“Master, don’t worry, I will… I’ll stay true to myself! I absolutely won’t let the darkness corrupt my heart!” Freya knelt on one knee, gritting her teeth, her palm digging ten claw marks into the ground.
Her whole body was tense to the extreme, looking like she was on the verge of collapse.
“Uh… why does what you’re saying sound kind of weird?”
Freya was declaring her determination not to be corrupted by darkness, but Chen Xing thought, isn’t she the master of darkness? Did Freya even consider her feelings when saying all this?
“Master, how much longer?” The balance of light and darkness in Freya’s body had been broken.
Chen Xing had taken away her light magic to use elsewhere, but the solution was simple: Chen Xing just needed to draw out some of the darkness from her.
The only reason she hadn’t done it before was because she wanted to see where Freya’s limits were.
Now it was clear—no wonder she was the saintess of the gods.
Whether physically or mentally, she was much stronger than humans.
Her body couldn’t be melted by dark matter, and her mind could resist the corruption of darkness.
No wonder the gods sent her to guard the darkness—she really was something.
“Alright, I won’t torture you anymore.”
Most of the people around Chen Xing were completely fallen slaves.
Chen Xing thought it would be boring if everyone was like that, so losing one more wouldn’t matter.
That’s why she didn’t use darkness to control Freya.
She always kept Freya balanced between good and evil, not letting her be a pure saint, but also not turning her into an evil demon.
She raised her hand and drew out some of the darkness from Freya’s body.
In the next second, Freya’s snow-white hair faded to gold, and her pitch-black armor turned back to a mix of black and white.
“Phew… I almost couldn’t hold on.” Freya let out a long breath, her whole body soaked in sweat.
Just now, it felt like countless voices in her head were shouting: Submit to the darkness, serve your master, fall, fall… You’ve done so much for the gods! But how did they treat you? Embrace the darkness, gain power, take revenge on them! Kill them all! Kill them all! The dark thoughts kept invading her mind, but even so, Freya held on! With no dark matter directly corrupting her brain, Freya’s mental defenses were rock solid.
This was a skill honed over hundreds of years—after all, she’d always been under constant erosion.
“Hmm?” Half-kneeling on the ground and gasping for breath, Freya suddenly felt something was off.
The master’s absorption hadn’t stopped.
The dark energy in her body was still pouring out, being sucked into Chen Xing’s palm.
Freya’s hair turned back to a pure golden color, her armor returned to silver-white, and even her eyes regained their clear blue.
The voices in her head disappeared completely, the dark thoughts vanished, and she felt so much lighter and refreshed.
Then she felt her saintly compassion return.
Seeing the carnage around her, she felt miserable… “Master, what… are you doing?”
“Huh? Sorry, I got distracted and took a bit too much.
I’ll give it back now.”
Chen Xing, who had been looking up at the sky, snapped back to reality and noticed Freya had already returned to her saintly, pure appearance.
Seeing this, Chen Xing quickly stopped absorbing and sent the dark magic back into her.
Watching the black mist pour from Chen Xing’s palm, Freya gave a helpless smile and said, “Master, stop pretending.
I know you’re just messing with me…”
Freya didn’t believe for a second that Chen Xing had just gotten distracted.
After spending so many days together, Freya understood her master—she knew Chen Xing loved to tease her.
She must have wanted to see Freya return to her pure form, then corrupt her again, enjoying her resistance in the process.
That’s just how her master liked to play.
But Freya wasn’t going to indulge Chen Xing.
When the black mist wrapped around her, she didn’t try to escape or resist—she just accepted it.
The more her master wanted to see her resist, the less she would! Let her stew!
“Hehehe, you caught me.
Don’t even think about resisting~ or I’ll massacre a city just to show you.”
“I never planned to resist.
I… I’m no match for you, Master.”
Freya had long since realized how powerful her master was.
She knew she couldn’t win, so she didn’t resist.
“Sigh… you’re really no fun.
Can’t you just play along and pretend?”
Freya’s lack of reaction left Chen Xing disappointed.
