OLTFMD | Chapter 2

Chapter 2

◎Help me get away.◎

Shen Ji adapted to the blinding golden light and looked at the person speaking.

The other man wore an ornate, luxurious, and dazzling golden robe. His entire body seemed to be glowing, yet unlike this golden palace, he did not look vulgar.

He sat beside the bed, turned slightly to one side, his head of silver-white long hair dyed with gold cascading behind him like a snowy waterfall, only half of his noble and handsome face visible. His skin was very fair, his expression like ice, and he looked down at Shen Ji from above. Strands of long hair slipped over his shoulder, yet still could not conceal the eyes beneath those sharp brows, cold and intimidating.

No need to guess, this had to be the phoenix emperor, Xie Fu.

Knowing the contents of the whole book, Shen Ji clearly understood that the villain before him was not a kind-hearted person. Since he could finally speak, he needed to seize the moment.

“I—”

Shen Ji was just about to tell Xie Fu about Red Phoenix Venerable’s plan when a faint sound suddenly rang in his mind.

“Zi...”

Shen Ji frowned.

He had heard this sound before, but this time it did not disappear.

“Zi... Host... hello, emergency rescue division number 003 system spirit at your service!”

System spirit?

The youthful, clear voice in his mind grew more distinct and continued on.

“Congratulations, host, you have successfully triggered the mission plot, activated the system, and obtained the novice golden authority gift pack. The gift pack contains any two conditions within the rules——”

Hearing this, Shen Ji’s heart stirred.

Any conditions?

The system seemed to hear his thoughts and immediately shifted its attention, explaining to him, “That’s right, as long as the host makes a request, the system will execute it immediately! Please note, the any conditions contained in the novice golden authority are extremely precious, so please use them carefully!”

Shen Ji looked again at Xie Fu, whose eyes already held hidden impatience, and his brow furrowed slightly.

To put it bluntly, he was already a captive with almost no strength to rely on, while his opponent was the uncrowned king of the Three Spirit Realm. If he wanted to escape pursuit, he could only place his hopes on the system.

Although he had never liked developments that left things outside his control.

However, no matter what this system spirit was about, the urgent matter at hand had to be resolved immediately.

“What are you waiting for?” Xie Fu’s grip tightened even more, clearly very dissatisfied with his hesitation. As soon as the words fell, he leaned down. His pupils, like gold mixed with silver, looked cold and unfeeling, a color of extreme danger.

There was no time to hesitate further.

Thinking of the system’s reaction just now, Shen Ji made a request in his mind: “Help me pin him down.”

Xie Fu in the book could not simply be described as the strongest villain, but as the strongest character. He was the ceiling of the entire book’s power. If his actions were not restricted by an outside force, something might go wrong.

This was also a test.

Success or failure, there was still one chance left.

The system really did communicate by thought smoothly, “Okay!”

Fortunately, it was not exaggerating.

As soon as one chance was used, Xie Fu instantly froze in place.

The two were very close. Shen Ji noticed at once that those bright silver pupils suddenly contracted.

Xie Fu reacted very quickly and immediately sensed it.

Unfortunately, he could not contend against a power from the unknown. From head to toe, he could not move at all. Completely restricted, he did not speak, and only the gaze covered in heavy ice and snow seemed to speak for him.

Shen Ji waited a moment. Seeing this, his brow rose slightly.

It seemed he had spoken too soon.

As for becoming a furnace, there was still a chance to set things right.

The system’s reminder sounded at the same time: “Any condition within the novice golden authority has been successfully executed, count reduced by one.”

Shen Ji asked, “How long can the immobilized state last?”

The system answered, “According to conversion by world units, the immobilization duration is 12 shi chen.”

That is, 24 hours.

This answer was passable.

With the system’s help, it should be enough to leave.

Thinking this, Shen Ji brushed away Xie Fu’s hand, which was still gripping his chin, and was just about to get up when he saw a shadow pressing down before him.

Having lost his only support, Xie Fu, who had been leaning sideways and looking down at Shen Ji, lost his balance and fell straight down.

Shen Ji instinctively raised a hand to support both of the other man’s shoulders, but the muscles weakened by the drug were briefly sore and limp, so he failed to steady him and instead pulled him into his arms.

His hands unintentionally landed on Xie Fu’s neck, then slid to the back of it.

The skin under his palm was slightly hot, and that jade-like feel seemed to be wildly injecting a dose of fierce medicine into the surging desire!

The suddenly heavier breathing sounded right by Xie Fu’s ear.

His gaze changed slightly, and his eyes turned cold to the bone.

He could not hear a single word Shen Ji and the system said.

His body, and even his spiritual power, were tightly sealed in an instant. Even he could not help but have a brief lapse in concentration, and it was unavoidable that he felt surprised.

