Chapter 32 Chapter 32 Legal Domain.
The heavy feeling of oppression had dissipated, and Su Cheng only felt that his body was much lighter.
However, I'm afraid there's no way to escape now.
She looked at the street at the end of the long alley and the figures coming and going in the distance.
"I don't believe you're talking about a one-on-one match. After all, you were just sneaking up on me. If this was some kind of competition... you should have told me clearly in advance."
Su Cheng said unhappily, "This one—"
The white-haired man wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
On the right side of his face, tiny golden rays of light flowed faintly in the blood vessels beneath the pale skin.
Gilded lines meander horizontally along the cheekbones to the temples, like golden vines entwining white marble, followed by a bloody red halo spreading at the corners of the eyes.
Slender golden lines flow down the cheeks, forming a complete pattern of a goblet, with a bunch of plump grapes hanging diagonally from the rim of the goblet.
The interweaving of brilliant gold and purple-red sets off the pair of enchanting green eyes. The porcelain-white skin seems to be rippling with nectar, making it look even more eerie and terrifying.
Su Cheng: "...My Lord, the one favored by the gods."
Grass!
It really is this guy!
The highest person in charge of the Inquisition, the Grand Inquisitor of the Holy See, is also a person favored by God, so he also has an emblem on his body.
It's ironic.
This guy is a sadist who enjoys pain - whether it is inflicting or receiving it, but he happened to be favored by the God of Joy.
That is a lesser god who follows the god of love.
According to the records in the book, under the command of that ancient god, the God of Joy is the most ardent echo and the most gentle edge.
It is said that stars sparkle in his eyes, and anyone who looks directly at him will be immersed in endless ecstasy. Moonlight lingers in his hair, and anyone who gazes at him will be trapped in a dreamlike state.
The wine cup is one of His symbols.
"You must be very sorry, sir."
The white-haired man casually lifted the hair beside his ear, and the blood on his fingertips smeared on the ear bone diamond.
Those diamond-shaped gems with a faint green glow looked even more enchanting after being stained with red.
"You should have mentioned some more severe punishment," he said, raising his lips. "Like, shattering my soul or something like that. Maybe that would be helpful."
"Really?" Su Cheng sneered. "Then you probably won't agree, right? Since you already know who I am, the reason you're willing to do it is because you think you can't die, right? Wait, maybe you're just a born bitch, and you just want to enjoy yourself."
"Hmm?" He raised an eyebrow. "So you did this on purpose... you wanted me to enjoy it?"
Su Cheng couldn't help but reveal a look of disgust. "I just wanted you to swallow the needle because you lied, and I didn't know that you wouldn't die."
"You really don't know?"
The white-haired man stared at her, his green eyes once again revealing a cold and bloodthirsty aura.
There was a hint of laughter in his tone, but his eyes were filled with coldness. "Why do I feel like you know it very well, or maybe your accomplices have told you—"
Su Cheng: “?”
A few seconds later, she realized that the accomplices the other party was referring to were not the three mercenaries in the tavern.
But it was a certain Archbishop.
"...I have no idea what you're talking about," Su Cheng said with amusement, "I recognize that pattern, so I know you're a favored follower of the God of Joy, that's all."
"Oh?" He didn't seem to believe it. "You know him? As far as I know, before you broke off your engagement, your environment wasn't enough to allow you to have any relevant knowledge—"
Su Cheng shrugged. "His Excellency the Archbishop generously gave me a few collections of stories about those favored by God. Although they didn't directly mention the favored ones of the God of Joy, they did mention this."
"Okay," the white-haired man stared at her for a few seconds, "then let me introduce myself. I am the Chief Director of the Divine Inquisition—"
He still had that half-smile on his face, and when she tried to retreat, he suddenly moved closer and put his hand on her shoulder.
"I trust you know what this means?"
"Well," Su Cheng looked at the bloodstains on his clothes, "Okay, Your Excellency the Grand Inquisitor, good day, nice to meet you. Wait, actually, I'm not very happy."
The man stared down at her, his cold breath brushing her hair. "If you and White weren't in cahoots, you'd be even more surprised right now, right?"
Su Cheng knew very well that his acting skills could not fool him, so he didn't even try to pretend.
She shook her head. "Yesterday when we were having dinner outside, he felt you coming. After all, you made those two earthquake-like noises."
This is also true, just in a slightly reversed order.
"So I know you're in this city, or at least you were here last night..."
Su Cheng paused.
"I need to remind you," she said in a deep voice, "The items I presented were handed over to His Highness Cecia by His Holiness the Pope. His Highness has already made a decision. If you want to use this as an excuse to fabricate charges against me and start trouble on your own, you are violating the canons of the Holy See—"
Qin Jing was slightly stunned. "What object?"
