When Chu Feng regained consciousness, he found himself lying on a soft bed.
He slowly sat up. How had he ended up here?
Broken tables and crumbling walls surrounded him, making the soft bed beneath him seem rather out of place.
He remembered fighting a snake demon. He had unleashed…
the five-colored sword qi, exhausting all the true qi in his body. Then, an unbearable heat had suddenly surged from deep within him. His body had gone limp, and he seemed to have fallen into something soft and fragrant.
That’s right!
It was Sister Tiantian!
He vaguely remembered seeing that familiar, breathtakingly beautiful face through his hazy consciousness.
The next moment, he saw Sister Tiantian appear in the doorway, gently wiping her red lips with a handkerchief. A faint blush still lingered on her fair cheeks, and she had even changed her clothes. This outfit was considerably more conservative, deliberately concealing the pale, deep valley that had previously been exposed, as though she were trying to hide something.
Seeing that Chu Feng had awakened, Su Tiantian felt as though a faint tingling sensation still lingered at the corner of her mouth.
In truth, she had been secretly watching from the shadows all along. The reason was simple. She needed the snake demon’s charming aura to give her a helping hand.
And while she was at it, she had found the little rascal a free sparring partner. It was the best of both worlds. And in the end, she had reaped all the benefits.
She couldn’t eat the meat yet, so what was wrong with having a little soup to satisfy her cravings for now?
She smoothed her hair, a smile appearing on her face. “Little rascal, how did you sleep?”
“Uh, how should I put it… I’m a little tired…”
Chu Feng replied. Normally, he should have felt refreshed after waking from a good sleep, yet for some reason, his body felt rather drained.
It was as though all the essence and vitality in his body had been squeezed dry.
Could that snake demon really have drained him after all?
No, no!
Chu Feng shook his head. He remembered that familiar sensation just before he collapsed. It had definitely been Sister Tiantian. Which meant…
At that moment, the young man seemed to understand something.
Hearing Chu Feng’s words, the blush that had nearly faded from Su Tiantian’s pretty face resurfaced. She pursed her red lips. She had gotten a little greedy and lost control of herself.
“It was probably the pink mist affecting you. Just rest for a while, little rascal, and you’ll be fine,” Su Tiantian explained.
“I see.”
Chu Feng nodded and didn’t ask any further. After all, there were some things that were better left unspoken as long as he understood them himself.
He then got out of bed and looked around. They were still inside the Demon-Suppressing Tower.
“Sister Tiantian, what floor are we on?”
With a wave of her hand, Su Tiantian stored the large bed into her storage pouch and replied, “The eighth floor.”
The bed belonged to her. She had plenty of similar items as well like bells, whips, ropes, candles, golden quail eggs, and all sorts of other things. One could say she was thoroughly prepared.
She might not have any use for those things right now, but that didn’t mean there wouldn’t come a day when they would prove useful.
She called it being prepared for any eventuality. See? The bed had already come in handy this time. She even had a waterbed inside her storage pouch.
“Ah!”
Chu Feng immediately panicked. Between fighting the snake demon and the time he had spent unconscious, could the elimination round have already ended?!
“Sister Tiantian, we need to hurry!”
He didn’t dare waste another moment and immediately set off.
Without the snake demon blocking his path, and with Su Tiantian by his side, Chu Feng encountered no further obstacles and made it straight to the ninth floor.
Sure enough, there were already people here. Two of them, in fact….Pang Zhu and Cao Yunxiao, whom he had seen before entering the Demon-Suppressing Tower. However, Chu Feng only knew Cao Yunxiao.
“Haha! Congratulations, young friend. You’re the fifth to arrive!”
At that moment, Zhang Zhufeng approached with a cheerful smile.
Chu Feng breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he wasn’t among the last few, it was fine.
The fifth?
He glanced around. Including himself, there were only three people here. It seemed the other two had already left.
“This is your clearance token. Keep it safe, young friend. The third elimination round will take place five days from now. I wish you good luck.”
Zhang Zhufeng handed Chu Feng a token.
Chu Feng accepted it and bowed. “Thank you, Teacher.”
