Above the Great Dao
Chapter 414 - 203 Courtyard Hiding Beauty (3rd Update!)

Chapter 414: Chapter 203 Courtyard Hiding Beauty (3rd Update!)

Within the large compound, elderly women shouted furiously, some mobilizing their Golden Cores to attack Chen Shi, others somersaulting into action, agile despite their age, sturdy as they prepared to scale the wall and escape.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

Hairpins flew through the air, tingling like bells, piercing through one elderly woman after another with such speed that it dazzled onlookers.

The attacking elderly women collapsed to the ground, rolling and twisting, coming to a halt as lifeless corpses.

Just as one woman began to scale the wall, a streak of blood appeared on its surface; her heart had been pierced several times by a hairpin, her strength vanishing instantly, her body hanging on the wall.

Others rushed into the buildings, and as soon as the copper beads jingled, thumping collisions sounded from within, followed by a scream.

"Plunk!"

An elderly woman fell into the water, face down, floating on the surface. After struggling for a moment, she lay motionless.

Soon, the blood from her body turned the pond scarlet.

The grand compound quieted down, save for the tingling sound of flying hairpins.

The sound came from the street outside, swift and quick, accompanied by scream after scream.

Girls within the grand courtyard halted their training and each looked up, listening to the bell-like sounds outside.

This sound seemed to touch their long-numbed souls.

They had been trained for too long, so long that such training was embedded deep within their marrow.

They had been beaten too much, too frightened to resist these elderly women.

The tingling sound was the deathly demonic melody of the elderly women of Rouge Lane, yet it was the music of salvation for them.

Suddenly, the tingling noise stopped.

Girls in the grand compound each showed a moment of panic, but soon resumed their calm demeanor.

They continued their previous activities: a girl playing the pipa leaned against the railing, the young girls dancing by the water continued to dance barefoot, unabashed by the blood-red water, the girl tuning the strings continued her adjustments, with an elderly woman’s body lying at her feet.

They tried their best to perform enticingly so that every man who saw them couldn’t help but be heart-stricken.

At that moment, a hairpin flew in, gently landing in Chen Shi’s palm.

All the girls in the courtyard stopped and looked towards the hairpin in his palm.

Blood dripped from the hairpin, pattering onto the grass.

"I’ll fight you with my dying breath!"

An elderly woman, in a last-ditch struggle, staggered to the front of the house, trying to run into the yard but tripped and fell to the ground.

Her body was riddled with blood holes; she twisted and crawled forward, gritting her teeth in anger that seemed to stem from fear that had escalated to its furthest extreme.

She wanted to kill Chen Shi!

She had been extremely afraid, thinking she would be killed by the murderous Demon King with a hairpin like the other women. However, to her unexpected surprise, the others were dead, and she alone survived.

But it was a fate worse than death.

Chen Shi manipulated the hairpin, weaving it in and out of her body, leaving behind many blood holes, yet deliberately avoiding the lethal spots.

Chen Shi had punctured her upper, middle, and lower Dantians, destroyed her cultivation, and left her with these wounds, tormenting her like a cat with a mouse, until she died from it.

Knowing she couldn’t escape, she turned back to the house to fight Chen Shi to the death. At the very least, she wanted to infuriate Chen Shi enough to grant her a swift end!

She crawled determinedly towards Chen Shi, muttering curses in the vilest language.

Chen Shi remained unmoved, his palm holding the bloodied hairpin, quietly watching the girl playing the pipa, quietly waiting.

The pipa girl panicked briefly, then concentrated fiercely on playing.

The other girls also did their best in their tasks, having been trained too long, their charming demeanor seemingly natural, but they were more like tamed animals than people.

The elderly woman continued to curse at Chen Shi, her face twisted fiercely as if she would crawl up to him and devour him bite by bite.

"I’ll slaughter you!" she crawled closer.

The pipa girl’s eyes fell on her, unexpectedly forgetting to play.

Chen Shi’s palm was steady, still cradling the bloodstained hairpin, looking at the pipa girl with an encouraging expression, as if saying, "Blow on it once."

A blow of air.

It could soar and kill those who humiliated you.

Just a breath, and it could kill those who treated you like an animal.

Blow on it, and you could become human again.

Alive and human!

Come on, blow once more.

...

The girl, as if tempted, dropped her pipa and staggered towards him, her hair, unrestrained by hairpins, cascading down.

Her face, once habitually sweet and charming, now bore a trace of solemnity, and her eyes flickered with hatred as she snatched the hairpin from Chen Shi’s hand and rushed, almost tripping, towards the old woman.

"Splash!"

The hairpin plunged into the old woman’s back; the young girl began to cry, pulling out the hairpin and stabbing it again.

Enraged and shocked, the old woman cried out, "You wretched girl, what are you doing? You’ve turned the world upside down! You’re a bought animal, how dare you stab me! I’ll slaughter you!"

She would rather die at Chen Shi’s hand than be humiliated by this girl.

For her, the girls in this courtyard were bought animals, money-making livestock. To be killed by such an animal was a great disgrace.

Crying, the girl continued to pull out and stab the hairpin, her white garment turning red with blood.

"Despicable woman!"

The old woman, pushed beyond her limits, tried to muster her remaining strength, but another girl ran over, pulled off her own hairpin from her head, and pounced on her, "Splash!" the hairpin sank in.