If Freya couldn’t keep entertaining her, she might as well just corrupt her completely and find a new, devout saintess of light to toy with.
“Still, thank you, Master, for letting me see what I used to look like.
Sigh… I really miss those days, but I can never go back.”
Freya looked down at her holy armor.
She hadn’t seen it in its original form for so long.
She couldn’t help but remember the day she was given her mission.
So many people came to see her off, saying she was the pride of so-and-so, that they were proud of her.
Then the scene flashed to the Witch’s Tomb—a dark, silent space, with only herself, her hands and feet bound by cold iron chains, feeling the darkness invade her body every moment…
Most people would have gone mad long ago, but she was Freya.
Even so, over the long years, negative emotions inevitably built up and twisted inside her, but she always managed to suppress them.
Her faith and longing for her family kept her going.
“Click!” Suddenly, Freya felt a flash of bright light, accompanied by a clicking sound.
“Huh? Master, what happened?”
“Here.” Chen Xing pulled a piece of paper from between her breasts and handed it to Freya.
When Freya took it, she saw it was a picture of herself.
Silver-white armor, golden hair, her whole body bathed in holy light, like an angel descended to earth.
“Keep this photo.
It’s what you looked like when you were pure.”
“Why are you giving this to me, Master?”
“I want you to remember what you used to look like, to stay true to yourself, to hold onto the light, and not let the darkness corrupt you!!” Chen Xing looked at Freya with a loving gaze and spoke gently.
To make it worse, she changed her clothes into a pure white dress, barefoot on the ground, hands clasped in prayer.
If Freya still had her old temper, she’d probably say, “Screw you! Stop pretending! Go die!” Too bad, the once foul-mouthed saintess had become a docile little lamb.
Chen Xing still preferred her wild side.
“Hahaha, Master, if you were a saintess of the gods, you’d probably be really popular.”
Chen Xing’s pose reminded Freya of the goddess statues in the divine realm—white dress, barefoot on the earth, hands in prayer.
Even their gentle smiles were the same.
The statue symbolized eternal peace and light for the divine realm.
Unfortunately, the face of this symbolic statue had been destroyed—everything above the nose was cut off, and no one knew who did it.
“Hmm? Really? Too bad I’m the witch of darkness… otherwise, I’d actually want to try it.”
The black mist in Chen Xing’s palm kept swirling, wrapping around Freya’s body, filling her with darkness, and soon she was back to being the half-black, half-white saintess.
Though those wicked thoughts and voices returned to her mind, Freya was used to it by now—they’d been with her for over a hundred years.
“How do you feel? Are you balanced now?” Since some of the light had been drawn out of Freya earlier, Chen Xing didn’t inject as much darkness as before.
“It’s balanced.”
“Want me to add a bit more, make you a little more evil?”
“Whatever you want, Master.”
“Tch~ so boring.”
Chen Xing changed her pure white dress back to a black dress, black stockings, and thigh-high boots, then looked up at the sky.
Little Dragon Girl and the princess were still fighting.
The battle was raging, high-level magic flying everywhere.
The royal city was in ruins from the aftermath of their fight.
Luckily, the soldiers here were all ‘machines’—calmly organizing evacuations according to their programming.
In this kind of situation, only people like them could handle it.
Most of the residents had already been evacuated, so Little Dragon Girl and the others’ battle didn’t cause much civilian casualties.
The queen disguised as the princess, after obtaining dark matter, now had almost limitless magic power.
Spells she’d never mastered before were now at her fingertips.
Frozen lands, absolute zero, moonlit frost, unrivaled under the heavens… On Little Dragon Girl’s side, she was gradually losing ground under the queen’s magical onslaught.
In the end, following Chen Xing’s instructions, the queen defeated Little Dragon Girl, and she and Salina fled in a sorry state.
There were plenty of witnesses to this fight.
The foreigners who’d come for the queen’s marriage selection, and many foreign merchants, all saw what happened—and saw the witch’s appearance.
Of course, these people had no idea what the real witch looked like.
