Could it be that I am the cruel villain?
Chapter 122 - 102 When You Stare Into the Abyss... [4K]_2

Chapter 122: Chapter 102 When You Stare Into the Abyss... [4K]_2

"After all, we still need to investigate their backgrounds and assess their dispositions, lest we recruit some Evil Cultivators or spies from other forces... that would be quite troublesome."

"Speaking of which, how long have you been practicing cultivation, Senior Brother?"

She elegantly lifted her teacup and took a delicate sip.

She actually felt like laughing at Jiang Feng’s frightened appearance, but she did not point it out, simply asking casually.

"Almost two months now."

"Oh, two months is not a short time. Given your age, Senior Brother, you’re not young anymore. You must work hard to catch up... How much?"

The beautiful woman’s relaxed tone suddenly became serious.

"Two months."

He repeated.

A moment of stupor flashed in her eyes. Despite her best efforts to control her emotions, the shock that came from within was unavoidable. Merely two months and he’s already at the seventh layer of Qi Refinement?

What kind of talent is this? No wonder Master Liu entrusted this youth to her; despite his older age, his future prospects remained boundless.

In fact, she did not know that these two months also included Body Refining; otherwise, it was just over a month.

"Senior Brother’s cultivation speed is indeed impressive. Yu Ying will return to the sect in about a month. By then, she will also bring a group of people with her. In this month, Senior Brother can act freely. Yu Ying will arrange accommodations and hopes Senior Brother will practice diligently to achieve good results, so as not to tarnish Master Liu’s reputation."

Now that Liu Tangxi had left, she naturally would not continue to waste time here with Jiang Feng. Standing up, she smoothed out her slightly wrinkled long dress, placing one hand on the lute she always held and plucked a string lightly.

The soft and delicate sound in his ears gradually relaxed the youth’s somewhat tense mood.

But at the very moment he relaxed, the scene before his eyes suddenly blurred!

Yu Ying’s face, full of feigned smiles, immediately appeared before him!

Alarmed in his heart, he almost subconsciously reached for the sword at his waist, but he found his body couldn’t move!

The deliberately plucked string was no doubt a trap.

Her face with a fake smile finally faded, replaced by a hint of playful and faint mockery, as if a hunter saw their prey struggling in the throes of death.

A faint blush began to emerge in her black, watery eyes. Jiang Feng immediately realized what this woman wanted to do. His expression tightened - his sister had said earlier that although Yu Ying had a bad temper, she wouldn’t really harm him.

Then there was only one possibility for her actions.

He calmed down as quickly as possible, gritting his teeth, he began to imagine blood-boiling scenes in his mind, and various extreme images were continuously dug out from his memory, hoping to drive Yu Ying out of his mind with this crude method.

"This crazy woman..."

He couldn’t help but curse in his heart. He truly had not expected that his own sister would turn her back as soon as she left, determined to flip through someone else’s memories. Does she really have such a strong controlling desire?

It was suffocating.

Staring straight into Jiang Feng’s eyes, a barely noticeable blush crossed her face.

Although she was of a certain age, she had not yet sought a partner. And this young chap, despite his youthful looks, seemed to know quite a variety of tricks.

Suppressing the heat in her heart, she still continued to push her Divine Sense deeper into the youth’s heart, calmly pouring in all her Divine Sense, which was almost her entire cultivation. Finally, with her effort, the towering wall that had always stood firm began to show a crack.

Pushing her Divine Sense through the crack, she slowly opened her eyes inside the boy’s body.

With a hint of surprise and confusion.

"A vast ocean? Or a lake?"

She furrowed her brows, looked around. There were green mountains surrounding, but there was no sign of life, silence that was almost eerie.

Perhaps the only thing out of place was a small thatched hut by the lake, its purpose unknown.

Bending down, she touched the black lake water with her fingers. Yu Ying, although not as experienced as Liu Tang, had some discernment. What she felt under her feet was not water, but a highly concentrated compressed gas, indistinguishable from water in appearance.

With just a light rub, it turned into gas and dissipated, before sinking back into the lake.

Boom—

"What’s going on!"

The sudden tremor made Yu Ying’s heart tense!

She had not felt the emotion called "fear" for many years, but the dull booming was as terrifying as the pronouncement of a deity’s descent.

The lake’s surface began to boil.

Tiny bubbles burst like firecrackers in constant crackles!

She stared fixedly at the lake beneath her feet. The terrifying fluctuation of Spiritual Energy made her legs go weak in an instant, and as she watched in horror, a colossal head, several tens of meters in height, suddenly surged out of the water!

"A Demon Beast!? How is this possible!"

Her pupils trembled wildly. The size of this Demon Beast, even in the entire East Continent, no, it might not be much smaller than the body of the Guardian Sect Beast of Purple Cloud Palace!

Exhaling cold air, its eyes, larger than her own, revealed humanized playfulness and cruelty, despite the inability to display much expression on a serpent’s face.

But she knew.

It was smiling.

In just an instant, hunter and prey were reversed, and she didn’t even have time to think before the gaping maw loomed larger and larger in her vision...

"Ah!!!"

Clang!

Bang—

"What happened?"

"What happened!"

Those on the fifth floor, responsible for tallying the month’s cultivation resources, upon hearing the screams from above, could no longer heed the Pavilion Master’s orders and all ran up, for the commotion was indeed no small matter.