Between lips and teeth, Derick was devouring the energy emanating from the Crimson Moon. And in the midst of this devouring, his blood-red eyes met Feixiao's.
The Crimson Moon that had just entered Feixiao's body reappeared, emerging from her chest, and a part of it entered Derick's own. Their bodies were already pressed extremely close, chest to chest. Now, with the appearance of the Crimson Moon, it was as if the two of them were connected.
The desire for slaughter and hunting carried within the Crimson Moon also slowly entered his body along with his devouring. Derick's fingernails grew slightly longer, digging into Feixiao's body, piercing her skin. His fingers moved, and the cheongsam she wore was also torn open, revealing the delicate but firm neck hidden beneath. Her back muscles, now exposed, were even more prominent.
The energy of the Crimson Moon continued to be absorbed by Derick, and while absorbing it, his consciousness also gradually entered Feixiao's mindscape.
In the space of consciousness, Feixiao was walking slowly.
And beside her, a host of virtual Borisin knelt on one knee, their eyes filled with fanatical worship as they faced her.
They seemed to be awaiting Feixiao to lead them to victory, to lead them in their cultivation throughout the sea of stars. And floating in the air behind her was an image identical to Feixiao herself.
This was the manifestation created by the will of the Crimson Moon. It might have contained some of Fenghuang's thoughts, but his will was long gone.
When Feixiao walked past the illusions of the Borisin, the will of the Crimson Moon spoke with satisfaction, "How does this feel? This blood of the hunt flows within your body. If you are not satisfied with this image of the Borisin, it can be changed to Foxians just the same."
"Foxians, or Borisin, the image doesn't matter. As long as you are willing, you will become the new sovereign. You will walk the path you desire, and decide your own destiny. Not like now, being constrained by the Xianzhou people, unable to do as you please even as a general, always being suspected by others."
Awakening a person's deepest desires was what the will of the Crimson Moon was best at. Especially since it could clearly sense the desires that existed in Feixiao's heart, the impulses that had been suppressed for so long, it believed it could make her transform from a general of the Xianzhou into the War-pride of the Borisin.
Feixiao looked past the will of the Moon, a smile appearing on her face.
"I will not only make the Borisin and Foxians submit to me, but those Xianzhou people and outworlders as well. I will make them all bow at my feet."
"That's more like it! Then come and accept me now!" The will of the Crimson Moon was very happy.
If Feixiao truly has such thoughts, then this operation will be far too smooth.
Just as the will was thinking this, it suddenly felt its body begin to shatter.
Wait, what is this situation?
It looked down and saw a fair-skinned arm passing through its torso. Of course, under normal circumstances, the body of the Crimson Moon's will had no such thing as a sense of pain. Even an attack like this wouldn't affect it; it would even look at the attacker with a mocking gaze.
But the person launching the attack now completely changed its mind.
After the arm passed through its body, the Crimson Moon clearly felt its very existence being absorbed by the other party.
This was not like the succession of the Borisin War-pride, where the new leader would tear open the chest of the previous one to take its Crimson Moon. Instead, it was being dismantled and reassembled within his body.
If this reassembly was done with its consciousness, that would be one thing. But crucially, the Crimson Moon could clearly feel that the other party was just taking its power, without any regard for its will.
The Crimson Moon felt its power disappearing at an alarming rate, and the things it could do were becoming much fewer.
It panicked, then looked at the "successfully seduced" Feixiao and shouted, "This is your territory! Quickly find a way to deal with him!"
After Derick entered this space of consciousness, he saw the will of the Crimson Moon that had taken on Feixiao's appearance. Seeing its situation, what was he waiting for? He found a way to get close to it and devour it.
Feixiao, seeing Derick's appearance from behind, knew his intentions and naturally had to cooperate well. So she pretended to agree with the Crimson Moon, and when Derick got behind it, she attacked directly.