The Red Phoenix branch had long been dissatisfied with him. As for the furnace sent by Wu Xun, he naturally would not trust it completely.

It was only that the awakening of the ancient divine beast bloodline was perilously difficult, and he had repeatedly delayed the inheritance. Today was already the final deadline.

This mortal had already been investigated when he entered. He really was, as Wu Xun said, a heavenly spirit furnace that was greatly beneficial to awakening the inheritance, and his cultivation was no different from that of a cripple. Originally, he was absolutely no threat to him.

But he should not have let his guard down for a moment and fallen for the mortal’s ambush.

Thinking of this, Xie Fu’s eyes grew even colder.

Remembering the abnormal flush showing through the mortal’s pale face, his thoughts turned.

The mortal had been drugged. There was no need to point it out deliberately, and at first he had not taken it to heart.

Rigidly pressed against Shen Ji, Xie Fu could only see Shen Ji’s shoulders and neck rising and falling with his breathing.

His cultivation had been sealed, his spiritual power blocked. He had no way to check whether the mortal’s cultivation had changed compared to before, but this kind of conduct did not seem like disguise.

Since he had the ability to deceive him, there was no need to put on such an affected act, but how could he not resolve a mere aphrodisiac?

And why, after already succeeding in setting him up, had there been no further movement.

Could it be that the mortal was not pretending to suppress his cultivation, but genuinely had low cultivation, and had broken into Minghuang Palace alone without anyone to receive him.

The mortal possessed a magical artifact capable of confining him. If he truly had no wish to do it, then even Wu Xun could do nothing about it. He absolutely would not have reached him before remembering to flee.

Furthermore, seeing him restrained now, the mortal was not surprised, so he must be involved in this matter. Only, his actions were reckless and without any method, and I’m afraid he still did not know he had already been abandoned as a discarded pawn.

If he was a discarded pawn...

Xie Fu stared at the rapidly beating pulse beneath Shen Ji’s pale skin.

The heavenly spirit furnace was merely rare. If someone used him as a pawn and waited for the opportunity to tamper with things when he awakened the inheritance, there was still some trace to follow. But to waste a peerless magical artifact just for a test, he would not have such means.

Wu Xun could not produce such a mysterious and powerful magical artifact.

If not for the Red Phoenix branch, who would dare to act like this in Minghuang Palace?

Behind this, what force was actually standing there?

After repeatedly failing to channel spiritual power, Xie Fu’s gaze turned colder and deeper as he fixed it on Shen Ji. His thin lips parted slightly. “I will kill you.”

“You can speak?”

“The great villain can still make a sound!”

Shen Ji and the system spoke almost at the same time.

Hearing the system’s exclamation, Shen Ji asked in his mind again, “What’s going on?”

The system was also completely baffled. “As long as we obtain authority, our systems should have absolute control over the people in the book... Actually, this time we had no choice but to come here and correct the world because the great villain is too strong. Could it be that the great villain’s power has already slightly touched the world origin? That would explain it...”

Its muttering afterward sounded like it was talking to itself. Halfway through, it pulled itself back to the main point.

“But it’s okay, host, don’t worry. The great villain can’t break the seal on his own!”

Shen Ji had already seen that.

With Xie Fu’s strength, once enraged, he could not possibly stop, and there was no reason for him to put on a show in front of Shen Ji. The reason he remained frozen in place could only mean he truly was being controlled.

Besides, Xie Fu’s expression looked perfectly composed, but his voice was very soft, and after he finished speaking, there was no follow-up.

From this, it could be seen that speaking this sentence, or rather speaking a sentence like this, was the limit of what he could currently do.

However, even so, Shen Ji did not doubt the truth of Xie Fu’s words at all.

According to the book’s description, Xie Fu did not slaughter indiscriminately, but he was vindictive.

He always repaid grudges, and once he formed enmity, he would definitely return it a hundredfold at the first possible moment. Yet he was also overwhelmingly powerful, to the point that the Five Realms all feared him and wanted to stay far away.

For example, this time he had been ambushed. As soon as he returned, he bloodwashed the demon race, swift and decisive, ruthless in style, leaving behind quite a few psychological scars.

The most important point.

Xie Fu’s life was very hard to end.

In the entire novel, the closest he came to death was this time, the “furnace conspiracy.” He not only lost all his cultivation, but in an extremely perilous situation was also hunted by all sides, which could be called a narrow escape from death.

Afterward, he survived the crisis, and even by the ending, under the combined assault of everyone, he did not die and vanish, but returned to Minghuang Palace and fell into eternal sleep, disappearing from then on. In other words, even if the power of the upper and lower Five Realms were gathered together, no one could find a way to completely kill him.

No one wanted to provoke an opponent who could not be killed.

