Nine Yang Sword Saint
chapter-117

Chapter 117: Battle of Spirit! Wedding Ceremony!

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Afterward, Dugu Xiao said, “You just rest here in peace for this period of time. You will officially marry after a dozen or so days.”

“Dozen or so days?” Yang Dingtian was utterly stupefied. His battle with Qin Shaobai was in six days, and Dugu Xiao actually said to get married in a dozen or so days? It meant that everything would be too late, and everything would be done for.

Subsequently, Dugu Xiao spoke in a gentle voice, “Of course, I am personally willing to believe you, but just in case you are actually just marrying my daughter in pretense to enter the Blood Pool by using her. If you are to find an opportunity to escape the Temple of Blood later on, wouldn’t I be a giant laughingstock? So, we will wait for ten days after the situation in Cloud Heaven City is completely finished before you marry Aoshuang. This will benefit both sides.”

Dugu Xiao then stood up and said while he walked outside, “During these ten days, you will stay in this stone room and wait for your wedding.”

After Dugu Xiao left, the thick doors of the stone room were shut tightly.

“Ahh… ” Yang Dingtian let out an angry yell as he punched on the stone wall, instantly turning his fist into a dripping wet fist of blood, bursting a piece of the stone wall.

This damned Dugu Xiao, this damned Great Devil. He was actually so cunning that there was no chance of tricking him.

After he released his anger, Yang Dingtian regained his composure. He was definitely not going to resign to this fate. He was going to find a way out.

Thus, Yang Dingtian began to observe this stone room. The walls itself were the stone mountain and were extremely thick, making it impossible to bore a hole through it. The door was made of metal, which might be cuttable with his Night Owl Strange Blade, but there were definitely guards on the outside who had stronger cultivations than himself.

Yang Dingtian racked his brains, trying to think of a way to escape when all of a sudden, the stone room was filled with something odorless and colorless. Yang Dingtian felt something was wrong and immediately held his breath, but it was useless as this drug gas permeated through his skin.

Yang Dingtian’s head began to feel murky and dizzy while his eyes began to blur and his steps started to wobble. Yang Dingtian used all of his mystic qi and willpower to resist this drug but still fainted.

…

Yang Dingtian didn’t know how long he was unconscious for, but when he regained his senses, he was incredibly hunger and very thirsty. He must have been unconscious for more than twelve hours.

After he woke up, a small hole would open up in the door while a serving of meal and drinks was pushed in. It was rather sumptuous, and there was even some wine.

Yang Dingtian’s stomach was rumbling with hunger. He immediately gobbled up all the food and drinks.

Just as he finished eating, another cloud of odorless and colorless drug mist was released in the room. Yang Dingtian went unconscious again.

Just like that, Dugu Xiao shut Yang Dingtian in the stone prison without showing any form of concern. But, he would deliver three meals on a daily basis. Once Yang Dingtian finished the meal, gas would be released in the stone room, which would instantly send Yang Dingtian into a drowsy state.

Just like this, Yang Dingtian would eat and sleep, sleep and eat. No one would bother him. No one would pay attention to him.

Three meals were equivalent to one day!

One day had passed.

Two days had passed.

Three days had passed.

…

Yang Dingtian thought of all different methods, but there was no way to escape from this stone cave. Because he didn’t have any way to resist that mysterious drug.

Yang Dingtian was truly going insane. He had suffered all sorts of pain since he came into this world, but he had never experienced such terrifying torture. This Dugu Xiao was truly a devil. He didn’t torture you physically first. Instead, he tortured your mind and your spirit first.

Yang Dingtian was about to go crazy because the day of the duel with Qin Shaobai was about to arrive. He had used all his strength to shove against the stone door, but he only managed to damage and coat his limbs with blood instead, causing severe injuries.

…

Finally, six days had passed!

During these six days, no one came to see Yang Dingtian. No one talked to him. Every single meal was pushed in from the small hole at the door.

The day of the duel with Qin Shaobai had passed, and Yang Dingtian didn’t appear. Qin Shaobai and his group were extremely pleased while Ximen Yanyan, Ximen Ningning, Madam Ximen, Ximen Lie, and the others were utterly disappointed.

Right now, the entire northwest continent must be spreading the news of how timid, cowardly, shameless, and despicable Yang Dingtian was. Yang Dingtian relied on despicable methods to rape Madam Ximen. The rumor of him using the Yin Yang Devour Mystic Ritual must have been deemed as the truth. Yang Dingtian and Madam Ximen would be completely nailed on the pillar of humiliation.

