I'm bound to the World-Destroying Witch

Chapter 165. The Archbishop's True Purpose
With Mu Qingtong's low shout, Xia Feng's eyes cleared and he suddenly became fully awake!

"Hmm?" The woman's voice in his mind sounded surprised. "A woman's voice? Xiao Feng, who is she?"

Xia Feng's eyelids twitched slightly. He had been careless after all. He hadn't expected that Sister Yi could directly use her voice to control people regardless of distance.

If it weren't for Mu Qingtong, he might have really lost Jingzhou due to carelessness.

"Gong Changyi, what do you mean by this?" Xia Feng asked in an unfriendly tone.

"Oh, don't be angry, Xiaofeng. I was just joking with you~"

"Hehe~" Xia Feng was too lazy to pay attention to this guy anymore. He casually threw down the Blood Eye Mask and disconnected the connection.

"Xiao Feng~ Xiao Feng?"

"Huh? Are you still there?"

Hey—where is everyone?!

"Did it run away again?"

"Tsk~"

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"Thanks for earlier." Xia Feng looked up at the woman in the black dress, his tone earnest.

Mu Qingtong slowly lowered her hand, frowned and said softly, "Be more careful in the future. With such low mental strength, don't touch anything recklessly."

"I know, I know," Xia Feng replied helplessly. "This was purely an accident, wasn't it? I never imagined that my voice could directly affect my mental state."

"Hey! Can you two stop chatting? Do you still want the white jade glass?" The woman in the snow dress, her face smeared with mud, stood under the tree and said unhappily, pursing her lips.

"I'm coming."

Xia Feng and Cha Nai Xue walked to the tree. Cha Nai Xue held a palm-sized flower that resembled a white lotus in her palm. The stamen emitted a milky white halo, and the petals were as crystal clear as glass.

"It is indeed white jade glass." Xia Feng nodded in satisfaction, then turned to look at the woman in the black dress. "Let's go, Miss Mu, let's find a place to advance to the third rank!"

Mu Qingtong was taken aback, and asked in confusion, "Now?"

"Of course, time waits for no one."

Along with the white jade glass, two grams of ice crystal soil were also unearthed. This is a fourth-tier material with a water-like spiritual attribute.

Although Xia Feng's element is water, he naturally doesn't need this thing.

"Chana Yuki, you only need the Ice Ryukyu, right? Here, take this."

Seeing Xia Feng hand over the Ice Crystal Soil, Chana Yuki was taken aback: "You, didn't you say you wouldn't give it to me?"

"What, you don't want it? Fine then—"

"Yes, I want it." Cha Nai Xue quickly pressed Xia Feng's large hand down, her lips pursed and her face slightly flushed. After hesitating for a moment, she whispered, "Thank you."

"No need to thank me." Xia Feng smiled and patted her slightly messy, standing hair. "Just remember your identity as a female slave."

"..." The joy that had just risen in Chana Yuki's heart vanished instantly. She raised her eyes expressionlessly, her purple pupils glaring at Xia Feng.

Xia Feng didn't take it to heart, gently patted her delicate face, and turned around: "Let's go, let's go back to the underground laboratory."

Chana Yuki glanced at the ice clay in her hand, pursed her lips, and carefully placed it away.

The Black Moon Church has 90% of the spiritual materials at level three and below, but spiritual materials at level four and above are extremely rare, especially this Ice Crystal Soil, which even the main church may not have.

She has already gathered all the other materials, and with the addition of the Ice Crystal Soil, she has all the materials needed to advance to the fourth tier.

Now all that's left is to raise my spiritual pressure to the peak of the third rank, which will take some time.

Once she advances to the fourth rank, and then the fifth, she'll have the Holy See's support. At the fifth rank, facing a mere Xia Feng? Heh~
Xia Feng will probably regret giving her this icy soil today.

Chana Yuki stared at her childhood friend's back in the distance, her beautiful eyes flashing with cold light. Her current strategy was to quickly improve her strength and then reverse the slave contract!

Let this childhood sweetheart become her male slave! At that time, even if Xia Feng is unwilling to cultivate 'Double Moon' with her, he will have no choice but to accept it.

Back in the underground laboratory, over three hundred people sat cross-legged on the ground, listless and dazed. Jiang Zhizi still held her gardenia, gazing at it with fascination, muttering something unintelligible to herself.

