Scheming Bitch

Upon arriving at the location of the crone's hideout, Huang Dawei spread his soul power out across the forested land. Here there were many trees and springs that were sourced by a great waterfall from the mountains.

After a detailed search, Huang Dawei noticed an array atop the lake at the bottom of the waterfall. Stepping down, he moved his soul power and the array moved to his will. A few modifications later. Eight flags rose from the lake and Huang Dawei took them all.

He then divvied into the water and found a crack in the lake bed. Squeezing through, Huang Dawei continued to swim to a light at the end of the darkness. He soon emerged in another underground lake centered in a cave.

The place was spacious and smelled of earth. The walls were lined with limestone of many beautiful colors. And like the pervert's cave, Madame Gu had an abode decorated a few paces from the bank.

The first thing Huang Dawei noticed was a middle-aged woman in a cage, cultivating. But the craziest part was that the woman was the spitting image of Liu Beiming.

Huang Dawei then sniffed the air again and took out the half-formation plate. He then opened the realm and took in the very same aroma. At this time, the caged woman smelled it two as she opened her eyes and looked at Huang Dawei who she assumed was her mistress. After all, it wasn't easy to get to the hidden abode.

"Who are you?" Huang Dawei asked as he approached.

The woman remained silent.

"Surname Liu?" he asked and the women recoiled at the mention of the name.

"So that's what she wanted the heart-cutting vine for. You can't forget where you came from. Revenge?"

The woman in the cage glared at him and Huang Dawei smiled. He then summoned a sealed Liu Shen.

"Does she look familiar?" he asked.

The woman in the cage became angry and beat against the cage, reaching for the young woman.

"This is beyond interesting. Liu Beiming has a twin and the twin wants to kill the daughter why?" Huang Dawei talked himself through the situation.

"You sit tight. We'll deal once I'm finished here." Said Huang Dawei. He then ripped through the abode and took everything.

Though he couldn't find anything particularly special as he did in the pervert's abode, Madame Gu still had pleasant things that he could make use of. Be it refining, alchemy, or strengthening his army.

His last discovery was the formation on the ceiling of the abode. He then proceeds to crack and steal the array flags. Causing the ceiling to open and let in the starlight. Huang Dawei figured Madame Gu must have entered and exited from there as the crack on the lake floor was just too much work. Then again, she hid for a leaving so it was no telling what she did.

When he was finished exploring and looking for hidden compartments, he put a piece of paper and brush in front of Liu Beiming's twin and sat down. She then frowned at him and pointed underneath her chin. Huang Dawei squinted and then chuckled.

"Ah. level 2 muzzle seal," he said.

Huang Dawei held his hand out with his palm facing down. He then drops his middle finger and lets his ring and index fingers touch tips. Finally, he turned his palm up and ran his middle finger down his thumb as the seal was pulled from the woman.

She then sighed in relief.

"Thank you, I haven't spoken in seventeen years." she sighed with relief.

"Damn… That's a long time," he said.

"Not long enough to forget. No matter how much that bitch tried to make me."

"That Gu Lady?" Huang Dawei asked.

"Mmm. My sister sold me to Gu Lili after she snatched my child from my womb and used her as a supplement for that Liu Shen." The woman explained as rage fill her gaze.

Hang Dawei was speechless. He thought he was the only real villain in the countryside. But it turns out he and Liu Beiming are cut from the same cloth. But he didn't tell the woman that, he needed to know more.

"How about you start from the top and then I'll tell you how I can help." Huang Dawei spoke calmly and slowly. Making the woman fill relaxed as if she had a possible ally. After all, Huang Dawei had robbed the abode which meant Madame Gu was dead and he had Liu Shen sealed with their clan heritage on him.

"Answer me first. Is the Willow Sect still standing and why do you have that woman's daughter?"

Huang Dawei smiled, "That Sect is standing, but I forced my way into the Willow Diety's secret realm and stole everything even Liu Shen. I plan to turn her into my personal cauldron and sire a child that can make full use of the Willow inheritance. As for the sect, They serve at my behest."

The woman was in awe.

"And Madame Gu?" she asked.

"I cut her head off in front of the entire Zhao State. I even slapped the old emperor and incinerated three of his lackeys." Huang Dawei boasted as if he managed everything by himself.

He didn't fear being discovered as she couldn't decern his cultivation without emitting his Qi. The only thing she knew of him was how easily he broke Madame Gu's formations.

The woman was slack-jawed. Besides his evil intention for a niece she hated, Huang Dawei was really a ray of hope for her. Now all she had to do was convenience him to free here.

"What's your name?" Huang Dawei asked.

"Liu Lihua." she replied, "And you?"

"Prince Huang of the Great Huang Dynasty." It was becoming a pretty neat cover.

That was it. It explained everything. Liu Lihua felt she would be free soon. If only she spoke carefully, seductively.

"Lihua greets Prince Huang." she said in a small tone, "To start, Liu Beiming and I became pregnant together because we shared the same husband, our older brother, Liu Cong. But that fool left the sect to gain experience in hopes of finding a way to strengthen us. That fool brought back Gu LiLi."