"Huh? You don't know?" Su Cheng deliberately showed a look of surprise, "Since you don't know, then I can't tell you. After all, His Highness the God of Purity has already-"
The white-haired man looked at her thoughtfully, "Why do you think I came to you?"
"That's the thing, the thing given to the God of Purity," Su Cheng said blankly, "It's a heresy. I admit that it's because I discovered it is-"
Qin Jing covered her mouth with his hand.
His fingers were extremely cold, with blood still lingering between them, and a faint fishy smell immediately filled the air.
"You don't understand the significance of my position, sir. I can interrogate anyone I suspect unconditionally. This law is engraved in the Holy Scriptures!"
The man's knee dug into her legs, the cool leather rubbing against her inner thigh. "By the way, your heartbeat is really fast—"
Su Cheng: “…”
This guy is proficient in sacred arts and has a high warrior rank. In this situation, resistance is meaningless and will only make him happier.
So she was too lazy to move.
Su Cheng: "If I'm completely calm right now, then there's a problem, right? Even an innocent person who encounters someone looking for trouble and throwing mud at them might get so angry that their heartbeat speeds up."
Qin Jing suddenly grabbed her hand, rubbed her soft palm with his thumb, and looked at the faint Libra pattern on it.
"Blessed ones of the God of Contract," he sneered, "I know who you are. Like your master, you have no honor in your hearts. You will do anything to achieve your goal. You will abandon everything, sell everything, and trade anything for profit."
Su Cheng frowned, "Are you serious? His Highness Klaus is an ally of His Majesty the God of Light. If you want to question it——"
"I'm talking about you," he interrupted her, "and I'm not here to criticize you. I just want to know whether you, White, and Ling Yang had any kind of cooperation in the Succubus King's escape from prison—"
Su Cheng: “……?”
Succubus King?
He can't be serious, right?
How come that guy last time was the Succubus King?
High-level demons are extremely powerful, and legend has it that demon kings are even more powerful, even rivaling lesser gods.
If he really had that kind of strength, he wouldn't be suppressed by the Holy See's Light-Forged Seal, or even fall to the point where he had to please her.
Su Cheng recalled the whole process. "...First, I only met the archbishop here a few days ago. Secondly, before the fugitive ran into my yard, I had never seen, knew, or contacted the fugitive or any of the relevant personnel in any way. I never thought that a demon would appear in my room, and that was not the transit point I prepared for him in advance. I can swear that if there is any falsehood in this statement, His Majesty the God of Qi will take my soul directly."
Qin Jing narrowed his eyes and looked at her.
Su Cheng was not lying at all, so he looked at him without avoiding.
——The part about the devil was also true. She thought that without the bracelet, the devil would not come.
I didn't expect that the residual breath could still attract that thing.
About ten seconds passed.
"Look," Su Cheng's right hand moved, "every letter is real, otherwise I would be dead."
Qin Jing lowered his eyes to look at the flashing scales on the girl's right hand. "You are definitely not lying, but I know you are good at playing with words. What you say is often only part of the truth. More important information is buried under those seemingly flawless appearances—"
"What?" Su Cheng rolled his eyes. "Oh my god, you're a fucking psycho! You don't know anything at all. Stop being so self-righteous! Go back and ask your Pope for instructions first!"
Having said that—
She knew that this person would not do that because of his special position, he often did not need to accept orders to do things.
This guy is just as annoying as in the original book!
Lin Yun is also his father's idiot, he can still be in heat for such a person!
...Although maybe it's just about looks, or maybe he was just enjoying being tortured.
“Hahahahahahahaha——”
Qin Jing didn't know what was wrong with him. Seeing this, he smiled happily again and suddenly moved closer to her.
This guy looks thin, but he is very tall, muscular, and has a heavy and strong body.
Su Cheng felt like he was about to be crushed into a pancake.
She even had difficulty breathing. The other person's blood stained her clothes, sticky and cold, with a fishy smell of rust.
His lips slowly moved to the side of her neck, his canine teeth gently scraping across the throbbing blood vessels, "Then let's see..."
The Grand Inquisitor grasped her chin and lowered his head to meet her eyes.
The world twisted in an instant.
After a period of dizziness, Su Cheng fell into an illusion.
The blood-red sky seemed to be torn apart by invisible hands, and the red clouds rolled into a whirlpool, like a surging sea of blood, with cliffs constantly collapsing below.
At the end of the high cliff, she was tied to a snow-white cross, with blood-red thorns wrapped around her wrists and ankles.
