9: Chapter 9: Imprisoning Su Ye

Lips parted. A glistening silver thread stretched out under the moonlight, eventually snapping.

That striking crimson on Su Ye's pale lower lip appeared exceptionally bewitching. Pain. A tingling, stinging sensation instantly spread through Su Ye's nerve endings.

"Hiss—" Su Ye drew a sharp intake of breath in his heart; his originally romantic thoughts were instantly scattered by this sudden pain.

This bite was truly not light. If it had been an ordinary Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator, they would likely have had a piece of flesh bitten right off their lip by this Tribulation Transcendence Stage Great Power. Fortunately, he possessed the foundation of the Ancient Desolate Sacred Body, with thick skin and flesh, which barely allowed him to keep his appearance intact.

"This woman..." "Why doesn't she play by the rules?" Su Ye silently grumbled in his heart. A second ago, she was as gentle as a saint, wishing she could rip out her heart to feed him. The next second, she transforms into a vampire?

However, when he peeked through the slit of his eyelids to observe Nangong Li's expression, the doubt in his heart instantly turned into an inexplicable chill.

Nangong Li did not get up. She maintained that extremely ambiguous posture, her upper body pressing almost entirely onto Su Ye. On that stunningly beautiful face, the tenderness from just a moment ago had vanished. In its place was a heart-palpitating gloom.

Her thumb gently rubbed against Su Ye's bitten lip. This smeared the oozing blood, staining the entire lip red, making it look both tragically beautiful and indescribably eerie.

"Ye'er." Nangong Li's voice was very soft, as light as a dream. But to Su Ye's ears, it was no different from a thunderclap. "On your body..." "Why is there someone else's scent?"

As expected! He had been discovered! Su Ye's heart trembled. That girl Jiang Nian had been wiping his body and changing his clothes earlier; although her movements were gentle, the feminine scent she left behind was real. Plus, Liu Ruyan's aggressive, special body scent... At this moment, he was practically a walking signboard for the "Joyful Union Sect."

Nangong Li's gaze became somewhat hollow and somewhat frantic. Her fingertips slid down from Su Ye's lips. Past his chin. Past his Adam's apple. Finally, they stopped at Su Ye's collarbone. There, a trace of the warm touch left by Jiang Nian when she wiped his body earlier still faintly lingered.

"Dirty." Nangong Li muttered to herself. Her brows were tightly furrowed, as if she had seen something extremely filthy.

"Crackle..." On her fingertips, a wisp of purple lightning flickered. That was the power of the Law of Annihilation. Su Ye's scalp went numb. Revered Master, calm down! That's my neck, not a rag! If you use that thing to "clean" me, I can truly go straight to the finale!

Fortunately, Nangong Li also seemed to realize Su Ye's current fragility. She put away the lightning and instead mobilized a gentle yet extremely overbearing water-attribute spiritual power.

"Whoosh—" Although there was no actual sound of water, Su Ye felt as if a freezing spring had instantly enveloped his entire body. Cold! Bone-chilling cold! This spiritual power was not only cleaning the dirt and strange odors from the surface of his body, but was also scouring his pores, attempting to strip away all traces of aura that did not belong to him.

"Is Revered Master..." "Disinfecting me?" A ridiculous thought surfaced in Su Ye's mind.

Nangong Li's movements were slow and meticulous. Her palms glided over Su Ye's skin. From his neck to his chest. Then to his lower abdomen. She wiped every inch of skin repeatedly, as if she wouldn't stop until she had scrubbed that patch of flesh right off.

That feeling was not like treating an injured person. Instead, it was like someone with a severe obsession with cleanliness washing a private possession of their own that had been touched by others.

"You are my disciple." Nangong Li's voice was low, carrying a paranoid sense of possessiveness. "Your body, your hair and skin, and even your Soul..." "All were given by Revered Master." "Except for me, no one can touch you." "No one can..."

