368 Ch 368 - I'm no coward! I
Yuyan and Liuli made a solid team.
Meanwhile, Yino wasn't just sitting around either. Sure, singing those Mother Goddess hymns to show off was part of it, but mainly he wanted to boost his evil energy purity with the Mother Goddess buff.
Now Mei had completely given up struggling and gone limp in his arms.
Part of it was she genuinely believed Yino had the Mother Goddess of life backing him. The other part was that crimson nun had really beaten the fight out of her.
Even the fiercest wildcat eventually runs out of steam.
That's exactly where Mei was now. Besides the occasional dirty look and muttered curse, she was letting Yino plant evil marks wherever he wanted on her body.
The good news was that with Yuyan and Liuli still in their boss fight, Yino was being way more conservative with his evil techniques.
Right now he was just carving marks on Mei's forehead.
If this had been back in Azure Forest, Yino probably would've already started pulling down pants and showing this foul-mouthed, handsy brat what a real EX curry stick felt like...
"Tch, you're only loading me up with all these evil marks because you're scared I'll come back for revenge someday, right?"
"Yino, you're nothing but a coward who only uses dirty tricks!"
"What masculine charm could you possibly have?"
"Liuli must've been blind to pick a lowlife thief like you as her master!"
Even with her hands and feet completely tied up, Mei still flicked her twin tails defiantly and tilted her chin up to keep trash-talking.
Yino looked at her, one hand working the evil marks while the other cupped her face.
"Your attitude reminds me of an old friend - a white fox. Back in Azure Forest, she had the same backbone, cursing me right till the very end."
"Ha! Who're you trying to scare? You just don't have the guts to kill me, so you're pulling this third-rate crap instead!"
The girl said it like she couldn't care less.
Yino pinched her little mouth shut, annoyed, but she just took the chance to huff and blow her bangs out of her eyes.
"You're just some Core Formation ant!"
"You think because the Mother Goddess spoils you, you can do whatever you want down here in the demon abyss? Haven't you heard the old saying - 'students of the same master can't break each other's moves'? Don't forget I'm also a Full Moon Sect holy maiden. We're both Mother Goddess believers, so your Mother Goddess evil energy won't work on corrupting me!"
Mei got more smug the more she talked, even though her forehead and stomach were already covered in evil marks.
Yino stared at her coldly, then glanced at Yuyan and Liuli's battle. "Mei, I never noticed how much you like to run your mouth."
"Haha, pretty boy, did I hit a nerve?!"
Seeing him getting rattled, Mei grinned even wider.
She wasn't stupid. Anyone with basic sense knew that even weakened, her Divine Transformation stage body wasn't something a Core Formation cultivator could easily control.
In other words, the power gap was too huge. Even if Mei just lay there and let Yino attack her, he'd have a hard time ending her life quickly.
If he couldn't even kill her, how could he possibly corrupt her?
"Alright, I'll admit you have a point."
Yino sighed helplessly.
Back in Azure Forest when he'd corrupted Liuli and Yuebai, half the credit really went to Liuli's own evil techniques.
His cultivation might be low, but he could provide the strategy while Liuli supplied the Nascent Soul stage spiritual power.
Now, with Liuli busy, Yino really couldn't take down Mei quickly on his own.
So the evil marks he was planting now were basically just insurance policies.
While Mei was weak, she couldn't resist his marks. But once her cultivation recovered to Nascent Soul stage, she could easily break free through brute force.
If Nascent Soul stage could break evil techniques, what about when she got back to Divine Transformation?
"Yino, just you wait. Once I get out of this palace, no matter where you run, I'll track you down and make you experience every bit of humiliation and pain I'm enduring today..."
"When that happens, I'll capture Liuli too and tie her up. I'll make you watch her crawl on the ground calling me master, just like today!"
Seeing Yino back down, Mei's bloody eyes gleamed with triumphant threats.
After listening to this crap for ages, even Jinyue standing nearby couldn't take it anymore.
She just walked over and SMACK - slapped Mei across the face.
But that seemingly simple, crisp slap secretly contained the fox girl's pupil illusion technique from her wheel-marked seductive eyes.
In an instant... Before Mei could even get angry, she was already experiencing countless scenes of family destruction in her mind.
She saw demon abyss skyfire. She saw her clan being slaughtered. She saw her people's corpses everywhere. She saw herself hanging from a tree, publicly whipped and tortured...
"Ah, ahh..."
Before long, Mei's body started shaking uncontrollably.
She hugged her head in terror, her arrogant expression instantly becoming much weaker. When Yino heard the sound of splashing water, he looked down to realize Jinyue's slap had literally scared Mei into pissing herself.
"What're you pretending for? Can't even face memories of your clan's destruction - what a coward."
As the illusion ended, the fox girl put away her marked pupils. Too lazy to waste more words on Mei, she just waved dismissively.
She'd simply used Mei's weakened state to force her to relive her most terrifying memories.
Those despairing memories meant nothing to Jinyue. All these years, whenever she used abyss forbidden techniques, she'd suffer nightmare invasions at night.
Jinyue was already used to it.
But she hadn't expected that Mei, who seemed so crazy normally, would get scared into incontinence just from the first replay...
"..."
After the illusion ended, the arrogant Mei became much more docile.
She definitely heard Jinyue's mockery, but Mei just bit her lip and trembled as she glanced at the fox girl, then looked away submissively. She curled up against Yino, not daring to make another sound.
"Coward! If you dare curse my man again, I'll use illusions to give you a painful memory loop that'll haunt you for life!"