Chapter 28: Chapter 28

3 tiring hours later.

Theresa weakly opened the restroom's door and stepped out slowly. She rested her upper body on the wall and sighed.

"This should be the final one. Long Ren, when I recover, you'll be sorry." she muttered in a low voice.

No one was waiting for her like before. No one kept her company. She felt all alone in that restroom. Now she's finally out and able to breathe some fresh air. She slowly walked back to her room and sat on her soft, comfy bed. She touched her pillow and surveyed the room.

"I should rest for a little while," she thought before bringing herself to lie down.

However, no matter what, she couldn't fall asleep.

50 minutes later.

Theresa got down from the bed and went to the extreme of the room to get a stick. She had noticed it not too long ago and decided that she would hit Ren to death. She seemed to have had chicken blood infused into her legs as she ran towards the secluded room.

On reaching there, she found it closed but not locked. Theresa kicked open the door and stormed inside only to see Long Ren practicing some weird dance steps.

When Long Ren saw her, he stopped dancing and smoothened his rough clothes.

His hair seemed to be 3 inches longer than before and had a tint of green at the tip.

"Miss, how may I help you?" Ren asked in a formal tone, that evil smile still residing on his now redder lips.

"You. I want to kill you..." shouted Theresa though she did not move from her very spot.

"Wow! Another customer has come. Lan Ying, please hurry up and bring tea for the customer." Ren called out to no one in particular. Then he scratched his head.

"Oh, I forgot! I fired all my workers last night. But it doesn't matter. Let's make do with what I have currently." Ren said while bringing out a chair made from spikes.

It is clear that whoever sits on it, would not be able to sit nor walk for 7 to 8 days. This spike chair even has coals on the seat. Seeing this, Theresa's ears brought out smoke.

"Now that's right. You can come sit now miss." Ren offered, pointing to the evil-looking chair.

Theresa held the stick higher and rushed towards him, but 5 feet away from where Long Ren stood, she suddenly stopped and threw the stick down. She bent her upper body and put her right hand over her mouth, the other on her stomach.

Seeing this, Ren smiled and brought out a big wooden bucket from his storage ring. He brought it close to her and she immediately retched into the bucket. Ren simply whistled and placed the spikey chair into the storage ring.

What Theresa vomited was a black sticky liquid substance that had foul stench which spread to all corners of the room. Ren made the door to close and then said farewell to Theresa who was feeling dizzy while still retching before he disappeared leaving Theresa all alone.

6 minutes later.

Theresa opened the door of the secluded room and rushed out in a crazy and hasty manner. Her clothes and hair were disheveled.

"Where's the pool? I'm dying!" she screamed as she ran along the corridor also trying to gasp for breath.

Lu Wei and Ye Feng were still fast asleep in their rooms due to the spell cast on them by Ren and it was unknown, what time they'd wake up.

Theresa finally found her way into the pool room. This pool room had a very large pool of very cold water. It was able to relax someone's nerves and make him see life as wonderful.

This was the first time that Theresa had come to this pool room earnestly seeking for its help. When Long Ren had vanished from the secluded room earlier, Theresa stopped retching and her body temperature began to rise rapidly.

She also felt numb making her unable to move. When the numbness had subsided, Theresa had to rush out of the room in haste albeit in a crazy manner.

Now that she was in the cold pool room, Theresa wasted no time. She took off her black boots and her lace coat leaving only her black gown.

"Icy, here I come," thought Theresa as she plunged into the pool splashing water everywhere.

She resurfaced after a minute gasping for breath.

For a moment, she did feel the water's chilliness but then it didn't last long. She felt the cold vanish and her body temperature began to rise rapidly. It was even worse than the temperature she had back in the secluded room.

This made her think of a dream she had not too long ago.The same hot temperature was what she was currently feeling now and it was getting higher. Should she shout for help? Where the heck was Long Ren, the cause of all this?

She was woken from her thoughts when she felt the water become so hot. It did not take a minute for it to start boiling very hard. Theresa was scared that she tried shouting but to her dismay, she found that her voice was sealed.

"Damn Long Ren." she cursed in her heart.

She wanted to leave the pool as quickly as she could, however, she found that her body had become heavy. Yet, somehow, she wasn't sinking.

"What's going on?" she thought confused and scared.

To worsen things, fire appeared above the surface of the water. Only the spot where she was, had no fire. Seeing this, she was even more confused and scared. The only one who could help her was Long Ren.

Currently, her mouth cannot produce any understandable sounds so how will she... wait! According to the novels shew read, contracted master and pet are able to summon each other in danger.

It is possible since she's able to punish him on her first day here. That's right! It's possible to make him come here. But how? Just how would she summon him here?

While she was still thinking, a figure appeared inside the pool room holding a plate of strawberries and dressed in female clothing.

"Wow! She's created another legend. I fully accept you with a 'complete heart' now, mistress." the figure who is actually long Ren, thought, bowing his head slightly.

"Mistress, let's get started." he muttered silently as he walked closer to to the pool. He put down his plate of strawberries and took out a bottle from his storage ring.

Long Ren inspected the content after opening its lid and nodded with satisfaction.

"It's still in good shape." he commented before pouring its content which was a green, sticky substance into the pool water.

It did not take long for the fire atop the surface of the pool water to quench. Seeing this, Theresa was shocked and turned around to see a smiling Long Ren.

