Chapter 6 – The Invisible and Shadowless King Yama Controls Life
The cage had just opened when suddenly the fat pervert was curled up on the ground! The girl's eyes had been tightly closed when she felt something roughly hit her chest.
Zhong Ba's hands had reached out to touch the little girl's clothes. He was just about to feel the flower before him when in the blink of an eye he flew out of the cage screaming.
After being kicked with all her strength, Zhu Zhong Ba's body that was like a round bucket rolled back a few spins, making one want to prostrate themselves in admiration, before he fell from the stage whence a painful howl was heard.
This unforeseen event happened suddenly, stunning everyone present frozen and causing a deathly silence to envelope the room.
Even the always leisurely smiling Wu Yu's eyes flashed with a somewhat bewildered and confused light.
They all stared blankly at the unremarkable little girl in the cage who slowly stood up. The chains that had originally bound her hands and feet were nowhere to be seen, and uninjured she exited from the cage.
Her slim figure and pale complexion were unremarkable, but her pair of endlessly dark, ice cold eyes that swept across the stage made people's souls shiver.
He Xi rubbed her wrists that had red spots left from the chain, towering over the fat man that looked like a toad lying on the ground, she sneeringly said: “You want to use this great aunt for your own advantages, think again about whether you have that ability!”
The little girl's sharp and clear voice was pleasant to hear, just like jade pounding on a transparent glazed roof tile, making people startle awake.
“Heavens, how did she escape from the cage? She was bound by the Casting Cold iron chain, an ordinary person simply cannot break it!”
“However, Young Master Zhu's cultivation base is at the peak of the Qi Refining stage, how could he have gotten beaten to the ground by a slave with a crippled spiritual root?”
“Just recently I clearly didn't felt any spiritual power coming out from her, so how can she kick Young Master Zhu so hard?”
………
Shocked debates sounded one after another. Everyone's eyes that looked at the little girl stared at her like she was a monster.
At this time, Zhu Zhong Ba's guards finally return to their senses and hurriedly rushed to help their Young Master get up.
Zhu Zhong Ba angrily shouted: “You're all a group of trash, what are you doing still standing here?! Quickly catch that smelly girl for this father, I will teach her a lesson when we get back!”
The four guards rushed to surrounded the thin and weak little girl in a circle.
The coming fight scene had almost no suspense, it would be easy to slaughter this slave on the stage.
This scene is what was everyone was predicting in their minds.
Even though this odd little girl had some skill, but these guards cultivation base were at the early-stages of the Foundation Establishment stage.
In the Mi Luo Continent, martial artist ranks divided into: Qi Refining stage, Foundation Establishment stage, Meridians stage, Gold Core stage, Nascent Soul stage, Divine stage, Void and Darkness stage, Overcoming Tribulation stage, Completeness stage.
Everyone that gazed towards He Xi had eyes filled with pity, but they still showed excitement at the thought of the good show that was about to begin.
The corner of He Xi's mouth curled up into a demonically evil smile, calmly and unhurriedly she raised her hands.
The stage lighting was very bright, therefore no one could see that between her five slender fingers, she had placed four sparkling and translucent silver needles.
The invisible needles looked like fine and weak hair strands, but were made from a steel so hard and tough, that they could immediately penetrate the body, piercing the bones.
When He Xi had awoken the first time, she had found that the exploding space in her previous life not only didn't disappear, instead the invisible needles that she had previously stored in her space were also undamaged.
The Invisible and Shadowless King Yama controls life! This weapon was the best to murder people!
The four guards respectively took out their flying swords, a low rank cultivation sword. They grimly and fiercely gazed towards the little girl.
In martial artist's eyes, ordinary people were the same as ants, as trash they only had the qualification to work extremely hard.
After the four people had transferred the spiritual power within their bodies, the flying swords shot forward to attack the little girl, when He Xi suddenly moved.
