Chapter 9 A peerless witch as a maid? Let's untie one chain first!
"Sword Attendant?"
Lin Yuan crunched the last bite of the apple in his mouth, tossed the core aside, and looked with interest at the suspended body of Jinyue.
At this moment, where was the peerless witch who had first appeared with such terrifying demonic might, looking down on the world with ruthless slaughter?
Her eyes were cast down, and her originally pale and beautiful face even showed a sickly flush due to nervousness. Those nine thick Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Iron Chains locked her slender waist and limbs. Combined with her current pitiful and pleading posture, if the famous sects of the outside world who prided themselves as the Righteous Path saw this, their Dao Hearts would probably shatter into pieces on the spot.
"You are the Taixuan Dao Sect's most wanted criminal, the peerless Great Devil Head who slaughtered through the Ten Righteous Sects three hundred years ago."
Lin Yuan leisurely trimmed his nails with the zhutian sword, which radiated a monstrously ominous aura, his tone indifferent. "If I let you be a maid who serves tea and pours water, I'm afraid those old geezers from the Taixuan Dao Sect would cry themselves to death in front of their Ancestral Master's memorial tablet in the middle of the night if they found out."
"Senior must be joking."
Jinyue gave a bitter smile, her face full of self-deprecation. "In front of you, what kind of Great Devil Head is my meager cultivation? I am but a frog at the bottom of a well. If Senior hadn't displayed such heaven-shaking, supreme kendo today, this Junior would probably still be looking at the sky from the bottom of this death prison."
She paused, lifted her head, and her blood-colored eyes were filled with an incredibly serious fanaticism and determination:
"This Junior is willing to swear a Heavenly Dao Blood Oath to serve Senior as my Master for this lifetime! If I violate this oath, I am willing to suffer the pain of soul-burning by the Nine Netherworld Karmic Fire and never be reincarnated for all eternity!"
Boom!
Above the death prison, a muffled roll of thunder could be faintly heard. This was the Heavenly Dao sensing the blood oath of a high-level Cultivator and automatically descending a Law brand.
Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow.
This woman was decisive and ruthless enough. As expected of someone who could become the leader of a demonic cult; once she recognized reality, her posture for clinging to someone's leg was more standard than anyone's.
"Fine."
Lin Yuan put away the zhutian sword, clapped his hands, and stood up. "Since you've even pulled out the Heavenly Dao as a guarantee, I truly do lack someone to clean up this death prison. However, in your current state of being suspended in mid-air, you can't exactly serve me tea or pour water."
As soon as he finished speaking.
Lin Yuan raised his right hand. Without even much activation of True Qi, he simply pressed his index and middle fingers together to form a sword finger and pointed through the air toward the thickest Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Iron Chain in the northwest direction.
"Break."
Clang—!
An imperceptible dark-golden Sword Qi shot out from Lin Yuan's fingertip, accurately striking a Formation node in the void of the northwest corner that was completely invisible to the naked eye.
It was exactly one of the seven flaws of the Taiji Heaven-Sealing Array that Lin Yuan had seen through at a glance using his Max-Level Comprehension!
Crack!
Accompanied by the crisp sound of glass shattering, the massive golden Formation light screen shrouding the death prison flickered violently, and then the light in the northwest corner instantly dimmed.
Immediately after.
Clatter!
The Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Iron Chain locked to the left side of Jinyue's Collarbone seemed to lose all spiritual energy support. The Demon-Suppressing Runess on it instantly extinguished, and it crashed heavily onto the black stone floor, kicking up a cloud of dust.
"This... how is this possible?!"
Jinyue stared blankly at her regained freedom in her left arm, feeling the Devilish Qi within her body—which had been tightly suppressed—finally have a sliver of room to flow. She was struck as if by lightning, completely dumbfounded.
She knew Senior Lin was strong, ridiculously strong.
But that was the Taiji Heaven-Sealing Array set up by the founding Ancestral Master of the Taixuan Dao Sect! It was recognized as one of the ten unsolvable death Formations in the Shenhuang Continent! Even if a peerless old monster at the Mahayana Stage came, they would have to bombard it for three days and nights to break the Formation, and they might even suffer a terrifying backlash from it.
