Chapter 152: 146, Severing Tail to Escape (1/2)

146, Severing Tail to Escape (1/2)

"Young Master, I haven't seen you for two days, and I have missed you dearly."

The woman in the purple dress stood gracefully atop a bird demon with full, lush wings, her hair and skirt hem drifting slowly backward with the oncoming wind.

Her posture was ethereal and otherworldly, high and unreachable.

It made one look and feel an irrepressible urge to defile her.

As for the bird demon beneath the purple-dressed woman's feet, its eyes were filled with pink hearts, its expression dull and foolish; it had clearly been charmed by her.

Chen An felt envious.

This fox demon's Charm Technique was too unsolvable.

So unsolvable that she could turn enemies into friends at will.

No, it should be turning enemies into slaves.

If I didn't have the Sage's Art as my trump card, I reckon I would be just like this bird demon, stepped under her feet, becoming a puppet without a mind.

Thinking this.

Chen An moved his thoughts and used the Sage's Art, instantly entering the Sage mode, completely severing his desires and becoming immune to all charms.

He didn't rush to attack the purple-dressed woman, but asked in a calm voice:

"What kind of formation is this barrier?"

"It's not a formation, it's a Heavenly Prison Talisman, a Third-tier Talisman, oh; don't even think about escaping if you are below the Nascent Soul realm."

The purple-dressed woman smiled sweetly.

At this moment, she, too, was in no rush to attack Chen An.

Because in her eyes, Chen An was already a fish in a barrel; even if he grew wings, he would find it hard to fly away.

Chen An shook his head and sighed:

"I say, Fairy Fox, you are so devastatingly beautiful, and you have vast wealth and countless Dharma Artifacts; there are so many handsome male cultivators in this world that you could get one just by crooking your finger, so why must you fixate on me alone?"

Hearing this, the purple-dressed woman couldn't help but laugh.

Afterward, her soul-captivating beautiful eyes curved slightly, looking somewhat amused:

"Since I look so charming in your eyes, then why don't you submit to me?"

"Are you afraid that I will drain you dry?"

"Young Master, last time was just me being careless; today I have prepared more protective Dharma Artifacts, as well as various Dharma Artifacts used to restrict your struggling—you cannot escape anymore."

"In consideration of the fact that you will become a kept man under my feet in the future, I will give you a chance today to kneel and acknowledge me as your master, so you can avoid physical suffering."

While saying this, the purple-dressed woman drove the bird demon beneath her feet to fly up a little, just enough to pass over Chen An's head, so she could look down at him from a high position.

A kept man?

Acknowledge a master?

Chen An sneered: "Heh, are you even worthy?"

As the words fell, he instantly put away the Flying Sword beneath his feet.

At the same time, with a shift of his thoughts, he used the Shadow Kill Technique to flash behind the purple-dressed woman, unleashed the Intentional Bombing Fist, and slammed a punch fiercely toward the purple-dressed woman's thin back.

"Hum—"

This punch was extremely fast!

So fast that it created a sonic boom from the friction in the air!

The target was aimed directly at the purple-dressed woman's heart!

As long as the punch landed, the purple-dressed woman would surely die on the spot!

However!

When the fist landed on the purple-dressed woman's back near her heart, it was as if it had passed through air, going straight through the purple-dressed woman's body.

"Another illusion."

Chen An was expressionless and not overly surprised.

He had already foreseen this situation in his heart.

Although he possessed many Dharma Spells, the Sage's Art could grant immunity to the Charm Technique, the Intentional Bombing Fist could ignore various defensive means to break through, and the Shadow Kill Technique could close the distance instantly, he had no way to deal with the purple-dressed woman's Illusion Technique.

"Young Master, you really don't shed tears until you see the coffin."

From the direction behind him, the purple-dressed woman's charming and alluring voice rang out faintly.

Chen An didn't say a word, once again using the Shadow Kill Technique to teleport behind the purple-dressed woman and launched an attack on her.

The purple-dressed woman laughed charmingly, neither dodging nor evading, and was blasted into nothingness by a punch.

"Another illusion."

Chen An's heart remained calm, and he continued to attack the purple-dressed woman in a repeating cycle.

As soon as the purple-dressed woman appeared, he would immediately use the Shadow Kill Technique to get close; regardless of whether it was her true body or an illusion, he would strike them all the same.

"Young Master is truly persistent."

"But I don't dislike it."

"On the contrary, I even like it a little."

