Shao Xin no longer said anything, he pulled out the swelling ointment from his sleeve, gave it to her, asking her to apply it on the injured foot, and then turned and left.

Just as he left, a light blue robe corner appeared beside her before Ji Yan could breathe a sigh of relief.

A cold finger slowly stroked the back of her neck and gave a gentle squeeze, the owner of the hand sneered, and said coldly, “Whichever foot he touched, I want to cut off.”

Ji Yan: “…” Big brother, don’t scare me.

Leaving the neck, he came in front of her and brushed his fingers across her swollen ankles. A cold sensation filled the place where his fingers touched. Ji Yan felt her feet a little numb, all the way down her limbs to the top of her head, she just sat stiffly on the spot too afraid to move. He raised her head by holding her jaw and stuffed his fingers into her mouth.

Ji Yan: “!”

Crap, You! Don’t put your finger into my mouth after touching my feet, ah!

Overwhelming with disgust, she struggled in his hand, but no matter how she struggled, she was no match for his strength. The annoyed Yin Xuezhou kept her in place by holding her chin and said gloomily: “Dare to give me a try again.”

Ji Yan: What, are you going to domestic violence now?

She sat still on the spot with a heavy heart. Soon she felt a metallic taste in her mouth and her eyes widened. It was Yin Xuezhuo’s blood that was flowing down her throat into her body. As it flowed down the swelling and pain in her ankle disappeared, and she felt refreshed all over as seemed to be reborn. The whole person relaxed a lot and even felt a little sleepy.

The Nightmare blood was a precious and rare medicine in the world and treasured from ancient times. It has a miraculous healing effect and there is nothing it could not heal as long as the person has a soul left. It could retrieve them back to intact. There were lots of people in the world who were fighting to get it in their hands, but what everyone dying hard to get was easily obtained by Ji Yan with no effort and she also drank a lot. If the words got out, those immortals would be envious of death.

Ji Yan felt her eyelids heavy and slowly leaned against his arm and no longer struggled to keep her eyes open and closed them and entered the dreamland. Yin Xuezhuo lowered his head and looked at the sleeping Ji Yan then withdrew his finger from her mouth and wiped the remaining blood on her red lips. Lowering the head, he licked it. 

Sweet~

He had long known his blood had a slight sweetness in it, but from tasting from her mouth, it was so sweet. 

His blood had a miraculous effect that it could heal everyone but himself. It soothed her to a peaceful sleep, but it did nothing to his racing heart.

His pupils narrowed, and redness slowly started to emerge from the corner of his eyes, what reflected in it was Ji Yan’s appearance. The bare fingernails she had initially cut off grew back silently.

Within a second, his whole aura completely turned into different. A nightmare was always a nightmare, no matter how it was disguised and blended into the human, and looked beautiful and delicate.

He hated when someone was touching her and hated how everyone was fake pleasing her and on top of that he hated himself for being weak and hiding. Now he no longer wanted to do it. 

–

Ji Yan slowly awakened from her sleep and felt something was amiss. She remembered that she fell asleep in Yin Xuezhuo’s arms, and the group of men in the distance’s low voice of speech was indistinguishable, but it kept burrowing into her ears non-stop.

But now it was too quiet, the silence was almost bizarre, even no wind sound could be heard, Ji Yan was startled, and violently propped up her hands and sat up, only to find that there was a semi-transparent black barrier floating around her, like an enchantment, enclosing her in place.

She reached out and touched it. The boundary was like a glassy texture, allowing her to go out.

Her heart shuddered violently, as sensing something, she turned her head and saw Yin Xuezhuo break a person’s neck and he slipped from his palm, and Ji Yan happened to meet the person’s temporarily widened horrified eyes.

It was Kong Yu’s disciples.

A faint white mist rose from that person’s body and surged into Yin Xuezhuo’s palm, and the corpse desiccated at a speed visible to the naked eye until it became white, withered bones.

A sudden chill ran through her heart.

Yin Xuezhuo slowly turned around with a smile. 

The disguise was long gone; he was dressed in black, with long hair scattered behind him, his features carried extreme coldness, restoring his unattainable indifference. Under his feet were the corpses of several people, and the blood dripping down from his fingers on the ground one drop at a time. Drawing countless insects to crawl out of the ground, the insects that had swallowed the blood of the nightmare grew rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, becoming more brutal and decisive.

Yin Xuezhuo seemed no care about it, his pupils becoming completely blood red, making people shudder.

He made his toward Ji Yan, and all the bugs split into two sides, respectfully making way for him.

“You’re awake?” He smiled, and with a hook of his finger, the boundary dispersed, but the magic vines on Ji Yan’s wrist suddenly grew longer and thicker, becoming ropes that wrapped around her, leading her to Yin Xuezhuo’s side, and being carried into his arms.

Her eyes panicked. “You…you obviously don’t have spells…”

“Little fool.” He curled his lips and let out a low smile, “I am a nightmare, not a human, so how can there be only one way?”

He had countless ways to get those people killed. As a Demonic Nightmare, he could observe the spiritual qi of heaven and earth, as well as the demonic qi, so as long as he wanted, he could keep fighting until he died.

Ji Yan didn’t know what to say for a while. Perhaps it was his gentle compromise for so many days that made her think she could control him completely, but she had forgotten who he was.

So by the time she woke up, the situation turned upside down. She didn’t know what kind of madness he had gone through again to turn this place into a killing paradise.

His eyes were full of crimson red, and his demonic aura could not be suppressed, as if it was another deeper layer of demonization.

Yin Xuezhuo hugged her, the wings behind him stretched out, his body swept forward. Numerous bugs under his feet crawled forward. Ji Yan saw a black light hole in front of her. Yin Xuezhuo said, “This is the entrance to the maze.”

“The Six Multiplication Heart Regaining Formation and the Thousand Faces Search and Kill Formation.” He said coldly: “One personally laid by me, and the other was made by Kong Yu, I wanted to trap them together into the Thousand Faces Search and Kill Formation. But the other maze formation accidentally separated them, and now the Shao brothers were trapped separately. Whether they are dead or alive depends on their good fortune.”

“Look, Kong Yu is so despicable. If I don’t fight back in advance, you will also be trapped.” He lowered his head, his fingers lingering on her lips, and said with a smile: “See you’re working with him, but he’s been plotting to silence you the whole time.”

In his eyes, people like Kong Yu and Yin Miaorou were just the difference between a jackal and a tiger.

He would be threatened, but he knew better to eradicate threats. Ji Yan might not be as smart as these people, but with her little strength, she was not their opponent.

——She is not cruel enough.

The magic vine on her body became tighter, and Yin Xuezhuo put a kiss on her forehead, and said lightly: “The game is over.”

“It’s time to settle down.”