But what Chen Xing truly wanted to hide was the truth from those in the know: the big shots, the royals and nobles of other kingdoms, and the Pope and Saintess of the Church.
It wouldn’t take long for them to learn what happened here today.
Once they saw Salina, they’d realize this witch was the Witch of the North, not the Witch of the Sealed Land.
By then, the target would shift away from herself.
The queen had won, but her people, whose hearts had been frozen, wouldn’t cheer for their queen.
Only the outsiders would praise her strength.
Those people didn’t know that the powerful, cold, untouchable Snow Queen in their minds was now a prisoner, trapped inside her beloved little sister’s body.
The queen couldn’t see what was happening outside, but she could guess.
But so what? She couldn’t break free from her sister’s prison, and in the end, she couldn’t do anything.
“Master, wasn’t I amazing? I went toe-to-toe with a dragon!”
Inside the palace, the princess, done with her performance, ran over eagerly, begging for praise.
“Tch! If Master hadn’t told me to hold back, I could’ve roasted you in one breath!” Little Dragon Girl scoffed from the side.
Her power really was above the queen and princess—even if the sisters fused, it wouldn’t help.
“Enough, you’re both wonderful kids!”
Chen Xing smiled and patted the princess and Little Dragon Girl on the head.
The reward from the dark master didn’t just excite the princess’s heart—every bit of dark matter in her body was thrilled, making her tremble slightly.
“What… what is this feeling…”
The queen, who felt the same as the princess, naturally sensed the pleasure of being praised.
She might not feel it in her heart, but the sensation in her body was real.
Her whole body felt warm and comfortable, her mood light.
If she had a tail right now, she’d be wagging it in excitement.
Just like Little Dragon Girl beside her, tail in the air, wagging nonstop, even sticking out her tongue.
“Isn’t that a dog?” the queen thought to herself.
“Big sis, did you feel it? That’s the master’s love.”
The princess’s words pulled the queen’s attention back.
“Sis, why do you keep messing with me like this?”
“Because it makes me happy! You’ve been cold for so many years, so now you need to really feel what it’s like to be human and experience ‘happiness’.”
Little Dragon Girl knew that once your mind was eroded by darkness, your old personality would disappear completely.
She didn’t want her sister’s self to be lost to the darkness just after it had returned.
It wasn’t about rebelling against the master—she just thought it was a shame.
So the princess wanted to bully her sister a bit while she still had her sense of self, let her enjoy these pleasures beyond human experience.
“I know I went too far all these years with my emotions frozen.
I’m sorry.
But when we were kids, weren’t we really close? Did you forget? You used to say you liked me best.”
When they were little, the old queen’s emotions were sealed too, so she never showed her daughters any care.
The two sisters only had each other for warmth, so their bond was very strong.
“Yeah, I still like you best, sis! Other than the master, you’re my favorite!”
Her little sister’s look made the queen’s heart ache, but mostly she just felt helpless.
She could only plead, “For the sake of our past, please stop tormenting me.
Just… finish me off, make me like you.”
The queen wanted her mind to be swallowed by darkness.
That way, once her mind was broken, she wouldn’t feel pain anymore—she’d become like her sister, happy forever.
She really couldn’t take this kind of torment.
Her newly restored emotions and senses couldn’t handle such intensity.
“Don’t rush, sis.
You finally got your feelings back, so enjoy the world a bit before you’re swallowed.
Don’t worry, you’ll become the master’s servant sooner or later, no need to hurry~”
The princess wasn’t done teasing.
She wanted to play with her queen toy a little longer.
With that thought, she made her skin flow with darkness.
As mentioned before, once your body turns to darkness, you can feel every part of it, inside and out.
Now it flowed like liquid.
A mind eroded by darkness could handle this, but a human mind couldn’t.
It was weird for a human brain—your body turning to liquid, maybe your hand felt like a hand one second, but the next it might be somewhere else, turned into another organ.
There was just too much sensory input at once—every inch of the body was intensely stimulated, far beyond what a human could handle.
The human brain just couldn’t take it.