Chapter 7 – Slave Ownership Card, Slave Imprint
The invisible needles in her hand flew as if struck by lightning, accurately and quietly piercing into the four guard's Sea of Qi acupuncture point.
The flying swords in the hands of the four guards suddenly halted in mid air, followed by a ‘bang’ sound, they fell to the ground.
The four guards face's filled with shock and disbelief, staring blankly at the faintly sneering little girl on the stage.
Suddenly, the one of them screamed: “Why can't I use my spiritual power!”
“Evil woman, what did you do to us!!”
He Xi laughed lightly as she leaped into the air, raising her foot she ruthlessly kicked the four guards who had lost their spiritual power.
Under the bright lights directed onto the stage, the slender and petite little girl mockingly looked at everyone surrounding her as she towered over them.
Around her were the Foundation Establishment stage cultivators that were all howling and groaning. Furthermore there was also Zhu Zhong Ba that had been so scared of her, he had tumbled to the ground and land hard on his buttocks.
This scene was simply too shocking and weird, obviously this thin and weak little girl seemed like a Queen inspecting her territory, making a persons heart tremble in fear but also long to worship her.
Zhu Zhong Ba's frightened face looked at the little girl standing not too far from where he had fallen. Originally, he had gotten up after first being knocked down by her, but after his guards had been defeated by a little girl he had collapsed to the ground with shock and fear.
He saw He Xi start to walk towards him and screamed repeatedly, rushing over to hold Wu Yu’s hand he yelled: “Save me……save me! That slut in your Gluttonous House has caused me such trouble, yet you don't care? I'm your guest!!”
“As long as you help me to subdue her, however many yuan crystals you want, I'll give them all to you!!”
Wu Yu remained calm and collected while he separated their hands, his eyes overflowing with interest as looked at He Xi, leisurely said: “Young Master Zhu, I already said earlier, once the product is sold, Gluttonous House will not have any responsibility.”
“From the moment…I handed over the slave ownership card to you, this product no longer had anything to do with Gluttonous House.”
Wu Yu's words make Zhu Zhong Ba's mind go blank for a minute, then suddenly his face filled with an ecstatic light.
He activated his spiritual power, condensing it into a small point to frantically pour it into the slave ownership card while nervously murmuring.
“Loathsome lady, you are dead! You dare to attack me, this time you're dead for sure!”
The moment Zhu Zhong Ba started to pour his spiritual power into the slave ownership card, He Xi had felt a burst of pain in her head, like being pricked with needles.
This feeling of pain was very familiar. When she was at the entrance of the examination room it had being due to feeling this pain that she had lost consciousness.
Damn it—-! So this is the slave imprint! It's turned out that my body was given a strengthened slave control!
He Xi's eyes turned cold, exposing her anger, and with lightning speed she started running away to find a way out.
She want to leave, leave this place right away!
Even if she had to die she, He Xi, absolutely refused to become a slave. Becoming docile and obedient to please others was an insult to her!
But she hadn't even managed to run five meters away when the pain in her head suddenly intensified.
No longer able to withstand the pain in her head, He Xi felt her body fall towards the ground, once again powerless to stop from losing consciousness.
Zhu Zhong Ba held the slave ownership card tightly in his fist as he very carefully walked step by step towards He Xi, intending to confirm if she really was unconscious. When there was no resistance from He Xi, he let out an insolent laugh.
“Loathsome lady, let's see how you can still be cocky!” His foot fiercely kicked He Xi's body.
“Dared to attack I, this father, you simply don't want to live! I will let you know that if you dare to disobey this young master your future will be miserable!”
At this time, those knocked down guards finally managed stand.
Their sealed Dantians had now restored to usual, it was no longer a situation where they were unable to use their spiritual power.
Their faces revealed relieved expressions, but when they looked at the unconscious He Xi on the ground, their eyes flashed with fear and bitter resentment.
Zhu Zhong Ba, with a face full of pride, waved a hand saying: “You cannot even deal with this loathsome lady, still needing I, this father to take care of her.”