Xie Fu’s strength was the confidence behind those words.

If he had a choice, Shen Ji would not actively make enemies with him at a time like this. Being pursued by such a person, the future situation was easy to imagine.

Unfortunately, the matter was already set in stone.

Xie Fu had already taken a grudge against him. Unless he used the remaining single any condition to have the system kill Xie Fu, it would be hard to get out of this situation.

He did not make that request because this “great villain” Xie Fu was extremely important in the book, and the system might not agree to just kill him like that;

another reason was that killing Xie Fu would not truly remove the danger to his life.

In this world, his strength was still not as good as that of some insignificant little demon, let alone here in the base of the supreme phoenix clan, where phoenixes with profound cultivation were everywhere. He could not walk out of this Minghuang Palace, and Red Phoenix Venerable over there would not let him off easily either.

The last universal chance, rather than wasting it here, might as well be used on the blade’s edge.

Thinking of this, Shen Ji barely suppressed the restlessness within his body and explained helplessly, “Grievances have their source, debts have their owner. I believe you can see that I don’t have the strength to harm you, nor the intention to harm you.”

Xie Fu said concisely, “Who.”

Shen Ji turned his face and could only see the messy silver hair behind Xie Fu’s ear.

He lowered his voice and sped up, simplifying the explanation in his gradually muddled consciousness: “Red Phoenix Venerable. Before I came, he drugged me.”

As soon as he said this, his voice stopped.

Too close.

The breath Xie Fu exhaled by his temple was too scorching.

Shen Ji’s second attempt to help him up also stopped, and the tip of his finger, under Xie Fu’s cold and restrained gaze, sank deeply into the other man’s luxurious golden robe at the shoulder.

His breathing at this moment was hotter than the phoenix emperor’s temperature, as if burning. In those black eyes repeatedly driven by the drug, only a trace of remaining reason was left.

Xie Fu could see the mortal’s struggle, and he also disliked the mortal’s pointless words. Just as he was about to speak, he felt the unusual collision beneath him, and his expression suddenly turned cold.

Shen Ji’s grip tightened and tightened again. The veins at his temples instinctively throbbed, challenging the limits of his endurance second by second.

He closed his eyes for a long while, forcibly suppressing the desire surging to the surface, and was planning to help Xie Fu up, but his current state made it difficult for him to concentrate. He could only half-hold and half-shift him, during which he saw several times the killing intent in Xie Fu’s eyes as if it were real, intermittently tugging at his consciousness.

Forced to submit to another, Xie Fu held down his anger and let the mortal handle him, then asked, “Purpose.”

“Use me to poison you when you awaken your inheritance.” Shen Ji said, “Of course, this matter has nothing to do with me at all.”

As he spoke, he finally helped Xie Fu up from his arms.

Xie Fu’s gaze swept over the back of his hand, where blue veins had suddenly bulged, surprised by his self-control, and only then did he truly look at those black eyes.

Shen Ji tried to move him to his side, using the conversation to hook at that thread of strained clarity. “So, please put aside your prejudice. From now on, we go our separate ways, how about it?”

Xie Fu saw the resolute look in the mortal’s eyes, a look that did not quite match this fragile shell, and his gaze gradually deepened.

The inheritance was imminent, tonight it had to succeed.

However, with the situation now forcing his hand, he had no choice but to yield.

“Help me cultivate, and I may spare your life.”

Shen Ji’s movements paused slightly.

He had only said it casually, never expecting Xie Fu would really give in.

“You believe me?”

Xie Fu met his gaze and slowly said two cold words.

“I don’t.”

Shen Ji: “...”

In the brief span of their conversation, the abnormality within his body suddenly slammed wildly!

He had not been on guard at all, and the strength in his hand suddenly loosened. Xie Fu pressed down heavily again.

The silver-white long hair tangled messily in the movement. Xie Fu, under compulsion, had his side profile tightly pressed against Shen Ji’s neck.

Shen Ji furrowed his brow hard.

The temperature was clearly slightly hot, yet the instant it touched him, it was like cold spring water poured into a raging inferno. That faint electric-prickle sensation spread in a flash, quickly sinking into his limbs and bones, failing to relieve the thirst and instead giving rise to a deeper, more urgent craving.

Shen Ji’s eyes were half-lowered, and his hand, loosely supporting Xie Fu’s shoulder, unconsciously stroked as his Adam’s apple rolled.

It was only when his fingertip touched Xie Fu’s face that he suddenly came back to himself!

No.

The drug effect was too strong. Touching Xie Fu now was torment too agonizing for a man.

But he could not become a furnace.

He could not drag this out any longer.

Since he was no longer able to hold on physically, he had to find a second path.

Shen Ji hastily gathered his thoughts and thought for a moment.