On the sixth day, the stone door finally opened, and a figure walked in.

Yang Dingtian, who was originally lying on the ground, immediately stood up.

The person who came in was Dugu Xiao, the Evil Dao’s Great Devil.

“Six days have passed. The duel between you and Qin Shaobai has passed. You should understand how severe the consequences were because you didn’t appear.” Dugu Xiao said, “Don’t worry. My spies in the Cloud Heaven City will report back to me with detailed information soon. In a few days, you will know exactly what happened in Cloud Heaven City.”

Yang Dingtian remained silent.

“It seems like the torment isn’t enough.” Dugu Xiao said, “You didn’t kneel down to beg me. You didn’t weep with bitter tears. It seems your willpower is indeed very resilient.”

Yang Dingtian maintained his silence.

“Do you want to go out?” Dugu Xiao said.

“Yes,” Yang Dingtian replied.

“Do you want to go out of the stone cave or leave the Temple of Blood and return to Cloud Heaven City?” Dugu Xiao questioned.

“Leave the Temple of Blood and return to Cloud Heaven City,” Yang Dingtian replied.

“But, you are already in disgrace in Cloud Heaven City. There is no place for you to make a stand there. What will you do?” Dugu Xiao asked.

Yang Dingtian responded, “That is my own problem.”

“I will give you an option. Promise me and I will let you go,” Dugu Xiao stated.

“Please say it,” Yang Dingtian said.

“Accept me as your master and become a member of the Temple of Blood. I will do my best to nurture you. How about it?” Dugu Xiao said, “As long as you make the vow to break off all relations with Ximen Wuya, I will let you out.”

Yang Dingtian sneered and didn’t reply. Since his ploy had been exposed by Dugu Xiao, he didn’t have to act anymore.

“Okay. It seems like your pitiful willpower is still holding strong. I have to lock you up for a few more days.” Dugu Xiao said, “I will come back in three days and bring you news of Cloud Heaven City.”

Finishing his statement, Dugu Xiao walked out and shut the stone door.

Yang Dingtian knew that his battle against Dugu Xiao had started. This wasn’t a battle of martial prowess. It was a battle of spirit and willpower. Whoever compromised first would be the loser. Of course, Dugu Xiao could kill him at any time, but if he did end up killing him, then it would be his loss.

…

In the next few days, Yang Dingtian returned back to his previous schedule.

He would eat and sleep, sleep and eat again. Despite the fact that he didn’t want to sleep, once that tyrannical gas was released, it would be absorbed through his skin, putting him to sleep immediately, sinking him into a deep dream.

But even in his dreams, he would constantly have endless nightmares as he dreamed of Ximen Yanyan, Madam Ximen, and Ximen Ningning. Each dream was scarier than the previous one.

One day…

Two days…

Three days…

Finally, three days passed.

On this day, Yang Dingtian struggled to stay awake while waiting for Dugu Xiao to come in. He was waiting for Dugo Xiao to inform him about the situation in Cloud Heaven City.

But, Dugu Xiao didn’t come this day.

Another day had passed.

Two days…

Yang Dingtian didn’t know how many days had passed by. He would just sleep and eat every single day.

His nightmares were getting worse, and each one would be much more severe than the previous one. But Yang Dingtian still didn’t know what happened in Cloud Heaven City. He didn’t know what happened to the people he cared about.

That’s right, Dugu Xiao was a demon. He was tormenting Yang Dingtian. He obviously knew about the situation in Cloud Heaven City, but he didn’t want to inform Yang Dingtian. It was like a criminal who knew he would be put on death row and yet felt as though there might be some hope. But the judge didn’t want to announce the verdict and suspended the criminal day by day, tormenting him.

As the days passed, Yang Dingtian ate countless meals, slept countless times, and had countless dreams.

He really didn’t know how many days had passed.

“Creak…” Finally, the stone door opened again.

Once again, Dugu Xiao walked in.

Yang Dingtian struggled to stand up powerlessly. Right now, he had lost over five kilograms, and his body was covered in filth. His beard was two inches long, and he had lost count of the number of days that passed.

“Apologies, I have forgotten you for a moment. I mentioned I would come in three days, but I didn’t expect to only see you after ten days. You have been in the Temple of Blood for more than two weeks now…” Dugu Xiao sat in front of Yang Dingtian and asked, “Do you want to know what happened to Cloud Heaven City? Do you wish to know what happened to Ximen Yanyan?”