Just thinking about it was strange, let alone the queen experiencing it herself.
And to mess with her sister, the princess made the flow even more intense.
“Eek—Sis, stop! My hand’s gone… No, it’s back—what is this?!”
The queen ‘screamed’.
Hearing that lovely sound, her sister’s expression grew even more twisted.
Even Chen Xing on the side couldn’t bear to watch.
She coughed and said, “Ahem, take me to find the necklace.”
The princess realized she’d lost control.
She gave her master a noble’s apology, grabbing her skirt and curtsying slightly.
“Sorry, master, for letting you see me lose composure.
I’ll have my sister take you to look for it right away.”
“Sis, did you hear that? If you don’t want me to keep teasing you, hurry up and take the master to her treasure.”
“I… I got it.”
The queen couldn’t resist even if she wanted to.
She was just a mortal, powerless against evil.
Thinking back, all those years of effort seemed so ridiculous.
Generations, centuries of work, destroyed in a day.
That thought brought a wave of grievance, and the queen, unable to control her emotions, burst into tears.
“Waaah… sob sob… waaah… sob sob, what was it all for?”
The queen, just now regaining her emotions, cried like a newborn—loud, clear, and contagious.
“Oh sis, you can’t lose it like this in front of the master.
Be a little reserved, you’re the queen, you know.”
Her crying actually made her sister panic, like a mom with a kid crying in public, not knowing what to do.
“Aiya, what am I going to do with you?”
With no other choice, the princess covered her sister’s whole face, wrapping her up completely.
The queen cried behind her sister’s face, but the dark matter was soundproof, so as soon as the princess’s face covered her, the queen’s loud sobs were silenced.
“These two sisters really play rough.”
As the master, Chen Xing was pretty hands-off with her subordinates.
As long as it wasn’t a big problem, she didn’t care.
The queen would fall soon enough anyway, so she might as well leave them be for now.
“Master, I know the place my sister mentioned.
I’ll take you.”
“Mm.”
Outside, the post-battle cleanup was underway.
The soldiers with frozen emotions worked tirelessly, everything organized and orderly.
There was no need for the queen to handle this, so the princess took Chen Xing and teleported to the deepest part of the glacier crevice beneath the palace.
The whole palace was built on the glacier.
For generations, the queens had cultivated magic by absorbing the cold from the ancient ice deep below.
And that ancient ice was where Chen Xing’s treasure was sealed.
This eternal ice has existed for ages.
It might be the first chunk of ice to absorb natural elements after the continent was born.
Its existence predates humanity, so of course, it’s even older than the witches.
Its chill is bone-piercing—even the Snow Queen would feel cold standing here.
The moment she was teleported over, Chen Xing was hit by a wave of cold that froze her whole body.
It took her a long time to recover.
“So cold! Even I can feel it.
No wonder it’s called eternal ice.
In TV dramas, terms like ‘thousand-year black iron’ or ‘thousand-year ice’ always sound so badass.” The deepest part of the glacier was filled with milky-white, opaque ice, shrouded in a freezing aura.
This is probably one of the hardest substances on the continent.
It’s completely immune to magic, and even physical attacks barely scratch it.
“This thing’s a real treasure.”
Chen Xing put her hand on the milky-white ice, which looked like a stalactite.
Instantly, her whole arm was frozen solid.
“Rock hard.”
She tapped her frozen arm with a piece of metal, making a clanging sound.
Then, with a little force, her arm shattered into pieces.
“Little Dragon Girl, go mess with it.”
Chen Xing wanted Little Dragon Girl to breathe fire and melt the thing, but when she called out, there was no response.
She turned around and saw Little Dragon Girl gritting her teeth, hugging her shoulders.
A thin layer of frost had formed on her skin, her expression frozen, her body completely still—like she’d been frozen stiff.
“Come on! Aren’t you supposed to be an apocalypse dragon? How embarrassing.
Whatever, Princess, have your sister open the seal already.”
“Yes, Master.” Half of the princess’s face faded away, revealing the Queen’s tear-streaked face.
