I Bound Myself to a Destructive Witch

"Daddy."

Behind him, the blonde woman in the mask placed her hands on his shoulders, leaned over to whisper in his ear with a clear and charming voice, "Long time no see."

Xia Feng glanced at her sideways, unfazed, and calmly said, "My dear daughter, are you planning to commit patricide?"

"How could that be? With Caiya here, you won't die, Daddy." The blonde woman in the mask traced her fingers along Xia Feng's jawline with amusement.

Xia Feng showed no reaction, but Ke Yanqing was startled by the woman in the mask who suddenly appeared nearby, her legs went weak, and she plopped down.

The crisp sound attracted the attention of the blonde woman and Xia Feng, who both stared at her in surprise.

Ke Yanqing's once cool and pretty face instantly seemed like a boiling cauldron, as redness and hot steam rose, clouding her mind with an incessant buzz, her nerves stretched to the limit, slowly snapping—

If the highest level of shame and disgrace is Level 10, then her shamelessly pleasing the masked person is Level 10.

But the appearance of Kikyo Ayame, staring intently at her actions from a close distance, instantly doubled her shame and disgrace.

Her mind went blank, and her vision descended into a chaotic spectrum, her body lightened, falling backward with the strong sense of weightlessness akin to falling from the clouds, bringing panic, bewilderment, and excitement.

But she could no longer think, only wanting to end everything this way, sinking into the abyss named death.

Tired, so be it.

Mother, Yanqing, did her best... she thought to herself, feeling relieved.

However, amidst the chaos of colors, a slender white hand suddenly reached out, grasping her wrist, pulling her back from the abyss into the sky with an alarming gaze.

"Miss Ke, your task isn't finished, you can't just fall here." The blonde woman in the mask curved her brows and softly spoke.

Ke Yanqing collapsed back into Xia Feng's embrace, trembling all over. After barely regaining her senses, she coldly stared at the masked woman and stammered, "Kikyo, Kikyo Ayame, why, why are you here~!"

In Ke Yanqing's memory, Kikyo Ayame once wanted to become a maid too, but could an ignorant nobody from the alleys compete with her for the position?

Back then, she easily triumphed by stepping on Kikyo Ayame's masked half-face.

"I'm here naturally for the same task as you."

The blonde woman's tone was plain, her demeanor greatly differing from the self-abased girl in Ke Yanqing's memory.

"The same task?" Ke Yanqing's wandering pupils brightened, she seemed to recall something, initially with joy, but for some reason, there was also a hint of reluctance and disappointment, her pale lotus arms subconsciously tightly embracing Xia Feng's broad back.

Suddenly, she realized something was wrong, her body stiffened, and her hands quickly released and fell.

"You don't need to worry, the task of intensifying the curse has always been yours, I won't fight you for it, nor am I interested. I'm merely a spectator."

Kikyo Ayame stepped back half a step, her beautiful almond-shaped eyes shone, "Hmm...so continue, just don't break my Daddy."

"....."

"Kikyo Ayame, I'm quite curious, what is your real identity?" Xia Feng felt slightly recovered and asked sideways.

"Daddy, what you should consider now is how to escape, not asking questions."

Xia Feng pondered, "You couldn't be that old hiding calamity, could you?"

"....Daddy, that's incorrect. Calamity is young and beautiful, a peerless beauty!"

"Calamity is female?"

"She's a woman!"

"Oh, then what about Calamity and Void Emperor? Are they male or female?"

"....Daddy, you ask too many questions."

Ke Yanqing's expression stiffened, raising her gaze again to Xia Feng's slightly sweaty face, watching him exchange words with Kikyo Ayame as if she, Miss Ke, never existed, overlooking her entirely.

Truly....

From nowhere arose an unpleasant sullen anger, and Ke Yanqing's eyes subtly hardened, a cold gleam in their crimson allure, her rationality crazily driven, as she pressed her hands on Xia Feng's shoulders....

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Xia Feng never paid much heed to Ke Yanqing, finding her allure less appealing compared to Miss Mu.

Too weak, needs more training.

He looked toward the source of the Blood Erosion Cage in the north, where another Cloud Platform was located.

It seemed Hezi was within that mist-enshrouded Cloud Platform.

The authority of the Blood Erosion Cage was at 9.06%, several times higher than the two-point-something of the Black Moon Pope's Returning Ruins Dream Expansion.

Xia Feng had previously used two Sumeru Throne·Divine Descent Arrows to successfully degrade the Returning Ruins Dream Expansion.

This Blood Erosion Cage would likely require more of those divine arrows.

Currently, he didn't have enough Spiritual Particle reserves.

But it didn't matter, being imprisoned by the Blood Erosion Cage wasn't necessarily bad.

The only issue now was whether Hua God had secured Dubhe Five.

....

Three hours quietly passed.

In the ink-white realm to the north, the Summoning Wood silently grew from a broken stump into a towering hundred-meter celestial Holy Tree.

The branches were lush, green and vibrant, with golden threads flickering among the myriad leaf veins.

Simultaneously, the Star Devouring Ceremony on the ground was nearing completion.

Three thousand Golden Sparrow Clan members knelt prostrate facing the Summoning Spirit Tree.

Ahead, above twelve sacrificial pillars, twelve figures knelt on one knee alike, surrounded by a web of ancient divine marks radiating golden brilliance, stretching toward the Summoning Tree like surging sea tides, quickly connecting.

The once semicircular array swiftly formed a perfect circle, with Xia Feng's Cloud Platform at the very center.

Xia Feng looked up, bathed in the holy light from the Summoning Spirit Tree's radiance, his entire being shrouded in grandeur divinity.

Yet, with Ke Yanqing clinging to his neck, uttering the fallen chant of the Goddess, a touch of absurd wickedness tainted the divinity of the scene.

Ke Yanqing had utterly fallen, repeatedly whispering for mercy as she called him Master Mask at his ear....

Xia Feng clearly sensed his spiritual power, in these three hours, had been over eighty percent devoured through the use of the 'Cage Seal' bound to his 'Blood Erosion Seal'.

Once spirit is entirely devoured, consciousness would be next. His awareness was already drowsy.

Fortunately, the moment seemed to finally have arrived.

With a premonition, he slightly narrowed his black eyes, looking up.

Higher in the sky, a holy splendid light interwoven with crimson gold suddenly broke through space.

Buzz——!!

The light column crashed down, illuminating the entire Summoning Spirit Tree in red and gold, revealing an ethereal divine shadow emerging in the flowing light.

Snowy feet adorned with strange red sparrows emerged from the light stream, followed by a divine phoenix gown, and flowing down her back were inky black tresses, tied at the end with a bright red ribbon fluttering in the wind.

Her upper face covered by a mysterious fox mask, yet the alluring and enchanting lips exposed were captivating enough to reverse the order of worlds, commanding all beings to prostrate, making even gods willingly abandon divinity, lost in her allure.