“Shut her in the cage and carry it to go back. If there are any mistakes see how I will deal with you!”
While repeatedly answering yes, the guards roughly carried the unconscious He Xi and threw her into the cage, like an animal bought at the marketplace. Swaying with the weight of the cage they carried, they left the stage.
Chapter 8 – The Resplendent Purple Eyes
At the same time in Gluttonous House's private room a tall man languidly laid on a couch.
His gaze rested on the screen not far in front of him, his expression was elegant while his eyes were filled with a proud indifference.
The screen displayed a clear scene of everything that was happening with the auction.
There was a thin and weak little girl shut in a cage by several large men. Thick iron chains firmly bound her hands and feet.
The man held a wine cup in his hand a moment before suddenly swallowing the wine in one gulp, lightly sighing: “What a pity, such an interesting little thing, to have the fate of being defiled by a pig.”
The guard that was standing silently in the corner of the room couldn't help but quietly glance at him: ‘This is the first time that Master has shown an interest in a woman, but it's only a very small interest, nothing more.’
As the guard was thinking this the man's expression suddenly changed, rising slightly to get up, his gaze fixed on the screen.
It clearly displayed the imprisoned little girl's face; pale skin, thin face, young and inexperienced facial features.
In a split second, that pair of tightly closed eyes opened, her eyelashes shook slightly and a coldness seemed to radiate outwards.
The man’s sword-like eyebrows knitted, his gaze fixed on the little girl’s eyes.
Black eyes with the depth of an ancient well, as if they carried long hidden secrets, faintly shone with a purple radiance, so bright and dazzling, that in an instant they had captured his attention and made his chest feel an unfamiliar throbbing.
“Little thing, who are you exactly? How can there be…..”
He spoke softly, looking at the little girl on the screen with an unbridled interest. Like a beast that had suddenly found the prey that it had been searching for, the anticipation of a future victory made his eyes shine with excitement.
Immediately, the man’s eyes swept over Zhu Zhong Ba and the guards that carried the cage. The corner of his mouth curled up into a disgusted sneer.
Continuing to face the screen he murmured faintly: “Follow them.”
To anyone watching it would seem as if the man staring intently at the screen was the only person in the room. Shockingly though a deep voice responded, originating from the guard hiding his presence in the corner of the room: “Yes, Your Highness.”
Pausing, the voice suddenly asked: “If Zhu Zhong Ba uses violence….did this subordinate need to dispose him?”
“Ah…….” The man chuckled, his voice full of magnetism, extremely pleasant to listen to yet full of contempt, “Based on a useless person like him, it would amount to himself heading down a path filled with disaster.”
“This subordinate understands.”
As the room quickly returned to it's previous quietness, the man slowly got up, the corner of his mouth revealed a relaxed and captivating smile.
When He Xi woke up again, she was in a bumpy carriage.
She was still imprisoned inside the cage. Her entire body, hands, and feet were tied together with finger width iron chains.
Because of the placement of the cage her visibility was limited, but she could still smell a strong odour nearby.
He Xi bit into her lower lip to make her muddled consciousness more clear-headed.
The effect of the Slave Restriction Spell was quite strong. The whole journey her consciousness wavered between sober and dazed, causing her mind to repeatedly wander, until the time she completely sobered up.
Suddenly the guards conversation reached her ears: “In the end who is that slave? Why didn't her body show any signs of using spiritual power, but was still able to seal our cultivation base?”
“Who cares who she is! As long as Young Master has the Slave Ownership Card in his hands just wait until we arrive at Zhu manor, someone will be found to carve a real Slave Soul Seal on her, at that time the Young Master can use her however he wants to and it wouldn’t matter!”
“Humph! This loathsome lady is merely an ordinary person, but she dared to make us lose face in such a public place. I, this father, is itching to pull her skin now.”
Chapter 9 – Slave Restriction Spell, But So…
Recalling the terrible memories caused the four guards to get really angry, and when they glanced at the unconscious He Xi in the dim corner their expressions turned extremely dark.
