Chapter 44: A Spirited Girl
Chapter 44: A Spirited Girl
On the eighteenth underground floor of the Jinling Sect, in the corridor of the experimental hall, Luan Qingyu was escorted by Wen Rui to an unknown destination.
No matter whether he politely refused or shouted for help, Senior Brother Wen was determined and turned a deaf ear to him and refused to listen. It was clear that he would help Luan Qingyu even if he had to force himself.
As for how to help, Senior Brother Wen only said, "You'll know in a moment!" The more Luan Qingyu thought about it, the more scared he became. He became more and more certain that if he didn't find a way to escape, he would definitely experience the most terrifying tragedy in his life, and it would be uncertain whether he could get out of the Jinling Sect safely in the future.
The girl even suspected that Senior Sister He, who had strongly recommended her to come here for help, had already suffered the cruel kidnapping and torture of Senior Brother Wen, and the whole bird had turned into the shape of Senior Brother Wen from the inside out. So she became an accomplice to Senior Brother Wen and became a traitor hidden in the Lishan Immortal Sect, specifically helping him to trick Junior Sister into throwing herself into the fire pit.
Luan Qingyu wanted to escape, but the magic used by Wen Rui was too overbearing. It would be launched without warning no matter if the person was too close or too far away.
After several failed attempts and a lot of suffering, Luan Qingyu even figured out the rules of activation.
If you are more than ten steps away from Wen Rui or within two steps of him, the first stage of the magic punishment "Pain" will come. If you are farther away or closer, the second stage of the punishment "Paralysis" will take effect immediately.
Pain is a warning and paralysis means an immediate interruption of the ability to move. Under the control of such strange magic, Luan Qingyu can only be forced to follow Wen Rui's instructions and follow him obediently.
Luan Qingyu was not a delicate lady who could not stand the pain, but when she heard that the pain her senior brother had defined was "toothache", this feeling of pain hit her blind spot in cognition - birds do not have teeth, and they only grow teeth after transforming into humans.
She had no immunity to toothache at the genetic level. The sudden, needle-like pain in her cheek was something Luan Qingyu could not endure even if she clenched her teeth. Every time it exceeded her limit, she rolled on the ground with her hands covering her cheek in pain.
After several failed escape attempts, she was so worn out that she lost her spirit and had no choice but to obey Wen Rui's orders. Even though she was not tied up, she behaved like a prisoner.
While being escorted from the reception hall to the experimental hall, Luan Qingyu used all the purification spells, incantations, and magical powers she knew. Even when she performed them in front of Senior Brother Wen who was escorting her, the other party didn't care and let her perform freely.
Luan Qingyu even used all his strength to perform "inner vision", examining himself with the "subtle" insight of the Nascent Soul stage, and his spiritual sense swept through every cell in the body, but in the end he found nothing.
The microscopic insight of a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage has reached the cellular level, that is, the smallest introspective scale is 5 microns. However, 1 micron is equal to 1000 nanometers, and the diameter of the basic component unit of a nanorobot is only 5 nanometers. In order to see clearly, one needs to increase the insight of the spiritual consciousness by 1 times, which is far beyond the observation scale that Luan Qingyu can achieve.
Faced with Luan Qingyu who was trying hard to break the nanorobot parasitism, Wen Rui took out a jade slip with great interest to observe and record all her responses in preparation for further upgrades to the nanoparasitic robot.
As expected, all attempts failed, but this was not beyond Luan Qingyu's expectations. Her Heavenly Phoenix Holy Body should have been immune to all evil, but now it was attacked against common sense. This meant that Wen Rui's methods were either "heterodox magic", "secret magic", or "ancient witchcraft".
The principle behind this mysterious and strange technique that was not within the Five Elements and beyond the Six Realms was unknown. After Luan Qingyu tried many times without success, he gave up resisting and accepted his fate with a dead look on his face.
The two walked along a metal corridor into a hall, where many instruments with flashing lights were displayed. In the center was a cylindrical transparent glass jar. Countless pipes connected the instruments in the hall to the glass jar.
Wen Rui stopped, as if this was the final destination of the escort. Luan Qingyu's heart couldn't help but hang in the air. The strange glass jar in front of him looked a bit evil. It didn't look like the magic weapon used by righteous cultivators at all, but more like a creation of the demon clan.
"Wen! I'm warning you, I'm a descendant of the Phoenix, and the Holy Mother promised that the Phoenix elders would take good care of me." Luan Qingyu said solemnly, "If you dare to attack me, the Holy Mother will not forgive you, and the Phoenix clan will not let you go either!"
"Junior Sister Luan, you don't seem to understand your situation."
Wen Rui was adjusting those strange instruments at the side, and he didn't even look at her. He said in a cold voice with a blank expression: "You are now under the influence of my unique secret technique. Your life and death are only a matter of thought. This secret technique can not only cause pain, but also stimulate the pituitary gland to secrete certain hormones that make you extremely happy. I can spend days and nights using this secret technique to slowly torture you, using unimaginable pain and equally unimaginable pleasure to repeatedly crush your sanity inch by inch, and turn you into a puppet doll that only obeys me..."
At this point, he raised his head, showing his sharp white teeth, and gave Luan Qingyu a smile that he thought was kind and harmless: "I almost forgot, I have been stimulating the pain nerves, and I haven't tested the pituitary stimulation function yet. After a slap, I have to give you a sweet date. Let you experience the pure happiness brought by dopamine secretion."