Her hand stopped at Su Ye's Dantian. That place, which was once where his Golden Core resided, was now empty, leaving only a piece of broken Chaos. A trace of pain flashed in Nangong Li's eyes, but immediately after, this pain was replaced by an even more twisted emotion.

She slowly leaned down. She pressed her cheek against Su Ye's bare chest. Listening to that strong yet somewhat slow heartbeat. "Thump." "Thump." "Thump." One beat, then another. This was the proof that Su Ye was alive. It was also her only comfort at this moment.

Su Ye did not dare to even breathe loudly at this moment. Because he clearly felt that Nangong Li's emotions were not right. Very not right. The Nangong Li in the original book, although protective of her own and cold, was definitely not like this... not like this feeling of wanting to swallow someone into her stomach.

"System, what is going on?" Su Ye called out frantically in his mind. "Is this the wrong script? This is supposed to be the leader of the Righteous Path? This is clearly a yandere!"

【Ding!】【Detected abnormal emotional fluctuations in key character "Nangong Li"!】【Due to the host's critical injuries and near-death state, combined with the "incomplete Ancient Desolate Sacred Body"'s natural attraction to the opposite sex, and the trigger of the "Revered Master's Feeding" achievement...】【Nangong Li's hidden attribute "Possessiveness" has been activated!】【Current Status: Corruption Value 15% (continuously rising)】【System Prompt: Congratulations to the host for unlocking the hidden achievement "The Rebellious Disciple's Temptation"! Difficulty of "eating soft rice aggressively" upgraded, reward: Luck +500!】

Su Ye: ...Thanks a lot! To hell with Corruption Value! I just want to quietly be a vegetative state person, I don't want to be locked in a dark room!

Just as Su Ye was frantically complaining in his heart, Nangong Li suddenly raised her head. Her eyes stared straight at Su Ye's tightly closed eyes, and the corners of her mouth curled into an eerie arc. It was a smile mixed with pity, madness, and a certain kind of determination.

"Ye'er." "Do you know?" "Actually... seeing you like this, Revered Master's heart, surprisingly, feels a trace of relief."

Su Ye's heart skipped a beat. Relief? Relieved that I've become a cripple? Is this still the good Revered Master who slaughtered through a Secret Realm for me?

Nangong Li extended her finger, gently curling a strand of Su Ye's hair, winding and playing with it at her fingertip. "You used to be too dazzling." "You were the Senior Brother of Purple Bamboo Peak, the Genius of the Taichu Holy Land, and the ideal husband in the eyes of countless female cultivators." "In your eyes, there was the Dao, there was longevity, there was that Ji Wanshuang who followed behind your butt all day..." "But only, there was no Revered Master."

Speaking of this, Nangong Li's gaze dimmed a little. But soon, it reignited with a bright light. It was a light called "control." "You were always thinking about going down the mountain to train." "Always thinking about going out to explore that so-called wonderful world." "Every time you left Purple Bamboo Peak, Revered Master's heart felt as if it had been hollowed out." "I was afraid you would get hurt outside, afraid you would be deceived by bad women, afraid you would... never return."

Nangong Li's voice became lighter and lighter, yet colder and colder. The surrounding temperature dropped again. Even the whistling wind outside the window seemed to freeze at this moment. "But it's good now." "You can't go anywhere anymore." "Your Meridians are broken, your Golden Core is shattered, you can't even move a finger." "Now, you can only lie here." "You can only rely on Revered Master." "You can only... belong to Revered Master alone."

As Nangong Li spoke, her finger slid down Su Ye's cheek. Finally, it stopped at his Adam's apple. With a gentle press, Su Ye felt his breath hitch. That feeling of having one's fate held by the throat made all the hairs on his body stand up. This woman... is serious! She is not joking! She truly thinks that him becoming a vegetative state person is a "good thing"!