The purple-dressed woman always kept a smile on her face, revealing a triumphant expression like a cat playing with a mouse, which was very irritating to look at.

However, Chen An remained calm and composed.

He raised his fist again and slammed it fiercely toward his feet.

This time, he changed his attack target from the purple-dressed woman to the bird demon, smashing a punch directly onto the bird's back.

Very quickly!

Only a loud "Bang!" was heard!

The giant bird demon beneath his feet didn't even have time to let out a scream before Chen An punched through its body, causing it to die instantly and plummet from high in the sky.

Chen An aimed carefully, performed a "Black Tiger Steals the Heart" on the bird demon's corpse, extracted the Demon Core from within, and with a thought, stored it in his Storage Bag.

Afterwards, he quickly took out his Flying Sword to perform Sword Flight and slowly descended to the ground.

High in the sky, he could not unleash his full strength, but once on the ground, he had much more room to maneuver.

On the other side, the woman in the purple dress, having lost the bird demon's support, elegantly unfurled the nine fox tails behind her and drifted slowly to the ground like a celestial maiden descending from the heavens.

Chen An, who had landed a step earlier, could not help but be momentarily dazed upon seeing the woman in the purple dress looking like a celestial maiden descending.

Truly beautiful.

It is a pity she is a fox demon who only knows how to drain people's vital essence.

Once entangled, it is just like becoming addicted to those addictive drugs in his past life; it wouldn't be long before one's body was drained dry and collapsed, turning into a withered, rotten piece of wood.

Until the mind collapses, the flesh rots, and life reaches its end.

"Young Master, why aren't you running anymore?"

The woman in the purple dress tapped her toes lightly on the ground, landing steadily with a bewitching movement, perfectly displaying a graceful figure that was breathtakingly beautiful.

Seeing that the woman in the purple dress had also landed, Chen An did not waste words and directly used the Wood Escape Technique to flee.

Facing the woman in the purple dress, running away was always his first choice.

Only when he could not run would he choose to resist.

"Young Master is wasting his effort again."

"I have already said that the Heavenly Prison Talisman is a Third-tier Talisman; any cultivator below the Nascent Soul stage must accept their fate. Why must you be so stubborn?"

"It really makes one unable to understand."

The words of the woman in the purple dress were full of mockery, as if she had already treated Chen An as a little sparrow in her palm, to be humiliated and toyed with at will.

Chen An ignored her voice and silently used the Wood Escape Technique to flee in the opposite direction, away from the light membrane he had encountered earlier.

One hundred meters.

Two hundred meters.

Three hundred meters.

Four hundred meters.

Until he had fled nearly five hundred meters away.

Chen An discovered with some despair that the opposite direction had also been blocked off by a light membrane!

There was simply nowhere to escape!

This Heavenly Prison Talisman is too much of a cheat!

Now, facing the woman in the purple dress, he could neither hit her nor escape.

He had completely fallen into a dead end.

Soon, the woman in the purple dress caught up using the "Shrinking the Earth into an Inch" technique.

She raised a jade hand to tuck the black hair by her ear, looked at the towering tree in front with eyes as seductive as silk, and said in a soft, delicate voice:

"Young Master, why aren't you continuing to flee?"

"..."

The surroundings were silent, and no one responded.

The woman in the purple dress was not in a hurry either; she just stood there quietly, her gaze fixed on the towering tree in front of her.

After about a few breaths of time.

A figure emerged from the tree trunk.

It was none other than Chen An.

Chen An walked out from the tree trunk with a few traces of despair on his handsome face, looked at the woman in the purple dress, and asked:

"I accept my fate; I won't struggle anymore. I choose to be your boy toy."

"But I have one condition: I still have six wives and daughters at home, and I want to bring them with me."

"If you do not agree, I will fight you to the death!"

Chen An said this very resolutely, without any intention of bluffing.

The woman in the purple dress was silent for a moment, then smiled charmingly: "Fine, but they are only fit to be servants who pour tea and water for me; their status will be a hundred times lower than yours."

"It doesn't matter, as long as our family can live," Chen An compromised.

"Those who understand the times are heroes."

As the woman in the purple dress spoke, she took lotus steps toward Chen An, stopped in front of him, and said with breath like orchids: "I, Jiuji, have always been kind to others and like to win people over with virtue. Since you have chosen to acknowledge me as your master, I will not use a Dharma Artifact to bind your body or restrict your freedom."