She kept sniffling but didn’t cry out anymore.
“Sis, help Master open this, okay?” “I—I know, but I need your help.” The Queen explained the spell and how to use the magic to the princess.
It wasn’t a difficult spell, but only the Queen was qualified to inherit it, so no one else could break the seal.
The princess chanted the incantation, and the seemingly indestructible ice actually cracked down the middle under the spell.
“This ice was originally several pieces, but later they were fused together with magic.
Your item is inside.”
The ice slowly opened, revealing a necklace inside—a platinum chain with a black gemstone hanging from it, looking exquisite and noble.
The moment it opened, a thick wave of dark energy surged out, instantly filling the entire space.
This dark aura would have a huge effect on ordinary creatures, but for Chen Xing and her group, it was pure bliss, like being wrapped in a gentle spring breeze.
“Ah…” The Queen couldn’t help but moan, because her body, transformed by darkness, felt an unprecedented pleasure as it absorbed the dark energy.
The Queen couldn’t control her emotions, so she let out a sound as soon as she felt something.
Her face turned bright red, and she whispered anxiously, “Sister, cover my face! Hurry!”
Now that she had emotions, she also had a sense of shame.
After that outburst, the Queen wanted to crawl into a hole, but she couldn’t control her body at all! She could only watch as everyone turned to look at her.
Ahhh! So embarrassing! “It’s okay, Sis.
That’s just Master’s gentleness.
Making sounds under Master’s care is totally understandable.”
“Ugh…” The Queen was so embarrassed she was about to cry.
This time, the princess finally covered her sister’s face.
It was just a little episode—Chen Xing didn’t care.
She turned and picked up the necklace.
“So cold!” After absorbing a thousand years of chill, the necklace was no different from a block of ice.
It was uncomfortable to hold, let alone wear against her sensitive skin.
Chen Xing definitely didn’t want her sensitive chest touching this thing.
Swallowing it with dark matter would just feel like having an ice cube inside her.
“Seriously… why’d they have to freeze it?” Chen Xing pouted and complained, then stuffed the necklace into her body.
Even though it was inside the dark matter, dark matter still had sensation, so it felt cold inside.
Chen Xing just hoped the chill stored in the necklace would dissipate soon.
“I’ve got some of my power back!” Cold as it was, the dark energy inside the necklace was still intact.
The moment it touched Chen Xing’s body, the energy started pouring into her.
It felt endless, filling her whole body and making Chen Xing let out a long, satisfied sigh.
“Ahhh—so good!” Chen Xing felt totally refreshed.
The boost from the necklace was obvious.
If she could find all her lost treasures, her power would multiply several times over.
Chen Xing was in a great mood, already eager to find the next lost treasure and start a new quest.
“Little Dragon Girl, where’s the next treasure?” Little Dragon Girl, still frozen, struggled a bit, shook off the ice, and said, “In the Elven Forest, Master.
Your magic ring is there.”
“Elven Forest, huh? That means I’ll get to see some pretty elf girls? Hehehe… cough, cough.”
Chen Xing quickly wiped the drool from her mouth.
She didn’t want to lose her composure in front of her subordinates.
But then she remembered—hadn’t she already lost it in front of the Queen? And in a big way! The Queen had seen her at her most… whatever! “No way! I have to get back at her! Before, I couldn’t do anything because she had no emotions, but now… hehehe~” The princess had witnessed that infamous scene too, so Chen Xing wasn’t going to let her off either.
“Now that things are wrapped up here, I should go back to the Witch’s Tower and rest for a while~” Chen Xing wasn’t in a hurry to go to the Elven Forest.
She’d been busy enough lately—it was time to relax.
“Um, Master, my sister wants to talk to you.”
The princess revealed the Queen’s face, who looked like she’d just finished crying.
What a cute girl, Chen Xing thought.
She really wanted to punch her—she’d probably cry for ages, right? “So, Your Majesty, what do you want to say?”
“You can do whatever you want to me, just please spare my people.”