One of them suddenly laughed demonically, saying: “There will come a day when the furnace’s usefulness will be exhausted, just wait until she doesn’t have any value left, will the Young Master still care about her then? At that time, we can let her experience the taste of wanting to die but being unable to!”
The four people complacently laughed heartily at their conversations content, the originally depressed mood swept away.
He Xi had her eyes closed to feign sleep, however behind those closed eyes flashed a trace of killing intent.
Those slags, she will absolutely not let them off!
He Xi slightly moved her fingers and several Invisible Needles suddenly appeared in her hand.
Using the guards laughter to cover up any sound, her body issued a slight crackling noise.
In a blink, she twisted and reduced the size of her wrist bones, effortlessly breaking free from the iron chains that bound her.
This type of skill to reduce a bones size, while the effect was useful, when practiced it was more of a one time trick as to use it she had to bear an inhumane pain. Moreover she could only maintain it for a few short seconds so only a monster like He Xi could endure it!
Because of the pain, her complexion became pale. She lightly placed a slim finger on a vein on her wrist.
Sure enough it’s the Brain Domain Restriction spell!
The corner of He Xi’s mouth lifted into a self-confident smile.
Her guess was true, the so called Slave Restriction Spell used spiritual power inserted into the nerves of an ordinary person’s brain domain, locking the person’s ability to be able to control their body normally.
The Slave Ownership Card was the key to activate this lock.
It’s the same as how Tang Seng used the Band Tightening Spell to control Sun Wu Kong[1]. Once the spiritual power was poured into the Slave Ownership Card, it locked the brains domain nerve of spiritual power at the same time it blocked the ability to recover, oppressing the human brain, causing it to be unable to resist pain.
This type of simple Restriction Spell was useless on a martial artist who possessed spiritual power, but to an ordinary person it’s as if they were at the edge of a sword, simply unable to resist.
What a pity that today they ran into her, He Xi!
One must know that in her previous life when in the organisation, apart from achieving peak medical expertise and poison techniques, she had also mastered something that made people fear her, it was Mind Control.
She only needed to insert a small Invisible Needle into an enemy’s brain to cause them to become completely powerless and unable to resist her commands, making them wish for death.
This insignificant Brain Domain Restriction Spell when compared to her was only a minor accomplishment!
The Invisible Needles were rapidly and accurately inserted by He Xi into her brain. A strange chilliness along with an intense burst of pain was felt in He Xi’s head.
She clenched her teeth to prevent her groan being heard by the guards in the carriage.
This pain lasted a full three and a half minutes. He Xi felt the original drowsiness in her mind suddenly leave, her thoughts became clearer and her eyes shone brighter, she felt extremely relaxed yet energised.
As He Xi pulled the Invisible Needles out, she happened to see that attached to the top of the three needles there was a layer of faint blue light.
Her cold breath quietly exhaled in the dimly lit corner of the carriage.
So this is the Restriction Spell filled with spiritual power that had been planted into her brain.
Suddenly the carriage started to shake, followed by a ‘creak’ sound before it stopped moving.
They had arrived at Zhu manor!
He Xi didn’t have much time to think, very quickly she threw the Invisible Needles with the Restriction Spell still attached into her space, using the iron chain she tied her hands and feet, closed her eyes, and pretended to be unconscious.
The golden cage that was carried down from the carriage by the guards contained a messily clothed, unconscious little girl.
Zhu Zhong Ba waved his hand as he said: “Carry her to my room, tell Uncle Guan to prepare some good pills, tonight this young master shall be promoted from a Cultivation Base to the Foundation Establishment Stage!”
His gaze swept over He Xi, his eyes flickering with excitement: “Wait until I successfully advance to the Foundation Establishment stage and return to Zhu Family, it will make father shocked. See if he can still scold me as a useless person then.”
[1] The monk and monkey King character in Journey to the West
Chapter 10– You Dead Fat Pig, Just Dream On For Your Entire Life
As it turns out they weren't at the main Zhu Manor, rather it was the Zhu Family's other courtyard.