The sharp thorns rubbed against the flesh, scraping out fine beads of blood, which made the vine even more red.
All around were floating fragments of memories, upside-down temples and palaces, burning contract papers, and some flickering familiar figures.
——They are all her friends or acquaintances in this world.
Su Cheng: “…”
She guessed that she might enjoy the same treatment as Lin Yun, but she didn't expect it to come so soon.
But the opponent used a big move right away, obviously because he was concerned about her identity as a person favored by God. After all, when Lin Yun met "her", it was much later than now.
In terms of the timeline, it should be a few years later, right?
At that time, Lin Yun's rank was higher than hers now, and her combat power was stronger, but even so, she was crushed.
Then came a series of rather heavy-mouthed plot twists.
Su Cheng didn't like this type of story very much, so he skipped many chapters. Now he couldn't help but regret it.
but--
She did see some important information.
"...Sir, how do you feel?"
The figure of a white-haired man emerged from the void.
He walked over the debris with leisurely steps, playing with the scarlet whip covered with sharp thorns in his palm.
The whip was wrapped in golden and blue runes, which kept flashing and flickering, illuminating the densely packed hideous spikes.
Su Cheng: "...What? This is all fake."
Qin Jing glanced at her and said, "Indeed, but until the end, it will be as real to you."
He caressed the girl's jaw with the whip tip. "You can try to hypnotize yourself by saying 'this is fake' and see if it works."
The white-haired man took a few steps back, opened his arms in the air, and a look of crazy excitement appeared on his face.
Behind him was a blood-red sky, with clouds rolling and condensing into twisted smiling faces, and then disintegrating into screaming ghosts.
The mountains in the distance are collapsing, and huge rocks are rolling down from the ridges, but at the moment of falling, they turn into countless colorful butterflies, turning into a dynamic colorful curtain.
The cliff cracked into countless interlaced fissures, and boiling champagne gushed out of the cracks. The sound of the bubbles bursting was like the laughter of thousands of people.
The air was filled with a sweet fragrance, like a mixture of ripe fruits and rotten roses, which made people both intoxicated and suffocated.
"This is my domain, 'The Royal Power of Bliss.'"
He tilted his head, his emerald eyes filled with intoxication, "This is also the power bestowed by the Lord of the Feast—"
The silhouette of a castle appeared on the top of the mountain, and the tower collapsed, and the fragments turned into floating cards in mid-air, and the red hearts and spades spun and fell into nothingness.
A huge clock emerged from the clouds, its hands spinning wildly, and then stopped at the "Joy" scale.
The whole world seemed to be celebrating a doomsday feast that no one knew about.
Su Cheng looked at him silently.
The so-called domain of law is the realm of laws, which operates according to certain laws.
However, in most cases, those who are drawn into the legal domain do not know what the law is.
Because the laws of each jurisdiction are different.
There are two types of law domains: one is the material law domain, and the other is the spiritual law domain. The former can affect the physical body in the real world, while the latter is aimed at the soul.
It seems that the former is more useful, but in this world, there are many powers that can revive people and reconstruct their bodies in minutes.
Some enemies can only be dealt with using the latter.
But anyway——
There are very few people favored by God, and even fewer who can use the Dharma domain.
This also requires some hard power, for example, the strength of mental strength must reach a certain standard, otherwise it will not last for more than a few seconds after being activated, and the soul will burn out first.
"Ha, it seems you know what this is. That makes it even more interesting."
The smile on the white-haired man's face grew wider, and his breathing became rapid.
He raised his hand as if to whip her.
Su Cheng: “…”
Judging from the various plots in the book——
Fierce insults and struggles will make the other party more excited, and showing the pride of refusing to yield even in death will make the other party want to crush you, but crying and begging for mercy will also make the other party more excited.
In short, these manifestations only intensified his happiness.
Su Cheng blinked, revealing a look of nervousness, fear and anticipation at the right time.
Qin Jing paused.
He stared into her eyes, as if he was a little surprised, trying to find some problems.
However, those clear amber eyes seemed to be filled with fear, but they were also clearly burning with excitement, as if they were eager for his actions.
Qin Jing: “…………”
When she found that he didn't move, she looked a little relieved, but also a little anxious and lost.
The action of whipping the whip completely stopped at this moment.
Su Cheng curled up the corners of his mouth.
She took in the other person's expression.
That moment of confusion, astonishment, disbelief, and a certain feeling of worry.
“Hahahahahahahaha——”
Su Cheng laughed happily, "Look at what you look like now, Your Excellency the Grand Inquisitor!"
The blood-red thorns wrapped around her limbs began to soften, and cracks appeared as her body trembled.
