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Slap!

Slap...

After a series of slapping sounds, Mo Tianxiao shook his sore hand and temporarily let Yun Sangyi off the hook.

Meanwhile, Yun Sangyi lay completely limp on the ground. A faint redness lingered on her cheeks, and her eyes stared blankly ahead as if her soul had been sucked out.

At first, she had put up a bit of resistance, but without her cultivation, there was absolutely nothing she could do. In the end, she could only endure it in silence.

By the time she could no longer feel the pain and only numbness remained, she had lost all will to fight back. Let it be, she thought, she didn't care about anything anymore.

"Why..."

After a moment of silence, Yun Sangyi's weak voice sounded, devoid of any emotion.

"Hmm?"

Mo Tianxiao turned his head, looking at Yun Sangyi who was slumped against the wall, and raised an eyebrow. "Why what? Why did I stop? Haven't you had enough of a beating?"

Yun Sangyi forced her head up, her gaze filled with deep resentment, along with a bit of hatred and complexity. "Why are you doing this to me? I clearly didn't do anything, nor did I plan to kill you. Why are you treating me like this?"

Just because she was an assassin? Was that why he had to humiliate her like this?

She clearly hadn't done anything...

"Oh? You mean to say that the first time you laid eyes on me, you were captivated by my Divine Transformation Realm cultivation and handsome appearance? Or are you saying that seeing how weak I was, your saintly heart overflowed with compassion, and you invited me to join your team genuinely to protect me?"

Mo Tianxiao stepped forward and squatted in front of Yun Sangyi. He lifted her chin, a smile on his face. "I knew your identity from the very beginning."

"Along the way, I kept exposing all sorts of flaws, but to my surprise, you held back every single time. Since you didn't make a move, I simply pretended not to know.

As it happens, your presence also helped me delay the Blood God Palace from sending even more formidable assassins."

Hearing this, Yun Sangyi closed her eyes. It turned out that he had seen through her completely from the start. His traveling with her was merely playing along with her act, just to delay the time of her mission's failure.

It didn't matter what she said now. She had already fallen into his hands, and her cultivation base was sealed. Just as he said, her current status was that of a prisoner; making excuses was useless.

"I don't know any of the information you want to know. Just kill me."

Yun Sangyi had resigned herself to her fate. She had never imagined that a person's destiny could change so quickly. From the peak of the mountain to the bottom of the valley, it only took an instant.

For some unknown reason, memories of her various experiences with him in the Hundred Thousand Mountains inexplicably surfaced in her mind. Robbing powerful demonic beasts of their treasures together, splitting the spoils together, and finally watching a battle between Holy Realm experts before arriving here.

They had only known each other for a few years and spent a few months traveling together, but the experiences felt richer than the past decades or even centuries.

Is this my life flashing before my eyes? But why am I recalling these things? Why is this bad guy the last thing on my mind?

"When did I ever say I was going to kill you?"

Mo Tianxiao pinched her cheeks, squishing her lips into a pout. "Seeing as you held back and didn't kill me along the way, I've decided to give you a chance. We might even become friends."

The Eye of Detection scanned Yun Sangyi's information.

Name: Yun Sangyi

Cultivation: Eighth Stage of the Primal Spirit Realm

Destiny Level: Red

Profile: The rebellious eldest miss of the Yun family from the Western Region Buddhist Kingdom, a part-time assassin for the Blood God Palace. Has a terrible personality and enjoys toying with people's hearts.

Considering that she hadn't done anything excessive to him, he would reluctantly give her a chance.

Red destiny was quite good. It wouldn't be a bad idea to groom someone with such high potential.

As for having a terrible personality? A couple of slaps and she'd behave. Besides, he didn't think Yun Sangyi's personality was all that terrible anyway.

"Who wants to be your friend! After doing this kind of thing to me, do you think we can still be friends?"

Hearing that Mo Tianxiao wasn't going to kill her, Yun Sangyi froze for a moment, but her expression immediately returned to calm. Her eyes were icy, and her tone was hostile: "If you don't kill me, we will definitely become enemies in the future."

Having torn off her mask, Yun Sangyi stopped pretending to be a good girl. Revealing her true nature, she said expressionlessly, "I advise you not to give me a chance, otherwise, I will definitely repay what happened today a hundredfold."

She was someone who knew how to weigh the pros and cons. After learning Mo Tianxiao's identity, she knew she couldn't afford to offend this guy. Even with her Yun family backing her, they couldn't afford to provoke him either. Therefore, she had decisively abandoned the assassination mission, deciding to keep her distance from him and at least avoid becoming enemies.

However, that was her previous thought. After he tricked her into coming here, sealed her cultivation, and did a series of unforgivable things to her, she no longer cared about who she could or couldn't afford to offend. She just wanted revenge!

She wanted revenge! She was going to beat his butt to a pulp!

"Good!"

Mo Tianxiao gave her a thumbs-up, looking at her with an appreciative gaze. "Yun Sangyi, you're really something. I didn't expect you to have such a backbone."

Facing Mo Tianxiao's thumbs-up, Yun Sangyi proudly raised her head. In that instant, she believed her uncompromising stance had triumphed over him.

However, the next second, a force struck her, and her body was flipped over.

While she was still dazed, a familiar pain hit her, followed by Mo Tianxiao's sinister laughter. "I said I wouldn't kill you, so I won't. But since your bones are so stiff, it seems it'll take a bit more time to get you to cooperate obediently."

The merciless slaps fell heavily.

Mo Tianxiao once again transformed into a ruthless slapping machine, while Yun Sangyi angrily gritted her teeth, not uttering a single sound. Her eyes were terrifyingly resolute; she would fight to the bitter end! If he had the guts, he should just kill her!

No amount of humiliation could change her will! From childhood to adulthood, she had never suffered such a grievance. If she didn't avenge this...

Seeing her unyielding backbone, Mo Tianxiao wasn't in a hurry. He didn't use any other vicious methods; he simply used the most basic slapping attacks to wear down her spirit.

It wouldn't damage her foundation, but it would devastate her will.

After a whole day of this, Yun Sangyi stubbornly remained completely silent.

Her flesh was even beaten bloody and bruised...

Mo Tianxiao wiped the blood from his hands, stuffed a healing pill into Yun Sangyi's mouth, and walked straight out, closing the door and leaving Yun Sangyi inside.

"I hope you can keep this up."

Yun Sangyi indeed hadn't made a lethal move against him. However, the moment she accepted this mission and sought him out, her fate was already in his hands.

The Blood God Palace would always be a problem. According to Su Muyao, in at most two to three hundred years, his Master's strength would break through the upper limits of the Xuanhuang Realm. By then, without the protection of a super powerhouse like his Master, he wouldn't necessarily be safe even if he stayed hidden inside the Demonic Sect forever.

The Blood God Palace's hundred percent mission completion rate forced him to take things seriously.

Therefore, he decided that before his Master broke through, he would eliminate the threat of the Blood God Palace, or at the very least, find out exactly where their headquarters was located.

As long as he knew the precise location of the Blood God Palace's headquarters, threatening them would be much easier. In this world, there was no shortage of cultivators who wanted to eradicate the Blood God Palace.

If worst comes to worst, I will just swallow my pride and ask Master to step in. I can also rope in Su Muyao and my nominal father-in-law from the Hundred Thousand Mountains. Three Quasi-Emperors should be more than enough to wipe out the Blood God Palace, right?

Of course, the prerequisite for all this is actually being able to find the Blood God Palace's lair.