Chapter 374: Chapter 374: That Bastard Bullied Me

"Ah—"

Yao Ling cried out in pain, her beautiful face pulled askew.

Ye Tianling hadn’t held back, nor had he been gentle, so the force was naturally quite painful for Yao Ling.

"What are you doing?!"

With tears welling in her eyes, Yao Ling stared at Ye Tianling, aggrieved and on the verge of crying.

"What am I doing? If you don’t listen, I, the Divine Child, will twist your pretty little face until it’s ruined, leaving some Dao Marks on your peerless beauty for all to see and comprehend."

As Ye Tianling spoke, he branded her with a wisp of Soul Qi from his hand.

"Ah—don’t—"

Yao Ling’s face turned pale with fright. She was about to strike again, but a stir in her bloodline immediately caused her to sense something within Ye Tianling. It was as if the ancient roar of a Kunpeng dragon was manifesting, and a chill shot through her entire body, her heart freezing in her chest.

"Hmph. I’ll let it slide this time. Next time, I, the Divine Child, will give you a taste of the Ancient Soul Extinction Forbidden technique."

Domineering and aloof, Ye Tianling released her, but at the same time, his wicked hand reached out and grabbed a handful of Yao Ling’s pride.

Yao Ling was mortified enough to die from shame and anger. To make matters worse, Xia Xinyue was still standing there, staring blankly at the scene, which made Yao Ling wish she could just dig a hole and crawl into it.

"You... you... you—"

Yao Ling’s breath came in ragged gasps, her proud peaks rising and falling erratically.

Ye Tianling took an extra glance before looking away. "A bet is a bet. You can refuse to honor it, but I can just take it by force and then beat you to death. Didn’t the Elder Roc King tell you that I grilled and ate half of Prince Celestial Serpent? Snake meat isn’t bad, but I wonder... would the meat of a female Golden Roc be even more delicious?"

A sharp glint flashed in Ye Tianling’s eyes.

That look made Yao Ling jump in fright.

"Ah? You really... you really grilled Prince Celestial Serpent? That wasn’t just the Elder Roc King bragging on your behalf?"

Yao Ling couldn’t help but gasp, but her voice held a hint of excitement and satisfaction.

This girl... her emotions, from fear to excitement, came and went in a flash. Her disposition was actually quite straightforward.

Ye Tianling’s trace of aversion gradually disappeared. ’In the end, she’s just a girl under twenty. Of course, she might have slumbered for a very long time, making her true age astonishing.’

"Bragging? You’ll know when we run into Prince Celestial Serpent. I, for one, would be very happy to meet him. I just don’t know if he’d be happy to meet me."

Ye Tianling chuckled, reaching out to slap Yao Ling on her exceptionally beautiful rear.

Yao Ling’s delicate body shivered, and her pretty face flushed crimson as blood. She shot Ye Tianling a fierce glare, but her heart was pounding wildly, and an inexplicable sense of enjoyment welled up inside her.

’I... How could I be thinking this? Really...’

Yao Ling was about to cry. She was stunned by the sudden thought that had just emerged—the idea of ’being ravaged by Ye Tianling’.

’No, this villain must be using his terrifying bloodline to influence me! He must want to see me make a fool of myself! That has to be it!’ 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Yao Ling’s mind began to invent excuses for her ’masochistic tendencies’.

Ye Tianling had no idea what wild thoughts were running through her head. After slapping Yao Ling, he felt a sense of satisfaction, and the bit of annoyance he’d felt from being plotted against by this girl dissipated.

"Princess Xinyue, let’s go. To the Royal Family’s Celestial Tower! I, the Divine Child, will take you to experience the view from the top. The Thirty-Sixth Layer, the sixty-third layer... they’re nothing."

Ye Tianling said arrogantly.

Hearing this, Yao Ling’s pretty face twitched, and she almost rolled her eyes. ’You really are a bumpkin, aren’t you? How the hell do you dare to mention the sixty-third layer?’

’Believe it or not, the peerless prodigies would flame you to death in minutes!’

