In the game, there were many techniques for defeating bosses.
Though Liuli was written as an evil sect’s Holy Maiden at late Nascent Soul stage, the secret realm’s suppression reduced her to early Nascent Soul when she appeared. The protagonist only had peak Foundation Establishment at that time, two whole realms below her. Basic attacks couldn’t even outpace her healing.
To break through Liuli’s defenses required using terrain-based strategies.
This ancient palace that imprisoned the thousand-year tree spirit was similar to the Mountain Temple – the battlefield was filled with hidden traps. Poor execution meant instant death for players, but skilled positioning could lure Liuli to specific spots where triggering mechanisms would allow the terrain to deal heavy damage.
Each trap would drain exactly one-tenth of her health, temporarily emptying her stamina and defense, leaving her kneeling helplessly to catch her breath. These moments were the team’s best chances to deal damage.
Of course, that weakness was just in the game.
Now truly reborn in the cultivation world, Yino figured even if Liuli was heavily injured, she wouldn’t stupidly kneel there letting him attack freely.
So before making his move, Yino had already prepared an intricate series of connected traps specifically designed for her.
The barrier tremor he just triggered by pulling the chain was actually the simplest mechanism from the game for dealing heavy damage to Liuli.
His plan was to taunt her after the barrier blast knocked her back, wait for her to charge at him, then trigger another trap to bind her with formation arrays.
But what Yino hadn’t expected was that after Liuli was blasted away, the two stone beasts that should have been under her control went berserk instead.
Before he could make his next move, Liuli was being tossed back and forth between the two beast statues.
And Liuli’s reaction was surprisingly cooperative – while struggling with the stone beasts, she unknowingly backed up right in front of the barrier…
Yino initially hadn’t planned to use demonic runes to corrupt Liuli.
But when she ended up standing right in front of the barrier’s demonic patterns, inspiration struck and he thought of this devious move.
He wanted to test if her own demonic runes could corrupt her, so he seized the opportunity to press her against them.
As it turned out, the demonic runes that could corrupt the ancient tree spirit could indeed also corrupt this already weakened evil sect’s Holy Maiden.
“Have you submitted now?”
Yino pinned Liuli against the transparent barrier, one arm around her waist while his other hand toyed meaningfully with her humiliation-filled fair face.
Through the barrier’s reflection, Yino could faintly meet Liuli’s gaze – those heterochromatic eyes filled with shame and fury.
Seeing that she was no longer resisting, Yino gradually eased up on the force holding her down.
“Come on, call me Master to show your submission.”
Yino whispered playfully in her ear.
Liuli’s delicate body trembled. She bit her rouge lips tightly, wearing an expression of humiliated defiance to the death.
But as the blood-colored runes on her chest continued their stimulation, the jade legs beneath her blood-white dress gradually pressed together, desperately clinging to her last shred of resistance.
Yino kept his palm pressed against her lower abdomen, not just to catalyze the blood curse within her with his spiritual energy, but mainly to support her body so she wouldn’t collapse.
“Mmph…”
Liuli couldn’t help letting out a moan.
Ever since being forced to drink Yino’s blood, she’d felt a burning pain in her lower abdomen.
She tried to steady herself and straighten up to get her stomach away from Yino’s palm, but her defiant emotions made the runes on her chest stimulate her more intensely. This left Liuli’s legs weak – she could barely stand, causing her body to sink lower, becoming more dependent on Yino’s supporting hand to stay upright.
The more her body weakened, the more her abdomen sank down. The soft flesh of her belly was completely supported by Yino’s palm, making the unbearable burning sensation through her delicate body catalyze even faster.
“Though you won’t say it…”
“Your body seems quite honest~”
Yino curiously whispered in Liuli’s ear.
Since Yino was pressed tightly against Liuli’s back, he could feel every single one of her movements very distinctly.
Now, Yino’s palm could feel that due to Liuli’s lack of core support, her defenseless soft belly kept sinking into his palm. But no matter how unstably she leaned against the barrier, her legs remained rigidly locked.
Consequently, the buttocks beneath that red dress remained firmly pressed against Yino’s waist.
“Yino… I’ll kill you…” Your journey continues at empire
Seeing her body growing more compliant, Liuli had long lost the strength to argue with Yino. She could only follow her instincts and repeat this overused line.
She took a deep breath, drew in her stomach while straightening her back, trying to move away from Yino’s support to prove her body hadn’t submitted.
But this attempted effort lasted barely a few seconds before Liuli’s strength gave out again. Her straightened back collapsed, and her slightly rounded belly sank right back down into Yino’s supporting palm.
“Ayaaah~…”
As the familiar burning sensation spread through her lower abdomen again, Liuli’s delicate body trembled, and she couldn’t help letting out a shameful cry.
“Stop squirming around, my hand is all sweaty from your heat.”
Yino flexed his fingers, playfully kneading the soft flesh of Liuli’s stomach.
The red-robed Holy Maiden bit her rouge lips hard, desperately enduring the increasingly irresistible burning sensation.
At some point, Yino suddenly spoke with a smile, lifting a few fingers from where they pressed against Liuli’s abdomen–
“Look, isn’t this formation pattern beautiful?”
“?”
Liuli opened her eyes in surprise.
During this time, her body had long since sunk powerlessly into submission, so Liuli had kept her eyes closed, absorbed in enduring the burning in her lower abdomen. Now hearing Yino speak again, Liuli opened her eyes and suddenly realized how much time had passed.
Liuli didn’t know what formation pattern Yino meant, but when her peripheral vision noticed a violet pattern had appeared in the barrier’s reflective surface, she suddenly realized what it was.
A familiar pattern floated through her mind.
Thinking of this, Liuli hurriedly looked down.
“You, how do you know this…?!”