his tone full of disdain.

“Just a woman, does she really think she's invincible? I've already thought of a countermeasure.”

“That's why I told you all to wait!”

“According to reports from the mole I planted in the Mysterious Maiden Sect, the Empress's visit this time seems to be specifically to visit Leng Hanshuang. However, for some reason, they seem to have had some unpleasantness these past few days. The Empress has already put out word that she will set off to return to the Wu Zhou Empire in the next day or two.”

“As soon as she leaves, Leng Hanshuang will lose her strongest external aid!”

“At that time, we will unite the Divine Blade Sect, the Vajra Sect, and several other Sects that are eyeing the Mysterious Maiden Sect like tigers, and form an allied army! And you will act as our inside agent, opening the Mysterious Maiden Sect's Mountain-Protecting Formation at the critical moment!”

“Then, with the army pressing down and us coordinating from within and without!”

Mo Fan's voice became increasingly excited, as if he could already see the dawn of victory.

“I don't believe that with a Leng Hanshuang who is afflicted by cold poison and has greatly diminished strength, and a kid who just reached Core Formation and only knows some unorthodox tricks, they can stop our army!”

Chu Ying was fired up as she listened. A surge of burning pain even seemed to come from her destroyed Dantian.

She could almost see the scene of the Mysterious Maiden Sect being overrun, with Lin Rou and those Disciples who once looked down on her kneeling at her feet and begging for mercy!

She could almost see that bastard Su Yun being stepped on by her, like a dead dog, left to her disposal!

“Young Master Mo is brilliant!”

Chu Ying said excitedly.

“I will surely handle this matter well for the Young Lord! When the time comes, I don't want any reward. I only want... I only want to personally kill that bastard Su Yun! And that bitch Lin Rou!”

“Don't worry.”

Mo Fan's laughter was full of a cruel flavor.

“When the time comes, everyone in the Mysterious Maiden Sect, except for Leng Hanshuang, will be at your disposal.”

“As for that high-and-mighty bitch Leng Hanshuang...”

Mo Fan licked his lips, a lewd light flashing in his eyes.

“I want to make her my slave in front of everyone!”

“And that little bastard Su Yun, I will tie him up and let him watch with his own eyes how I possess his Sect Master, before I cut him into a thousand pieces and make his Divine Soul perish!”

After cutting off the voice transmission with Mo Fan, Chu Ying was shaking all over with excitement.

She clenched her fists tightly, her nails sinking deep into the flesh of her palms from the force, not caring even as blood flowed out.

Soon!

It's almost time!

Su Yun, Lin Rou, just you wait!

Before long, I will make you taste a flavor a hundred times, a thousand times more painful than mine!

She carefully hid the transmission Talisman, then picked up the axe again and chopped the firewood one stroke after another.

Only this time, every time she chopped, she would mutter a name.

“Su Yun...”

“Lin Rou...”

It was as if that log were her enemy.

...

On the other side.

Hanpo Peak, inside Su Yun's independent small courtyard.

A hearty "morning exercise" had just ended.

Phoenix Unrivaled lay lazily on Su Yun's chest, a captivating flush still lingering on her snow-white skin.

A slender, jade-like finger was drawing irregular circles on his chest.

Those phoenix eyes, which were usually full of majesty and indifference, were now watery and filled with tenderness and satisfaction.

After these few days of "treatment," she not only felt the Heavenly Phoenix Bloodline within her body become purer.

Even the Soul Transformation Middle Stage Bottleneck that had troubled her for a long time showed faint signs of loosening.

This feeling of her strength rapidly improving intoxicated her, and also made her... develop an increasingly strong dependence on this man beneath her.

“Hey, what are you thinking about?” Phoenix Unrivaled pinched Su Yun's chest muscle in dissatisfaction.

This man just lay here in a daze after they were finished; she didn't know what he was thinking.

“I'm thinking whether Her Majesty the Empress has developed a taste for this and can't bear to leave me.”

Su Yun opened his eyes and looked down at her, a mischievous smile hanging on the corner of his mouth.

“You... absolute nonsense!”

Phoenix Unrivaled's face flushed crimson instantly. She hurriedly scrambled off him and began to put on her clothes in a fluster.

“I... I am only doing this for healing! For a Breakthrough! It's not... it's not what you think!”

She defended herself stubbornly, but her embarrassed and annoyed appearance had no persuasiveness at all.

Su Yun watched with amusement.

This high-and-mighty Her Majesty the Empress was really becoming more and more cute.

From the initial resistance and transaction to the current duplicity and active cooperation, her mental defenses were being completely dismantled by him bit by bit.

He could feel on the System panel that Phoenix Unrivaled's dependence on him was steadily increasing.

Although there was still a distance from Leng Hanshuang's "unwavering devotion" at 95 points.

But following this trend, completely winning over this Empress was only a matter of time.

However...

Looking at her tsundere appearance where she clearly enjoyed it but insisted on pretending it was only for Cultivation, Su Yun also felt a small "worry" rise in his heart.

This woman's possessiveness seemed to be getting stronger and stronger.

These past few days, she had been running to his place almost every day, sometimes even twice a day.

She called it "consolidating the therapeutic effect."

It made it so he didn't even have time to go and connect with his Revered Master Lin Rou and Senior Sister Yuqin.

If this continued, he was afraid his backyard would really catch fire.

“Fine, fine, I know you're doing it for Cultivation.”

Su Yun sat up, pulled Phoenix Unrivaled into his arms from behind as she was dressing, rested his chin on her fragrant shoulder, and whispered in her ear.

“It's been hard on Your Majesty the Empress, making such a big sacrifice for the sake of Cultivation.”

“As long as you know!”

Phoenix Unrivaled's body went soft from his intimate gesture, but her mouth remained unyielding.

“If it weren't for the sake of increasing my cultivation base, I wouldn't bother with a bastard like you.”

“Yes, yes, I'm a bastard,” Su Yun agreed with a smile, but his hands began to misbehave.

“You... what are you doing! Didn't we just finish?” Phoenix Unrivaled's breathing became erratic from his teasing, and she hurriedly grabbed his mischievous large hand.

“I just saw that it was too much work for Her Majesty to dress herself, so I wanted to give you a hand,” Su Yun said with a wicked smile.

“Get lost! I can dress myself!”

As the two were flirting, a series of hurried footsteps suddenly came from outside the courtyard gate.

Immediately after, Lin Rou's voice, carrying a bit of anger, rang out.

“Lin Chen! Get out here!”

Phoenix Unrivaled's body stiffened abruptly, the flush on her face fading instantly, replaced by a look of panic.

“It's... it's Lin Rou! Why is she here?”

Su Yun was also taken aback. Damn, speak of the devil.

Now there's going to be a good show.