Chapter 186 : I Am the Female Master of This House
Chapter 186: I Am the Female Master of This House
At this moment, Long Tao had probably just woken up, his mind still muddled and foggy. When he heard his wife’s voice outside the door, he got up and moved to open it.
Just as he reached out and was about to open the door, a strange tremor suddenly swept through his body.
Immediately afterward, a sealed memory surfaced in his mind without any warning…
“Young Master! You must come back and marry me in the future!”
“Alright, alright. When this young master reaches Foundation Establishment, I’ll come back and marry Xiao Ying.”
These two lines of dialogue were like a bucket of cold water poured over his head, instantly clearing part of his mind.
What the hell! The one most likely to marry him, Xiao Ying, had already been taken away by True Person Zhiying as a personally transmitted disciple. Where the hell did he get a wife from?
He quickly withdrew the hand that had been about to open the door. Using the moonlight streaming in through the window, he glanced around the room.
Bright red silk decorations filled the room, and on the bed, True Person Mingzhu was still sleeping peacefully. Only after seeing all this did he finally come fully awake, cold sweat instantly seeping down his back.
Right. He and True Person Mingzhu were trapped in this strange village together. How had he forgotten there was another person in the room earlier? And who exactly was the one outside the door…?
The sky had grown even darker, yet the person outside had not left. She continued knocking on the door while speaking softly.
“Husband? Why haven’t you opened the door yet? My feet are already getting a little sore.”
The voice was far too beautiful and gentle. Just hearing it made one involuntarily imagine a gentle, virtuous, and beautiful wife in their mind.
Even though he had already woken up, Long Tao still felt his heartbeat accelerate.
“Husband…” The voice outside suddenly carried a hint of grievance. “Inside your room… there couldn’t possibly be someone else, could there?”
Long Tao glanced back at True Person Mingzhu, who still had not awakened, and beads of sweat formed at his temples.
Whether it was from fear, or because the question truly made him feel somewhat guilty, he could not tell.
“Husband, how much longer are you going to make me wait?”
The woman’s tone outside remained gentle as water, showing no trace of impatience or dissatisfaction despite Long Tao refusing to open the door.
“Since it’s your own home,” Long Tao tested cautiously, “you could just push the door open and come in.”
“Husband must be joking.” The voice carried a hint of coquettish complaint. “You are this humble wife’s husband. If you don’t open the door, how would this humble wife dare to enter on her own? That would violate a woman’s virtue.”
Long Tao was momentarily speechless upon hearing this. Since when was there a place where a woman’s virtue meant that if the husband didn’t open the door, the wife couldn’t even enter her own house?
“Husband…” The voice outside suddenly sounded playful. “Are you trying to play some new trick again? But it’s so dark outside. This humble wife is scared… open the door first. We can play once I come inside.”
At that instant, a powerful impulse suddenly surged from the bottom of Long Tao’s heart, urging him to immediately open the door. His hand even lifted unconsciously. But he abruptly snapped to his senses, quickly stepping back half a step while immediately thinking of a term—Spirit Speech!
According to records in the sect’s ancient texts, and what the elders had mentioned during grand lectures… he knew that even at low levels, this kind of supernatural ability possessed powerful bewitching force. With mere words, it could shake people’s hearts. High-level cultivators could even achieve the state where words become law.
He had originally planned to continue circling around with the “woman” outside, attempting to gather information. But now he realized this was absolutely not an existence he could handle in his current state.
Long Tao hurriedly turned around and gently shook True Person Mingzhu on the bed.
Strangely enough, this Golden Core senior who had cultivated for several hundred years—though she had now become a mortal—should not have been this dull-witted.
They had already been conversing with the woman outside for quite some time, yet she had remained asleep the entire time.
“Long Tao? What is it?” True Person Mingzhu asked sleepily.
Long Tao did not answer. He merely pointed toward the door.
Just as she still looked confused, the female voice outside rang out again.
“Husband! This humble wife… this humble wife seems to hear another woman’s voice! You—you really couldn’t endure loneliness after all?”
These words instantly woke True Person Mingzhu completely. She suddenly sat up, glanced at the heavy darkness outside the window, and her expression grew increasingly solemn.
“Who are you?” she asked tentatively toward the door.