Su Ye wailed in his heart. It's over. This time he had really encountered a pervert. He had thought that Liu Ruyan, who wanted to use him as a Cauldron, was crazy enough. He hadn't expected that this Revered Master, who looked so high and mighty, was the real final BOSS! Liu Ruyan was just craving his body. This Nangong Li wants to turn his body into a specimen!

"Ye'er." "Rest assured." "Revered Master will not despise you." Nangong Li let go of his hand and instead gently caressed Su Ye's face. Her movements were so gentle they could melt a person. "Even if you never wake up for your whole life, it doesn't matter." "Revered Master is in the Tribulation Crossing Stage, with a Lifespan of ten thousand years." "I have enough time to accompany you." "I will seal off Purple Bamboo Peak." "I will build you the best palace and use the best Spirit Medicine to nurture your Physical Body." "I will wipe your body, feed you medicine, and tell you stories of the past every day." "You don't need to Cultivate anymore, don't need to fight anymore, don't need to pay attention to those mundane affairs." "You just stay obediently by Revered Master's side." "Be Revered Master's own... obedient disciple."

With every sentence she spoke, Nangong Li's body sank down a little. By the end, she was whispering almost against Su Ye's ear. Warm breath sprayed onto Su Ye's earlobe. Carrying a shivering chill.

At this moment, Su Ye's mood was complex to the extreme. On one hand, as a villain who aspired to eat soft rice aggressively, this kind of promise of being "kept" and "spoiled" was simply the ultimate dream. No need to work hard, no need to struggle, just lying flat to have the best resources and care. Plus a stunning Revered Master serving him every day. Isn't this heaven?

But on the other hand, this feeling of being treated like a canary, or even imprisoned like a doll... made him feel a deep sense of crisis. If he really lay like this for ten thousand years. Even if his "Ancient Desolate Sacred Body" recovered, it would probably rust, right? More importantly. Did he still need to do the System tasks? Did he still need to trample those Children of Luck? The other beautiful Junior Sisters... cough cough, those lost girls waiting to be saved, were they just going to be handed over to others?

"No!" "Absolutely cannot really be a doll!" "Soft rice must be eaten, but this kind of iron rice bowl that will break your teeth must be approached with caution!" Su Ye secretly swore in his heart. He must find a way to maintain this state of being "favored" while also grasping a certain amount of initiative. At the very least. He cannot really be locked in Purple Bamboo Peak for a lifetime.

Just as Su Ye was lost in thought, Nangong Li seemed to have finished her "cleaning" work. She looked with satisfaction at the man before her who had been "marked" all over with her aura. In those cold eyes, there flashed the pleasure of having succeeded.

"Done." "Now, you only have Revered Master's scent on you." Nangong Li straightened her body. That white robe appeared incredibly holy under the moonlight. If not for the spine-chilling monologue just now, who could have imagined that this Fairy who didn't eat human food would hide such a crazy side in her heart?

She waved her sleeve. The window she had shattered instantly restored itself. Not even a trace of a crack remained. As if all the destruction just now was merely an illusion. Immediately after, she casually set up a barrier. A purple light curtain enveloped the entire Listening to Rain Pavilion. This barrier was so strong that not to mention the Golden Core Stage Liu Ruyan, even if an Elder from the Soul Transformation Stage came, they wouldn't be able to spy on it at all.

"Tonight, Revered Master will stay here with you." Nangong Li said, and actually lay down directly on the outer side of the bed. She lay on her side. One hand supported her head, and the other hand rested extremely naturally on Su Ye's waist. That posture. Was just like a Dragon guarding a Treasure Trove. Lazy, yet full of danger.

Su Ye: ??? Revered Master, this is not according to etiquette, right? Men and women should not touch! And this is a single bed, it's a bit crowded! But these words, he could only shout in his heart. In reality. When that soft, delicate body with a faint cold fragrance leaned over. Su Ye's body was still very honest... not rejecting it in the slightest. Even because there was a heat source, his originally somewhat cold hands and feet began to gradually warm up.

