Chapter 114: Swan Waltz

Lin Qiu instinctively straightened his back and lifted his head slightly, adopting a proud and haughty expression.

“That one…”

Seeing Lin Qiu like this, Xu Bing’s fear instantly vanished.

No matter how mysterious he was, after all, he had signed a contract with Xu Bing. No matter how powerful he became, if she chose to end her life at any moment, he would be forced to kneel!

With this thought, Xu Bing shot him a glare, snorted coldly, and didn’t bother to respond to Lin Qiu.

Bai Jingjing stared up at the black hole above her head, closed her eyes tightly, and shouted loudly, “I agree!”

Hearing this, Lin Qiu smiled, a satisfied smile.

He willed it, and the black hole vanished.

Bai Jingjing’s body lost its attraction, was compressed infinitely, then quickly restored.

With a thud, she fell to the ground, her pristine white clothes stained and dirty.

Lin Qiu made a polite gesture, inviting her.

There was humiliation in Bai Jingjing’s eyes, but she gritted her teeth and spoke, “I, Bai Jingjing of the Swan Clan, invoke the bloodline as the bond, and swear by the Heavenly Dao that in this lifetime…”

“Continue!”

When Bai Jingjing paused mid-sentence, Lin Qiu once again made the inviting gesture.

Though humiliated, Bai Jingjing grit her teeth and said through clenched teeth, “I will follow Lin Qiu, forge an eternal contract, master dies, servant dies.”

As the last words fell, Bai Jingjing’s forehead cracked open, and a drop of crimson blood shot out, splitting into two in midair.

Then a ripple appeared in the void, and a chessboard-like pattern materialized. The two drops of blood landed on the intersecting lines, forming the yin and yang symbol.

A mysterious aura sprouted on the chessboard, infused into the blood. Suddenly, with a thunderclap, the two drops of blood flew up and landed on their foreheads before vanishing.

“Eternal Contract!”

Lin Qiu closed his eyes, a faint smile playing on his lips.

After the blood disappeared into his forehead, a profound connection was established between him and Bai Jingjing.

It felt as though a single thought from one could doom the other to endless suffering.

“Very good, very good!”

Lin Qiu opened his eyes and laughed heartily.

Unbeknownst to him, at the very moment the eternal contract was sealed, in a remote corner of this world, the earth trembled and mountains crumbled.

The sky roiled with wind and clouds, black clouds enveloping the entire area.

A voice of astonishment echoed through the heavens and earth: “Who dares to enslave the princess of the Bai Clan?!”

Amid the cataclysm, a pair of black wings, stretching for countless miles, swept across the sky.

After the mountains collapsed, the owner of those wings revealed a colossal body as massive as a mountain.

It was a black swan, exuding a fierce aura, its body entwined with black chains.

“What’s going on? Wasn’t this black swan supposed to be in slumber? How has it suddenly awakened?”

“Those black chains on it—are those… Law Chains?!”

Exclamations echoed one after another in this unknown world.

“Law Chains… a tenth-tier powerhouse?!”

Many gasped sharply, while others sneered disdainfully, “That bristly beast has secluded itself for a thousand years, broke through to the tenth tier, and its aura is quite formidable.”

Amid the murmurs of these mysterious beings, waves of divine consciousness swept the heavens.

The black swan sensed these divine radiations and its eyes grew cold. It unleashed its own divine consciousness in retaliation.

“Puff! Puff! Puff!”

Explosions rang out in the void, followed by wails echoing throughout many corners of this world.

“Truly a fallen swan, bearing dark bloodline; its temper remains as fierce as ever.”

“Its divine consciousness is powerful—this is what a tenth-tier expert’s divine consciousness looks like?”

“Nonsense! A tenth-tier powerhouse is already among the strongest in this world, protected by Law Chains. Who would dare challenge it?”

“But what did it say just now? The Bai Clan’s princess has been enslaved?”

Surprised voices quickly exchanged messages through divine consciousness.

The black swan let out another long howl. With a powerful flap of its wings, it obscured the sky and rapidly soared upward.

But in the next moment, countless black chains erupted across the heavens and wrapped around its body, imprisoning it in the void.

“Huh? What is this…”

“This is the Dragon Binding Chain! The legend is true.”

Divine consciousness exchanges filled with complexity spread through the air.

The black swan flapped its wings like blades, slashing relentlessly, but the black chains were unfazed.

They pressed down, trapping it tightly in the void.

The Dragon Binding Chain is the highest law of the Primordial World, capable of binding tenth-tier powerhouses, preventing their departure from the Primordial Realm.

The Primordial World is the domain of the demon clans, but it is also their cage.

Once you reach the tenth tier, you are firmly trapped within it.

To leave this realm, one must either shatter the Dragon Binding Chain or obediently serve in the Primordial World.

Throughout the history of the Primordial Realm, only a handful of formidable figures—legendary prodigies from distant eras—have been able to break the Dragon Binding Chain.

“Foolish. What’s the use of reaching the tenth tier with just a swan’s bloodline?”

“To dare to challenge the Dragon Binding Chain? Better off suffering quietly.”

On the Primordial land, many demon clansmen watched the black chains in the sky with cold smirks.

They were either sipping tea, fishing, or roaming the mountains and rivers.

Yet all shared the same status: tenth-tier powerhouses.

None of these experts aspired to leave, knowing full well that their cultivation was insufficient to break the Dragon Binding Chain.

If they failed, like this black swan, they would be imprisoned forever.

Is that pride?

No matter how strong one is, being locked away in the void, witnessing the passage of countless ages, becoming the subject of ridicule for generations to come—

Until the vital energies within are completely eroded by the Dragon Binding Chain and one vanishes without a trace.

This process takes at least a hundred years.

“Why bother?”

Many tenth-tier powerhouses sighed softly, gazing at the Dragon Binding Chain overhead with a hint of dread.

Some had been ready to attempt a breakthrough, but seeing this, their courage evaporated.

“How I envy those youngsters who can leave the Primordial Realm at will. We immortals shine alongside the sun and moon, yet are trapped here. It is truly a sorrowful fate.”

Many tenth-tier powerhouses sighed deeply.

Inside the Dragon Binding Chain, the black swan screamed miserably.

The chain clung like a parasitic worm, tightening from the surface of its body deep into the marrow.

The pain was excruciating, like being slowly torn apart.

“Damn heavens! You think you can imprison me, Bai Zhan? Foolish delusions!”

“Swan Waltz!”

A fierce and domineering voice echoed throughout the Primordial World.

Above Bai Zhan’s body encased in the Dragon Binding Chain, the spectral image of a white swan appeared, dancing gracefully.