Chapter 946: Three Years Again, Three Years (7/2, Requesting Monthly Votes)

While speaking, Ming deliberately pulled out the previously signed contract.

As she shook her hand, the text on the contract suddenly blurred, the characters violently shifting, and the entire parchment turned from ordinary white to pitch black.

When all changes completed, beneath the black paper and white characters, the signed contract was—the Death Servant Contract!

It is a special dark contract that binds a slave, from life to death, entirely to the contract master.

A contract signed while alive… remains effective even after death!

As for how to exploit the post-death properties, each contract holder employs their own methods.

Tick-tock.

Tick-tock.

As the Fifth Huang Nu's corpse frantically crawled along the room's walls, Nian Tianjiao beside Ming dripped blood from his nose, drop by drop—his aura, strength, lifespan, and everything else were all devoured, absorbed, and turned into nourishment by the Fifth Huang Nu's corpse.

"Since you've become the Fifth Huang Nu's corpse, I'll call you Fifth Huang Gui. Play all you want, cause all the chaos you like—entire Nian Fu is your playground, little Huanghuang, grow fast, eat well, and work hard for me."

Fifth Huang Gui soon grew bored of the small room and crawled outside, tearing apart a passing Nian Fu servant with bare hands, growing a giant mouth on its palm, shoving the body inside, and emitting chewing sounds.

Ming, aware of all this, merely clapped her hands joyfully, danced around, letting the blood splashed along the corridor stain the floor of the room red.

…

Lone Mountain Hill.

A woman was leading a masked man in shackles up the mountain slope toward the summit.

Climbing the mountain meant nothing to the woman.

What upset her was that Nian Wushuang, this dogged lackey, was utterly useless.

Though she'd brought him along for extra hands, such a useless lackey made her deeply displeased.

As for the man she was escorting, naturally it was… the Snake Seat of the Phoenix Organization's Twelve Seats!

Earlier at Juan Niao Lou, the Snake Seat had been auctioned off—and she had bid and won him.

She was Mu Liu, who, with the brilliance of a once-in-a-generation genius, swept through all of Jingcheng, known as… 【the Eccentric Prodigy】.

Mu Liu disliked this nickname, but often, nicknames aren't chosen by oneself—they're chosen by others.

Through the Snake Seat, she had already obtained some intelligence on the Phoenix Organization.

This time, she had come to have the Snake Seat guide her, connect with other members of the Phoenix Organization, and uncover its fatal weaknesses.

Soon, the three reached the summit. There, a man in a cloak stood with his back to them.

"You're the informant the Snake Seat mentioned?"

Mu Liu felt strange—this figure facing away from her radiated a stench, the stench of a corpse!

She wanted to step closer, to see who this informant truly was.

But at that moment, the cloaked man turned around.

Mu Liu finally saw the full face of the cloaked man—but his rigid features, hardened like petrified flesh, gave not a trace of living breath.

Yet upon closer inspection, she felt she had seen this person before…

Then, as she thought harder, her heart jolted—a name nearly burst forth from her mind.

"Tian Rui…"

Fwip!!

A sword, without warning, pierced out from her neck!

Mu Liu's eyes widened in shock, her voice trapped in her throat, unable to utter a single syllable.

She clutched her neck, her body collapsing limply, blood pooling on the ground.

As she fell, more swords erupted without warning from within her body, tearing through flesh and bursting through skin.

In the blink of an eye, she became a corpse speared through and through with swords, her wide eyes never even managing to utter a final word.

"W-what happened?! What happened! What did you do!?"

Nian Wushuang stared wide-eyed—he had never seen such an attack method.

This was beyond any Martial Technique—it was so incomprehensible, calling it eerie was too mild!

He had only intended to follow Mu Liu, using this woman to make contact with the Phoenix Organization.

He had even considered cutting off Mu Liu's head and presenting it to the Phoenix Organization as a gift, just to rescue the Snake Seat.

But he didn't need to lift a finger—the Phoenix Organization had killed Mu Liu for him!

This was Mu Liu, famed alongside the Jibing Shengnyu!

She had been killed so easily—when he himself, after extensive planning and preparing powerful, highly toxic drugs, had only just begun preparing to ambush and kill her.

Yet this man hadn't even moved—yet he'd impaled Mu Liu clean through! What kind of monster is this?!

As Nian Wushuang stared in terror…

Fwip!!

A sword pierced out from his forehead without warning.

Then came… swords! Swords! Swords! Swords! Swords! Swords! Swords!

In the blink of an eye, Nian Wushuang was pierced through by dozens of swords erupting from within him, collapsing with a thud.

Consciousness slowly darkened.

And at that moment, the last sound he heard was…

"Ox Seat sent you, this monster, to meet me… Tian Ruichi, take me to Ox Seat. I now know who controls Mu Liu's power—【Shang Qing Tian】 has reached into Qing Guo's imperial family? That reach is truly astonishing."

…

In Jingcheng, chaos reigned.

Beyond Jingcheng, upon the Han Jiang, a vast, immense Black Cloud drifted toward the city, drawing nearer, nearer, nearer!

…

Blazing Flame Sect.

The mountain peak that should have been occupied by Blazing Flame Sect disciples was now packed full of people from Extreme Ice Sect.

And outside Blazing Flame Sect's great hall, Blazing Flame Sect disciples stood in dense ranks.

It was as if the roles had been swapped — the Extreme Ice Sect, who should have been the attackers, had now entered Blazing Flame Sect's territory and become the defenders.

And the Blazing Flame Sect disciples, who should have been the defenders, had now become the attackers.

The reason the two sides' positions had been swapped was entirely because… Blazing Flame Sect had used a stratagem.

A very simple stratagem — the Empty City Technique.

Feigning inability to match the enemy, then luring them in with treasures, the Extreme Ice Sect people had indeed taken the bait, entering Blazing Flame Sect and seizing it.

But in truth, they were trapped inside Blazing Flame Sect, turtles in a jar.

"False intelligence, undercover disciples, an array Elder…"

The Extreme Ice Sect Sect Master, his eyes bloodshot, carefully counted off the names of these traitors.

This time, Blazing Flame Sect had truly played every card — all the traitors they had planted inside Extreme Ice Sect betrayed them all at once, not only providing false intelligence but also swaying the emotions of the others.

In the end, even one of Extreme Ice Sect's array Elders turned out to be a Blazing Flame Sect undercover agent!

"Three years, then another three years — Sect Master, do you know how many years I've been undercover in your Extreme Ice Sect? For this day, I don't know how long I've endured, how much hardship I've swallowed! Go to ruin! Extreme Ice Sect, be destroyed — hurry up!"

Recalling that array Elder's twisted face, the Extreme Ice Sect Sect Master was so angry his whole body trembled.

Others betraying them wouldn't have mattered much, but the moment this array Elder betrayed them, he directly reversed Blazing Flame Sect's array, trapping all of them inside Blazing Flame Sect at once — an instant checkmate!

Trapped.

(End of chapter)