But what about the person in front of her?
Without even using much magic power, just like flicking a speck of dust off his clothes, a casual point... and the Formation's core shattered?!
To what appalling Realm had his understanding of the Dao of Formations reached?!
"Stop dazing out."
Lin Yuan yawned and sat back down on his pile of hay. "The Taiji Heaven-Sealing Array is connected to the ley lines of the entire Taixuan Dao Sect. Right now, I can only disconnect this one Formation Core and unchain one of your links. If I unchain two more, those old geezers outside will definitely cough up blood and die from the backlash. If they trace it back to me, I won't have any more peaceful days."
Jinyue did not doubt Lin Yuan's words, which were full of the "concerns of a superior," in the slightest; instead, she deeply agreed.
In her view, this was what it meant for a Senior to "hide in the city." He was showing mercy out of compassion for all living beings (not wanting to kill those ants of the Taixuan Dao Sect outside)!
"Thank you for your grace, Master!"
Jinyue struggled to turn over in mid-air, using her only free left hand to support herself in the void, and bowed respectfully to Lin Yuan. Although there were still eight iron chains locking her, with one unchained, she could already barely reach the ground and move within a radius of three zhang.
For her, who had been suspended for three hundred years, this was practically the grace of rebirth!
"Just call me Young Master. 'Master' sounds like some kind of evil heterodoxy."
Lin Yuan casually pulled a Jade Slip from his Storage Pouch and pressed it to his forehead.
He recalled the incomplete Blood Lotus Demonic Scripture that the witch had recited earlier and then activated his Max-Level Comprehension.
In just the blink of an eye, countless profound insights flooded his mind. That demonic Cultivation Technique, which was originally incomplete and even had fatal flaws, was frantically deduced, completed, and even elevated by countless levels in Lin Yuan's mind!
Swish!
Lin Yuan casually tossed the Jade Slip to Jinyue's feet, as if throwing away a worthless stone.
"In this Jade Slip, I just took your tattered Blood Lotus Demonic Scripture and modified it a bit. I've corrected the energy circulation routes for you, and I also wrote down the introductory condensation method for the Nine Netherworld Karmic Fire."
Lin Yuan yawned and lay down on his side, his back to the witch:
"Since you've become my Sword Attendant, it would be embarrassing to take you out with such low cultivation. Hurry up and practice; don't lose face for me."
Jinyue's entire body trembled violently.
She reached out her left hand with a shake, picked up the Jade Slip, and pressed it to her forehead.
Boom—!
In the next second, a vast, boundless, and flawless supreme demonic intent instantly rushed into her mind!
Was this even a repair? This was practically a reshaping! It was even a hundred times more terrifying than the complete version of the Blood Lotus Demonic Scripture passed down by the first Ancestral Master of the demonic cult! In front of this brand-new technique, the things she had cultivated for three hundred years were simply a pile of indescribable garbage!
"Casually... modified it a bit?"
Jinyue gripped the Jade Slip tightly, her excited tears finally breaking through like a bursting dam.
She fell to her knees with a thud, her forehead hitting the cold stone floor heavily. Her voice became hoarse due to extreme emotion and fanaticism:
"Jinyue... will definitely not fail the Young Master's grace of rebirth! I am willing to go through fire and water for the Young Master, even if I must die ten thousand deaths!"
By this time, Lin Yuan had already closed his eyes, his breathing gradually becoming steady.
And in his mind, the System's notification sound rang out again:
[Ding! Detected the peerless witch's extreme worship and loyalty toward the Host. Death Prison Bond established!]
[Host can automatically absorb the Evil Qi in the Demon Suppressing Death Prison to convert into cultivation by signing in/resting daily, with a probability of triggering an 'Epiphany' drop rate bonus!]
"Tsk, even the idle System has been activated."
The corners of Lin Yuan's mouth curled up slightly as he entered dreamland with a clear conscience.