Yang Dingtian nodded his head powerlessly.

Dugu Xiao smiled and said, “You didn’t appear on the day of the duel. Ximen Yanyan was judged as guilty. Cloud Heaven City is done for. Ximen Yanyan is done for. Madam Ximen is done for. Ximen Lie is done for. Ximen Ningning is done for. You have become a disgrace to the world. Madam Ximen was nailed onto the pillar of humiliation.”

Yang Dingtian was immobilized as though he was struck by lightning.

“You wouldn’t believe me if I told you about their fate. Thus, I caught someone that you are familiar with so that you will believe it,” Dugu Xiao said.

He gently clapped his hands.

Immediately, a green and delicate shadow rushed in. It was actually Lü’er, Yanyan’s personal servant girl, Lü’er.

When Lü’er saw Yang Dingtian, she ran over in a frenzy and used her razor-sharp nails to scratch at Yang Dingtian’s face. She mercilessly scratched ten bloody wounds as she shouted in a severe voice, “Yang Dingtian, you bastard, you bastard! On the day of the duel, why didn’t you appear? Why didn’t you appear!?”

Yang Dingtian vigorously hugged Lü’er’s body. Lü’er’s entire body was icy cold, and her frail body was shivering. He lifted her face, only to see how haggard and weak she was, as though she had experienced countless torments.

“Lü’er, how is Yanyan? How is Sister Ningning? How is Brother Ximen Lie? How is Madam?” Yang Dingtian asked with a trembling voice.

“How else could it be? How else could it be?” Lü’er cried and said, “In order to save Young Lady, Ximen Lie led the Black Blood Cavalry to attack the city. But due to the rumors and scandals about you and Madam, the Black Blood Cavalry’s morale was very low, and they suffered a great loss. Young Master Ximen Lie suffered injuries and escaped.”

“Young Lady Ningning summoned ten thousand beasts to attack the city but exhausted all of her mystic qi and fell off of the Floating Spirit Ray. The ten thousand beasts turned into an uncontrolled stampede, and her figure was nowhere to be seen. There was only a shattered dress left behind.”

“Young Lady was originally going to commit suicide, but Qin Shaobai threatened her with Madam’s life. She was then forced to marry that bastard Qin Shaobai, and the wedding will be held in one month. Madam has been shamed, and her reputation was ruined and was about to commit suicide, but Qin Shaobai threatened her with Young Lady’s life. She is now being locked up in prison.”

“Ahh…” Yang Dingtian clenched down on his teeth so much that blood flowed out. He let out a violent roar and spurted out a mouthful of fresh blood before fainting.

After Dugu Xiao poured in his mystic qi, Yang Dingtian quickly came back to his senses.

Dugu Xiao asked, “Yang Dingtian. Do you want to go out? Do you want to regain freedom? Do you wish for revenge?”

Yang Dingtian nodded.

“Okay. Promise me on one condition and I will let you out. I will make you incomparably formidable. I will allow you to kill Qin Shaobai, to kill Qin Huaiyu, to eradicate the Northwest Qin Clan, to kill Yang Yan, to eliminate all your enemies. You will be able to defeat Dongfang Bingling, and you will be able to use the Blood Pool whenever you want. My Temple of Blood will do everything we can to nurture you.” Dugu Xiao said, “You just have to promise me a single thing, which is to become my, Dugu Xiao’s, son-in-law.”

Yang Dingtian had lost all his senses. He just nodded and replied, “I promise. I promise anything.”

“This signifies that you are a member of the Evil Dao and has completely severed all ties with the Heaven Dao Union and Ximen Wuya. Severed all relations with Dongfang Niemie,” Dugu Xiao said in a cold voice.

Yang Dingtian nodded with a stupefied expression like before and said, “I accept, I accept everything.”

Lü’er who was by the side, spoke in a fury, “Yang Dingtian. You bastard, you bastard, Young Lady must have been blind!”

Afterward, she rushed over and used her nails to scratch at Yang Dingtian’s face.

Dugu Xiao grabbed Lü’er and said to Yang Dingtian, “Very well. In order to express your resolution, submit your proof of loyalty.”

“Proof of loyalty? What proof of loyalty?” Yang Dingtian asked.

Dugu Xiao drew a sword and handed it to Yang Dingtian. “This woman in front of you is Ximen Yanyan’s personal servant girl. You will kill her and express your resolution to sever all relations between you and the Heaven Dao Union.”

