Chapter 11: The Oath of Humiliation

  "Halt!"

  Rolan's weak and powerless command was completely ineffective, unable to stop Rega's gradually disappearing figure. Rega himself wasn't someone who could be easily held back by the sleeve, let alone that from start to finish, he had never been afraid of Rolan.

  Hong Luolan struggled to prop up her body, wanting to use her tenth-level Dou Qi to give that arrogant bastard a profound lesson from behind, but the muscles all over her body seemed to be hung on hooks, and even slight movements made her feel extremely sore. The deep sense of weakness could only make her temporarily abandon this idea.

  Being ignored by Lei Ga and unable to retaliate wasn't the most heart-wrenching thing for Hong Luolan. Her fighting spirit had completely dissipated in that instant of life and death, and it would probably take until her body fully recovered before she could re-condense it.

  She can't even beat a fish that jumps onto the shore to die, let alone Rega who wields the Cyan Halberd.

  Logically speaking, as an enemy, Leiga didn't need to save her at all and should have killed her instead. After all, killing a 10th-stage opponent with his 4th-stage strength was something worth boasting about no matter what.

  "Stupid guy..."

  Hong Luolan coughed a few times, gritting her teeth and muttering to herself: "Once I recover, you'll definitely have to pay the price for your naivety!"

  But grand words were of no use at this time. Her lungs were in extreme pain, and every breath brought a burning sensation, while the chest where Lei Ga had pressed down on her felt a kind of relaxation after the pain. This made Hong Lulan feel a twinge of guilt for attacking Lei Ga with her golden needles earlier, but that feeling quickly disappeared as she recalled the scene at the time, and her frozen, purple face immediately turned bright red with anger and embarrassment: "Little rascal, I will definitely, definitely...cough..."

  After coughing up some more phlegm, her consciousness gradually became blurry, and she muttered "little rascal" in her mouth, slowly closing her eyes.

  Night fell quickly, and the cold wind blowing from above the river valley turned the bare riverbank into an ice cellar. Hong Luolan's pale skin was frozen to a dark blue color, her thin clothes were unable to keep out the chill at all, but instead became soaked with the wet river water, causing her body to shiver in the cold wind.

  The entire Wuyi Ridge area belongs to the border between the Senyan Kingdom and the Fengxue Kingdom. The Fengxue Kingdom is also the coldest country on the Four Kingdoms Continent, with only one season throughout the year - winter. By dusk, it's especially damp and cold, and the beasts in the dense forest would rather starve than venture out to forage at this time. The entire valley is quiet, with only the sound of the cold wind rustling through the treetops, and the occasional calls of ravens.

  Hong Luolan lay on the cold, hard cobblestones, her body completely frozen stiff. She had been trying to gather her strength again, but it was no use, only making her physical condition even worse.

  In desperation, she saw a figure that made her indignant emerge from the dense forest. She couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh, "I must be hallucinating..."

  Lei Ga's face was cold as he walked up to her, without a word, grabbed her slender waist and carried her horizontally in his arms, striding towards the depths of the dense forest.

  Hong Luo Lan suddenly opened her eyes, reached out to touch Le Ga's face, and as soon as her icy fingers touched Le Ga's warm complexion, she was instantly shocked awake. She quickly withdrew her hand, struggling and shouting: "Little rascal, let me go! I don't want you to care about me!"

  "I don't care about your life and death."

  Lai Ga said coldly, "The terrain of the valley forest is too complicated, and the temperature is frighteningly low. If I want to spend the night here tonight, I must find something that can warm each other."

  "You..."

  Hong Luolan's face burned like charcoal, and she furiously shouted: "I am a proud tenth-rank, about to be promoted to hero, not something for you to warm up with!" She struggled with all her might, but the more she struggled, the tighter she stuck to Leiga.

  "What about the Ten Steps? What about the Heroes? What about the female bandit leader who shook the eight directions?"

  Lei Ga sneered, his cold and arrogant eyes scanning over Hong Luo Lan's face as if looking at some kind of lowly creature. "You're nothing but a little girl who can't even afford clothes, if you dare not listen to me, I absolutely won't go easy on you."

  "How dare you!"

  Lei Ga's gaze greatly stimulated Roulan's self-esteem, she said in a flustered tone: "If you knew my background, you would regret being alive in this world!"

  Lei Ga didn't answer, he just freed up one hand and slapped Hong Luolan's butt. The crisp and loud slapping sound echoed in the dense forest for a long time, startling a raven perched on a treetop into flight.

  "You!"

  Her buttocks stung with a numbness, and an unprecedented sense of shame, causing Roulan's eyes to turn bright red in an instant. "Not even Mother has ever treated me like this, you little bastard actually..."

  "Are you going to cry?"

  Lei Ga chuckled lightly, "You're still at the 10th rank! Has your father never hit you before?"

  When she heard the two words "father", Hong Luolan bit her lip, and tears silently fell from her eyes. "I came to Wuya Ridge with Mother, just to find clues about Father, I've never seen him..."

