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"You—you shameless scoundrel!"

Yue Qiluo’s pretty little face went from red to white, then from white to green, as if it had been dipped in a vat of dye. Her mood shifted along with it—she was so furious she could have exploded.

How could there be such a shameless man in this world? He had actually managed to say something like that. He wanted her to cooperate with him in doing that sort of thing, only to turn around and kill her afterward. What shamelessness! How could he even bring himself to say it, and in such a casually negotiable tone at that? Was something like this even negotiable?!

Gu Sheng looked at Yue Qiluo’s expression and almost laughed. Perhaps he had taken the joke too far, but getting the pretty little girl to show her true nature was not bad either. In his opinion, Yue Qiluo simply lacked experience. If she had seen the scumbags and sluts exposed in the internet age, what Gu Sheng had just said would have been child’s play!

"My teeth are perfectly fine. I wouldn’t call myself toothless, would you?"

Gu Sheng deliberately opened his mouth to show Yue Qiluo his pearly white teeth. His infuriatingly smug manner drove Yue Qiluo mad. If she had not been wary of the beetles beside them, she would have flung a blast of magic power at the masked man’s face and let that fellow who hid his head and showed only his tail see the light of day.

"What exactly are you trying to do?!"

Yue Qiluo spoke through clenched teeth. Gu Sheng had an absolute advantage, yet he still had not dealt with her. How could she not guess that he had no intention of killing her? "Or do you know me? Do you know that my soul is undying, and understand that you can’t kill me, so you plan to seal me? Or perhaps you want my secret technique."

That was what Yue Qiluo suspected. Her opponent had accurately found her hideout and easily broken her Soul Locking Array, taking away everything she owned. He must know something about her. Most likely, he was someone coveting her secret technique.

"If I wanted it, would you give it to me?"

Gu Sheng countered. He truly wanted the secret technique in Yue Qiluo’s hands. It might help him cultivate the Undying Battle Soul containing martial intent, allowing him to rapidly grow to the peak of the Fourth Star Level’s innate Golden Core realm, or perhaps an even higher realm.

But he could not trust Yue Qiluo right now, and he did not dare accept anything of hers. How could someone who could not die possibly be truly afraid of death?

"I’m already in your hands, and you can do whatever you want with me. Naturally, the secret technique and everything else are yours too."

Yue Qiluo put on a timid expression again. She lightly clasped her hands, tapping her two index fingers together as she spoke. She looked unbearably adorable.

"The little girl is acting cute!"

Gu Sheng felt he was about to succumb. He had to admit that although this pretty little girl had not fully matured, she really knew how to take advantage of her strengths.

"I’ll be good and listen to you. Don’t lock me up, okay, big brother?"

Yue Qiluo had maxed out her cutesy skill. She had already noticed that Gu Sheng’s seeming lack of interest in her was merely an act. In reality, he ought to be very interested in her book.

"You’ll be good, will you?"

Gu Sheng was not the sort to simply wait for death. How could a little act of cuteness sway him? He swept his right hand across his robe, then tapped Yue Qiluo on the head. The little girl could no longer move. She stood there blankly, like a zombie that had been sealed.

"The Soul Suppression Talisman—how do you have it?"

Yue Qiluo’s childish voice turned shrill. She had already guessed that it came from the well at Gu Residence. She was now extremely regretful. Why had she left so quickly? How had she forgotten to deal with that thing?

What she found even more incomprehensible was how this fellow had known that it could restrain her. She had only just escaped, and he had never descended into the Fortune and Prosperity Array at the bottom of the well before.

Gu Sheng used the Bronze Mirror to recall the swarm of insects. Ordinary people really could not afford to raise flesh-eating insects like these, and even he did not keep many. Most of them remained in the Gold Mine, guarding the mine that belonged to him.

"As expected, you’re not behaving! Tell me, what should I do with you, Little Yueyue?"

Gu Sheng raised Yue Qiluo’s right hand. A golden hairpin gleamed coldly in her tiny palm, and Gu Sheng had no doubt about its power. Some women in television dramas had tried to kill themselves with one only to be stopped, but in Yue Qiluo’s hands, it was a genuine weapon for killing.

Yue Qiluo’s physical skills were formidable. Although Wu Xin had forgotten many things over the past century, he still knew how to fight. Yet when he held a dagger, Yue Qiluo had sliced away half his head in an instant. Clearly, in terms of close-quarters combat ability, she surpassed even Wu Xin.

If Wu Xin’s blood had not been so freakish, if the Fortune and Prosperity Array had not crippled most of her abilities, and if her mind had not been shaken by Zhang Xianzong’s death, Wu Xin would not have been the victor at Pig Head Mountain.

"Now that you’ve fallen into my hands, it seems I can do whatever I want with you!"

Gu Sheng lifted a lock of Yue Qiluo’s black hair and toyed with it around his fingertip, his tone unusually lecherous.

Yue Qiluo said bitterly, "Didn’t you say I was too young and that you weren’t interested in me?"

"Didn’t I just say that I’m interested again? Besides, you look so cute when you can’t fight back!"

Gu Sheng lifted Yue Qiluo’s chin, supporting her cheek with his palm as he laughed. For some reason, teasing this century-old little girl felt more interesting than taking advantage of her. Watching her want to hit him yet be completely helpless was quite amusing!

"Despicable! Shameless!"

Yue Qiluo’s childish voice was filled with fury. After venting for a while to no avail, she seemed to resign herself to her fate. Looking utterly dispirited, she closed her eyes. "I’ve fallen into your hands, so I accept it. So what if you ruin this body?"

"You’re giving up already?"

Gu Sheng released her hair, somewhat bored. "I thought a hundred-year-old Ghost Immortal like Yue Qiluo would be more impressive!"

Yue Qiluo said furiously, "Why do you have to mock me? I’m inferior to you now, so I have nothing to say. But what exactly do you want by humiliating me like this?"

Gu Sheng held up three fingers. "My demands are simple. First, give me your secret technique. Second, listen to me during this period and stay in Wen County. You’re not allowed to go anywhere else. I’ll leave something on you to monitor you, so you’d better not play any tricks.

"Third, you are forbidden from killing innocents indiscriminately or deliberately killing people to practice your cultivation."

"Impossible!"

Yue Qiluo showed no reaction to the first demand and merely frowned at the second. But the moment Gu Sheng mentioned the third, she exploded and immediately retorted, "I will never agree to that condition."

"Why? Haven’t you already become a Ghost Immortal? The souls of mortals can no longer improve your cultivation, can they?"

Gu Sheng was puzzled. Only after fighting Yue Qiluo had he sensed the realm she had reached. In this world, she could be called an immortal. With her Primordial Spirit undying, no amount of additional souls or Essence Yuan could possibly help her achieve a qualitative transformation.

After taking a deep breath, Yue Qiluo explained, "You must have found the things in my cave dwelling and deduced the specific realm of my undying soul. But what you don’t know is that there’s a problem with my undying soul.

"Because I used a large amount of Essence Yuan to supplement myself at the beginning, my Primordial Spirit contains many hollows filled in by Essence Yuan. Without a constant supply of Essence Yuan, my Primordial Spirit will develop problems because it is missing certain crucial parts.

"I won’t die, and my Primordial Spirit won’t be destroyed, but I may very well lose my reason and fall into a frenzy of slaughter. Once I become like that, even my lucid self won’t be able to restrain me."

Yue Qiluo revealed her secret. This could be considered one of her fatal weaknesses.