Chapter 106 Child, is something wrong?

Shang Youqing's wrist, which was being held tightly, stiffened slightly. She looked over with a cold and moist look in her eyes and woke up in an instant.

The dragon's tail was still surrounded by a faint frosty breath.

She tried to pull her hand back without saying a word, but was circled by Ying Shixue again. "You must be disappointed. You completed the killing in your dream, but you are still controlled by me when you woke up."

Shang Youqing stared at his face, and glanced at the back of her hand, which had no wounds for a moment. Her beautiful lips, as pale as peaches, showed a hint of irony.

"Is this fun for you?"

Ying Shixue's thumb was stuck on the bone of her wrist and rubbed it for a long time. Her face was calm, and she did not speak. She just looked at her lightly and heard Shang Youqing continue.

"Since you're afraid I'll find a way to kill you, why don't you kill me?"

Ying Shixue's face was cold and focused. "I will never kill you."

Shang Youqing held his gaze, her suspicions growing more certain. "So, what else do you want to do with my phoenix blood?"

Ying Shixue gently pulled down the sleeve of her soft silk dress above her wrist. A rare hint of a smile flickered in her cold, snowy eyes. "Guess."

Shang Youqing narrowed her eyes coldly, a curse on the tip of her tongue, but just then, footsteps were heard outside the pool of evil.

Shang Youqing realized she was still entangled in the dragon's tail, which was extremely tight.

She could feel the dragon's tail wrapping around her with less force than usual. Unable to dislodge the massive tail, Shang Youqing shook off the tip of the tail that was coiled around her ankle, straining her body to squeeze through the gap.

Finally, before the attendants arrived, she managed to move her ankle, barely enough to retreat to the other side of the ice bed.

Ying Shixue silently watched the series of emergency measures taken by the little phoenix to avoid him like a serpent. When the servant whispered "King", he finally turned his eyes away. "What is it?"

The servant stood outside the evil water pool with a panicked look on his face. He glanced at the phoenix on the other side of the ice bed. He did not dare to speak clearly in front of the phoenix, so he could only speak cautiously and vaguely.

"It's an urgent matter concerning the little prince and the little princess..."

Ying Shixue said "I understand" without any change in expression, and asked the servant to withdraw.

He brought back Shang Youqingjuan, who had finally escaped from his arms, and fed her calmly.

Shang Youqing was surprisingly cooperative this time. She ate quickly, frowning, as if trying to get a glimpse of something in Ying Shixue's eyes, but the evil dragon was as cold and calm as ever.

After she had eaten her fill, Ying Shixue finally put her back on the ice bed, put ice chains on both of her ankles, and stood up to leave.

Shang Youqing couldn't help but grab a piece of his clothes. Ying Shixue turned her head and glanced at her lightly, waiting for her to speak.

Shang Youqing pursed her lips for a long time, and only squeezed out a cold and stiff sentence, "Where are you going?"

Ying Shixue: "Is that all I want to ask?"

Shang Youqing met his eyes that tried to see through her, paused, and suddenly withdrew his hand very quickly, "Get lost."

Even after Ying Shixue left, Shang Youqing's mind was still lingering with the attendant's words "urgent matters concerning the little prince and the little princess"...

She looked indifferent, but in her heart she couldn't help but think about the two children.

While thinking, she repeatedly rubbed the dragon scale in her palm.

As she thought about it, the two deafening words of the Heavenly Dao at that time crushed all the worries that should not have gathered.

This went on for who knows how long. Finally, when the attendant came to guard her again, he suddenly asked, "Did anything happen to the two children?"

The attendant retreated outside the evil pool and answered cautiously, "I'm not—"

Shang Youqing said calmly, "I can't escape, so what's the point of hiding it here?"

After a moment, the attendant hesitantly said, "The young prince and the little princess escaped from the king's encircled waters."

Shang Youqing stared at her, motionless.

Her hands tingled beneath her sleeves.

In that moment, her heart felt as if it were being completely strangled by an invisible hand, unable to move.

She couldn't convince herself to be happy.

The two children held some value to Ying Shixue. At least until she reached the state of incarnation and defied the Heavenly Dao, Ying Shixue would not harm them.

But if the two children escaped Ying Shixue's control, they would only fall more quickly into the hands of the Nine Heavens.

The Nine Heavens' explicit prohibitions made it impossible to tolerate the two children.

In other words, if the child really escaped, the probability of being strangled to death is almost 100%...

"But the king has already..."

The servant said halfway, and suddenly felt the eternal cold air from the king appear behind him almost instantly. The servant's face turned pale, and he fell to his knees on the ground, his voice getting even weaker, "King..."

Let alone the servant, Shang Youqing did not expect Ying Shixue to come back so soon this time. It was less than a few hours since he left.

Ying Shixue asked the servant to withdraw, walked to the edge of the bed, and lifted Shang Youqing's ankles with his palms. His eyes were as cold as ice, "If you want to know something, wouldn't it be more convenient to ask me directly?"

When Shang Youqing didn't respond, Ying Shixue was not in a hurry. She untied the ice chain for her and told her: "The child is back."

As the words fell.

Shang Youqing's strangled heart seemed to suddenly resume its slow beat. She finally lifted her frozen face and moved her lips. "Really?" She

immediately lowered her eyelashes, masking the surging emotions in her eyes, and mechanically spoke in a hoarse voice, "That's a shame."

"Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you."

Two ice chains collided and fell to the ground beneath the bed. Shang Youqing immediately shuffled away from his grasp on tiptoe.

At that moment, a muffled and distant rumble suddenly reached her ears.

Immediately afterwards, the entire Dragon Cave shook violently. The glacial rock formations above her suddenly broke apart, and hideous cracks rapidly expanded along the fracture. The roar of a mythical beast pierced the seabed and reached deep into the Dragon Cave.

Shang Youqing looked sharply toward the fractured glacier—

it was Cheng Huang's voice!

A flicker of doubt flashed through Shang Youqing's mind.

How had Cheng Huang known she was imprisoned here?

But at this crucial moment, this doubt was only a fleeting thought, and she had no time to dwell on it.

Seeing Ying Shixue's dragon tail sweeping toward her again, Shang Youqing swiftly stepped back.

Seizing the perfect moment, she raised her hand without hesitation, using the gathered phoenix fire to grasp the chilling dragon scale, pressing it directly against her heart. She then threatened Ying Shixue coldly,

"Let me go."

She knew she was no match for Ying Shixue, and that repelling him was impossible. However,

since Ying Shixue needed her phoenix blood, a legacy of the ancient gods, he wouldn't let her destroy herself.

After all, in Ying Shixue's eyes, the priest had only nurtured her, a divine phoenix, for so many years.

If she died, it might even disrupt Ying Shixue's original plan.