I'm bound to the World-Destroying Witch

Chapter 63. The Shadow of the Bloodthirsty Beast

"Mr. Xia, His Excellency the Prince is waiting for you in Hall 3."

The guard pushed open another door, bowed, and gestured for them to enter. "Go to the end and turn left, and you'll see it."

The corridor was long, with scattered, dim candlelight flickering on the carved and painted walls on both sides.

"Okay, thank you."

Xia Feng smiled and nodded, then walked towards the end of the road.

He smelled the aura of Evil Force; it was extremely strong, almost as strong as the concentration of Miss Evil Dragon's breath.

However, this evil power is not active, so it is not something that the monster itself possesses, but rather a high concentration of evil spirit liquid.

"This is getting interesting." Xia Feng reached the end and looked to the left, where a tall, dark red door came into view.

The gate is engraved with the number [3] in gilded gold.

The evil energy emanates from this door, but it seems to be suppressed and sealed, making it difficult for ordinary spiritual masters below the Venerable level to sense.

But Xia Feng was no ordinary spiritual master. When he arrived at the door, he could even sense the shape of the evil power inside. It seemed to be sealed by a small sphere and suspended in the air.

It's obvious that someone wants to kill him.

Although it was the Duke who summoned him, there was no reason for the Duke to harm him. He guessed that it was probably the Duke's eldest son who was behind it.

The guard who led him to Hall 3 was probably one of Li Siwen's men.

This wasn't a perfect murder plan, but this was the King's territory, and once the deed was done, the King would probably have no choice but to cover for Li Siwen.

After all, the Evil Dragon Forest is right next door. It's perfectly normal for a first-tier spirit master to accidentally trigger some mechanism and then die from being devoured by evil energy.

Xia Feng looked back; there were no surveillance cameras around.

The door was ajar. He knocked on it as if he didn't know anything, and only after a long time when no one responded did he push the door open in confusion.

Inside was a conference room, with a small, dark red ball, less than half the size of a palm, floating in the center. As he pushed open the door, it shot straight toward him.

The moment the ball shot through the gap in the door, he calmly closed the door. The ball seemed to sense something was wrong and tried to retreat, but Xia Feng grabbed it.

The sphere vibrated and hummed, and terrifying evil energy instantly surged from his palm into his heart.

click-

The bead shattered, turning into ordinary glass shards scattered all over the ground, with a short, thin metal wire inside disappearing and dimming.

"It looks like some kind of spiritual weapon." Xia Feng picked up the metal wire and examined it. The glass chip connected to the bottom clearly had the words 'Pingshan Technology' written on it.

"Boom-"

"咚咚-"

As the Evil Spirit Liquid flowed in, his heart activity increased again, seemingly reaching a critical point. Xia Feng's expression changed slightly, and a tingling current surged from his heart to his limbs and bones, reaching the depths of his soul.

[Heart of the Demon Repair Progress: 0.01%]

[Activate basic magical power: Shadow of the Bloodthirsty]

【Function 1: The filtered blood beast impurities can settle into the shadow. When the user's shadow overlaps with the target's shadow, a shadow path channel is established. At this time, the target's shadow can also become a container for storing blood beasts.】

【Function 2: All shadows linked through the Shadow Path will become your weapons to invade the target's soul. You can control the Bloodthirsty Beasts to erode the target's soul along the shadows. The erosion effect depends on the target's mental strength.】

A flood of information rushed through Xia Feng's mind, and his eyes widened: "Holy crap."

This ability seems very powerful, capable of killing without leaving a trace, but the prerequisite is that you have to make good use of the light source.

While pondering, he threw a ball of blood-red mist into the ground, which instantly swallowed and assimilated the shards of glass and disappeared into the shadows.

Looking at his inexplicably sinister shadow, Xia Feng suddenly felt that his abilities were increasingly resembling those of an evil villain. The copying and stealing, the mental corruption—it was utterly outrageous.

Thinking it over, he glanced at the slightly ajar door and nodded. "Well, just pretend I was never here."

Xia Feng put his hands in his pockets, turned around, and leisurely returned the way he came.

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Two flowers bloom, one branch each.

After watching Xia Feng enter the corridor, Li Siwen smiled and looked at Mu Qingtong: "Miss Qingtong, come with me for a moment, I need to talk to you about something."

Mu Qingtong glanced at the mushroom beside her and said calmly, "There are no outsiders here, so just say what you need to say."

"Things that can't be brought to light should naturally be said in places where they can't be brought to light." Li Siwen said with a half-smile, "Miss Qing Tong, are you sure you want to say it here?"

Mu Qingtong slightly raised her beautiful eyes, her mask of a faint smile disappearing: "After committing all sorts of evil deeds, ants always like to be smug, using this to show off their mortal wisdom."

"What—" Li Siwen was stunned for a moment, then realized what he meant and looked up thoughtfully, "You know what I did?"

Mu Qingtong naturally didn't know what the other party had done, but she could guess pretty much what it was, since she had seen many secrets from the memories of the second son of the King.

For example, there is a spiritual weapon called the Evil Condensation Bead. These two brothers love to use this thing to kill people silently, and after the person dies, they can blame it all on the nightmare beast.

Mushroom looked at the two of them with a puzzled expression, wondering what they were talking about.
"I must say, Miss Qing Tong, you are very clever."

“But there are also many secrets, which is not a good thing~” Li Siwen said with a light laugh, holding the phone screen horizontally in front of Mu Qingtong.

The sign clearly read, "I know you killed my brother. If you don't want things to get out, come to room 404."

Li Siwen put down his phone, gave a polite smile, but stared at the woman in the black dress with an aggressive look: "I believe Miss Qing Tong can make a wise choice."

With that, a playful smile curled at the corners of his lips as he turned and left.

Strangely, he had just reached the center of the venue when he suddenly stopped in his tracks, his mocking gaze gradually losing its luster and becoming empty.

Leaning back on the sofa, Mu Qingtong elegantly crossed her legs beneath her understated black dress, raised her wine glass with a shimmering crimson light, and sipped it onto her red lips.

The dim candlelight cast a red glow on her long, curled eyelashes as she lowered them, concealing her cold, murderous intent beneath her golden eyes.

Now is not the best time to kill.

There were too many people at the banquet. Li Siwen suddenly died, and the contents of his phone were difficult to deal with.

We'll deal with this ant after the banquet ends.

“Your Highness, I am the adopted son of Count Louis. I wonder how your consideration of the project I mentioned last time is going?” A man smiled and walked to Li Siwen’s side, handing him a glass of red wine.

Li Siwen looked up, her empty gaze fixed on the man.

The man paused, then asked with concern, "Your Highness, are you alright? You don't look well."

Li Siwen tilted his neck to the left, paused, then shook his head normally, took the wine glass, and said indifferently, "You speak."

Seeing that Li Siwen had given him a chance, the man quickly began to introduce his pleasure projects, which attracted a large crowd.

"You—" The guard was startled when Xia Feng suddenly walked out.

"What about me?" Xia Feng asked, puzzled.

The guard choked for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "Didn't His Highness summon you? Why did you come out so quickly?"

Xia Feng rolled his eyes: "I feel like you're messing with me. There's nothing in Hall 3 at all."

"How could this be?" The guard asked in confusion, instinctively looking towards the center of the hall.

Xia Feng followed the gaze and saw Li Siwen surrounded by a group of people, and the crisscrossing shadows beneath their feet.

(End of this chapter)