Douluo Continent: The Peerless Tang Sect, Angels and Rakshasa Return

Chapter 170 - The Maid Training Plan

"How foolish! No wonder you were tricked into becoming a child bride. If I can't resolve the vow, can't I at least resolve the person?" Qian Lingyun chuckled, raising her hand as if to slit her throat, and said mockingly, "Once he's dead, you'll be free..."

"Master, you can't," Zhang Lexuan pleaded, grabbing Qian Lingyun's wrist. "I can leave him and Shrek Academy, but... after all, I've waited for him for so many years. Even if he doesn't love me, our relationship is more like that of siblings..."

"Oh! That's interesting." Qian Lingyun's expression turned cold, and she raised her hand high.

Zhang Lexuan subconsciously closed her eyes, her body trembling slightly. But this time, Qian Lingyun didn't whip her. Instead, she gently helped Zhang Lexuan up and said, "Since you could swear an oath back then, why not make another oath to save his life?"

"ah!?"

"You swear by your martial spirit that you will be loyal to only me for the rest of your life. This is your way of repaying them for the rest of your life. From this day forward, you sever all ties with Shrek Academy." Qian Lingyun twirled a strand of Zhang Lexuan's hair with her index finger, observing the hesitation in her eyes, and whispered, "After you've made the oath, I'll grant him a chance to live, how about it?"

"..." Zhang Lexuan bit her lip, her mind racing. She thought:

She was already in Qian Lingyun's hands, and even if Qian Lingyun went to kill Beibei, she couldn't stop her. So she might as well agree and use the rest of her life to fulfill her vow.

Moreover, although Qian Lingyun is capricious, she seems to treat me quite well... When I made a mistake and was whipped, she even helped me apply medicine.

If it were someone outside who kept slaves, someone as disobedient as me would probably be beaten senseless and sold off...

"Good girl, have you thought it through? I haven't had this much patience in a long time," Qian Lingyun said, gently patting Zhang Lexuan's buttocks.

Under the influence of the master-servant brand on her chest, Zhang Lexuan actually started to imagine things based on a single sentence and a slap, which successfully made that sentence the last straw that broke her back.

Zhang Lexuan pursed her lips, a faint blush inexplicably spreading across her face. She took a deep breath and said, "I, Zhang Lexuan, swear by my martial soul that from this moment on, I will serve Qian Lingyun as my master. No matter what my master asks me to do, I will do my best to obey and cooperate. If I disobey, may my martial soul shatter and I die without a complete corpse."

After making the vow, she knelt on one knee, raised her hand to hold Qian Lingyun's palm, and gently tapped the back of Qian Lingyun's hand with the tip of her nose, as if to declare her obedience.

"Hahahahaha!"

The thrill of having Shrek Academy's top prodigy in her grasp gave Qian Lingyun a strange, morbid sense of satisfaction. She laughed wildly and said sarcastically, "Not bad, not bad at all. I really like how sensible you are. Don't worry, I'll spare that Bei Bei's life in the future."

"But... I'm wondering now, should I call you Lexuan or Xiaoxuan from now on?"

"Whatever Master wishes to call me, that is what I will do, without any objection from this servant," Zhang Lexuan said, still bowing her head obediently.

"What a great girl! You get into character so quickly!" Qian Lingyun said, propping her head up with her hand and looking at Zhang Lexuan with great interest. "So, Lexuan, are you level 80-something now?"

"Replying to Master, this servant is now at level eighty-three in cultivation," Zhang Lexuan replied in a low voice, her body prostrate almost level with the ground, her breasts being squeezed into a pair of large white discs by the impact with the ground.

"Level 83!" Qian Lingyun frowned and thought to herself.

[A Soul Douluo who broke through at twenty-three or twenty-four, currently at level eighty-three, would only reach level eighty-six five years later while helping Huo Yuhao hunt for his fifth Soul Ring. Three levels in five years? That doesn't make sense!]

"Do you have any hidden injuries?" Qian Lingyun asked again.

"Reporting to Master, when I forcibly absorbed a 100,000-year-old soul ring, I damaged my foundation and am still recuperating..."

"It damaged your cultivation foundation!" Qian Lingyun nodded knowingly, stood up and gestured, "Come with me, I have prepared something for you."

"Yes." Zhang Lexuan hurriedly stood up and obediently followed behind Qian Lingyun in her high heels.

"Look, this is the gift I prepared for you."

As Qian Lingyun paused again, a pure white, jade-like spiritual herb appeared in their field of vision.

"The Primordial Immortal Herb is a celestial grade. It is a supreme treasure for enhancing soul power. Nothing can enhance soul power better than it, and it can also help you compress your soul power to condense a soul core in the future."

"But it doesn't have any other special properties. The Primordial Immortal Grass itself is a relatively mild immortal herb, but its energy channels are long and deep, so it's not easy to fully absorb it. Fortunately, you're a Soul Douluo, so you shouldn't have to worry about that."

A divine product?

Is it simply about increasing soul power cultivation and assisting in the condensation of a soul core?

Zhang Lexuan, as a top student at Shrek Academy, naturally understood that improving a single attribute is far more advantageous than improving a mixed set of attributes.

The more singular the effect of a spiritual object, the greater the enhancement it provides within that singular effect.

Just as there are limits to human cultivation, there are also limits to how spiritual objects can absorb the primordial energy of heaven and earth. If the effects are divided into multiple parts, then, with the total amount remaining unchanged, each part will not be too strong.

Therefore, the more top-grade the natural treasure, the more singular its effect.

This treasure, which is so rare that it only appears once every thousand years, was given to her... to a maid?

Good heavens! Just who is my master?

With both hands, I gently picked it up. The Hunyuan Immortal Grass looked slender, but it felt heavy in my hands.

Qian Lingyun said, "You can consume the Primordial Immortal Herb one leaf at a time, absorbing it through meditation as you take it, thereby gradually increasing your soul power. Alternatively, you can swallow it quickly to directly repair your damaged foundation, but that would place a great burden on your body."

"Thank you, Master."

Zhang Lexuan took the immortal herb from Qian Lingyun and stuffed the Hunyuan Immortal Herb into her mouth in one gulp.

The taste of Hunyuan Immortal Grass is really not good; it feels similar to eating grass, and the leaves are also very tough.

Only after swallowing it did Zhang Lexuan feel the intense Primordial Qi suddenly rush into her body, combining with her own soul power and surging through her meridians. Under the cleansing effect of the Primordial Qi, the damaged meridians were slowly being repaired.

At this moment, even the last vestige of Zhang Lexuan's thoughts vanished.

For some reason, she suddenly thought of the time when her group encountered a 100,000-year-old soul beast in the Star Dou Great Forest. The Guardian was nowhere to be seen until half of their group had been killed, with eight people dying, and he finally arrived late.

Later, although she obtained the soul ring and soul bone of that 100,000-year-old soul beast, she also paid a heavy price by damaging her foundation.

If the protectors back then had cared for Qian Lingyun even a little more than they cared for their own people, that tragedy wouldn't have happened!

As she thought about it, Zhang Lexuan's mind became somewhat chaotic.

(End of this chapter)