Chapter 160: A Win-Win Solution?
Mingyan had hoped to have a dialogue with the phoenix. If the phoenix had given him this chance, things would not have come to this.
But the phoenix had not taken him seriously and had not intended to give him a chance to talk, planning to cut off Mingyan and Huang Feiyan’s relationship just like that.
Her doing so was the reason for the current situation.
Mingyan looked coldly at the phoenix, who had fallen limply to the ground. He knew that now Huang Feiyan’s personality had been severely damaged and had fallen into a deep sleep. The person controlling this body now was the phoenix.
All of the phoenix’s thoughts were known to Mingyan through the slave mark. She was even angrier than Mingyan was. Besides a deep anger, there was also a chilling killing intent. She wanted to kill him now.
The reason was also very simple. Not only because her pride would never allow her to bow her head to others, but also because her clansmen had once been controlled by a slave mark and had eventually become a tool to protect the enemies of the Phoenix Clan.
She deeply detested the slave mark and had even erased it.
These were all the phoenix’s thoughts, so Mingyan could know them. And now the phoenix’s thoughts were very simple. After the anger, there was only one thought in her mind.
The phoenix looked up, her eyes burning like flames. The transparent and scorching flames carried a ferocity that could burn everything. And as her master, Mingyan naturally discovered her intention at the first moment.
What the phoenix was thinking was very simple. She would never allow herself to become someone else’s slave, would never allow herself to become the final disgrace of the Phoenix God Clan. Since Mingyan wanted to save Huang Feiyan, then fine. Since her ending was already like this, then Mingyan, who had enslaved her, would never be able to get what he wanted!
The phoenix blood in her whole body was burning. A vivid, blood-red phoenix phantom appeared behind her. It proudly raised its head, never allowing itself to bow, even if it meant mutual destruction. She was the proudest phoenix!
Mingyan would naturally not let the phoenix succeed. He even used the slave mark, wanting to stop the phoenix!
The flames in the phoenix’s eyes gradually extinguished. She looked at Mingyan, knowing that he could completely read her thoughts. She gritted her teeth, her eyes staring at Mingyan, as if she wanted to cut him into a thousand pieces!
The control of the slave mark was absolute. Without Mingyan’s permission, the phoenix could do nothing.
At least, at her current cultivation level, she couldn’t. She needed her strength to recover further. And the recovery of her strength was not something Mingyan could control with a slave mark. The range of control of a slave mark was limited to restraining her. But the recovery of strength was like a wound healing on its own. A slave mark could not achieve such meticulous control.
But the thought of her being humiliatingly becoming Mingyan’s slave made the phoenix go crazy!
The phoenix was trembling with anger, but she was helpless. She knew that at this moment, anger was useless. If mutual destruction was not possible, she had to think of other ways and force herself to calm down.
“You should know that I can know what you are thinking, right?” Mingyan took a deep breath, also forcibly suppressing his own anger.
The phoenix’s eyes were like sharp swords. If she were not in such a crippled state now, her gaze would have been able to turn Mingyan into ashes.
Mingyan looked at the phoenix, knowing that she wanted to cut him into a thousand pieces. He looked down at the phoenix and said, “You are the ancestor of the Huang family. Fundamentally, I don’t want to hurt your pride like this. If it weren’t necessary, I wouldn’t even have thought of carving a slave mark on you.”
The phoenix looked at Mingyan, her eyes filled with deep disgust. She was extremely disgusted with him, both mentally and physically, and was not willing to pay any attention to Mingyan at all.
“To me, the best situation is to be able to communicate with you. You are right. If you are here, we will be more confident in facing the Dark Era,” Mingyan knew that he could not act on impulse at this time. He suppressed his emotions and said as calmly as possible, “I hope we can have a better way to handle this. I don’t need you as a slave, and you don’t want to be enslaved by me.”
Although having a slave who had once reached the position of a Supreme Dao Great Emperor sounded really good, she was the ancestor of the Huang family. Mingyan and the Huang family were on good terms after all. He couldn’t do things so absolutely. It was also not in Mingyan’s style of doing things.
Moreover, for such a slave, Mingyan didn’t even know how long the slave mark could control her. Using a slave mark was just a helpless move. Otherwise, the phoenix wouldn’t even give him a chance to talk.
The phoenix sneered coldly. She was thinking in her heart that Mingyan was very hypocritical, because she thought that to enslave her, Mingyan was probably overjoyed in his heart.
Mingyan was a little speechless. What was there to be overjoyed about?
Mingyan took a deep breath. “I have no so-called satisfaction in enslaving you. This is just a helpless means. I know you are very disgusted with the slave mark. I can remove it. But before that, we must make some agreements and solve the matter between you and Feiyan.”
The phoenix was silent. Her thoughts were extremely chaotic, very jumpy. For a moment, she thought of the scenery outside the door. For a moment, she thought of where her body was uncomfortable. The vast amount of distracting thoughts made Mingyan frown for a moment. Was she using this method, using a large amount of garbage thoughts, to cover up her real thoughts?
Can it be done like this? Mingyan was a little surprised for a moment. He found that in the vast amount of garbage thoughts, it was really not easy to sort out the phoenix’s real thoughts. After all, even if he could read minds, Mingyan didn’t know which one in the phoenix’s heart was what she considered her real thought.
A slave mark was not omnipotent. It had its limitations. This made Mingyan even more determined not to use a slave mark to bind the phoenix. He still needed to use other ways to achieve his goal.
Although Mingyan was extremely surprised in his heart, he did not show it on his face. He said calmly, “You don’t want to be a slave forever, do you? And I just want Feiyan to come back. Between us, we should seek a win-win solution.”
“A win-win solution?” the phoenix looked at Mingyan with a sneer. “This body was originally formed from my essence and blood. It is a body that I have tailored for myself. The temporary dual personality now is only because the fusion is not thorough. Originally, she was me and will be integrated into my memory. Why should I seek a win-win solution?”
“You are not Feiyan!” Mingyan snorted. “Even if, as you say, she might become a part of your memory, you are not Feiyan. Not to mention, you are now still two different personalities.”
“If you want me to back down, it’s very simple. Kill me. If you really have the ability, then kill me,” the phoenix would never bow her head to Mingyan. If she had to submit, she would rather die!
Mingyan looked at the phoenix with cold eyes and directly slapped her across the face. The phoenix was tilted by the slap. She raised her hand to cover her face, lowered her head, and her expression could not be seen.
Looking at her beautiful face, which was red between her fingers, Mingyan felt a little heartache. But thinking that Huang Feiyan was now in a deep sleep and could not feel the pain at all, he felt much better.
Mingyan squatted down, pinched the phoenix’s chin with his hand, and made her look at him. Looking at her eyes, which were filled with humiliation and a violent killing intent, he said, “You don’t seem to have figured out your situation. You are now my slave. I am willing to give you a chance to negotiate. That is my mercy. Don’t take my mercy as weakness. If you are not cooperative, I have many ways to torture you.”
