A raging wind howled as a mass of sinister darkness gradually shrouded the surrounding world. A ghastly face with bared fangs and claws descended amid swirling demonic aura.
The sky darkened. Viscous evil aura coiled through the air, like countless evil ghosts whispering beside their ears, then swept toward them with savage force.
“Mu Guili, you actually colluded with demonkind—” a shrill scream rang out.
Chi Roushu was so frightened that she instinctively retreated. She had never imagined that Mu Guili possessed such an ability.
Even with the Heaven's Mandate Pearl on her, she had only just crossed the threshold of cultivation!
In an instant, her entire body seemed to be shedding its skin. Her flesh began to melt, and the pain twisted her features.
Under such powerful, sinister demonic aura, the healing power of the Heaven's Mandate Pearl could not possibly keep up with the speed at which she was being injured.
Mu Guili's brows drew together slightly. She had used the forbidden formation to summon a ghost from the Ghost Domain Abyss, but she had never expected to summon a Demon Head instead.
She looked up—and froze.
It was said that demonkind were ugly and ferocious, with monstrous forms. Yet the man before her was tall and slender, his brows and eyes strikingly beautiful and refined.
He wore a black brocade robe, its sleeves fluttering in the wind. His ink-black hair, smooth as silk, fell lazily down his back. A pair of soul-stealing peach-blossom eyes curved with amused excitement as he looked at them mockingly.
Aside from his unnaturally pale skin and the cold, blood-red depths of his eyes, he looked exactly like an incomparably handsome young nobleman.
A demon of demonkind with such a perfect human form had to be at least Demon Monarch level!
Mu Guili was overjoyed.
Compared with the ghosts far away in the Ghost Domain Abyss, the Demon Head before her seemed even more powerful.
As long as she contracted him and bound their souls together, then let alone Chi Roushu—even a powerful expert would be unable to seize her body!
No matter how powerful he was, he would still have to serve as her enforcer!
She opened her mouth and ordered, “Kill her!”
She had not expected that, in the next moment, a gloomy, icy, and wildly arrogant laugh would come from all directions.
The moment that lazy, crazed voice rang out, it was as if her sea of consciousness had been struck by a demonic-sound hammer. Chi Roushu felt as though her mind were about to explode.
While having the Heaven's Mandate Pearl take her away, she still arrogantly sent a transmission to Mu Guili.
“You can count yourself lucky to die at the hands of this Demon Head! Even without you, there are still other members of the Mu Family. You can watch from hell as I obtain all that flesh and blood of theirs!”
Blood-colored hatred flashed through Mu Guili's eyes, but Chi Roushu's figure had already vanished before her.
Her family absolutely could not suffer another disaster in this life!
One day, she would destroy everything Chi Roushu and Ye Chen had, and torture them until they wished they were dead, all the way until their souls were annihilated!
“I never expected there to be someone on this continent capable of escaping right under this venerable one's nose. I must capture her and play with her sometime in the future.”
The Demon Head seemed somewhat surprised, but in the blink of an eye, he became interested again. “So you were the one who summoned this venerable one.”
“In the past, the ones who liked scheming against this venerable one were all old geezers. How is it that now even a mere ant can order this venerable one around?!”
The black shadow vanished, and his voice suddenly came from behind her, brimming with interest, as though he were speaking right beside her ear.
“Still, although you are so weak that even if you died in front of this venerable one, this venerable one would find you an obstruction, you were willing to use your own flesh and soul as the formation. Such sinister methods are rather interesting.”
A wisp of cold demonic aura coiled around her neck. With merely a thought, it could sever her head from her body.
Mu Guili's mind tightened. She had already discovered just now that she could not command this Demon Head at all.
“However, with the Forbidden Arts having been lost on the Xuan Yun Continent, where did you learn them?”
He suddenly gave her hair a hard tug. It hurt terribly.
He did not know what he had imagined, but his tone grew heavy. “It seems you are a person with quite a story.”