After finishing, she struck a pose of a high-and-mighty master and said with a tone full of the aura of a superior: "Now I am hungry. As a boy toy, what are you going to do?"

"I will offer my vital essence for Master to consume."

As Chen An said this, he very consciously bent down slightly, aligning his forehead—the so-called Heavenly Gate—with the woman in the purple dress's rosy little mouth.

The woman in the purple dress was very satisfied.

The next moment, her body turned into a cluster of purple mist and dissipated into the wind without a trace.

It turned out that the woman in the purple dress before him just now was only an illusion, not her true self.

This fox demon is truly cautious...

Chen An thought to himself.

At this moment, the voice of the woman in the purple dress suddenly sounded behind him:

"You didn't make a move against me even when there was such a good opportunity just now; it seems Young Master has truly chosen to acknowledge me as your master."

Looking in the direction the voice came from, Chen An saw the woman in the purple dress walking slowly out from behind the towering tree behind him.

Is this the true self?

Or is it an illusion?

Chen An was not quite sure in his heart.

At this moment, the woman in the purple dress had already walked up to him again and stopped, reaching out to grab his collar, pulling his handsome face—which could make a fairy lose her way—right in front of her, and without another word, she opened her mouth and began to suck.

Immediately following, wisps of vapor were sucked out from Chen An's Heavenly Gate, all gathering together and surging into the woman in the purple dress's bright and alluring vermilion lips.

Pain, it was too painful!

As his vital energy was continuously sucked away, Chen An felt as if the marrow-cleansing essence within his body was being drawn out, his entire body aching to the point of near-convulsion.

Such a realistic sensation of pain!

The fox demon before his eyes must be the real body!

Screw her!

Thinking of this, Chen An stopped acting, opened his mouth, and unleashed an Evil Dragon Roar, letting out a deafening shout right in the face of the woman in the purple dress:

"Get lost!!!"

In an instant, a terrifying sound wave surged toward the woman in the purple dress!

The woman in the purple dress was happily sucking on the sweet and delicious vital energy, and before she could react to what was happening, her consciousness was brought to a standstill by the sound wave rushing at her face, leaving her whole person frozen in place, unable to move.

Taking advantage of the moment the woman in the purple dress was stunned, Chen An instantly erupted with Spirit Power, unleashed his Intentional Bombing Fist, and fiercely smashed a punch toward the woman in the purple dress's stunningly beautiful face.

Then, only a "Bang!" sound rang out!

Chen An's solid fist smashed fiercely into the woman in the purple dress's delicate face.

Afterwards, the woman in the purple dress's teeth instantly shattered, fresh blood splattered, and a clearly visible fist print was left on her stunningly beautiful face.

This punch landed very heavily.

It landed so hard that the woman in the purple dress was nearly rendered unconscious.

The Intentional Bombing Fist was effective!

It could break through this fox demon's defense!

Chen An was excited in his heart and immediately seized the victory to pursue, smashing another punch onto the woman in the purple dress's face.

"Bang!"

Accompanied by this dull sound of a punch.

Having suffered the immense force, the woman in the purple dress flew backward instantly like a kite with a broken string.

Chen An did not pause in the slightest, immediately taking a step forward, rushing toward the flying woman in the purple dress at the first opportunity, and bringing his hands together into a fist to smash fiercely into her lower abdomen.

Another "Bang!" sound rang out!

The woman in the purple dress, who was still flying backward, suddenly suffered a huge downward impact force on her abdomen, her entire body plummeted violently, and she smashed into the ground with a "Boom!", kicking up dust and fallen leaves all over the ground.

At the same time, the ground was shaken into a giant pit a hundred meters wide, with countless shocking cracks splitting open at the center, and the surrounding grass and trees were affected, falling over in all directions.

As for the woman in the purple dress, half of her body was buried deep in the center of the giant pit, and a trace of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.

Seeing this, Chen An, who was to the side, didn't even think, sat directly on the woman in the purple dress, raised his fists, and began to smash them fiercely toward her face.

"Bang!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

"Bang! Bang!"

The sounds of punching came one after another, continuous and uninterrupted.

Under the heavy blows of his fists, the woman in the purple dress had been beaten beyond recognition, no longer looking as charming as before.

However, Chen An had no intention of showing any pity for the fair sex.

He continued to swing his fists and smash fiercely.

Ten punches, twenty punches, thirty punches...