  A glimmer of mercy flashed across Leiga's heart, but it was fleeting. He maintained the coldness on his face: "No matter what, I saved you, and if you dare to think about hitting my Qinghe Sword again, what I'll do won't be as simple as just hitting your butt."

  "I'm not afraid of death."

  "Do you know what it means to be unable to live and yet unable to die?" Luike sneered with an evil smile.

  “……”

  Before Hong Luolan could speak, Lei Ga's hand had already passed under her armpit and directly pinched the red bean on her chest that was frozen stiff.

  Hong Luolan let out a soft cry, her body instantly tensed up like a bowstring. Her instincts began to resist, but her frozen limbs had no strength at all. She could only look at Leiga with pleading eyes, the previous arrogant momentum completely gone.

  "Please, don't, don't be like this..."

  Hong Luo Lan's heart was racing as she said: "I promise I won't think about hitting you with the Cang Xue sword again."

  "What makes you think I believe you?"

  Lei Ga dodged the frightened gaze of Hong Luo Lan, his two fingers pinching that red bean, "Once you recover from your Qi Deviation, I'm afraid you'll immediately jump up and kill me, then snatch away the Cang Huai Sword."

  Her chest felt suffocated and sour, and Roulan tightly bit her tongue to prevent the coquettish hum in her throat from escaping. Although she was at a disadvantage, she didn't want to appear weak. It's just that she had originally wanted to rely on her tenth-order Dou Qi strength to bully Leiga, but hadn't expected to be bullied by him instead. This huge disparity made her feel ashamed and indignant.

  If saying Rega touched her chest before was to save her, then his current actions are thoroughly humiliating. But now Rega is the butcher's block, and she is just the meat on the butcher's block, no matter what he wants to do, she can't resist.

  She swallowed hard and trembled as she said, "I can swear to you, I won't kill you, I won't take your Canglang Sword..."

  Lei Ga said: "If you violate this oath, you will never find your father for the rest of your life."

  Hong Luolan pursed her lips, and the expression on her face was exceptionally complex.

  Lei Ga's mouth curled up slightly, increasing the force of his pinching fingers. Hong Luo Lan let out a soft cry and didn't dare to think too much, hastily following with: "If I break this oath, I will never find my own father in this lifetime!"

  Lei Ga withdrew his fingers, and the red bean that had been repeatedly pinched was more prominent than the other one. Through the thin clothes, it showed an unparalleled deep red color.

  Lei Ga himself secretly let out a sigh of relief, his earlier actions were just intentionally maintaining a strong and oppressive attitude, but in reality, his two fingers had already become clumsy like thick iron.

  Dealing with a woman like Hong Lulan, who is both fierce and powerful, if you can't make her fear you from the bottom of her heart, then it's equivalent to putting a frozen poisonous snake into your own arms.

  When Lai Ga withdrew his fingers, Hong Luo Lan turned her face away, speechless, her body trembling slightly as if she was sobbing quietly.

  Lei Ga didn't respond to her either, silently hugging her as he walked towards an abandoned beast den.

  The cave was very shallow, only half a person tall, and two people squeezed together, afraid that even turning over would be difficult. However, the entrance faced downwards, making it extremely suitable for avoiding wind. More importantly, after Leiga circled around in the dense forest, he only found this one place that could provide shelter.

  He carried the red lily into the cave and put it down, then dragged some branches to block the entrance. Next, he began to take off his clothes.

  "What are you going to do?"

  Hong Luolan wiped away her tears and stared at Leiga's actions in shock, "You promised me you wouldn't do that to me!"

  Lei Ga spread out the wet clothes on a tree branch, then unapologetically took off his pants. Hong Luo Lan caught sight of the part that was different between men and women and let out a sharp cry, turning her head away.

  "Don't call out, you have to take it off too."

  Lai said calmly: "At this temperature, sleeping in wet clothes will kill you."

  "I won't!"

  Hong Luolan said in terror: "I'd rather freeze to death than take it off!"

  Lei Ga said coldly, "Whether you want to live or die has nothing to do with me, but I don't want to freeze to death naked here. There's also a bounty mission waiting for me to complete. If you don't take it off, I'll have to do it myself."

  He deliberately paused for a moment, so that his words could take full effect. When Red Pansy's expression was no longer so resolute, he reached out and grabbed her shoulder, pulling her body around.

  Hong Luolan exclaimed and hastily said: "I... I'll take it off myself..." At this point, she had no choice but to listen.

  She closed her eyes, for only in this way could she avoid imagining where Rega's gaze was fixed on her body. She slowly unbuttoned the only garment on her body, then quickly clamped her legs together and wrapped her arms around her chest, trying to block out all the light. Tears rolled down from the corners of her tightly closed eyes.

  "Open your mouth."

  Lega commanded in an unquestionable tone.

  Hong Luolan was shocked in her heart, she didn't dare open her eyes, nor did she dare to open her mouth, all she could do was desperately shake her head in refusal.

  Lei reached out and grasped the beautiful lower jaw of Hong Luolan, forcing open her teeth and stuffing a sausage into her cherry-like mouth.