The cultivation of this body, at Three Spirit Realm, was not worth mentioning, but in the mortal world it was at least the level of a master capable of catching demons. It was just that he had first been injured, then taken Falling Spirit Powder, and then had his dantian sealed, leaving him nearly unable to use it.

The hope was slim, but desperate times called for desperate measures.

Finding from the limited memory the method of driving inner force, Shen Ji’s right hand had just begun to form a seal when—

Boom!

Shen Ji’s expression changed slightly.

It was like adding oil to a fire.

The instant spiritual power was drawn through the meridians, the fire seeds planted throughout his body exploded at the same time!

Sensing the increasingly fierce, ferocious heat raging within his body, he made an immediate decision and proposed a second request in his mind: “Help me get away.”

The system hesitated for a moment, but still dutifully asked, “Uh, are you sure?”

The drug effect within his body was erupting exponentially, and there was no time for pointless back-and-forth.

Shen Ji frowned. “Hurry up and get me out!”

“...” The system emitted a brief, meaningless burst of sound, perhaps trying to persuade him, but in the end it still decided to obediently follow the instructions. “Okay!”

Only after hearing the system’s response did Shen Ji reply to Xie Fu’s offer.

“Better not.” His voice was hoarse from the blazing yang fire. “I’m not interested in you.”

The words had barely fallen.

He heard a ripping sound.

His vision blurred.

Black, gold, white...

All kinds of brocade fabrics crossed and intertwined in the air.

Two sets of clothes instantly turned into countless fragments of cloth, scattering everywhere.

Shen Ji: “...”

The system’s obedient voice sounded again.

“The any condition within the novice golden authority has been used up!”

Although it did not understand why the host would use such precious any conditions on this kind of small matter, it still maintained a very professional enthusiasm.

“Mission unlocking, please wait patiently, host. Wish you a happy life!”

“............”

Shen Ji stole one second of silence from his busy situation.

Then he told the system, “What I meant was help me leave safely.”

The system’s answer was always quick: “Sorry, host does not have enough usable points to perform arbitrary-distance teleportation.”

The drug effect raging through his body was eroding Shen Ji’s last remaining reason, far outstripping the patience worn down by this useless exchange.

Shen Ji closed his eyes and repeated, “I mean the condition. ‘Get away’ means help me leave here.”

The system froze for two seconds. This time, its voice was lower, full of guilt: “Sorry, the condition has been successfully executed and cannot be withdrawn.”

Shen Ji’s silence was beyond description.

He looked at Xie Fu through the gaps in the flying fragments.

The coldness in Xie Fu’s eyes had already gradually been stained with the anger of being toyed with.

His figure had been forcibly fixed by an elusive power, and then his robe had been torn apart by that same power. He was absolutely and completely suppressed, yet this still could not compare to even a fraction of the humiliation he felt at this moment.

That humiliation made his killing intent toward the mortal in front of him grow denser with each passing moment.

Shen Ji forcibly endured the increasingly scorching breathing and still retained the last thread of calm.

Just after saying he was not interested, he had torn the man’s clothes apart.

This remaining thread of calm made him understand very well why Xie Fu hated him at this moment.

He also clearly understood that, with the other man’s vindictive personality, the rest of his life that he had somehow picked up might very well have to endure hardships because of this.

Mm.

He would need to think about an escape route afterward.

—

Very quickly.

His already taut consciousness snapped.

The pure desire in Shen Ji’s eyes, wrapped in faint traces of blood, washed away the last of his clarity.

He raised a hand to press against Xie Fu’s back, bent a knee and thrust into the space between Xie Fu’s legs, used his waist and abdomen forcefully, and the two flipped over.

The scattered silver-white long hair spread out beneath him, accentuating the phoenix emperor’s face, cold as frost yet incomparably handsome.

That pair of dazzling silver eyes, tipped with gold, before him was filled with anger, reflecting two small images of Shen Ji.

“I will remember you——”

The phoenix emperor’s low, measured voice carried a chilling coldness, but before he could finish speaking, it was pressed back by the thumb coming down on his lips.

This hand brushed across his lips, forcibly turned his face and pressed it onto the soft pillow, then moved downward and firmly gripped the back of his neck, lifting slightly.

There was another hand moving as well, instinctively tightening around the prey in his arms, the force stiff and wild, not allowing escape.

Killing intent showed fully in Xie Fu’s eyes.

Suddenly.

A wet, lingering kiss landed on the throat he had been forced to lift. His vital point was restrained, and waves of involuntary, instinctive trembling were stirred up.

“...”

Inside the great hall.

The rapidly brewing heat surged wildly.

The heavy breathing that could no longer be restrained rushed onto the bed, gradually becoming chaotic, and in the golden light as bright as daylight, it spilled out freely and unrestrained.

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