Chapter 1133: Chapter 1133: Blood Oath
“When exactly are you going to make up your mind? If you don’t want to cooperate with us, then let’s just go our separate ways. We have the Ancient God Bottle and the Ancient God Gourd in our hands—if we decide to leave, not even Huai Nanxing can keep us here.” Xiaona couldn’t contain her impatience, her face full of displeasure as she spoke.
In her heart, she harbored resentnt toward Lin Shen, feeling that he had no reason not to trust them.
Lin Shen opened his eyes but ignored Xiaona. Instead, he focused on Xiaoye and said, “Xiaoye, you should understand that trust, once broken, is very hard to rebuild. If you had spoken to openly earlier, no matter how much danger there was, it would have been my decision to make, with no one else to bla. But now, asking to trust you again? That’s asking a lot.”
“If you can’t trust us, then forget it! We can go our separate ways. Had I known you were this kind of person, I’d never have saved you back at the Giant God Mausoleum,” Xiaona retorted angrily.
“What will it take to make you trust us again?” Xiaoye sighed softly.
With the Great Emperor’s Divine Artifact in their possession, if they were truly determined to leave, it would indeed be difficult for Huai Nanxing to stop them.
But their identities had already been revealed. If Huai Nanxing spread news that the Great Emperor’s Divine Artifact was in their hands, even in all the vastness of the cosmos, there might be no place left for them to hide.
They had been relying on the resources left in the bottle and gourd by the Ancient Realm King for their cultivation, and they had only reached the Lower Tier so far—still far from achieving the Great Emperor Realm.
If the entire cosmos hunted them down now, they had no guarantee of survival.
Ti was too short. If they were given a few more years, even if they only managed to ascend to the Upper Rank, there wouldn’t be many threats left in the universe that could pose a real danger to them.
But now, as Lower Tier cultivators, they could rely on the Great Emperor’s Divine Artifact to ensure that even an ordinary Upper Rank opponent couldn’t kill them. Still, there were already so who could threaten their safety.
For this reason, no matter what, Xiaoye wanted to eliminate Huai Nanxing, the only person privy to their secret, to prevent her from leaking the information.
“Alright then. If you’re willing to swear a blood oath with , only then will I feel confident enough to work with you.” Lin Shen proposed.
“A blood oath? What kind of blood oath?” Xiaoye frowned.
Lin Shen pulled a large bowl out of the space capsule, then bit his finger, letting blood drip into the bowl.
“You both should also drip your blood in. According to the customs of my holand, we’ll swear an allegiance by mixing our blood.” Lin Shen pushed the bowl toward them.
“Who wants to form a blood pact with you?” Xiaona grumbled irritably.
“Very well, let’s swear the blood oath.” Xiaoye glanced at the blood Lin Shen had dripped into the bowl. After a brief mont of contemplation, she nodded.
“Sister, why are you indulging him? We have the Great Emperor’s Divine Artifact. If we want to leave, then leave—we don’t have to care about Huai Nanxing. As for him, the mont we leave, he’s as good as dead. Since he doesn’t trust us, let him fend for himself. Why should we bother?” Xiaona protested, clearly upset.
“We need to deal with Huai Nanxing. We can’t risk the information about the Great Emperor’s Divine Artifact in our hands getting out. Cooperation is the best option for now.” Xiaoye said this calmly. She raised her delicate hand to her lips, biting the edge of her white lace glove to pull it off. Only then did she bite her finger and let her blood drip into the bowl.
Being soone who typically followed Xiaoye’s lead, Xiaona, though fuming inside, reluctantly mimicked her sister’s actions. She took off her sheer gloves, bit her finger, and let her blood drip into the bowl too.
“Then let’s proceed according to the traditions of my holand. We’ll make our blood vow together.” Lin Shen stirred the three blood samples in the bowl with his finger, mixing them thoroughly. He then sared so of the blood on his own forehead. “Follow : do as I do, and repeat after .”
Xiaoye and Xiaona exchanged glances. Xiaoye reached out, dipped her finger in the mixture of their blood, and sared it on her pristine forehead.
Though still annoyed, Xiaona begrudgingly followed suit, saring the blood on her forehead while wearing an unhappy expression.
“You also need to sar it on the bottle and gourd,” Lin Shen added.
“What shady sche are you plotting now?” Xiaona imdiately narrowed her eyes at Lin Shen with suspicion.
Although Xiaoye remained silent, her gaze fixed on him as well, clearly demanding an explanation.
“You and the Great Emperor’s Divine Artifact are symbiotically linked. You need to use the artifact to swear the oath; only then will I feel secure,” Lin Shen said calmly.
Xiaoye remained silent, locking eyes with Lin Shen. He showed no sign of backing down, squinting slightly as he held her gaze.
“Fine, as you wish.” Xiaoye extended her pale finger, dipped it into the blood in the bowl, and sared it onto the bottle.
“Sister, he’s being suspicious. He definitely has ulterior motives. How can you just agree to this?” Xiaona couldn’t contain her discontent.
“Monts ago, we were demanding his trust, yet criticizing him for not trusting us. Now that the tables are turned, we need to show him trust in return. Otherwise, how can we bla him for doubting us?” Xiaoye said faintly. Then, she turned to Lin Shen with a serious expression. “Lin Shen, let’s swear. We trust you unconditionally. From the mont you brought us out of the Ancient God’s Treasure Box, our fates beca intertwined. We trust you as much as we trust each other.”
Lin Shen froze for a mont. Xiaoye’s words left him feeling slightly ashad deep down.
Fortunately, Xiaona’s reaction interrupted the awkwardness. With a huff, she grumbled, then begrudgingly mimicked Xiaoye, saring the blood on the gourd.
“I… Lin Shen…” Lin Shen raised his hand and began to swear.
“I… Xiaoye… I… Xiaona…” Xiaoye and Xiaona also raised a hand, imitating Lin Shen and speaking in unison.
“I swear to stand together with Xiaoye and Xiaona, to share life and death, to live and die as one. If I break this oath, may I be struck by lightning from the heavens five tis over…”
Xiaoye and Xiaona paused slightly. They had initially assud Lin Shen wanted to perform so kind of cosmic law-bound blood vow, but as it turned out, he was just making an ordinary spoken oath.
They were about to mimic his phrasing when Lin Shen continued with surprisingly over-the-top additions.
“…may I et an agonizing demise, be sliced to death by a thousand cuts, have my heart gouged out and my eyes plucked, my tendons ripped out and my skin peeled off. May my family die—my father, mother, grandparents—and may my ancestors of 18 generations be dug out and flogged for 10,000 years. May I be swindled by friends, cuckolded imdiately after marriage, run over the mont I step outside, crushed in a house collapse back ho, choke to death while eating, drown while drinking water, sprout sores on my head and pus from my feet, be covered in itching boils I can’t stop scratching, and suffer a fate worse than death! May I curse what I love to die, what I favor to explode on the spot, and may all my friends and family et terrible ends while my enemies thrive on feasts every day…” Lin Shen rattled on for over 3,000 words without so much as taking a breath.
Xiaoye and Xiaona stared at Lin Shen, their expressions unusually bewildered.
It wasn’t until Lin Shen prompted them to follow his words that they snapped out of it. With expressions caught sowhere between disbelief and complexity, they painstakingly repeated his words.
It must be said—their mories were indeed extraordinary. Despite hearing such a ridiculously long string of curses only once, they flawlessly repeated every word without missing a single one.
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