"Gu Lili at the time had recently breakthrough early Wuzong and was a Bloodline Mage. After bonding, he trusted her and told her about the Liu family's Demon ancestry. She was over the moon. As a bloodline mage, she understood the intricacy of our bloodline."

"Human blood diluting, but not destroying a god-level bloodline" Huang Dawei added.

"Exactly. She understood that a God-level bloodline when watered down retains its God-level potential. All she had to do was increase our bloodline rank by rank to receive its boon until it reached god level and transformed her." Liu Lihua explained, "She told us this. Liu Beiming became greedy. Traitorous, because unlike me, she loved our brother and he took me as a wife and brought back Gu LiLi, who used him as cock in exchange for boons."

"I should have known earlier. But Liu Beiming convinced Gu Lili that she could have the Willow Demon blood without entering the secret realm. Like you, Gu Lili wanted to take it. But Instead, Liu Beiming handed over Liu Cong and half of the Liu Family. They were refined into a blood pellet. She then ripped my child from me and Gu Lili helped her turn my baby into a supplement to help Liu Shen grow stronger. I was then taken to become an incubator."

Huang Dawei's eyes narrowed and his brow creased. Liu Lihua felt she had caught him.

"Did Liu Shen give you a hard time?" she asked, "I'm not like them. In me is a level four Willow Demon bloodline. When I break through Wuzong it will reach level 5. It can become our child and Liu Shen its nutrients. As long as you kill my sister, I'll cooperate."

Huang Dawei liked his lips savagely as he reached in and caressed her face. She was a beauty lacking nothing compared to Yi Fei. Huang Dawei was completely uninterested but he held on.

"Tell me where the other half of the formation plate is and I'll take you to kill your sister tonight. With my Level 5 Golden Peng, we could get there before dawn." Huang Dawei assured her.

Liu Lihua's heart throbbed. She was about to win everything. A prince of a dynasty, another child with high talent, her ancestral heritage, and revenge.

"Liu Beiming…" She said, "Take it out and I'll show you."

Huang Dawei did just that.

"You this in the middle. It's an addition. It's the reason it works without the other half. Two halves of the formation plate come together and form a housing. So the same way the Willow Deity's Garden was in the secret realm…"

"This addition is in the formation plate…so the complete plate forms the secret realm and there are two more additions. Two more gardens.." Huang Dawei was enlightened. "She has the other half. That scheming bitch. She should have known the moment I took this."

"Yes! Our great-great-grandfather is the one who found the first half and it led him to the second. Once he opened the secret realm he established our sect and moved our Liu from the Demon Ancestor Mountain Range. But it was my father who was tested by the old willow. It told my father of the garden if someone's bloodline was pure enough to legacy trail." Said Liu Lihua.

"She wanted to use me to wield her daughter and become the coat-tail-riding mother-in-law. Ahh! When I get back to that damn sect I'll skin that bitch and hang her carcass at the gates of the Willow Sect. Then I'll subject the entire Liu Family to serve the Yi Army as pill dolls, bed warms, sparing dummies!"

"What?" Liu Lihua was shocked. "I thought you already subjected the willow sect. And you called that hag your mother-in-law. Your work…"

Huang Dawei through a needle that pierced Liu Lihua's Tian Tu acupoint and silenced her. He then took a deep breath to calm himself.

"Big Bird!"

A moment later it perched on the hole in the abode ceiling.

"Bring Chi'er and Yaya to me!" he ordered.

Big Bird then took flight and Huang Dawei began to study Gu Lili's text to understand exactly what she did to Liu Lihua. Upon first glance, it looked like mad ramblings. But after meeting Lin Lihua and taking the ramblings seriously, Huang Dawei noticed that Madame Gu was creating something similar to the Treasured Pill Doll.

When the women arrived, they cooked, bathed, ate, and slept. All the while, Huang Dawei studied until noon the next day. He then summoned Liu Shen before reaching into the cage and plunging his hand into Liu Lihua's stomach.

His qi coated his hand based on Gu Lili's technique, and he then extracted the woman's dantian in one piece. Inspecting the dantian and the condensed blood held together by the dense qi pool inside, Huang Dawei noticed the flaw that Gu Lili noted.

Because Liu Lihua wasn't a virgin and her womb was corrupted, Gu Lili couldn't forge a second dantian to incubate and accelerate the purification process. Instead, she put the bloodline in Liu Lihua's dantian and it acquired impurities as well as slowed Liu Lihua's cultivation.

Huang Dawei now focused on the virgin Liu Shen and implanted her aunt's dantian directly into her womb. Inside her soul realm, Liu Shen cried out in pain and cursed Huang Dawei to death. But something inside her thanked him as well. She was a product of betrayal and murder. And still, she disappointed her mother. That worthlessness was worse than pain.

Realizing this, Liu Shen endured quietly.

Once Huang Dawei was finished, Xiao Ya incinerated Liu Lihua's corpse. They picked up their prisoner, Ying Feizi, and the trio departed.