Chapter 258 - 131: Subduing Si Rumeng

Chapter 258: Chapter 131: Subduing Si Rumeng

Their eyes met.

Ji Hongyuan looked into the man’s deep, confident eyes, a flicker of hesitation in her heart.

"Fine. I’ll humor your madness this once!"

Ji Hongyuan was a decisive person, so with a final lift of her red lips, she agreed.

"But let me be clear," she warned, "if you absorb too slowly and I feel something is wrong, I’ll pull back immediately. If that happens, we’re both finished."

"Deal!"

Time was short, leaving no room for hesitation.

Ji Hongyuan took a step forward, extending a slender, alabaster hand directly toward the pure white flame that was about to flicker out.

Because Jiang Mu had already marked the Buddha Lamp, his tacit permission meant she wasn’t rejected by the lamp itself.

"HUMMM—"

The instant her fingertip touched the flame, it was as if two magnets had snapped together.

The Incense and Candle Power, which had been about to dissipate, seemed to find a new outlet and suddenly changed course.

It surged madly up her finger and into her body.

"Ngh!"

Ji Hongyuan’s delicate body trembled, and a suppressed groan escaped her throat.

As the Incense and Candle Power entered her, it brought both a scalding sensation and an indescribable feeling of being filled to the brim.

At that moment, her gold-and-red, high-slit dress began to stir as if in a nonexistent wind.

As the hem of her dress billowed, the black silk stockings she wore seemed to be licked by flames, dissolving inch by inch to reveal long, flawless legs as perfect as white jade.

It was just like what had happened before, when she’d let Jiang Mu kiss her foot.

Jiang Mu stared, stunned. "Your stockings can come off automatically?"

"Obviously... They’re an illusion I manifested... But the ones on my real body... are real..."

Ji Hongyuan gritted her teeth, a deep blush coloring her cheeks.

Her eyes, misty and shimmering, were captivating.

Clearly, the infusion of this vast power caused her to feel a tremor of both pleasure and pain at the soul-level, a simultaneous benefit and violent rejection.

"Quickly... Hurry..."

she urged in a trembling voice. Her other hand desperately gripped Jiang Mu’s arm, her long nails nearly digging into his flesh. Her voice was a pained, alluring whisper.

"I can’t hold on much longer... This incense power is too overwhelming..."

Jiang Mu didn’t dare to hesitate. He immediately stepped forward, moving behind her and pressing his palm firmly against her back.

With a single thought, his Demon Slot roared to life.

BOOM!

A powerful suction force erupted from his palm.

The Incense and Candle Power that had just flooded into Ji Hongyuan’s body, ready to wreak havoc, was immediately captured by the suction.

Like a river finding its final destination, it surged wildly up Jiang Mu’s arm and into his body.

This time, the energy entering the Demon Slot didn’t transform into scarlet, blood-like fluid.

Instead, it gathered on one side of the Demon Slot, forming a pool of pure, sacred white liquid energy.

It remained clearly distinct from the demonic blood, neither touching the other.

’It’s actually working?!’

Ji Hongyuan felt the painful pressure inside her lessen considerably. It was replaced by a sense of clarity, as if she’d been thoroughly cleansed. She was overjoyed.

’This kid really knows what he’s doing.’

She completely let down her guard. No longer resisting, she instead began to actively draw in even more of the Buddha Lamp’s power.

"Absorb it!"

"Absorb every last drop for me!"

However, as time went on, the situation began to spiral out of control.

The sheer amount of power accumulated in the Buddha Lamp over who knew how long was simply too immense. Once the floodgates were open, it was like a burst dam—impossible to stop.

Even when Ji Hongyuan tried to stop, the Incense and Candle Power continued to pour madly into her.

Ji Hongyuan’s body began to tremble violently.

Even with Jiang Mu behind her, drawing out the energy without pause, the power—imbued with the essence of the mortal world and vast, righteous qi—still felt like boiling oil being poured on snow as it coursed through her body of yin and baleful energy.

It felt as if her very soul was melting.

Ji Hongyuan could no longer stay on her feet, and she collapsed weakly into Jiang Mu’s arms.

Her hair was a mess and her breathing was rapid and shallow.

"I... I can’t take it anymore..."

The woman seemed to have reached her limit, her skin taking on a deathly pallor.

Jiang Mu calmly continued to draw out the power.

If he stopped now, all their efforts would be for nothing. Worse, the out-of-control Incense and Candle Power would undoubtedly make Ji Hongyuan explode like a firework.

"You... you bastard... I’m never listening to you again!"

’I could kill this brat,’ Ji Hongyuan thought.

’He’s not treating me like a person at all.’

’Although, I’m not really a person, am I?’

Finally.

「About fifteen minutes later.」

The power within the Buddha Lamp was finally drained, and the pure white flame stabilized completely.

It was just a little dimmer than before.

Jiang Mu withdrew his hand, guiding the last wisp of Incense and Candle Power from her body and channeling it all into his Demon Slot.

"Hooo—"

Jiang Mu let out a long breath, feeling completely drained.

The woman in his arms, Ji Hongyuan, was even worse off. She was like a boneless heap, utterly spent. If he hadn’t been holding her, she would have already slid to the floor.

She gasped for breath.

It was a long moment before she managed to recover even a sliver of her strength.

"You little monster... you nearly killed me..." Ji Hongyuan chided, her voice a mix of annoyance and something else entirely.

She tried to circulate her energy, then suddenly froze.

This Clone of hers had been repeatedly scoured by the Incense and Candle Power. The process had been excruciating, but its constitution had clearly improved. Her yin and baleful energy was more condensed, and it even faintly carried a trace of pure yang to balance it.

Even the subtle restlessness deep within her Divine Soul had been smoothed away.

’Mortal incense and fire truly is a potent tonic, despite the risks,’ she thought.

Ji Hongyuan was thrilled.

She pushed herself up from Jiang Mu’s arms and turned to face him.

Her face, now radiant and even more stunningly beautiful than before, broke into a captivating smile. Her gaze was liquid and alluring.

"Little monster," she purred, "you were right after all."

"Since all that Incense and Candle Power is inside you now... in the future... you’ll have to remember to ’cleanse’ me some more, won’t you?"