Diligence System: From Servant to Martial King-Chapter 340 - 273: Liuli’s Despair, the Third Trait! Zhuo Yi’s Predestined Fate, the Nine Types of Zhuo Yi
Yu Nan Dao is situated to the south of the Southern Celestial Domain, governing within "Seven Prefectures", "Six Continents", "Nine Cities", with vast territories exceedingly broad.
Domain, Dao, Prefecture, Continent, County... boundless and infinite, the utmost riches of hidden treasures.
This is "Huaiyin Prefecture", within Dongran Lake. The lake domain is vast, hiding countless islands. Secreted remains that are still impossible to fully glimpse to this day.
According to lore...
Dragon traces once existed here. In the depths of Dongran Lake, True Dragons resided in this world. The lake greatly yields fish hauls, with several fisheries along the shore dividing territories. Within the lake also thrived the likes of "Water Bandits" and "Water Pirates"...
Renowned as the ten-thousand-miles Dongran Lake, with eight thousand water bandits, who call themselves heroes, ruthless with brutal hands. Within the lake, islands, exotic sights, exotic fruits, treasures, tombs abound countless.
Flower boats navigate amidst. The sky darkens, thunder booms, and starts a drifting heavy rain. The lake’s surface spreads splashes and white mist, hazy and indistinct...
Inside the lower level prison.
Li Xian reveals "good and bad news", Bian Qiaoqiao trembles all over, eyes full of despair. Nangong Liuli’s charming face turns pale.
A moment of silence, Bian Qiaoqiao’s eyes redden urgently, tears swirling. She twists around struggling, filled with complaints. She says she is still young, within prime years. If thrown into some dreadful Water Altar, surely will suffer ruin and abuse. Noisy complaints, immensely boisterous.
Nangong Liuli also has no heart to console, lets her cry and make noise. But captured for long, defeated and oppressed has become a habit, trying to end herself already attempted. Her temperament seasoned through trials, becoming tenacious, gradually calming down.
Li Xian moves a table and chair, about half a yard high, placing under Bian Qiaoqiao, Nangong Liuli. Although Flower Cage Sect is despicable, its methods of capture and binding are quite ingenious.
The entangling rope is named "Flower Rope". It is made from the rhizome of "Entangling Flower", dried and tempered, then twisted into fabric. Its appearance shows pale yellow, resembling a common rope. But once entangled upon a person, it becomes extremely difficult to break free.
The rope knot crawls around the body. Yet the more one struggles, the tighter it wraps. If the captured has a fiery disposition, struggles fiercely, does not cease a moment. The already dried flower root gradually becomes alive, then blooms and bears fruit. It does not harm the body, but becomes more secure and adds a certain bright beauty.
Hence the Flower Cage Sect’s jargon, speaking of "Flower Cultivators" refers to those with extremely high skill in capturing. Struggling blooming flowers, unable to escape.
Li Xian observes the rope knot. Flower Rope crisscrosses, firmly restraining every joint. The "Tiger Tendon Rope" tangles tendons and grabs bones, once bound, hard to move a bit. "Flower Rope" leaves room, but entangles endlessly, once bound, grows tighter and tighter. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
Carefully counting. The two women have been captured for months. Previously, family support, heroes of Jianghu assisting, deployed a grand trap net. The two women were locked in an iron box, carried evading pursuit.
Recently moved into flower boat, fled along the river. Just boarded the ship, hung at this place. The two women learned escaping was hopeless, then desired to starve themselves to death. Refused food for ten days or more, until Li Xian mistakenly boarded the pirate ship, they started resuming eating and drinking.
Two ropes dangle from above, suspending the two women in mid-air. The more they struggled, the more they entangled. Li Xian’s fingers skillfully tried to undo the knots.
Bian Qiaoqiao suspended for long, able to loosen even slightly, is a great blessing. She impatiently urged. Li Xian unclasped the rope knot, the suspending rope slackened.
Bian Qiaoqiao directly fell, she cried out incessantly, extremely terrified.
Li Xian raised a hand in support, caught her waist, stopped her falling motion, gently placed her on the wooden table. Bian Qiaoqiao’s waist and abdomen rested upon the table, able to rely on it crawling, certainly better than swaying with river waves suspended high. Her tightly wound posture suddenly relaxed, her brows and eyes curved, immensely comfortable.
Soon, Nangong Liuli also found release. Lying on the wooden table, her charming face slightly reddened, thought: "Lying like this on a table, does it not resemble a dish, allowing others to feast."
She glanced at Li Xian secretly. Gradually accustomed to this state, feeling truly indescribable.
The two women crafted spines developed, the waist hidden with power. At this moment lying on the wooden table, the spine only needs to exert force subtly, then can shatter the wooden table. Then take the wooden shard, strike and kill, ordinary martial arts beginners difficult to approach.
Nangong Liuli, Bian Qiaoqiao wearied and mentally exhausted, soft sighs no longer resistant. Muscles and bones inactive for long, just wish someone would help loosen their blood channels. Li Xian routinely fed, picked fish bones, stripped fish bones... fresh white fish meat fed into their mouths.
Bian Qiaoqiao ate to fullness, actually snored away to sleep. Li Xian said: "Is she very tired? Weren’t you two sleeping all day?" Nangong Liuli said grumpily: "Try being hung like this, only need to barely sleep, boat sways, then bumped awake."
Li Xian said: "That’s true, really tough on you two." Conveniently plucked Nangong Liuli’s hair strand, twisted silk tickling feet, exchanging silently: "How was yesterday?"
Nangong Liuli’s mind shook, eyes showed resentment. She born to an affluent family, always proper and dignified, supported as a facade. Thus bedraggled conversing with someone, truly the first time. Nangong Liuli blinked, then opened her eyes, indicating both good and bad.
Li Xian twisted silk tickling, writing on her feet: "This place’s mechanism is complex. I secretly glimpsed a few, but dare not confirm. This matter’s failure probability is extremely high, considering carefully, attempt or not?"
Nangong Liuli’s feet tickle intensely, trying to hold back laughter, continually shy. She blinked indicating yes.
Li Xian on the surface chatted as usual, questioning Jianghu’s hearsay, tales of heroes... various. In reality distracting, secretly writing with hair strand: "How is your Martial Arts cultivation?"
Nangong Liuli glanced at snoring Bian Qiaoqiao. Thought this good sister, truly carefree, even now could sleep.
She continuously blinked several times, indicating both are Martial Arts Second Realm. Martial Arts path, realm is not everything to be judged. Celestial Secret Pavilion’s assessment of "Prodigy", "Talent"... only regards realm as reference.
Li Xian wrote again: "This place situated in lake. Surrounded all by deep water, fear water or not? Can sink or not?" Although he has a method for escaping the flower boat, but surrounded by lake water, fierce fish abound... also a great difficulty. If Nangong Liuli, Bian Qiaoqiao are helpless, the escape plan dies before birth.
