Chapter 302 - 284: A Dual Cultivation Partner Delivered to the Doorstep

Chapter 302: Chapter 284: A Dual Cultivation Partner Delivered to the Doorstep

It felt as if her wrists and ankles were clamped in shackles, locking her limbs firmly in place.

BOOM!

"Dongqin, get in here, quickly!"

Tantai Feixue unleashed her full Dao Fruit Realm aura and simultaneously sent an urgent voice transmission to Dongqin, who was outside the door.

But unfortunately, Jiang Zuo completely disregarded the powerful aura she had unleashed.

The array Jiang Zuo had set up sealed off the area from the outside world, preventing her voice transmission from getting through.

Even the sickly-looking fox she had summoned had collapsed to the ground, unconscious.

"Let go of me right now! Otherwise, I’ll detonate my Dao Fruit and take you down with me!"

Tantai Feixue didn’t bother asking why her Cultivation Technique had failed. She simply snarled.

"By all means, try."

"To date, two Dao Fruit Realm cultivators have tried to detonate their Dao Fruits to take me down with them."

"But they’re both dead, and I’m still alive and well."

"You’re welcome to try. See if you can actually drag me down with you."

Jiang Zuo said indifferently.

’At this point, he truly wasn’t afraid of a Dao Fruit detonation.’

As for Tantai Feixue actually detonating her Dao Fruit, Jiang Zuo simply didn’t believe it.

’She isn’t truly at death’s door. There’s no way she’d be willing to just die like this.’

At his words, Tantai Feixue fell silent for a moment.

Her intuition told her that this man, supposedly just a Three Flowers Realm cultivator, was telling the truth.

’Considering she was completely immobilized, it was clear this man, Gu, wasn’t lying.’

"Master Gu, I was wrong. I can compensate you for your losses. What will it take for you to let me go?"

After a brief silence, Tantai Feixue yielded and spoke in a soft voice.

"You shouldn’t have provoked me. Now that you know my secret, I can’t possibly let you go back just like this."

Jiang Zuo sighed.

"I can swear a Dao Heart Oath! I will absolutely not reveal anything about you, Master Gu!"

A sense of foreboding washed over Tantai Feixue, and she spoke quickly.

"A Dao Heart Oath is too easy to circumvent."

"If I die, you’d no longer have any reason to uphold the Dao Heart Oath."

"If you want me to let you go, it’s simple. Open up your Sea of Consciousness and let me place an Enslavement Mark inside."

Jiang Zuo said coldly.

"Impossible! I’ll never agree to that!"

Tantai Feixue’s expression changed, and she angrily refused.

’Once an Enslavement Mark is placed in her Sea of Consciousness, the person who planted it would know her every thought. She would have no secrets left to call her own.’

"Refuse? Hmph. This isn’t up to you!"

As Jiang Zuo spoke, an incomparably powerful Divine Sense descended out of thin air.

"Since you refuse, you now have only two choices!"

"Either detonate your Dao Fruit, or be forcibly enslaved by me!"

"If I enslave you by force, your consciousness will be completely erased!"

"You, on the other hand, intended to turn me into your puppet, with no self-awareness at all."

"All I’m doing now is placing a small measure of control over you, just to make sure you won’t betray me."

Under the pressure of Jiang Zuo’s powerful Divine Sense, Tantai Feixue was utterly shocked.

She finally understood why her Cultivation Technique had no effect.

’This Divine Sense... I doubt even a Manifestation Realm cultivator could compare!’

She had always considered her Divine Sense to be far superior to her peers.

That was why she had dared to act so brazenly against this man, who was supposedly only in the Three Flowers Realm.

But compared to his, her Divine Sense was worlds apart.

Facing such a formidable Divine Sense, if he decided to forcibly enslave her, she stood absolutely no chance.

’Detonate my Dao Fruit?’

’Impossible!’

’If I detonate my Dao Fruit, that’s really the end of everything!’

’And if she failed to kill him, it wouldn’t just be her life that was forfeit; he would likely move to destroy the entire Cyan Simurgh Sect!’

"I... I understand. I will let you enslave me, Master Gu," Tantai Feixue said, her voice pitiful and fragile.

With that, she lowered the defenses of her Sea of Consciousness.

Jiang Zuo’s Divine Sense immediately entered Tantai Feixue’s Sea of Consciousness, unimpeded.

With a flicker from Jiang Zuo, that portion of his Divine Sense coalesced into a mark that settled within Tantai Feixue’s Sea of Consciousness.

The moment the mark was placed, Jiang Zuo felt a slight pang in his own Sea of Consciousness.

Many in the Cultivation Realm knew of the Sea of Consciousness’s Enslavement Mark.

But very few would use it to enslave others.

Firstly, enslaving someone with Divine Sense required a vast disparity between the two parties’ own Divine Senses.

In such a situation, the disparity in their cultivation would also be immense.

The Divine Sense Enslavement Mark was, in practice, the enslaver leaving a portion of their own Divine Sense—one that carried a fragment of their Divine Soul—inside the target’s Sea of Consciousness.

This would weaken one’s own Divine Soul and Divine Sense, making it impossible to use this method on a second person after placing just one Enslavement Mark.

Not only that, but if the enslaved person died, one’s own Divine Soul and Divine Sense would be damaged, requiring a considerable amount of time to recover.

When the difference in cultivation was immense, there was simply no value in enslaving the weaker party.

Conversely, when the cultivation levels were close, the target was valuable enough to enslave, but doing so was practically impossible.

Only someone like Jiang Zuo could manage to overpower a superior.

"Master Gu, the mark has been placed. Can you release me now?"

Feeling the new mark in her Sea of Consciousness, Tantai Feixue sighed and maintained her weak and submissive tone.

She no longer dared to harbor any thoughts of harming Jiang Zuo; otherwise, the mark would be triggered, and he would know.

Jiang Zuo released his grip, and Tantai Feixue felt her arms go free.

She had just a moment to feel a wave of relief before, in the next instant, she cried out in alarm.

With a wave of his hand, Jiang Zuo ripped Tantai Feixue’s clothes to shreds.

The formidable assets that had been tightly constrained by her clothes sprang free.

"What are you doing?"

Tantai Feixue asked angrily.

"Sect Leader Tantai, have you forgotten? A moment ago, we were bonded as cultivation partners."

"And for cultivation partners to engage in dual cultivation... isn’t that perfectly normal?"