“This humble wife is the female master of this house.” The voice outside suddenly turned cold. “And who are you, to share a room with my husband?”
“Yes, who am I? Why don’t you guess?” True Person Mingzhu replied calmly.
“This younger sister,” the voice outside suddenly softened, “I do not know why you are trying to seduce my husband, but he was only momentarily confused. Would you please open the door first? Let us talk inside. This humble wife truly cannot leave my husband. As long as you are willing to open the door, even if you become a concubine and are formally welcomed through the front gate, that would not be impossible.”
Long Tao and Mingzhu looked at each other, their expressions strange. Regardless of what the thing outside actually was, it certainly seemed to know quite a lot.
However, Mingzhu seemed to have sensed something as well and no longer intended to continue entangling with the other party. With a serious tone, she said,
“I do not know why you insist on entering this house. But I am his wife—uh— the female master of this house. My name is Yi Suyue. Who exactly are you?”
The moment the name “Yi Suyue” left her mouth, the voice outside abruptly stopped.
The gentle murmurs that had lingered in their ears moments ago vanished instantly, as if cut off by a blade.
The night returned to silence, leaving only the two people inside the room wearing expressions of lingering fear.
……
After a short while, once they had regained their composure, the two of them sat on the edge of the bed.
Long Tao roughly recounted everything that had happened after Mingzhu fell asleep… except for the part where he secretly contacted Saintess Yaxi.
However, because there had been a period where even he himself had felt hazy and confused, the account he gave was not very detailed.
“That’s strange. Normally, even if I had become a mortal, I shouldn’t have slept so deeply in this kind of environment. Something must have been influencing me.”
True Person Mingzhu immediately began analyzing the problem from her own side.
“True Person, I suspect that the woman outside just now might have been using Spirit Speech. I… I felt like I was about to listen to her.”
“Your suspicion is correct. She was indeed using Spirit Speech. My Divine Soul already sensed it. But as long as the Divine Soul is strong enough, it won’t be affected too much.”
As she said this, Mingzhu looked Long Tao up and down with great interest. She seemed curious how he had managed to resist part of the influence of the Spirit Speech.
But soon she showed a look of realization, guessing that it was probably the effect of the strengthened Divine Soul that the itinerant merchant senior at the Deification Stage had previously given him.
She could not help sighing inwardly—this little fellow might have average talent, but his luck truly fluctuated between good and bad.
“Sigh… now I understand why Du Yiluo said during the day that it’s best to block the door with heavy objects at night. If someone were influenced by Spirit Speech… they would definitely fall for it. My Divine Soul is stronger than ordinary disciples, and even I nearly opened the door.”
At this moment, Long Tao genuinely felt grateful to Du Yiluo.
Although he himself had still been careless, it was now clear that the information she had given was truly life-saving.
“Indeed. We were still too careless. I suspect… when you went outside to sit and enjoy the wind this afternoon, you might have already been influenced. And the Nameplate at the door being mysteriously flipped over is also too suspicious.”
Long Tao recalled the details from that time as well. After thinking for a moment, he said,
“To be honest, when I was sitting outside in the afternoon, at some point I even forgot about you, True Person. When I flipped the Nameplate, I only noticed my own name. After entering, I also forgot that someone was lying on the bed.”
“It seems to be gradual hypnosis carried out in secret. There are indeed strange entities here. But from the fact that they still needed to go through such trouble, they most likely cannot directly harm us and must also obey the rules of this village.”
Mingzhu rested her chin on one hand, her expression returning to its usual cold calm, while Long Tao continued asking,
“Then about the Nameplate at the door—could it have been deliberately flipped by the villagers inside the house?”
This question made Mingzhu fall into thought for a moment. Afterward, she frowned and said,
“If that’s the case, it would actually be better. They would simply be a group of strange existences that we must be more cautious about. What I fear is… that it was done by someone from outside. That would be troublesome.”
Long Tao nodded as well. That possibility indeed could not be ruled out. After all, the people here had only just met them. Who knew who they were actually helping? There might even be the kind of pure villains who were naturally hostile to humanity.
“Speaking of which, if the Nameplate is flipped over, what would happen if someone directly pushed the door open?”
“I don’t know. But… it definitely wouldn’t be anything good. In a place like this, it’s best not to be too curious.”