The Female CEO's Personal Bodyguard

Chapter 3500 What does it matter to sell your soul in order to live?
"Yes, you can exchange it at the Water God Temple."

Duanmu answered fluently: "The premise is that there is a stock of water-attribute Dao spirits in the Water God Temple."

Lin Chen was quite delighted: "As long as I take the Spirit of the Great Dao, I can exchange it?"

"Yes."

Duanmu replied, "You can exchange it openly and honestly; no one in the Water God Temple will make things difficult for you."

Lin Chen raised an eyebrow: "What about the others?"

Duanmu explained, "You naturally have to be more careful with others. After all, everyone wants to possess the spirit of the Great Dao. Before you have completely absorbed and integrated it, it's hard to guarantee that others won't harbor ill intentions towards you if they find out."

Lin Chen sneered, "Just like you did to me?"

Duanmu Wen's face was ashamed. He was a saint, after all, but now he had fallen into the hands of a sub-saint, and a foreign one at that. This made him feel regretful and extremely humiliated.

Lin Chen stared at the red-faced Duanmu and calmly asked, "Do you want to die, or do you want to live?"

Duanmu Wen suddenly opened his eyes wide, his gaze filled with surprise.

Can I still survive?
But in an instant, Duanmu Wen understood Lin Chen's plan.

He's preparing to sell himself into slavery!

Make yourself work for him!
A huge sense of humiliation welled up in Duanmu Wen's heart, and anger flashed in his eyes.

He is a Celestial, the ruler of the universe!
He is still a saint!
Lin Chen is just a member of a different race, and he's not even a saint!
He was merely a near-saint!
He actually wanted to submit to him, obey his commands, put his life in his hands, and serve him for eternity!
Lin Chen naturally saw the anger and humiliation in Duanmu Wen's eyes, and calmly said, "If you are unwilling, I will not force you. Don't worry, for Duanmu Lan's sake, I will not kill you. I will only cripple you and make you an ordinary person from now on."

"Your daughter happens to be an ordinary person, so you can accompany her and live a normal life, far away from the world of cultivators..."

"No!"

Before Lin Chen could finish speaking, Duanmu Wen shouted loudly, his eyes filled with anger and undisguised fear.

He was terrified of becoming a cripple!
The huge drop from being a saint at the peak to a cripple who wasn't even an ordinary cultivator was even more painful than killing him.

He absolutely cannot accept becoming a cripple; if that were the case, he would rather die!

Lin Chen said calmly, "You have no choice. Of course, after becoming an ordinary person, if you really don't want to live, you can commit suicide. No one will stop you. Your daughter is still alive; she can still hold a funeral for you and arrange a grave..."

Duanmu Wen gritted his teeth and said, "I can sign a contract with you to serve you for a certain number of years. After that period, I will regain my freedom."

Lin Chen chuckled: "Do you think we're buying vegetables at a market, haggling over prices? I just said, you have no choice. Either submit to me, give up your life, and live as my subordinate, as my slave, or live as a useless person with the dignity of your Celestial Clan."

"I don't have time to waste with you. Although you are a saint, your strength is nothing special. You are powerless against the Enchantress Lord. Even if I take you in, you will be useless. I won't miss you, so you don't need to think that you are important or that I can't live without you."

"I'll give you one minute to state your decision."

"Let's start to think about this carefully now." After Lin Chen finished speaking, he turned to look at Mei Shi and said, "I suddenly realized a problem. When we entered the Celestial God Realm before, we did need to use our identities as prisoners to cover up our identities. Otherwise, with so many saints there, it would have been impossible to get away with it."

“Now that we have left the Qiyun Sect and regained our freedom, I don’t seem to need Ning Hesheng with me anymore. Can’t you freely change your body? Why don’t you just become a female Celestial Clan member? Then we can travel around openly and legitimately.”

Lord Enchantress replied, "That's certainly possible, but I can't guarantee it won't be exposed. The Celestial Race is powerful, possesses many extraordinary techniques, and has so many other races. I think they should have some kind of defense against this..."

Lin Chen thought it made sense. If it were discovered that they were both from different races and that they were impersonating members of the Celestial Race, attracting powerful saints from the Celestial Race, it could indeed cause a lot of trouble.

"Now that you mention it, I do remember that when we went to big cities before, there were always entry checks to verify our identities. Perhaps there were some methods involved that we were unaware of?"

Lord Enchantress pointed at Duanmu and asked, "Ask him. He'll definitely know about this."

Lin Chen nodded, then turned to Duanmu and asked, "It's almost time. So, have you made a decision? Will you become a slave, or die a heroic death?"

Sweat beaded on Duanmu Wen's forehead, and his gaze no longer held the anger and humiliation it had before.

After overcoming his initial instinctive resistance, and with the shadow of death looming over him, Duanmu Wen's resolve began to waver.

Even ants cherish life; if they could live, who would want to die?

If I die, my daughter will be just an ordinary person. How will she survive?
Yes, no matter what, I have to survive!

For the sake of his daughter, he would rather be a slave than not live!
Under the shadow of death, Duanmu quickly found an acceptable reason for himself, and when this reason appeared in his mind, he quickly chose to accept it.

He wasn't afraid of dying; he was doing it for his daughter!

"I am willing to submit to you. I want to live, and I want to take care of my daughter!"

Lin Chen pursed his lips, not exposing Duanmu Wen's hypocritical lies.

Of course, that's true, but it's clearly not the biggest reason he gave in. There's only one real reason.

He was afraid of dying; he didn't want to die!
That's it.

Lin Chen was not surprised at all by Duanmu Wen's choice, because he realized that once these cultivators in the cultivation world lost their concept of family, country, and the world, everything they did was for their own benefit.

Under such circumstances, they would do anything to survive, including selling their souls.

Lin Chen had arrested many people, and without exception, they all chose to submit after he presented them with a choice between life and death.

These immortals and saints have lived for far too long, and the longer they have lived, the more afraid they are of death.

They could have lived as long as heaven and earth, but if they refused, they would disappear from this world, which filled them with immense fear.

Lin Chen calmly said, "Since you've chosen to submit, you need to solve the first problem: how can you make me believe that I truly control you, so I don't have to worry about you suddenly launching a full-force attack and instantly killing me one day?"

Duanmu Wen was stunned. "Ah, I've already given in, and you still want me to solve the problem of how to control my own life?"
That's really too much of a bully!
(End of this chapter)