“…”
Mu Guili closed her eyes briefly and thought to herself that she could not defeat him and must not act rashly, but her fists still clenched hard.
So she could not command him, could she? Since he had entered her formation, then even if he were a dragon, he would still have to become her slave!
He had better still be able to laugh later!
At that thought, Mu Guili abruptly turned around. Her fingers rapidly formed hand seals, and a drop of blood from her fingertip fell into the formation as she silently recited one incantation after another.
Vooom—
The blood-colored formation suddenly activated. Amid an eruption of violent winds, a crimson ring of light encircled the Demon Head.
He watched the ring with great interest, seemingly not yet aware of how serious the situation was.
Or rather, he had never believed that he could be contracted in the first place.
In the next moment, the air surged. When the light finally faded—
The ring of light served as a dividing line: the Demon Head's upper body appeared inside the forbidden formation, while his lower body was still standing in front of her.
Mu Guili: “…”
The Demon Head: “…”
For a moment, both the contractor and the contracted fell silent.
The strange atmosphere lasted only a moment.
The two of them exchanged a glance.
Mu Guili immediately rushed over and tugged at his upper body, pulling him outward like a radish.
She could already faintly sense the fluctuations of the contract emerging in her sea of consciousness.
As long as his entire body entered the forbidden formation, the contract would be established.
The Demon Head naturally tried to stop her—provided he could.
Within this extremely overbearing contractual forbidden formation, all of his strength had actually become useless.
That little bit of a man's physical strength was utterly insufficient before Mu Guili, the person who had laid out the formation.
Soon, red light flashed. Once his lower body vanished and he had been dragged inside, the entire demon became depressed.
The forbidden formation was complete. After another burst of red light, it completely disappeared and concealed itself.
As the contract master, she naturally learned his name through the contract: Helou Yan.
She seemed to have heard that name somewhere before.
It was somewhat familiar, but not very.
Mu Guili promptly forgot about it. Feeling the powerful soul bound to hers within her sea of consciousness, she suddenly burst out laughing.
The Demon Head, who felt as though he were being mocked: “?”
He stared at her gloomily and coldly. The aura around him was violent, and his pressure distorted the air.
“Looks like you have nothing left in this world worth being attached to.”
Mu Guili cast him a glance. “The Life-and-Death Curse is one of the most overbearing types of contractual Forbidden Arts. There is no way to undo it.”
“If I die, you die. If you die, I will not.”
“You cannot kill me, so put away that pressure. It is useless against me.”
The Demon Head: “…”
The Demon Head fell silent for a moment, his expression unreadable. Then he suddenly turned and ran, vanishing in an instant.
Compared with freedom, dignity was worth shit.
Mu Guili: “?”
The next moment, the Demon Head returned.
Mu Guili said expressionlessly, “This contract carries a summoning method. No matter where you go, with a single thought from me, you will return to my side.”
Helou Yan also stared at her expressionlessly. Suddenly, he raised a hand and grabbed at the air.
With a deafening boom, the demon beasts nearby were blasted into heaps of mangled flesh before they even had time to scream.
A violent wind erupted. As his ink-black hair and robe sleeves whipped through the air, he suddenly tilted his head, seized her by the neck, and lifted her up. His brows and eyes were filled with gloomy, vicious rage.
“You do have some ability.”
Mu Guili said calmly, “There is no need to waste your effort. Let me go.”
Helou Yan clicked his tongue. Suddenly feeling that this was boring, he lazily released her.
“Have you ever considered that, as long as I keep you alive, this venerable one has ten thousand ways to torture you until you wish you were dead?”
He was extremely capricious. Just moments ago, he had been furious enough to kill, but now he was no longer angry. Instead, he observed her expression with great interest, trying to find some trace of fear.
Mu Guili merely smiled. “If you do that, I have two choices.”
“Either I kill you. You cannot resist me.”
“Or I take my own life and drag you down to die with me.”
A terrifyingly vicious force churned within her beautiful, clear eyes, while her tone remained airy.
“Do not try to push me to that point. If you do not believe me, you can try.”