"Mistress, you never cease to amaze me. First, you opened 18 meridians and now you created another legend. You were born with supreme grade spiritual roots but now it has mutated and risen to the highest that even my ancestor couldn't achieve- The Phoenix Roots. Congratulations mistress." he praised as he bowed his head for a minute before returning to his former position.

He picked up the plate of strawberries and threw one into his mouth.

"These berries... I will never get tired of eating them. Too... delicious!" Long Ren thought.

Theresa, on the other hand, felt much relief when the water slowly went back to its normal state but it did not take long for her to flee from the pool due to its chilliness. Long Ren kicked her back into the water.

"Who said you could get out?" Ren asked.

"You..." Theresa pointed at him when she re-surfaced but couldn't find any more words to say.

"You prayed earnestly in your heart for me to come to save you but still, you have to listen to what I say since you were unable to summon me. I came on my own accord and had to waste such a precious liquid given to me by my ancestors on you." Ren complained while throwing some strawberries on her head.

Theresa was fuming but it was soon replaced by fear of the chilly water.

"Ren... let me come out." she half ordered, half begged.

"Why? You were able to put up with fiery water; why not deal with water? It's not like you're gonna die if you stay in there for... another 2-3 hours." Ren teased her.

Theresa did not like Ren's attitude but then, what can she do? She sighed and tried to calm down.

"So, what do you want from me?" she asked in a hoarse voice.

"Now you're talking!" he exclaimed.

Theresa shook her head in self-pity.

"I hope he doesn't ask for contract breaking again." she silently prayed.

"Mistress, we had had an agreement. Now that I'm the master, it's only right that I call you disciple." Ren stated.

"Yes, I agree" Theresa shouted, startling Ren for a second but then, he quickly recovered.

"So, my dear disciple, I want you to... go down and meditate for let's see how long " Ren took out a chair from his ring and sat. He put back some stray strands of hair that blocked his eyes back to their normal spot.

"You can go down now and it's an order," said Ren as he began munching on an apple he just picked out of his storage ring.

"Ok!" Theresa weakly agreed. She took a deep breath and plunged back into the water, sinking down.

A golden chain appeared around her waist tied to a very large rock which she was sure had never been in the pool. So that means the possibility of her going up to the surface is very low.

Damn, that evil Long Ren.

"Disciple, please sit like a buddha, hands on thighs." she heard Long Ren instruct her telepathically.

"Ok," she weakly replied back. She slowly sat on the freezing cold floor of the pool and crossed her legs. She then placed both hands on her laps.

"Close your eyes and free your thoughts." Ren ordered her again. Theresa did as was told, forgetting the fact that she was underwater.

"Hold your breath deeper and relax," she did as she was told and she managed to stay in that position for 5 minutes before opening her eyes.

The chain around her waist broke in two and fell off her waist. She immediately arose from the Buddha pose and swam towards the surface.

On surfacing, she saw Ren's right hand inside his trousers and caressing his genitals. Theresa felt disgusted but she couldn't say anything.

Ren opened his eyes and saw that Theresa had surfaced but he acted like he wasn't doing anything wrong instead he wanted to even bring out his genitals when Theresa turned away.

"Disciple, what's wrong? Why turn away? I'm a fox remember? What's so shameful about exposing my shaft?" Long Ren asked with a pout.

"Long Ren..." she was interrupted by Long Ren.

"Disciple, you seem forgetful so early. I am your master and so as my only disciple, you should call me master," said Ren.

"Long Ren, you want periods again?" she asked angrily.

"You can't do anything to hurt... ow!"

The plate of strawberries on the left armrest suddenly fell off.

"OW! OUCH! IT HURTS! IT HURTS A LOT!" Long Ren cried.

He took out his shaft in haste from his trousers only to see his shaft stained with blood that was coming out from its tip. He felt horror!

"What's going on?" Theresa turned back, confused at his shout.

Ren screamed and used his gown to cover his gem.

"Mistress, why did you turn back?" he asked. His face was flushed from anger, pain, and shame.

"What? It's not like you ordered me not to turn back. I turned away of my own accord and turned back of my own accord." said a smiling Theresa.

"Mistress... please... stop this...stop this... I... beg you," Ren was also holding himself from scratching his privates.

Gosh! How embarrassing. Theresa chuckled and got out of the pool. Even though she felt weak, seeing Long Ren cry like this, it was all worth it.

"Mistress... please..I-I'm ashamed to scratch," he begged with puppy eyes. A tear even slid down his right eye.

Theresa walked to him with a smile.

"Call me mistress again," she ordered.

"Mistress, mistress... please," the gown that he wore had even been stained with blood.

"Take this as a warning. I free you." she spoke with a small voice before sitting back on the cold floor since her legs were weak.

"Mistress, you'll officially start cultivating in the evening. Be prepared. Long Ren finally said before disappearing along with everything he brought to the pool room.

Theresa shook her head and lay on the cold floor.

That's right! She needs more tampering to be able to harden her heart or else she'll never be able to deal with Han Fei Fei's enemies.

While she was lost in thought, Lu Wei and Ye Feng who had just awoken and left their respective rooms entered the pool room worried for Theresa.

Seeing them, Theresa smiled closed her eyes and fainted.