Even without her programming, the Queen still cared about her subjects.
Witches had a history of being evil—massacres and sacrifices were common—so the Queen wanted to beg this witch to spare her people.
“That’s it? I’m not interested in them.
But… I did corrupt a few people before, but I’m a witch, so doing bad things is normal.
Don’t worry about it.
From now on, this country can be whatever it wants to be.” Chen Xing smiled.
She’d lost most of her humanity, but she wasn’t so far gone as to commit mass slaughter.
She had no interest in the people of this city, and she’d just send a fake queen to rule the country from now on.
“Thank you for your mercy.”
“Wow, you’re actually thanking me?” Chen Xing thought she’d done enough bad things already.
The Queen not cursing her out was surprising enough, but she was actually grateful.
Maybe it was just so different from what she expected.
She thought the witch would wipe out the whole city, the whole country, but in the end, the witch just caused a little chaos.
“Master, where are we going next?” “Back to the Witch’s Tower for a good rest.
I need to enjoy myself too.”
“Yay, we get to go back!” Little Dragon Girl was thrilled.
As long as she could be with her master, she didn’t care where they went.
Since the city had been damaged, all the magic circles were gone.
Now, when Chen Xing used dark magic to teleport, no one would notice.
After packing up those two blocks of ten-thousand-year-old ice, Chen Xing summoned a teleportation magic circle, and the light enveloped everyone present.
But before they left, Chen Xing left behind two dark matter slimes.
One stayed here and took on the form of the Ice Queen.
Chen Xing didn’t inject a soul into it, so this queen would only act according to the program Chen Xing set up.
In a way, it was just like the Ice Queen—both were emotionless machines.
The other dark matter was left behind as well, but it left the depths of the glacier and flew off into the distance.
At this moment, Lidiqi was busy at home.
She was playing the role of Lidiqi as her master ordered, so naturally, she had to do things for the family.
As one of the top noble families in the capital of the Ice Empire, Lidiqi’s family had a huge mansion and courtyard.
Unfortunately, it had just been burned down by a blast of flaming spit from the dark dragon.
Lidiqi knew who did it, but she didn’t dare get angry, nor could she.
As a converted servant, she was a step below Freya and Little Dragon Girl.
In fact, in some ways, she didn’t even count as a converted slave, because her master hadn’t assimilated her body into darkness—only polluted her mind and soul.
“Lidiqi, go check the animal hides in the building materials warehouse.
We’ll need them to set up tents tonight.”
“Got it.”
Sleeping outside in this weather at night was basically suicide.
With no building materials in this frozen land, they could only use animal hides to make tents.
After accepting the task, Lidiqi was about to head toward the warehouse, but suddenly she stopped, her expression first stunned, then turning into barely contained excitement and joy.
“Thank you, Master.” Lidiqi looked around, then ran out at top speed, deliberately finding a place where no one was around.
She looked up at the distant sky, stretched out her body, and opened her arms.
The next second, a black slime the size of a glass bead flew from the sky and hit Lidiqi right in the chest.
It was tiny, but extremely elastic, spreading quickly and wrapping Lidiqi’s entire body.
Her clothes dissolved inside, her skin touched the slime, and then began to melt… “So this is… what it feels like to become darkness.
It’s amazing, I love it…”
The black film covering her face was very thin, so Lidiqi’s nose, mouth, and eyes were all clearly visible, making her expression easy to see.
She looked overjoyed…
Lidiqi savored every moment.
Soon, every inch of her skin, flesh, bones, and organs melted away under the darkness.
Her body collapsed into a puddle of liquid, then condensed into a black sphere, which then reshaped itself into a human form.
Lidiqi’s body reappeared.
She looked the same, but now she was fundamentally different from before.
Her flesh had become darkness, and she could now feel what darkness was.
All those sensations mentioned before flooded into her consciousness.
At that moment, Lidiqi realized just how wonderful it was to become part of the darkness.
“It’s incredible.
Compared to this, a human body is just trash.
Thank you, Master, thank you for giving an ordinary human like me the chance to change.”