Luan Qingyu didn't quite understand what Wen Rui said. Just as she was lost in thought, her whole body shook for no reason. A refreshing feeling burst out from her head and spread along her spine to her whole body. All the colors in her sight became brighter, and the corners of her mouth curled up uncontrollably. Although she was in danger, she felt extremely at ease and comfortable, as if her soul had left her body and was floating like a fairy.
This wonderful feeling was fleeting. When Luan Qingyu woke up, all kinds of real-life sufferings, fears and pressures once again enveloped her tightly, making her miss that brief, ethereal and illusory feeling so much and hate the real world she lived in so much.
Fortunately, the experience of that floating feeling was very short. If it was longer, Luan Qingyu would be completely addicted to it and unable to extricate himself. In order to enter that dreamlike and wonderful realm again, he would even give up and sacrifice everything.
Luan Qingyu was not too afraid of the pain or even paralysis caused by the secret technique, but the short moment of bliss really made her feel chilled to the bone, and also made her sure that what Wen Rui said was true. If he wanted, he could really destroy her sanity with this method and transform her into a walking corpse who obeyed his orders. Even if he let her go, she would become a loyal dog and slave like He Lingyun. How could she go to the Lishan Holy Mother and the elders of the clan to complain?
"Junior Sister Luan, I have already said it in advance. I have shown you the ugliest thing I can do."
After Wen Rui finished debugging the machine, he said to her seriously, "But I won't do that. It's not that I'm afraid of the Holy Mother of Mount Li or the elders of the Phoenix Clan, but I have no intention of hurting you. If you hadn't tried to make some boring temptations on me, things wouldn't have developed to this point."
He explained in a very serious tone: "There is a chain of suspicion between you and me. I am really a mortal body, and my small body can't withstand even a probing punch from you. And I am a strange man to you, and I feel a natural threat to you as a woman."
"This game of suspicion is full of uncertainty and is very dangerous to me. The way to break the deadlock is for one party to completely control the situation and show overwhelming strength, so that the other party will have no reason to suspect anything."
"If my cultivation level was far higher than yours, there would be no need to go through so much trouble. You would naturally believe in me. It's a pity that I am a useless cultivator with a mortal body."
"But I think that even if I am a mortal, I still have a hundred ways to crush you. As a mere Nascent Soul cultivator, you should give me enough respect, discard the rebelliousness and suspicion hidden in your heart, and obediently follow my teachings, so that you can more efficiently realize your wish to defeat He Lingyun."
At this point, Wen Rui's face darkened: "After all, I'm very busy. I don't have the time to play house with you. I have to help you improve yourself financially and physically, and at the same time I have to take care of your childish emotions and make you happy!"
Luan Qingyu was stunned after listening to this long passage. Her mind suffered a great shock and overturned her common sense - it was deeply rooted that cultivators often despised mortals and involuntarily developed a sense of superiority when facing mortals.
Although Senior Brother Wen's actions were as shameless as his previous insidious poisoning, he actually managed to subdue her completely. His ultimate goal was to make her face the reality, put aside distracting thoughts, and truly believe in Senior Brother Wen's advice.
Now she couldn't refuse to obey. She had no way of breaking through the mysterious methods used by Senior Brother Wen. The subsequent terrifying methods could not only easily destroy her arrogance and contempt, but could even transform her into a puppet toy.
The girl in green lowered her head and whispered, "I understand..."
"You want to cultivate immortality with such a low voice?"
Wen Rui did not let her go and shouted loudly.
"I understand!"
"What do you understand?"
"I will definitely follow my brother's instructions!"
"The sound is too low, I can't hear it!"
"Junior sister Luan Qingyu has deeply reflected on herself and eliminated all distracting thoughts. She will definitely follow the teachings of senior brother and work hard to defeat He Lingyun!"
"Okay, very spirited!"
Wen Rui nodded with satisfaction and pointed at the cylindrical glass jar.
"This item is a secret magic weapon of the Golden Spirit Sect, called the 'Realm Improvement Acceleration Chamber'. Its function is similar to the cultivation magic weapons of other sects, such as the 'Spirit Gathering Cushion', 'Heart Condensing Formation Diagram', 'Realm Breaking Treasure Cauldron', and 'Soul Quenching Incense'. It consumes a huge amount of spirit stones to gather spiritual energy and inject it into the high-density spirit-friendly solution in the tank, which speeds up the practitioner's spiritual energy absorption and refining speed, in order to achieve the goal of quickly improving cultivation."
Luan Qingyu, who came from a great family of immortal cultivators, had naturally heard of the magical weapons that Wen Rui mentioned, but those were extremely precious and rare high-level spiritual treasures, which were the foundation for a sect to grow and develop.
The Lishan Immortal Sect only had one similar spiritual treasure to assist in cultivation, and that was the "Wu Dang Huan Jing" of the Lishan Holy Mother. However, the spiritual stones consumed to operate this treasure were staggering. With the financial situation so tight, they could not afford to use it to improve the realm of their disciples, so it was abandoned for a long time.
He never thought that the Jinling Sect actually had hidden spiritual treasures for cultivation. Luan Qingyu was not too surprised. After all, the ancestors of the Jinling Sect were very wealthy, and the ranking of the Jinling Mother in the Jiejiao was even higher than that of the Wudang Mother. It was normal for them to leave behind some secret treasures.
However, this "Realm Improvement Acceleration Cabin" looks ordinary. There is no shining precious light and no detectable fluctuation of spiritual energy. It seems to be just an ordinary object.
(End of this chapter)