Xuanwu War Sovereign

"I’m going to kill you!"

The beautiful woman’s stunning face flushed crimson, whether from rage or humiliation, it was impossible to tell.

’Who was she? The eldest daughter of the Xu Family. One of the ten great beauties of the Great Yan Kingdom, a noble of golden branches and jade leaves. She was the matriarch of the Guan Family, one of the Nine Great Families—lofty, dignified, and graceful, respected by countless Guan disciples. When had she ever been violated like this?’

And by a young man no older than her own daughter.

Yet at this moment, she could only let the black-robed youth hold her. Her Condensing Vein Realm power was completely suppressed, impossible to unleash. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Helplessness. Despair! For the first time, the eyes of this ever-lofty woman in white betrayed a flicker of panic, a feeling of being completely out of control.

"Feeling desperate? Have you forgotten what you just said? That you’d finish us in a single breath?" Qin Feng sneered, holding the beautiful woman fast to prevent her escape.

"Let go of me, you little thief!" Xu Ya’s eyes blazed with fury, her heart in turmoil.

’A perfect chance!’ Seizing the moment of Xu Ya’s mental instability, Qin Feng summoned a trace of power from the Jade Sea Abyss, forming an aqua-blue sigil that he pressed toward her Spirit Platform.

Streams of blue light converged on Xu Ya’s Spirit Platform, forming a strange, ice-blue sigil that carried an air of supreme majesty.

The Abyssal Mark! This was an Origin mark Qin Feng had created to control the denizens of the Abyss. Once branded, the victim would be transformed by the Power of Abyss into a creature of the Abyss, their life and death controlled by Qin Feng’s every whim.

PFFT!

Just as the aqua-blue sigil was branding itself inch by inch into the depths of the beautiful woman’s soul, it suddenly shuddered and was violently forced out.

"What was that?" Xu Ya’s mind cleared, and she instantly broke free from her shame and rage. She stared at Qin Feng warily.

A moment ago, a mysterious power had attempted to invade her mind.

’It was very similar to some sort of mind-control Divine Ability!’

’As expected of a Condensing Vein Realm expert. Her will is formidable,’ Qin Feng thought, frowning slightly. ’I only have twenty breaths of time left. Do I really have no choice but to kill her? Can’t she be controlled?’

Seeing the wary look on the beautiful woman’s face, Qin Feng decided to try again. If he could subdue her, she would surely be an unexpected asset when dealing with the Guan Family later.

"It’s nothing. Just a little payback for trying to kill me!" Qin Feng’s heart hardened. No matter what, he was going to make this woman suffer.

"Qin Feng, you little bastard, let go of me!" Sensing the strange feeling behind her, Xu Ya panicked and began to shout.

"Little bastard?" Qin Feng’s eyes filled with savagery. The fury from the earlier assassination attempt and from witnessing the Zuo Brothers die in battle instantly boiled over. His large hand grabbed her soft, snow-white silk dress and tore at it forcefully.

RRRRIP! With a startled cry from Xu Ya, shreds of fabric filled the air.

Qin Feng froze for a moment.

Under his fiery gaze, Xu Ya’s mind went completely blank.

’Now!’ The emotion in Qin Feng’s eyes cooled rapidly. He had been waiting for an opening, and he instantly seized this fleeting opportunity. His Spiritual Power connected with the Origin within the Abyssal Heaven and Earth. In a flash, a trace of aqua-blue light appeared and landed on Xu Ya’s Spirit Platform.

A trace of the Power of Abyss formed into an Abyssal Mark and shot into Xu Ya’s unguarded mind, instantly merging with it.

As the trace of the Power of Abyss merged into her, Qin Feng finally breathed a sigh of relief. He glanced at the still-dazed Xu Ya. With a single thought, an invisible power receded into the Void like an ebbing tide. With a wave of his sleeve, the blue sky and white clouds dissipated. The entire Azure Abyss collapsed back into the Abyssal Demon Map, which then sank into his body, vanishing into the depths of his soul.

The moment he withdrew the Abyssal Demon Map, Qin Feng’s face turned deathly pale. With a THUD, he staggered and nearly collapsed. A sore, numb weakness washed over his limbs. He sprawled ungracefully on the ground, gasping for breath.

The toll of activating the Abyssal Demon Map was far greater than he had imagined.

A tidal wave of weakness washed over him, making the slightest movement an immense struggle. What pained him most was discovering that the Mystic Turtle Divine Pill in his Dantian had shrunk by more than half. In just thirty breaths, the pill had gone from the size of a longan to the size of a cardamom pod, nearly half of its medicinal power consumed.

He was heartsick. Qin Feng shot a venomous glare at the beautiful woman, whose exquisite figure was now almost completely exposed.

"Ah!" Xu Ya snapped back to her senses, letting out a furious shriek.

Her lovely face was flushed crimson. She glared at Qin Feng on the ground, grinding her teeth so hard they audibly clicked.

"Qin Feng, I will tear you to pieces!" Her eyes were as cold and lifeless as ice. A surging aura of frost erupted from her body. She struck out with a slender hand, a frigid current from the void, powerful enough to shatter rivers, swirling in her palm...

But in the next instant, Xu Ya let out a wretched scream and fell backward. An unbearable pain erupted from her Spirit Platform, an agony so intense she wished for death.

Sprawled on the ground, Qin Feng coldly watched Xu Ya writhing in agony. "Save your strength," he said. "Now that you’ve been branded with the Abyssal Mark, you can’t kill me."

"Qin Feng, what have you done to me?" Xu Ya gritted through the pain, biting her lower lip. Her beautiful eyes were fixed on him, filled with enough hatred to flay him alive.

"Nothing much. It just means that from this day forward, I am your master, and you are my slave. If I tell you to go east, you will not go west. If I tell you to warm my bed, you will not get out of it," Qin Feng said, lazily lifting his head from where he lay.

Seeing Xu Ya’s face turn deathly pale in an instant, Qin Feng was delighted. He had to admit, controlling such a beautiful, proud, and noble woman gave him a perverse sense of satisfaction.

"Qin Feng, I would rather die than be your slave!" Xu Ya gritted her teeth and gathered her strength to attack him. However, after only a few steps, the agony—a fate worse than death—robbed her of all strength, and she crumpled to the ground.

"You’ve been infused with the Power of Abyss. You can’t kill the Abyssal Dominator," Qin Feng said, tilting his head as he looked at the beautiful woman’s pathetic state.

Seeing a strange flicker in her eyes, Qin Feng sneered. "Don’t even think about suicide. Once you’re branded with the Abyssal Mark, even if you kill yourself, your soul will be ensnared by the Abyss. You’ll eventually be reborn within it, re-formed from its essence."

"The Abyss is no paradise. It’s a place of true depravity and darkness. Once you’ve completely fallen, your fate will truly be worse than death. When you’re reborn, you might not have that beautiful face of yours. Perhaps you’ll become an ugly, four-legged crawling monster, or some disgusting Abyssal Fierce Beast. Or maybe," he taunted, "you’ll become a promiscuous Abyssal Sea Demon, available to all?"

Xu Ya’s face went sheet-white. Biting her lip, a look of fierce resolve entered her eyes. "You little thief, don’t think you can enslave me. If I kill myself, I will shatter my own soul. I would rather face Soul Scattering than let you enslave me!"