Mystique Soul: A Cultivator's Flame
Chapter 43

Chapter 43: Chapter 43

A figure lurked oustide of a huge estate, brightly lit in the night and mercenaries and guards patroling the entire area. Black as the night cloth covered her entirely, yet a bottom corner of an exquisite mask perched on her face, peeking out slightly from the hood of the cloak.

Under the pale light of the crescent moon, the merchant’s estate exuded an air of quiet opulence, tightly cloaked in security. The whitewashed manor loomed like a pale ghost against the star-studded sky, its windows reflecting faint glimmers of torchlight. Shadows played over the high stone walls that encircled the estate, their surfaces topped with wicked iron spikes. At the grand wrought iron gate, a pair of armored guards stood at attention, their halberds catching the faint glow of nearby lanterns. Along the perimeter, patrols moved in calculated silence, their footsteps muffled by the soft dirt paths lining the estate’s interior. Lanterns hung from posts at regular intervals, casting pools of warm light that pierced the surrounding darkness. From the gardens came the faint rustle of leaves in the night breeze, a soft counterpoint to the muted sound of boots on cobblestone. In the stables, a lone figure kept watch over the restless horses, his crossbow slung across his back.

Swiftly, the cloaked figure leapt up the wall and into the roof as two patrol guards walked where they where standing.

The cloaked figure glanced at the second story of the building where she could feel the familiar sense of her Qi before vanishing from where she stood again.

The people went on their way not knowing that danger lurks amongst the halls vanishing and appearing behind guards, traversing through the shadows while guards fall silently wherever her silhouette passed through.

"Ah~ mph~ ahh~ young master~" sensual sounds came out of a tall double doors. Two figures constantly colliding in the bed making the mysterious lady who silently entered the luxurious room sneer, stepping out of the shadows.

"Kyaaaaahhhhhhh!"

An earpiercing scream of absolute fortification echoed through the room as she pushed the fatty off of her.

"You?! Who are you?! How dare you trespass here?! Do you have a death wish?! Guards?! Guards?! You useless wastes what am I paying you for? Get in here now!" The fatty shouted and demanded, pushing the woman’s naked form towards the intruder as a sacrifice as he took the blanket and tried to escape but Feng Jiao Xue just flashed in front of her.

"Disgusting pig" Feng Jiao Xue coldly stated kicking the man to the wall while throwing the blanket towards the lady.

The woman scrambled to cover herself while looking at cloaked lady with fear. "I- I don’t know him! Whatever your grudge with him is, I- I don’t know anything about it!" She cried trying to save her life. "Please, spare me. I’m just- I’m just trying to make a living".

Beneath the mask, beautiful black eyes flickered back to the woman as she stepped on the ’pig’. "Scram. Call for others and your dead" she released her pressure to scare the woman who nodded and immediately run.

The merchant gulped at the bloodlust that seemed through the lady’s figure. "Spare me! I’ll pay you! No matter how much, I’m willing to pay you just spare me" He begged eyes flickering to the door as he anxiously sent a qi on a jade behind him to call for his guards while crawling back away from figure.

"What I want, not even your entire worth can not buy" A soft and light voice stated, dangerously calm. Like the call of a siren before they pulled the sailor into the cold, dark, depths of the sea.

"Wait! Wait!" The merchant’s eyes started to really waver, his pupils dilating and wavering when no guards answers his call. "Let’s- let’s talk this out! I’m sure we can talk this out! I’ll give you whatever you want! Money, influence, connestion, anything!"

The cloaked lady chuckles, sweet, melodious and... poisonous. "Sure. How about you give me your life?" She asks sickly sweet making the other scrambled away from her.

"Oh?" She playfully muses, her lips mischievously curling up. "Didn’t you say you’ll give me what I want?" Red, soft and glossy lips pouted adorably yet the message such enchanting voice carried was anything but.

"You- Fine! You’re the one who refused a toast!" The man shouted, throwing a ball towards the lady watching it explode and engulf everything in the area it was thrown.

The man smirked as he stand up, fire his eyes reflects the fire that spreads before him before falling back on his butt, his mouth gaping incredolously as the smoke parted to reveal the cloaked figure.

Like the grim reaper, the figure gracefully and ever so slowly walked towards the man, as if gliding on air.

