The pain from the whip was secondary.
This was the ultimate humiliation!
Was this really how others saw her? Was she truly such a terrible person in everyone's eyes? She raised her head and looked toward the other students nearby. The moment they felt
So in everyone else's eyes, she was exactly the venomous woman Nie Li had called her!
In Long Yuyin's own mind, she had simply wanted to be stronger than everyone else.
So she was nothing but detested garbage!
Tears welled up in Long Yuyin's eyes. She had been arrogant and overbearing, yes, but she had never resorted to killing or beating others on a whim. She hadn't, and never would have, actually intended to kill Nie Li with those three lashes. She had only wanted to teach him a lesson. So why, in Nie Li's words, was she such a vicious person?
The third lash from Nie Li had been the heaviest and the cruelest. He said it was struck on behalf of his master, but Long Yuyin didn't even know who his master was!
Her heart was filled with grievance. She turned her head back, tears trembling in her eyes, looked up at Nie Li, and clenched her teeth as she said, "Nie Li, I hate you!"
With that, Long Yuyin wiped the tears from her eyes, launched herself forward with a few quick steps, and leaped off the altar.
Watching Long Yuyin's retreating figure disappear through the exit of the Sacred Spirit Sanctuary, Nie Li furrowed his brow. It seemed Long Yuyin wouldn't let this go easily. But he had nothing to fear. If she wanted to play dirty, let her come. In his past life, Long Yuyin had driven his master to death. In this life, he had already reclaimed a measure of justice for his master.
If Long Yuyin chose to let it drop, then fine. Nie Li had no desire to pursue grudges from a previous life. But if she insisted on pestering him further, he would teach her another lesson.
Besides, Nie Li had just said the third lash was for his master. Who was this master he kept referring to? Could it be his adoptive father? But the old man had no grudge against Long Yuyin!
They continued cultivating inside the Sacred Spirit Sanctuary. Those ranked in the top ten were allowed to stay for three days, and Nie Li naturally wouldn't waste the opportunity. He immersed himself in training, consolidating his cultivation.
The Dragon Seal Family — Long Yuyin's private courtyard.
Long Yuyin sat on the edge of her bed, holding a bottle of medicinal ointment. She dipped a bit of the paste and slowly dabbed it onto her wounds. Her face, her chest, and other places all bore clear marks from the whipping. Although she carried the Blood of the Red Dragon, Nie Li's whip force had seemed to penetrate straight through her flesh, leaving her entire body burning with searing pain.
She had already changed out of her combat attire and now wore a silk garment that faintly revealed her curvaceous figure. When the ointment touched the fair skin of her chest, she couldn't help but hiss in pain.
The places where Nie Li's whip had struck felt like the deepest possible humiliation. He was the first person who had ever dared treat her this way!
Long Yuyin's right hand clenched the bedsheets tightly as she recalled the look of disgust in Nie Li's eyes — as though she reeked from head to toe and wasn't even worth a single glance. That sensation of being despised filled her heart with fury.
She gritted her teeth, wiped the tears from her face, and slowly smeared the medicinal paste down her back.
"Mm—" The pain made her heart shudder, and she couldn't help but moan softly.
The ointment seeped into the wounds. It took a long while before Long Yuyin felt some relief. The searing, fire-like agony had burned itself into her memory. No matter what happened, she would remember Nie Li — the first person in her entire life to ever whip her.
She pulled out another set of purple combat attire and dressed herself. Clad in the form-fitting garment, her hot, sexy figure combined with her beautiful face gave off an indescribably alluring quality. Only now, a scar still marred her features.
She glanced at the mirror nearby. Although she had never paid much attention to her appearance, there was no denying she was genuinely beautiful. If not for her overbearing personality, there would probably have been a long line of suitors chasing after her.
But that scar on her face could not be hidden no matter what.
She remembered Nie Li's words: no matter how beautiful the exterior, it can never conceal an ugly heart. She grabbed something and hurled it at the mirror. With a loud crash, the mirror shattered into pieces.
Long Yuyin felt so wronged she wanted to cry. For the first time in her entire life, she had been made to suffer such injustice.
After dressing, Long Yuyin walked outside. In the courtyard,
"Yin'er, what happened? I heard someone hit you? Who was it? I'll exterminate his entire clan!" Hu Yong saw the marks on Long Yuyin's face and erupted in rage.
Hearing Hu Yong's words, Long Yuyin froze for a moment. There was a time when such a statement would have sounded perfectly normal to her. If anyone dared hurt her, she would absolutely destroy that person's entire family. In the past, she had thought that sort of thing was perfectly reasonable.
But now, what echoed in her ears were Nie Li's words of contempt: resorting to killing and maiming on a whim, treating human lives like grass — a person like you is lucky to be merely called a venomous woman.
She suddenly felt a deep, profound disgust toward Hu Yong's words.