’You have to understand, during the Venerable Era, even a Young Venerable only reached the ’nine-five’ level, which was just the forty-fifth layer!’

Xia Xinyue just gave a wry smile and said, "Tianling Divine Son, besides the Ninth Layer, I can only enter layers eighteen and above. I’ve already reached the thirty-third layer, so I can only wait for you there. Divine Son, your Talent is extraordinary, so reaching the thirtieth-something layer shouldn’t be a problem. However, your Realm has not yet reached the Void Realm, so it’s basically impossible to go beyond the Thirty-Sixth Layer." Her tone was still quite reserved.

Yao Ling, however, was not so polite. "What do you mean ’not much possibility’? It’s completely impossible, okay? Trying to get past the Thirty-Sixth Layer before even reaching the Void Realm? Dream on! Do you think the prodigies of our Venerable Era were all trash? Do you think the title of Young Venerable was just for show?!"

"Yao Ling, come here. I, the Divine Child, promise I definitely won’t beat you to death."

Ye Tianling beckoned with his finger, a sharp glint in his eyes as he stared at Yao Ling.

"Ah—No! I’m not going over there!"

Yao Ling’s delicate body trembled, her face paling slightly. In a flash, she moved and immediately hid behind Xia Xinyue.

"Sister Xinyue, this... this bastard Ye Tianling is bullying me! Quick, help me hit him!"

Xia Xinyue sighed helplessly. She was truly speechless at these two oddballs.

"Hit him? I can’t beat him. I used to think I stood a chance against him, but then he pointed his sword at me, and I realized how weak I was! At that time, I even thought that was his strongest Battle Power. But it wasn’t! When he struck at you, believe it or not, the Battle Power he showed at that moment could have killed me ten times over in an instant!"

Xia Xinyue gave Ye Tianling a deep look. This time, her beautiful eyes were filled with true admiration and respect.

It was a genuine respect and admiration for a Divine Child, for a truly powerful expert.

"How... how is that possible! I admit, his Battle Power is absurdly strong, and... his bloodline is indeed the ancient Kunpeng Divine Blood Talent, but to say he could kill you ten times in an instant..."

As Yao Ling spoke, her voice gradually trailed off.

She suddenly remembered that Xia Xinyue was an incredibly proud woman. Although she appeared gentle when facing her and was currently very graceful and tender, in reality, her temperament was extremely noble and untamable. It was a pride that stemmed from the very depths of her bones and Soul.

And for such a proud Saintess to admit her own inferiority so definitively—what did that imply?

There was no way Yao Ling didn’t understand what it implied.

She just hadn’t thought it through before.

Now that she understood, her voice lost its power, and her tone naturally became low and weak.

"It’s true. Perhaps it’s because I have yet to fully align with the Dao of this world, but he, on the other hand, can achieve Celestial Harmony Dao with his Battle Power at any moment. Any attack of his, as long as it aligns with the Celestial Dao and triggers the killing intent latent within the Heaven and Earth Laws, would be incredibly difficult for me to counter.

"To be specific, the constraints of one’s Realm have almost no effect on him; he’s practically reduced their influence to zero.

The Realms we take so much pride in are no longer so effective against him." Xia Xinyue explained with great sincerity.

She actually hoped that Yao Ling and Ye Tianling could get together. After all, her relationship with Yao Ling was like that of sisters. That way, the Great Xia Royal Family would gain such a heaven-defying ally, not an enemy.

Conversely, if Yao Ling’s willfulness and shrewishness truly angered this man—judging by how casually he could talk about ’achieving Harmonization Dao first, then kicking them away, killing them, or even grilling and eating them’—then he would absolutely do it!

She hadn’t known him for long, but Xia Xinyue could clearly judge his character.

And Ye Tianling, the Kunpeng Divine Son, was precisely the type of person who did what he said.

This was exactly why, upon first seeing Ye Tianling, she had declared that ’Ye Tianling is definitely not someone Yao Ling can order around’.

"Fine, alright..."

Yao Ling admitted defeat.