“Ahh…,” Lü’er exclaimed immediately.

“What?” Yang Dingtian was instantly stunned.

Dugu Xiao said, “If you don’t kill her, it means that your determination to sever all relations with the Heaven Dao Union isn’t strong enough. I will not nurture a wolf that may betray me at any moment. So, if you do not kill her, you shall die!”

Yang Dingtian received the sword. His hands started to shiver, and his face was beginning to turn pale while his eyes surged with a complicated glow.

He then raised the sharp sword and suddenly cleaved down at the girl in front of him!

“Ahh…” A miserable scream was accompanied by the splatter of fresh blood. The girl in front of him shattered like ruined jade.

Dugu Xiao revealed an evil smile and said, “Very good. The wedding ceremony will commence in two hours.”

Finishing his statement, Dugu Xiao dragged Lü’er’s corpse out of the stone room as he revealed an evil and satisfied smile.

This battle of spirit with Yang Dingtian was his victory! When he subdued any talented individual, he would first completely torment them, which started from the spirit and willpower. A tormented talent would be completely fearful and compliant, just like a tamed goshawk.

“Hurhur. What resilient willpower? What tough spirit? He is still just an ant,” Duguo Xiao sneered.

…

After Dugu Xiao left, Yang Dingtian suddenly opened his eyes, which didn’t have the expressions of despair and daze anymore. It was cool and filled with a sneer.

“Master, how long has it been since I was locked in this stone room?” Yang Dingtian asked in his heart.

“According to the time on your Earth, it has been 72 hours,” Dongfang Niemie replied.

72 hours? It obviously felt like 18 days. Why was it only three days?

That’s right, it’d been only 72 hours.

The Temple of Blood used a type of evil art and drug that caused immediate drowsiness after consumption. The victim would enter a long dream state, making it feel as though they were asleep for seven to eight hours but was, in fact, just a little more than one hour. Within this one hour period, they would use their mystic qi to digest the food that Yang Dingtian consumed, making him feel starved after he woke up. Hence, he would have to eat again.

Just like this, he ate and slept, slept and ate.

Three meals were equivalent to one day, and with this method of calculation, it felt as though two weeks had passed when only three days had actually gone by.

Moreover, during these three days, Yang Dingtian spent most of the time sleeping and was in different dream states. When a person went into a dream, a few minutes would actually feel like a few hours. Hence, during the three days of sleep, Yang Dingtian felt as though he had dreamed for more than half a month.

As for his thin body and inches of beard, they were nothing but small tricks done by the Temple of Blood.

Dugu Xiao conducted this spirit torture on Yang Dingtian in order to make the latter despair and have him fall into the Evil Dao’s embrace.

Under such evil arts of the Temple of Blood, everyone’s spirit would crumble, and everyone would surrender. The Temple of Blood used such evil arts on many experts and had never failed. No one could notice it with the exception of Yang Dingtian. Because in his mind was his master’s soul spirit.

As for the Lü’er that Yang Dingtian killed, she was, of course, a fake that had undergone a superior art of disguise.

Yang Dingtian had survived this battle of spirit. What’s next was how to successfully cultivate in the Blood Pool before escaping the Temple of Blood.

Right now, there were still three days before the duel with Qin Shaobai.

This was very difficult, but Yang Dingtian had to do it.

***

After ten minutes, over a dozen servant girls entered Yang Dingtian’s stone room and helped him to shower, cut his hair, and change his clothes and makeup. These servant girls all had enchanting figures and were very beautiful. But when these servant girls entered the stone room, they all covered their noses because of the awful smell. These girls revealed expressions of dislike, but they didn’t have any malicious intent.

“Second Young Master, would you please stand up for these servants to help you to rinse up?” A young lady wearing a red dress spoke with a delicate voice while slightly frowning.

Yang Dingtian pretended to be stupefied and stood up, allowing these girls to strip off all his clothes.

“Ahh…” When Yang Dingtian’s body was completely bare, the servant girls let out a soft cry. They gasped in surprise at Yang Dingtian’s asset.

“Our Second Young Lady is finally married off and to a Young Master who has such a robust asset. She is definitely going to be blessed in the future,” a servant girl wearing green clothes spoke delicately.

“You lusty woman, why don’t you go be Second Young Lady’s servant girl so you can share…?” the servant girl with the red dress teased.