Here was where Zhu Zhong Ba's personal courtyard was located. Usually he brought women from good families that he forcefully snatched and where he lived a life of dissipation*.
[ Dining, drinking, whoring, and gambling. ]
Very quickly the cage was brought to Zhu Zhong Ba's room. The little girl was carried out from the cage and thrown onto the soft bed.
Of course her hands and feet were still tied by iron chains so there was no danger.
“You all go out, no one is allowed to come in and bother me!”
Zhu Zhong Ba waited until everyone had completely left the room before a sordid smile spread across his face and he climb onto the bed: “If it were not for you having a body of pure Yin, how could this young master touch an ugly person like you!”
The was room lit using night pearls for illumination, specks of light softly landed on the little girl's face.
An oval face, long and shapely eyebrows, a beautiful small nose, exquisite red lips, long eyelashes that slightly fluttered, and a fine chest that slightly moved up and down with each breath.
The dim light had weakened the little girl's pale skin and the sallow dark circles under her eyes, making her look delicate and beautiful.
Unexpectedly the dimly lit room could make her look like an exceptional beauty?
Zhu Zhong Ba swallowed the saliva pooling in his mouth, his heart wildly beat like a drum and all the blood in his body rushed forth to the lower part.
“I didn't pay much attention before but she's a little beauty!”
With his saliva to starting to pool again, his fat paws reached out to grope the little girl's chest, “Little beauty don't worry, this young master will soon let you experience the taste of being in seventh heaven……Ah—-!!”
Zhu Zhong Ba's hands had not yet touched the little girl's clothes when he was already flying in the air, landing heavily on the ground.
This time being thrown had made him confused and dizzy, his mind was buzzing, for half a day he couldn't get up.
He Xi leisurely sat up on the bed, the thick iron chains scattered around her.
Obviously the iron chains couldn't hold her.
Zhu Zhong Ba's shaking finger pointed at her, with a trembling voice he said: “You...,how can you break free from the iron chains?”
He Xi step forward, her face revealing a dark and cold smile: “Young Master Zhu really isn't clever, I broke free from the iron chains in the auction so how could it be that I can't break free a second time? You think changing the iron chains with thicker ones can keep me chained?”
“You...,don't you come near me!”
Zhu Zhong Ba used his hands and feet to crawl backwards, suddenly he remembered something, quickly pulling out the Slave Ownership Card and holding it in his hand, he frantically poured his spiritual power into it.
He Xi immediately held her head, a painful expression appeared on her face as she fell back on the bed.
Zhu Zhong Ba's heart calmed and he burst into loud laughter while struggling to get up from the ground: “I advise you that it would be a smart decision to obediently listen to this young master's words, if you serve me properly you can suffer less!”
Even if this woman went on a rampage again and was difficult to deal with, as long as he had the Slave Ownership Card in his hand she not only had to be obedient, but it could also make her move back and forth with every order he gave her.
Moreover if this aloof and remote woman wasn't afraid to approach him, bullying her would make him very comfortable!
Zhu Zhong Ba's eyes flashed with excitement as an excessively demonic appearance formed on his face, holding the Slave Ownership Card while swaggering forward he raised her chin: “You still haven't quickly come over to undress this young master, if you provoke this young master again there will only be more suffering for you!”
He Xi's body had half curled up from pain and she was shivering slightly.
When she heard Zhu Zhong Ba's words she was silent for a long time, slowly she extended her hand to grab Zhu Zhong Ba's neck.
“So long as you listen obediently, this young master will not treat you unfairly!”
“Is that right? You want me to be obedient!” He Xi suddenly lifted up her head, her evil and cold smile came in contact with Zhu Zhong Ba's eyes, “You dead fat pig, just dream on for your entire life!”
He Xi had barely finished speaking when she had already raised her foot and ruthlessly kicked Zhu Zhong Ba to fly off his feet.