Looking at this group of people, Xia Feng shook his head helplessly, wondering how they would live when they returned to the real world.

"Alright, Chana Xue, Miss Mu and I are about to advance to the third rank. Please protect us and don't let anyone get close."

Cha Nai Xue was somewhat surprised; she hadn't expected Xia Feng to trust her so much. She knew that if she had suddenly attacked at the crucial moment when Xia Feng was advancing to the third tier, she could have severely injured the demon.

"Sister Nai Xue, I believe you have the self-awareness to act as a female slave and won't do anything reckless." Xia Feng patted the woman in the snow-white dress on the shoulder, smiled kindly, and then turned to walk towards the room.

Chana Yuki: "."

Mu Qingtong turned to look at Cha Naixue and whispered, "Mr. Xia, are you sure she won't attack you?"

"Don't worry, there won't be any problems." Xia Feng smiled confidently. Of course there won't be any problems, because I don't need to be promoted at all, so there's no critical moment for promotion.

"Miss Mu, hurry up! You'd better be quick, my promotion speed is very fast, you know." Xia Feng's lips curled up, his tone smug, "I guarantee I'll succeed before you."

"?" Mu Qingtong glanced at Xia Feng indifferently: "Not bad, quite confident."

The two stood facing each other. As Xia Feng's flamboyant arrogance and Mu Qingtong's reserved pride met, the door slowly closed and clicked shut.

Xia Feng blinked and stood in front of the door for a while, then hummed softly with pleasure and casually sat down on a cold laboratory table.

Now, all we need to do is wait for Mu Shen to complete his advancement.

However, before that, he had something very important to do.

That is the roulette wheel of life.

The Wheel of Life cycles every fifteen days, and today is the time to enter it, which is one of the reasons why he rushed back to the underground laboratory just now.

[Teleportation countdown: 9 minutes]

Time passed slowly, and soon, the world around us changed.

He entered again as number 17. It was his fourth time entering this godforsaken place, and he felt like he was coming home after a long time.

Walk to the control panel.

Current Life Points: (21+24)45

After spending 44 health points to buy the Purification Order, his account dwindled to only 21 points. But unexpectedly, player number 16—the old woman from the Far River Orphanage who played the young woman—transferred 25 points to him, making his account much better again.

Time to shop till I drop!
"Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen—"

In a world as dark as an abyss, a spotlight shines down from the center of thirty-seven tall pillars.

"The fourth predation phase has ended. Now proceeding to—"

The referee, wearing a pure black mask, spread his arms wide and said in a mocking tone, "Primary Sacrifice Phase!"

Xia Feng, who was idly resting his chin on his hand, waiting for the evolution stage to begin, was stunned. He looked up and saw that it was the initial sacrifice stage.
What the hell is this? There are even rules I don't know about?

"That's right, everyone. To reward you for persevering until now, a preliminary sacrifice phase has been specially established before the fourth evolution phase—"

"The rules for this stage are very simple, please look at the panel."

Xia Feng looked down.

[Initial Sacrifice Phase: Sacrifice 9900 Lost Ones to receive a 100-point health bonus!]

[The Lost Person: A person who has lost hope in life, lost basic emotional responses, no longer hates, no longer loves, and is manipulated by others, like a machine.]

[Sacrifice Method: Touch the soul of the 'Lost Person' with a spiritual artifact, and the Wheel of Life will automatically start counting.]

Upon seeing this rule, Xia Feng's pupils constricted unusually. "Lost...lost person? Damn, so that's how it is!"

He finally understood why the garden insisted on tormenting those people.

They could have provided better services to the nobles, but instead, they chose to invest more money and energy to repair the ordinary people or noble ladies who had been ruined and put them back into use.

From this perspective, it becomes quite obvious that the owner of the garden, or the archbishop, actually aims for life points.

Thinking of this, Xia Feng was shocked. Over the years, the orphanage had sent at least two thousand people to the Garden, but now the Garden only had three hundred people left.

Therefore, those who disappeared are probably already in the hands of the archbishop. Once they leave the Wheel of Life, the archbishop will absorb and sacrifice those lost souls.

Of course, two thousand is just a conservative estimate; who knows how many lost souls this archbishop has collected over the years?

(End of this chapter)