“You are the one who wants to share this retard. Open up your skirt. I want to see if your little hoof is wet?” The servant girl in green dress retorted and actually lifted the skirt of that servant girl in the red dress, which instantly revealed her fair and slender legs and the transparent silk panties. That triangle area below her abdomen was covered in this hazy black lump, which was extremely seductive.

“Ahh… You are so awful…” The servant girl in the red dress exclaimed and tore the dress off that servant girl with a green dress, instantly revealing her white and soft breasts.

The two girls immediately entered a messy fight as the young ladies broke into two groups and turned it into a chaotic catfight. In just a few moments, most of the girls had their clothes torn off, revealing their soft breasts and jade thighs. Their beautiful legs were in full view, which were seductive and appetizing. There was nothing else more splendid than this scene.

Yang Dingtian was the only one who noticed a girl with a purple dress who was staring at Yang Dingtian’s crotch while these girls were tearing off each other’s dresses. Of course, she wasn’t lusty. She was observing Yang Dingtian to see if he had any reaction.

As long as it was a regular man facing such an erotic scene, he would not be able to endure it and would have his flagpole raised. But Yang Dingtian was currently playing the role of an irregular man. A man who had been tormented for half a month, a man whose spirit that had completely crumbled. Hence, no matter what happened in front of him, he wouldn’t pay any attention to it.

As expected, Yang Dingtian turned a deaf ear to the erotic and sexy situation in front of his eyes. But gradually, his eyes paid some slight attention to the erotic scene and had some slight reaction.

The purple dressed girl lowered her head and didn’t continue looking at him. She had determined that Yang Dingtian had truly crumbled.

Immediately after, Yang Dingtian acted as though he was a wooden puppet that was being pulled around as he was dragged for a shower. His beard was shaved off. His hair was cut, and he was changed into a long, red robe. Finally, he was dragged out by these girls.

“The groom is here, the groom is here…”

After making hundreds of turns and thousands of detours, Yang Dingtian wasn’t sure how many stone caves and stone tunnels he went through. He realized that the Temple of Blood was completely cut out from within the abdomen of the mountain. It was gigantic, and he truly couldn’t fathom how many stone rooms there were.

The stone tunnels started off narrow, and the stone rooms along it were all very simple and crude, uninhabited.

While it gradually spiraled upwards, the tunnels got increasingly spacious, which was about ten meters in width. The rooms along the tunnels looked more exquisite as well. It was rather crowded on both sides of the tunnel, but Yang Dingtian had to act like a person whose spirit had collapsed and couldn’t examine these people carefully. There were plenty of elite experts among these people, and if Yang Dingtian had any hint of defiance in his eyes, he would be quickly exposed. But, Yang Dingtian still heard some voices.

“The Second Young Lady is finally married off. It isn’t easy uh…?”

“That’s right, Second Young Lady finally became a bride before her death.”

“Even though they had the same parents, First Young Lady has the looks of a fairy, but Second Young Lady… Heaven is really too unfair.”

…

“The hour of blessing is approaching. Will the bride and groom take their positions?”

Suddenly there was a deep and resounding voice.

As it turned out, Yang Dingtian had arrived at the apex of the Temple of Blood.

The apex of the Temple of Blood was truly a luxurious area that was embedded with jade bricks. There were more than a few dozen buildings and three public squares. All of it was situated within a several-thousand-meter-tall giant crevice at the peak of the mountain. The entire landscape was suspended within the 20,000-meter-tall mountain. Yang Dingtian wasn’t able to tell if this giant crevice was a natural formation or manmade. In short, it was truly a divine work of art.

20,000 meters below was the red glistening river. The Temple of Blood was truly easily guarded but hard to attack. Even if an army of one million launched a siege, they wouldn’t be able to penetrate the defenses. Compared to Cloud Heaven City, the Temple of Blood’s difficulty in construction and degree of wonder was far superior.

Subsequently, Yang Dingtian took a rapid glance across the people within the building. It was apparent that all the elite experts from the Temple of Blood were gathered here.

But once the lights suddenly extinguished, the entire building was enveloped in a darkness so dark that one couldn’t even see one’s own fingers. Yang Dingtian obviously knew there were more than a thousand individuals in the grand hall, but he couldn’t see them at all. The entire atmosphere instantly became very bizarre.

Immediately after, a puff of fragrance blew over.

“The bride has arrived,” a male voice shouted out.

Right now, there were 69 hours left before the duel with Qin Shaobai.