The Crimson Moon had been careless. It thought that since this was Feixiao's consciousness, no one else could enter. In addition, this was Feixiao's consciousness, and she was always in control. With her cooperation, Derick naturally came up behind the Crimson Moon with ease. He reached out and effortlessly dealt with it.
Now, seeing the battlefield situation reversed, Feixiao no longer continued her act.
"Deal with him? Why should I deal with him? What I said just now was just a joke. You don't really think I'd have the kind of self-sabotaging idea of spending all my time thinking about how to lead a race to survive, do you? I was just creating an opportunity for my student to ambush you. Who knew you would fall for it so easily."
"Should I say you're straightforward? Or that the Borisin War-prides you fooled before were all idiots?" Feixiao shrugged nonchalantly.
"You, the Borisin battle slave who was tamed into a dog!" The will of the Crimson Moon cursed loudly at Feixiao.
But Feixiao just made a gesture of cleaning her ear, pretending not to hear.
Perhaps the Xianzhou Alliance has all sorts of problems, and those old-timers are indeed too much sometimes. But that doesn't stop me from liking my comrades who treat me as one of their own.
They turned me from a battle slave into a person, not so I could enslave others. On the contrary, they hoped I would turn more people who had been reduced to food and slaves back into people.
In the blink of an eye, half of the Crimson Moon's will had been devoured. Derick grabbed what was left and threw it to the side.
"How did you do that?" Although Feixiao had cooperated with Derick's attack, she didn't quite understand his ability to absorb the Crimson Moon.
"Teacher, I don't know either. Anyway, I can just absorb a part of it. As for the rest, I can't continue absorbing it," Derick said with a shrug.
His body was not yet strong enough to completely absorb the Crimson Moon. If he really ate it all, even if he didn't end up in Fenghuang's mental state, he would still become a battle maniac who thought about fighting all day.
"That's enough!" Feixiao looked at the remaining half of the Crimson Moon, her expression full of confidence.
She had originally been prepared to deal with the entire will of the Crimson Moon. Even then, she felt she had a high chance of winning. Now that only half of it was left, Feixiao was certain she could easily suppress it.
Feixiao walked towards the Crimson Moon, and as she walked, Derick was still joking with her.
"Teacher, you really looked like someone who had been bewitched by the Crimson Moon just now. Especially when you said you wanted the Borisin, Foxians, and Xianzhou people to all kneel and submit to you. It looked like you really had that idea. I was watching from behind and almost wanted to run away from you, Teacher."
Feixiao glared at Derick.
"Then why aren't you running now? I won't stop you. I don't need others to kneel to me, but you, kid, are my student. It's only natural for a student to kneel to their teacher."
Derick crossed his arms and said, "You didn't say I had to kneel when I became your student. It's too late to add that now."
"Hey, you little rascal," Feixiao retorted.
Then she looked down at the will of the Crimson Moon. At this moment, it was incredibly weak. With a slight exertion of force, Feixiao absorbed it, preventing it from ever appearing again to harm the Xianzhou Alliance.
And after devouring the Crimson Moon, she suddenly turned her head to look at Derick.
It was only at this moment that Feixiao understood why Derick had been grinning while she was absorbing the remaining will of the Crimson Moon. The desire for slaughter and plunder from the Crimson Moon still deeply affected her after she absorbed it.
She really wanted to stretch her body.
As it happens, Derick is probably feeling the same way.
"Come, my student Derick. Next, let your teacher properly teach you the techniques of hand-to-hand combat."
"Alright!" At this moment, Derick was also slightly affected by the Crimson Moon. He didn't even refuse Feixiao's request, swinging his fists as he met her.
Seeing Derick meet her attack, Feixiao didn't waste any words, raising her leg to attack.
As she met his attack with her leg, she also said with a laugh, "Don't worry, I'll control my strength. It won't be greater than yours."
Feixiao controlled her strength, but her combat skills and experiential judgment were far beyond what an ordinary person could compare to. Even someone like Derick, empowered by the authority of the Titan of Discord, with a clone that had devoured many combat skills, and who had been previously taught by Feixiao, was quickly put at a disadvantage.
