Chapter 650: Chapter 650: Formation Trap

The strange smoke continued to thicken, curling through the sealed room and slowly carrying a faint sweetness beneath the residual tang of spiritual energy.

At first, neither of them paid it much attention.

The formation was still discharging residual beams, and Li Feng’s body remained the only shield between Meng Wan and the last of the hidden blades.

Yet the longer the mist lingered, the more its presence began to press against their senses.

Li Feng was the first to notice the pleasant smell and frown.

With his experience as a master alchemist, he recognized it instantly.

’Aphrodisiac...?’

He felt it first as a slow heat blooming low in his abdomen, then spreading outward in steady waves that made even the shallow cuts across his chest and shoulders throb with a sharper awareness.

His breathing deepened.

The Starfield still held against the last traces of spiritual energy, but it could do nothing about the vapor already coating his lungs and skin.

With that, Li Feng realized another weakness of his Starfield.

’It could block spiritual energy and attacks formed from it, but it could not stop everything that entered his body through ordinary means... like poison, smoke, and medicine.’

Anything that did not rely on spiritual energy could bypass its defenses.

And with that, Li Feng suddenly understood that whoever had prepared this formation was truly vicious.

An ordinary aphrodisiac would never have such a strong effect on a cultivator of his level.

This one was clearly different.

His eyes narrowed slightly as he glanced toward Meng Wan.

It seemed this formation had not really been designed to target him... it was for her.

Li Feng’s expression gradually grew serious as he realized there must be a traitor within the Meng Family.

If the formation had been made specifically for Meng Wan, then that traitor had known she would eventually come here.

They had not simply prepared a killing formation... They had prepared something meant to deal with her.

Li Feng carefully examined the smoke around them.

As a master alchemist, he could roughly judge the potency of the mixture even without knowing its exact ingredients.

This aphrodisiac was far stronger than anything that should normally be used on a cultivator.

The more he thought about it, the more certain he became.

This was probably a backup plan.

The traitor had likely anticipated that Meng Wan might survive the killing formation.

As the Matriarch of the Meng Family, she would naturally possess life-saving treasures or techniques.

In case the killing formation failed to kill her, the person behind this had prepared another method... the aphrodisiac.

It would not kill Meng Wan immediately.

That was probably the point.

Its effects would grow stronger with time, slowly driving her physical desires beyond what she could endure.

For a cultivator, especially one without enough cultivation to resist a drug this potent, losing control of one’s own body could be far more terrifying than a simple injury.

Too much desire could eventually become unbearable.

If she could not find a way to suppress the effects, she might even begin wishing for death just to escape the torment.

Whoever had planned this had clearly thought of everything.

The killing formation was the first layer.

The aphrodisiac was the second.

And if Meng Wan really was the target, then the person behind this had never intended to give her a chance to escape.

The room had already been completely sealed.

By the time anyone managed to discover what had happened and break through the formation, it might already be too late... and what they would find inside will be...

Li Feng’s expression grew colder at the thought.

He suddenly understood what the person behind this had truly intended.

They did not simply want Meng Wan dead.

They wanted her to die in the most humiliating way possible.

His eyes narrowed.

’It seemed that person truly hated Meng Wan.’

At that conclusion, his killing intent slowly began to rise.

After all, Li Feng had already decided that Meng Wan was his.

She was the Peach Blossom Heaven had guided him to find, almost like a gift personally delivered by the heavens themselves.

Anyone who dared to harm her was naturally his enemy.

"Hmph."

Just then, Li Feng felt Meng Wan tremble slightly in his arms.

Her fingers tightened in his robes, and a low, involuntary sound escaped her lips.

"Righteous Sword... I feel so hot..." Meng Wan’s voice was thicker now, almost breathless.

She lifted her head, eyes hazy and glow with need. "I-I can’t... think clearly..."

Her hands slid higher.

One of them slipped beneath the torn edge of his robe and rested against the bare skin of his muscular chest.

The moment her fingers touched him, a soft gasp left her.

The heat of his body seemed to sink straight into her palm, and her thighs pressed together in a futile attempt to ease the growing wetness between them.

Li Feng’s arm tightened around her soft waist.

He could smell the change in her scent... the natural fragrance of her skin now mixed with the unmistakable musk of arousal.

The aphrodisiac was working faster on her than on him.

Before he could say anything, Meng Wan suddenly stiffened.

A sharp, burning wave surged through her body without warning, far stronger than the heat she had felt before.

It felt as though fire had been poured directly into her blood, racing from her lower abdomen through her chest and all the way to her fingertips.

Her skin flushed deep red, and beads of sweat quickly formed along her neck and the upper curve of her large chest.

"Ah—!"

A pained cry escaped her throat.

She instinctively curled tighter against Li Feng, pressing her forehead firmly against his shoulder as her entire body trembled.

The sensation that had been building within her moments earlier had twisted into something much closer to torment.

Every nerve felt painfully sensitive, and even the slightest movement of fabric against her skin became almost unbearable.

"It burns..." she gasped, her voice breaking. "My body... it’s burning up... Righteous Sword... it hurts..."

Her fingers tightened against his chest, nails lightly scraping across his hard muscles as another wave of scorching heat rolled through her.

Tears gathered at the corners of her eyes from the sheer intensity.

The aphrodisiac was no longer simply stirring desire.

It was forcing her body into overdrive, turning that desire into a painful, consuming heat that seemed to demand relief.

Meng Wan lifted her head with visible effort.

Her eyes had taken on a faint pink glow, the color slowly swirling through her irises like diluted spiritual light under the influence of the drug.

The haze clouding her mind made her gaze unfocused, yet she still managed to look directly at him.

"Help me..." she pleaded, her voice trembling and thick with desperation.

"P-Please... Righteous Sword... I can’t bear it anymore. It hurts too much... Please, help me..."

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