"So fragrant." Su Ye thought subconsciously. The scent on Nangong Li was indeed pleasant. It was much higher quality than the intense seductive fragrance of Liu Ruyan. It was like a snow lotus blooming on the peak of a snowy mountain, serene, cold, yet carrying a hint of Soul-stirring sweetness.

"Sleep, Ye'er." Nangong Li said softly. Her hand gently patted Su Ye's waist. Just like coaxing an infant to sleep. "With Revered Master here." "Even if the King of Hell comes, he cannot take you away." This sentence. Domineering and leaking. It gave Su Ye an unparalleled sense of security. But it also simultaneously declared Su Ye's current situation—he couldn't escape even with wings.

Just as Su Ye was preparing to accept things as they were and first enjoy this rare "Revered Master sleeping with me" service. The System's notification sound rang out again:

【Ding!】【Detected that the host is sleeping in the same bed with a Tribulation Transcendence Stage Great Power!】【Luck +1000!】【Achievement Unlocked: "Eating Soft Rice Aggressively (IV)" — Revered Master's Embrace.】【System settling...】【Congratulations to the host for successfully surviving under the "close-quarters care" of a Tribulation Transcendence Stage Great Power.】【Reward Issued: Luck +1000.】【Extra Reward: Top-grade Marrow Cleansing Pill ×1 (automatically stored in the System Space), God-level Breath Concealment Art (passive, can conceal the host's Soul fluctuations when waking up).】【Current Luck: 1800.】

In Su Ye's mind, the System's mechanical voice rang out like heavenly music. But he dared not move. He didn't even dare to cheer too wildly in his heart. Because that suffocating, cold orchid fragrance still lingered at the tip of his nose.

The dawn light faintly appeared. A ray of non-blinding sunlight shone through the gap in the lattice window, dappling the floor of the Listening to Rain Pavilion. The wind and rain of that night had ceased, leaving only a courtyard full of fallen red petals and the scent of damp soil.

Su Ye felt the soft hand resting on his waist move slightly. Immediately after. That warm, jade-like delicate body, instead of letting go, actually burrowed a bit further into his arms like a kitten afraid of the cold. Through the thin undergarment. He could clearly feel Nangong Li's astonishing elasticity and softness.

If it were any other time, Su Ye might have been distracted by wandering thoughts. But at this moment, he only felt his whole body stiffen, as if falling into an ice cave. This person is a Tribulation Transcendence Stage big shot! If he was the slightest bit careless, his hundred-plus pounds of flesh could be blown away by a single sneeze from her.

"Mmm..." A lazy moan sounded in Su Ye's ear. Carrying the hoarseness of just waking up, yet having an indescribable charm. Nangong Li slowly opened her eyes. Those eyes were initially a bit blurry, as if still in a dream.

But when her gaze focused on Su Ye's pale yet still handsome face, all the blurriness instantly dissipated. In its place was that heart-palpitating paranoia and tenderness. "Still here." "Not a dream." She whispered. Her fingers gently traced Su Ye's eyebrows and eyes, her movements so gentle as if she were caressing a rare treasure.

"Ye'er is so obedient." "You didn't move at all last night, just staying with Revered Master like this." Su Ye frantically complained in his heart: Big sister, I am a vegetative state person! It would be ghostly if I could move, okay! If I had moved, wouldn't I have been sliced up for research by you by now?

Nangong Li naturally could not hear Su Ye's inner voice. She propped up her body, her waterfall-like dark hair cascading down, brushing against Su Ye's neck, bringing waves of tingling sensations. She looked down at Su Ye. Her eyes were full of appreciation and possessiveness. "I really want to shrink you." "Put you in Revered Master's sleeve." "That way, no one can see you, and no one can take you away."

Nangong Li's fingertips lingered on Su Ye's lips. There, the wound she had bitten last night had scabbed over, leaving only a faint red mark. Looking at this red mark, a trace of morbid satisfaction flashed in Nangong Li's eyes. That was her mark. It was the proof of her declaring sovereignty.