But although he was at a disadvantage, he was not without the strength to fight back. In fact, as the battle progressed, Derick was also becoming more proficient in his combat techniques.
Feixiao's martial arts were unorthodox, all of them honed on the edge of life and death in actual combat. Therefore, her techniques could be said to be whatever she wanted, without any set routine. Derick was also, in his battle with her, further integrating the combat skills and abilities he possessed.
Especially the energy he had obtained from the Crimson Moon, which also needed to be mastered little by little.
At this time, Derick discovered a benefit of devouring a part of the Crimson Moon: the Abundance energy in his body now had a source and an explanation.
His fourth clone had previously devoured enough Abundance power in the Ambrosial Arbor but hadn't dared to use it for fear of arousing suspicion.
The Abundance energy on me all comes from the Crimson Moon.
If you have any doubts, go ask the Borisin for answers!
Derick thought to himself as he fought with Feixiao.
The desire for slaughter brought by the Crimson Moon would not stop, at least not until Derick had released it all. His attention also gradually focused on the battle, and his thinking slowly diminished.
When Derick regained consciousness, he found that he had already left Feixiao's mindscape and returned to the real world of the Shackling Prison.
He was still fighting Feixiao.
Feixiao had him pinned down, her fist raised, about to strike his abdomen.
But she suddenly stopped.
Derick looked at Feixiao and found that her cheongsam had also been severely damaged in the battle, almost hanging on her body in tatters. Her originally healthy skin tone was flushed with an excited crimson.
With her breathing, the fragments of her cheongsam trembled violently.
Her lips were curved upwards, revealing a battle-ecstatic expression.
Her firm thighs had Derick's waist tightly locked. Although the skin of her thighs was smooth, the muscles were very prominent, and the force was so great that Derick couldn't move at all.
And between the two of them, lay the Crimson Moon.
As Derick stared at it, the Crimson Moon began to split into two parts. However, it wasn't split in half down the middle, but into a shell and a smaller core.
The core went towards Feixiao's body, while the remaining shell went towards Derick's.
Both were parts of the Crimson Moon, with no difference. If there was one difference, it was that Derick's Crimson Moon shell looked more ordinary, making people feel as if the entire thing was on him.
The complete fusion of the Crimson Moon made Derick's recently calmed battle desire rise again. At the same time, what Derick felt rising was also something else.
It was the same for Feixiao.
At this moment, she erupted with even greater strength, pinning Derick down firmly.
She changed her hands into claws and began to attack.
"Hey, hey, hey, Teacher, stop tearing, stop tearing my clothes…"
Derick's body wasn't harmed in the slightest, but his poor clothes suffered tons of damage.
Derick had previously thought that if the world of Star Rail ever had a crossover with the Fate series, his teacher Feixiao might be a Berserker. But looking at her now, perhaps the Rider class also suited her well.
Two Xianzhou hours! Even riding a smooth saddle would make you sore, let alone when the teacher is…
Feixiao lay contentedly beside him, resting. And on her trench coat, which had been torn open by Derick at the beginning and later used as a bedsheet, there were dark red bloodstains different from the other blood around.
Derick tilted his head to look at Feixiao, who was lying on her side with her eyes closed, resting. The perfect curves brought about by years of combat and fitness were even more alluring as she lay there.
One of her feet was even resting on Derick's abdomen. Feixiao's feet were long and well-proportioned, her skin smooth and delicate. The skin on the soles of her feet was soft and elastic, exuding a style completely different from Castorice's girlish feet.
Did I just… overcome my teacher?
Derick thought to himself.
But immediately after, he realized something was wrong.
The influence of the Crimson Moon should have been very small by the end. Even he wouldn't be affected. Then what about Teacher Feixiao, who was stronger than him? Would she be affected?
And thinking back to Feixiao's purposeful attacks just now…
So it wasn't a disciple overcoming the master, but the master overcoming the disciple!
Derick thought to himself.
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