Zhang Zhufeng smiled and nodded. He then turned toward Su Tiantian and expressed his gratitude. “Thank you for showing mercy, Your Majesty. This old man is most grateful.”
With Su Tiantian’s cultivation, even the slightest intervention on her part would have been enough to disrupt the entire second round. Fortunately, she had never made a move from beginning to end.
That was why Zhang Zhufeng had thanked her.
Su Tiantian’s beautiful eyes flicked toward Zhang Zhufeng as she said indifferently, “Don’t misunderstand. This Empress didn’t hold back out of consideration for your Hundred Races Academy. I did it for the little rascal’s sake. Otherwise, since this Demon-Suppressing Tower of yours imprisons members of my demon race, this Empress would have destroyed it today.”
As for those demons who had truly fallen to the demonic path, she could wipe them out with a casual wave of her hand.
The ones imprisoned inside this Demon-Suppressing Tower weren’t truly fearsome great demons. Those genuinely troublesome great demons had all been suppressed beneath the Heavenly Dao Stele, doomed never to rise again, slowly worn away by the power of the Great Dao over countless millennia.
With that said, since Chu Feng had already obtained the token allowing him to advance to the next round, Su Tiantian took him by the hand and left the Demon-Suppressing Tower.
***
Back at the small courtyard, Liu Xueyao seemed to have sensed that Chu Feng was about to return and had already been waiting for quite some time. Dressed in a blue gown and surrounded by an icy aura, she looked every bit the aloof beauty.
But the instant she saw Chu Feng, she was like spring snow melting away, her frosty aura vanishing without a trace.
“Husband, welcome back.”
Seeing Liu Xueyao, Chu Feng couldn’t help feeling as though he were a husband returning home to find his wife waiting for him.
He smiled. “Sister Holy Maiden, I’m back.”
“Hmm~ Little rascal, have you forgotten about this Empress?”
Su Tiantian appeared beside Chu Feng like a ghost, her delicate hand kneading his cheeks.
The mark on Chu Feng’s face had already disappeared. Since they were coming back, Su Tiantian had deliberately erased it. Although leaving the mark behind would have been a better way of declaring that the little rascal belonged to her, none of those human women were easy to deal with.
Especially the hidden Holy Master of Yaochi, whom she found the most troublesome.
A Holy Maiden of Yaochi, an elder of Yaochi, and a Holy Master of Yaochi….if the three of them joined forces, even she, the Empress of the demon race, would find them difficult to handle.
It wasn’t merely because all three were beauties capable of bringing down kingdoms, but also because of the added allure of their respective identities and relationships. She was certain the little rascal would never be able to resist.
“Mmph… Sister Tiantian…”
Chu Feng hurriedly spoke up, signaling Sister Tiantian to stop. He had spotted Senior Sister Yuyan emerging from the room, and the moment she saw him like this, her expression immediately darkened. There even seemed to be a black mist rising behind her.
Good grief, w-was this a yandere?!
The little newbie trembled in fear, almost as though he could see Makoto waving at him.
And that wasn’t all. He also saw Aunt Jing appear at the doorway, with Aunt Zi standing behind her.
With such a lineup, only his master and Sister Wan’er were missing from the scene.
“My, my. Looks like everyone’s here.”
Su Tiantian released her grip, her beautiful eyes sweeping over everyone present. Every one of them had quite a close relationship with the little rascal.
Bai Yuyan dabbed some medicinal ointment onto her fingertip and gently applied it to her junior brother’s reddened cheeks.
Does that vixen not know how to hold back?!
Bai Yuyan grumbled inwardly.
Liu Xueyao joined in as well, her fair fingertip coated with medicinal ointment. As she applied it to her husband’s face, a hint of delight flickered in her icy eyes.
Chu Feng wailed inwardly. He had only just escaped Sister Tiantian’s clutches, only to fall straight into the hands of Senior Sister Yuyan and Sister Holy Maiden.
Su Tiantian stretched lazily and said, “Since everyone’s here, let’s begin the meeting.”
What?!
Chu Feng’s eyes widened abruptly.
A meeting?!
What meeting? How come I didn’t know anything about it?!
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