Chen An threw dozens or even a hundred punches in a row, terrified that the woman in the purple dress might not be dead, frantically smashing her face.

He knew one truth well: villains die from talking too much, and heroes die from not delivering the finishing blow.

Therefore, he dared not be careless for even a moment, not giving the fox demon beneath him any chance for a last-ditch counterattack.

As for his earlier submissive claim that he would be the woman in the purple dress's boy toy, that was merely a ruse he used to find the woman in the purple dress's true body.

He did not know how long he had been smashing.

He smashed until the Spirit Power in his body was exhausted.

He smashed until his hands were numb.

Only then did Chen An gasp for air, sitting limply and resting with no strength left in his whole body.

He did not know if the fox demon beneath him was dead or not, only that he was now exhausted and could no longer raise his fists.

"Don't... don't kill me, I know the Thousand Transformations Technique, I can change my form at will, whether it's... an imperial princess or a divine maiden of the immortal palace, as long as it's the appearance you like, I... I can change into it."

Suddenly, the woman in the purple dress beneath him spoke in a dying breath to beg for mercy.

She was not dead yet.

She was still alive.

Listening to the woman in the purple dress's voice, Chen An was filled with disbelief.

This fox demon's face had been beaten into such a state, yet she could still be alive?

Who said fox demons had weak physical bodies?

This ability to withstand blows looked a hundred times more exaggerated than a Heavenly Demon Bear!

"Die for me!"

Chen An gritted his teeth, once again raised his fists, which felt as heavy as if they had been filled with lead, and used all his remaining strength to smash toward the woman in the purple dress's face.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

He struck very slowly, with less than a third of the force he had initially.

However, for the purple-skirted woman who was already on the verge of death, this was already fatal enough.

One punch, two punches, three punches, four punches...

By the time the ninth punch landed, the purple-skirted woman beneath him, who had already completely ceased to breathe, suddenly exploded with a "pop," much like an inflatable doll being punctured in his previous life.

In an instant, fur drifted down from the sky, and the corpse of the purple-skirted woman eerily vanished, leaving behind only a fox tail devoid of all life, lying quietly on the ground, motionless.

What is going on?

Chen An was completely stunned by the scene before him, unable to react for a moment to what had just happened.

It was not until a long while later.

He finally regained his senses slightly and muttered uncertainly:

"Is this... Severing Tail to Escape?"

Red Cedar Forest.

Inside a natural cave somewhere.

The purple-skirted woman supported herself against the stone wall with her left hand, clutched her chest tightly with her right, and dragged her heavy, weak body to the stone bed, where she sat with her back against the wall.

Her once rosy and tender face had now turned deathly pale, filled with an expression of agony.

Just a moment ago, as a natural Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, she had unfortunately and miserably "died" under Chen An's fists.

Fortunately, she had nine tails, and each one could serve as a substitute for death through the method of Severing Tail to Escape.

Otherwise, she would have already perished and ceased to exist in this world.

However, Severing Tail to Escape comes with a price.

Her life was saved, but her soul had suffered a significant backlash, causing her body's vitality to be severely damaged.

Without spiritual pills or rare flowers and fruits to remedy this, her cultivation might even drop, destroying ten years of bitter practice in an instant.

"You despicable and shameless wretch, just you wait. Sooner or later, I will conquer you, trample you under my feet, suck dry your essence, drain your body, and use the most vicious words and methods in the world to humiliate you, making you a slave for all eternity!"

The purple-skirted woman's eyes were filled with malice as she gritted her teeth in anger.

No sooner had she finished speaking than her expression suddenly changed, a sweet taste surged into her throat, and she spat out a large mouthful of blood with a "pfft" sound.

Following this, a series of painful coughs rang out.

"Cough... cough cough... cough cough!"

"Cough cough cough!"

No... this won't do, my body can't take it; I must take the Nine-Turn Soul Returning Pill to repair my soul.

Thinking this, the purple-skirted woman quickly moved her thoughts to retrieve a pill the size of a grape from her Storage Bag and placed it into her mouth with a pang of heartache.

The pill melted upon contact with her mouth, instantly transforming into wisps of soul power that surged into the purple-skirted woman's body.

In just a moment, the purple-skirted woman, who had appeared severely injured, saw her complexion turn rosy again, the vitality within her body grew increasingly rich, and her physical state gradually recovered to its peak.

PS: Failed to hit ten thousand words today, estimated to be only around eight thousand; red envelopes will be sent in the group at twelve o'clock sharp.