CH 1

The salivating hyenas surrounded them while they were still being intimate.

Gu Lingxiao pressed Chi Ning onto the couch, his slender fingers closing around his prey’s fragile neck, while doing even more blasphemous things with his lower half, “Those self-proclaimed ‘righteous sect’ idiots are here again.” Coldness could be seen from his brow. “What fine timing. My servants were getting hungry. They can be our lunch.”

Chi Ning was flushed with pale pink all over, his white garments hanging from his elbows as if wishing to fall. “You s-said you’d turn back…”

“Turn back?” Gu Lingxiao laughed as if he had heard the greatest joke in the world. “My dearest Master, were this Ascension Palace’s chains wound a bit too tight, to the point that you’ve become muddled? If I turn back now, the people outside will hack me to pieces to relieve their anger.”

“I didn’t mean that agreement I gave you. It was just because you were pretty obedient in bed.”

“If I ‘turn back’, will there be anyone at my side?”

Gu Lingxiao, the Arrogant Venerable who terrified the entire world. Who could bring back the dead as puppets at his feet, who left mountains of corpses and seas of bones, flowing with blood, in his wake.

It was said that Gu Lingxiao was once a disciple of the Cloudless Immortal of Clustering Jade Peak, and worked up serious enmity with him. As soon as he came into power, he razed Clustering Jade Peak to the ground, beheaded all its disciples at the summit, and even captured his old master and imprisoned him to his bed, to sing for him night after night.

Gu Lingxiao wrapped his arms around Chi Ning’s narrow waist, hugging this beauty with the flesh of ice and bones of jade to his bosom. 

Being bullied so terribly, Chi Ning couldn’t help but let out a whimper, his voice as soft and moving as an epiphyllum blooming in the spring night.

Gu Lingxiao loved his master’s expression when forced over the edge the most. He thoughtfully stepped up his efforts, yet saw Chi Ning bite his lower lip, unwilling to let slip another sound.

“I really want to slice this part open, and see if everything inside is made of stone. You’re already a prisoner, why do you keep up this act, as if you’re carved of ice and snow?!” Gu Lingxiao set his palm on Chi Ning’s chest, caressing it dangerously. “Master has seen my heart before. You cut me open with your own two hands. My blood flowed down the bones of your wrist, dyeing your entire robe red.”

Chi Ning’s heart felt as if it was really gripped cruelly. He spoke with a crumbling voice, “D-don’t say that… I beg of you.”

“Why not? There are some things I can’t remember quite clearly, so please remind me, Master. How old was I, your disciple, back then? Was I in pain when you gouged out my heart?”

“I’m so sorry…”

“So you’ve learned to apologize. How peculiar.” Gu Lingxiao sneered coolly.

The person in his lap gave no reaction. Gu Lingxiao pinched Chi Ning’s chin and forced him to lift his head. Wisps of Chi Ning’s hair stuck to his cheek, and his reddened eyes were hung with droplets of tears.

He was actually crying.

Gu Lingxiao tried everything to make Chi Ning cry in bed. But Chi Ning was tough, and even when in extreme pain, even when his mouth was full of blood from biting himself, he endured it and didn’t let out a sound.

Yet today, because of old matters, he cried so plaintively, yet Gu Lingxiao couldn’t feel happy at all.

“It’s not too late to pull back. I’ll bear the heinous crimes with you, I’ll help you reconstruct your immortal body, and we’ll raise your cultivation little by little…”

“Enough!”

Gu Lingxiao interrupted loudly.

How laughable. This man was the one who crippled Gu Lingxiao’s immortal body, and dispersed all of his cultivation, and yet had such hilarious dreams of making him repent?

Impossible.

Gu Lingxiao was finished venting. Without a care about the wellbeing of the person on his bed, he got up abruptly, calmly fastening his belt again. His figure was beautiful, with flowing lines of muscles that contained dangerous force.

“I’m going to deal with those bastards. Wait for me to return.”

Chi Ningwas so tired that he was barely conscious, and nodded dazedly. His long hair spread out on the brocade, and his thin form only took up a small portion of the quilt.

He was much too thin, like a pitiful kitten.

Gu Lingxiao’s heart was uncomfortable. Before he left, he said, “I’ll make food you like tonight, so don’t drop dead in this Ascension Palace.”