"You should have investigated me, sir. I've been bullied since I was a child. I've been humiliated, beaten, and scolded countless times. I don't know when it started—"
The rules of each domain are different, and the unlucky people who are dragged into it by their owners usually don’t know what the rules are.
However, there must be a prompt in each domain to inform everyone in the domain of the content of the rules of this world.
——This kind of hint may be very obscure and vague, and most people may not be able to guess the truth after reading it.
For example, the "joy" scale on the clock just now.
That's the law of the land.
All matter, energy and even the flow of time within the domain will respond first to the will of the "happier side".
This is happiness in the broad sense, within the power of the God of Joy.
Whether it is a simple emotional change or a deep sense of pleasure, satisfaction, or self-identity, it is included.
Simply put, within this spiritual realm, whoever is happier will have greater power.
so--
As soon as she showed signs of wanting pain and looking forward to being whipped, Qin Jing hesitated.
Originally, he could get pleasure from sadism, but this pleasure could only be sublimated through the other person's reactions of pain, despair, anger, etc.
However, if the other person also enjoys pain, his happiness will be greatly reduced.
Even if her enjoyment level were higher, the control of this domain would change hands.
So he hesitated.
The sounds of vines cracking exploded one after another.
Su Cheng pulled his arms hard, and his arms were freed from the restraints, and the thorn fragments fell like ashes.
As the pleasure in her heart continued to surge, she could feel her strength growing stronger.
——She didn't really want pain.
And happiness cannot be faked, and faked happiness will not be effective in this realm of law.
but.
Happiness can be deliberately manipulated and amplified.
She once met an annoying person at a party. Because she didn't want to pay attention to that person, she deliberately told jokes to her friends and laughed very loudly together, creating an atmosphere that was difficult for outsiders to intrude.
The friend did tell her a story that tickled her funny bone.
But it wasn't enough to make her laugh for a full minute, until her stomach hurt.
Only after deliberately calling on imagination, recreating the scene in the mind, and turning the fragmented joy into an immersive experience——
That brief flicker turned into a continuous resonance, achieving a certain strengthening effect.
She was certain then that humans prolong pleasurable experiences by actively ruminating on them, even if it was just a brain activity.
And at this moment——
The look on the face of His Excellency the Grand Inquisitor was the scene that truly entertained her.
He is the most powerful person in the Holy See, with a high status and unlimited power. Many nobles hope to get close to him.
And if she were in the real world outside, with the fighting power to sweep away thousands of troops, it would be easy to deal with ten thousand of her.
But because they were afraid of the main god behind her, they had to drag her into the battle in the legal domain.
In the end, she really fooled me.
This gap is so exciting.
The stronger the opponent is, the happier Su Cheng will be, and he will try his best to amplify this emotion.
And most importantly—
Qin Jing didn't dare to hit her for a while.
“…Why didn’t you hit me?”
The thorny vines that bound his legs broke into pieces.
Su Cheng left the cross.
The girl was in tattered clothes, with messy hair, sweat all over her head, and her face flushed with excitement.
She raised her hand and tugged at the torn collar, revealing her smooth neck and chest, looking as if she was still expecting something.
Qin Jing couldn't help but take a step back.
His actions only intensified her happiness.
The moment she moved forward, he instinctively swung his whip, as if trying to stop her from coming.
Su Cheng raised her hand and grabbed the whip, pulling it hard. The white-haired man staggered and was pulled over by her.
alright.
Now she was no longer afraid of him beating her.
Su Cheng touched the whip and thought.
"Ha," Qin Jing chuckled softly, as if willing to admit defeat, and said, "I really didn't expect that you are also this kind of person——"
Su Cheng looked at him with a smile, "Also? You mean you too, right?"
Qin Jing: “…”
He was even trying to provoke her into slapping himself.
Su Cheng threw the whip away and said, "Boring."
This can't be fought.
This guy likes the pain to be two-way, and he gets excited both when hitting and when being hit.
But she couldn't get pleasure from the whipping. Even if she forced herself to get some, it would definitely not be as much as his.
Once he's beaten, things get messy again.
Su Cheng raised his hand and pointed downwards.
The white-haired man lowered his knees and knelt on the ground.
He wasn't in pain.
It's just that I'm under some invisible pressure.
"You—"
Qin Jing stared at her straight, his venomous green eyes filled with strong malice and anger.
She reached out her hand, grasped his chin, and interrupted him.
"I've been humiliated since I was a child, so there's no point in calling me names."
Su Cheng decided to do something to make himself happier.
She looked at the beautiful face, then bent down and kissed it.
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