Lidiqi gained immortality and broke free from the limits of human reason.
Through the hive mind link, the knowledge of all the servants was shared, and her understanding surpassed that of most people in the world.
The price, though, was eternal servitude to her master.
But… Chen Xing didn’t really want Lidiqi to do anything.
She’d only taken her in to deal with the queen, and now that was done, Lidiqi had no more use.
Still, Chen Xing wasn’t the type to discard people after using them.
She kept her promise to her “employee” and gave her a bit of darkness.
It wasn’t much, but it was enough to transform Lidiqi.
From now on, Lidiqi would keep playing her old self, but Chen Xing probably wouldn’t think of her again for a long time.
“Lidiqi, what are you doing?” A startled girl’s voice came from behind her.
Actually, Lidiqi had already noticed her.
The moment the girl cried out, Lidiqi flashed to her side.
After being transformed by darkness, Lidiqi had leveled up twenty times.
Her strength and speed had both increased dramatically.
“Auntie, why are you running around? You saw something you shouldn’t have, and now you’re making things hard for me~” This girl was a member of her family, her mother’s younger sister.
Even though she was a year younger than Lidiqi, she still had to call her aunt.
“W-what happened to you? What was that just now?” “Oh, that? That’s something really good~” Lidiqi’s face showed a cold smile she’d never worn before.
After her mind was changed, Lidiqi lost her humanity, so killing her own aunt now wouldn’t make her hesitate at all.
But her master had said not to kill needlessly.
“Be good, Auntie~ You’ll know soon.”
Lidiqi hugged the girl’s trembling body, then extended a finger, from which a thin black thread grew.
She put her finger by her aunt’s ear, letting the wriggling black thread slip inside.
“This is… ugh, ah, ah!” Her aunt’s eyes suddenly widened, then rolled back, and her body trembled even harder.
But the state came and went quickly.
Soon, she returned to normal, her body going limp, her eyes losing their light.
Lidiqi, as a servant, didn’t have the authority to dissolve people and turn them into darkness, but she could use other methods to make obedient minions.
Now her aunt’s consciousness had collapsed, and the thing in her brain was controlling her body, like a puppet on strings.
Lidiqi could control her aunt’s body.
But people like this were just puppets, with no will of their own, and it was easy for others to notice something was wrong.
So Lidiqi didn’t control her aunt.
She withdrew the thread, and her aunt immediately fainted in her arms.
The side effect of being controlled by the black thread was memory loss for a while.
Lidiqi wanted her aunt to forget what happened here and didn’t plan to kill her.
The journey in the Ice Empire was over for now.
Maybe until the second-generation witch appeared, Chen Xing wouldn’t pay attention to this place.
She didn’t know when the second-generation witch would awaken.
Salina hadn’t given any clear news, and Chen Xing was tempted to go wake that witch up herself.
Maybe soon, when the second-generation witch really did awaken, the first place she’d invade would be the nearby Ice Empire.
She probably hadn’t realized back then that this empire had already been tainted by the darkness of a true witch.
Who knows what will happen when the second-generation witch meets Chen Xing.
The next place to go is the Elven Forest, a huge rainforest in the southern part of the continent, in the tropics.
The dangers there are no less than those in the far north.
The forest is a natural barrier, keeping outsiders away.
Poisonous insects, miasma, toxic plants, man-eating plants, swamps formed by rotting vegetation, all kinds of magical beasts hiding in the dense woods, and so on… In short, the many dangers of this tropical rainforest make it impossible for humans to venture deep inside.
Only the forest elves, who can communicate with plants and animals, can survive in such a place.
All this information about the Elven Forest was pulled from the memories of the queen, the princess, and Salina.
After learning all this, Chen Xing wasn’t scared at all.
Because her body isn’t made of flesh and blood, she’s not afraid of poison at all.
If she runs into poisonous bugs, snakes, or rats, and they dare to bite her, Chen Xing will just eat them all.
But there’s no rush to set out just yet, because before that, she’s going to get some good revenge on the queen!
