Chapter 26: Chapter 26: Soul Contract
"The one who instructed me to attack you and even sent those Martial Kings, as well as asked me to recruit Lu Chen, is the Minister of the National Treasury, Wu Yang," Chang Rui confessed.
"I am from a medium-sized sect... Due to my aptitude, I am treated fairly well, but occasionally I have to accompany the sect master, who is in the late stage of the Martial King Realm. Due to our small size and number of disciples, the sect has become like a lackey of the palace and officials for survival. The sect mostly does jobs like cleaning, being a hitman, and other jobs requested by officials. Sometimes we even deliver girls to them." She stopped, feeling slightly agitated, but let out a long sigh.
"The Minister of the Treasury handles our payments and gives us goals. He provided us with the task of eliminating you. He even went as far as delivering large amounts of spiritual crystals. He also informed us about the guard around the mid Martial King realm around you and advised us to be careful."
She gulped, feeling her throat dry, but she continued to speak.
"The sect leader decided to send me along with three Martial Kings. But due to their attitude, I have to use my body to ask them for favors." She sighed again, looking at the ceiling.
"Our size is small, and losing Martial King cultivators, we can't afford it. So... the sect leader himself went to the large sect to beg them for men, and the three men agreed after sizing me up." Feeling a little disgusted as if remembering something, she twitched her face.
"Hah... I am nothing more than a plaything. Like you said, I long for freedom. So, as long as I can get freedom, I will serve you wholeheartedly as a slave." She lowered her head and spoke honestly.
Chu Feng nodded. He understood the general situation.
Small and medium sects hardly survive in this world. They have to respect both large sects and the palace.
Large sects tend to ignore them, while the palace binds them and makes them lackeys to perform dirty work like cleaning a village, killing monsters in deadly forests, exploring dangerous territories, nurturing beautiful girls, and finding beautiful slaves of multiple races, and so on.
Completing these tasks earns them money and protection. They also receive resources for cultivation.
But large sects tend to ignore the imperial palace too and do what they want. The imperial palace tried to bind large sects, but large sects united and held enough power to deal a fatal strike to the imperial palace.
Fearing that nearby empires would take this chance to attack them, the palace signed a treaty with large sects for peace but secretly tried to deal with them, though they never succeeded.
As for why the officials wish to deal with him, he has a general idea.
"Bind with this contract."
He bought a 50,000 villain points worth of a soul contract and took it near her. The contract, a transparent blue aura-emitting paper, entered her body through her heart.
The contract reached her soul.
"Let it be absorbed. Don't show any resistance."
Chang Rui nodded.
The contract entered her soul and mixed with it. Suddenly, large blue chains bound her soul, turning transparent.
Chang Rui gritted her teeth, feeling pain surging through her body. But she endured it and bit her lips intensely, causing them to bleed.
After a while, the pain dissipated.
Chu Feng swayed his palm and cut the rope. He clapped his hands, and a maid hurriedly rushed to the room with a pair of beautiful pink clothes.
Chu Feng bought three masks from the system market, each costing 100,000 villain points.
[Ultimate Imposter Mask]
[Effect: Wear this mask and your face and body will change drastically. Not even a Martial Venerable could see through this disguise. It will stay permanently unless removed by the wearer themselves. The mask can be taken out and worn an unlimited number of times. It can be broken, though, so please be careful.]
[Cost: 100,000 Villain Points]
The mask looked useful, maybe not for him now but perhaps in the future.
But this mask isn't for him; it's for Chang Rui.
"This…" she looked at the mask that felt like human skin and had two eye holes and nothing else.
The maids helped her wear the clothes while Chu Feng explained her task.
"You will be my informant. From now on, you will be the owner of a brothel. I will prepare one for you. Recruit many prostitutes and courtesans and attract as many people as possible. Your main task is to recruit them and gather information from important people. Also, create a solid information channel, so whenever I wish to learn something, you can tell me."
"Okay." Chang Rui didn't complain and nodded.
"Rest for now. I will inform you when to take over the brothel." Chu Feng didn't wait for her reply and left the room.
"It seems I have to deal with those ministers sooner."
Chu Feng knew why they wished to kill him.
They want to disgust the empress and warn her to be in her place.
Since they can't directly assassinate the empress due to heavy security but they underestimate her power thinking her as a crafty woman, so they don't fear attacking her. Of course, they won't attack directly, but indirectly.
Chu Feng is the man behind her who will do all her dirty work and spread her name to people.
She's a people's king, not a tyrant. She is going for a route of being the people's king who does good deeds for civilians, not like those tyrants who collude with ministers to increase taxes, get free work, and enjoy their life in debauchery.
There are a lot of reasons for that, not something that should be explained now.
So the reason why they want to harm the empress is because their interests conflict with each other.
The empress wants to lead citizens to prosperity while ministers and the noble family want to extort ordinary citizens for free labor, taxes, and free women as playthings.
Without thinking more about it, Chu Feng went to the bed where Xia Lingshui was kept and looked at her unconscious body, naked and clean.
He slept beside her, hugging her body. She was very soft, excellent to use as a plaything and body pillow.
Xia Lingshui shuddered and turned her body. She hugged him back with a complicated expression on her face, as if dreaming something strange.
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