"Thumb! Thum! Thumb thumb thumb thumb!" The man’s heartbeats that was already beating fast beats faster and faster as if trying to jump out of his chest, his feet turning cold, ice cold, as tears and snot fell down his face in tears.

"But I’m amicable" The lady muses, like that of a cat toying with a mouse. "I won’t take your life"

The man’s eyes widened. "You- you won’t?" Pathetically, the man scrambled on his knees. "Yes, yes! Spare me and I will give you everything else!" he imediately agreed kowtowing towards the figured.

"Ahahaha~" The lady laughed so enchantingly sadistic, the back of her hand covering her mouth, clutching her stomach.

The man looked at the lady in utter terror and still hope.

With a cold smile, the lady looked down on the man.

"I won’t take your life, because death is but a mercy that’s why I always the beautiful lie that is life~"

The cloaked lady kicked the man away and stepped on his foot with her heels, "Crrrraaaackkk!" the sickening sound of bone breaking was immediately followed by the heart wrenching wail from the man.

"You b!tch!!!" The merchant tried to hit the cloaked figure only for her leg to withdrew.

The lady smiled down ever so sweetly at the man before she went to the bedside table where she saw the familiar leather whip. "Tell me, how many helpless slaves have you drawn blood with this?" She asked conversionaly, testing the whip on her palm. "Flexible and quite the bite~"

The man didn’t reply and looked at her wide eyes trying to crawl away only to scream as the sharp crack of the whip resounded on the room followed by the sound of a scream.

The lady smile down at the man wickedly.

A jade pendant slid away from the merchant, ’Xu Guang’ engraved on the small jewelry elegantly before it was blotched with blood from it’s owner.

The sound of painful screams filled the estate yet not a sound slipped through the grounds. Mercenaries, guards and servants all slept where they once stood, even the woman that the man was ’playing’ with laid in front of the door as green smoke slowly dissipitates in the air.

As the sun was about to rise, the green smoke fully dissipitated around the estate, a cloaked figure opening the back door and languidly strolled out from the back of the estate, blood covered the bottom part of her cloak.

Delicate hands reach up to remove the mask covering her face after she had walked far enough, a silver deer stepping out of the woods she had walk to.

"Sorry for making you wait so long, Yin Xiao" Feng Jiao Xue caressed the mane of her friend.

Assuringly, Yin Xiao nudged his snouth on her palm. "It’s alright, I wanted to be able to help. Are we running now?" He asked lowering himself to give her an easier lift to his back.

"Everything went smoothly but, yeah, let’s go back" She replied jumping to sit on his back.

In terms of cultivation and magic, she can be said to be at the biginner level, but add poison to the mix and the danger she poses goes beyond that of her power and strength.

Those in the estate will wake up in the morning as if they had the best sleep in their entire life. While that man will suffer as his slaved has done.

Her fist clenched as she remember the scars and burns on her new charge’s body. Some too deep and old to fully remove.

Leisurely, as if taking a stroll the two walked through the woods towards their home.

When they arrived at the courtyard, Huang Jin De was sitting on the door, a sleeping Mo Tianze beside him, wrapped up like a burrito with a blanket.

Feng Jiao Xue raised a brow but before she could even ask, Huang Jin De answered her unasked question.

"He woke up a few minutes after you left and insisted on waiting for you. Though he was too tired to stay awake but would wake up immediately if I try to put him back to bed" Huang Jin De shrugged. "How did it go?"

"Smoothly. I can’t let him feel everything he dealt towards his slaves, specially to him." She slowly combed her fingers through Mo Tianze’s hair. It was soft and fluffy now that it was washed.

"But there is a reason why moonlight’s claw is my favorite poison" She smirks coldly as she carefully picked Mo Tianze up, carying him bridal style easily as he does not weight like a nineteen years old at all. "He will suffer for the rest of his life and cowards and greedy b@st@rds like him would never be able to have the courage to take choose death and too greedy to abandon life" She replied, setting Mo Tianze on the bed before entering her space ring.

Unbeknownst to her, soft, long and thick lashes fluttered open to reveal sharp golden eyes like that of a molten gold, narrowing in interest and hiding knowledge beyond his age before they fluttered close again.