I Bound Myself to a Destructive Witch

[Optimization Success——]

[B-Level · Spirit Life Ring (Optimized Version)]

[Spirit Life: Requires cooperation with other abilities for usage. You can store special spiritual bodies such as 'Residual Spirit', 'Dead Spirit', 'Heroic Spirit', 'Death Spirit' within....]

[Current number of Spirit Rings: 6 (Can store 6 special spiritual bodies)]

[Current time extension for Heroic Spirit: 6 years]

[Swallow Spirit: By devouring and refining 'Death Spirit', you can further extend the life of 'Heroic Spirit'. The higher the level of the Death Spirit, the more life is gained.]

[....]

One piece of new Spiritual Artifact information after another flooded into the mind, leaving An Ji Saint Shepherd a bit bewildered, unable to react.

6 years!

Strengthened from 1 year to 6 years?

It felt like a dream, a whopping 500% enhancement! How could such an absurd ability exist in this world??

She even suspected that she was hallucinating, or that the other party was using some trickery to toy with her.

But that genuine ability of the Spiritual Artifact was rooted in the heart, sealed in the soul, with no room for error!

Upon realizing everything was real, an unprecedented joy surged through her.

Her stiff, wrinkled and eerie face had not truly smiled for many years, to the point of forgetting how. Her dry, split grey lips quivered involuntarily, making her smile look more hideous than crying, her cloudy pupils sharply contracted.

She had thought that 10% would be the pinnacle and would have been satisfied with just 5%. It would have been enough for her to save this young man and take him out of Black Moon City.

But she could never have imagined.

Her satisfaction with 5% was a joke. This strange young man's arrogance was real, not a facade to buy time. It was a genuine confidence in his enhancement abilities, 500%!!

Such a degree of enhancement could no longer be described as defying the heavens.

But, if that was all, it would have been acceptable. Yet after the 500% enhancement, there was an even more extraordinary....

An Ji focused on the ability of [Swallow Spirit]. Previously, her Spiritual Artifact could indeed devour Death Spirits, but eating them did nothing apart from defending against Death Spirit attacks.

But now, not only could she devour Death Spirits, she could use them to extend the life of Heroic Spirits!

In other words, 6 years was not the limit! Theoretically, as long as there were enough Death Spirits of sufficient level, Heather's life could be infinitely extended!!

This was no longer a mere enhancement of the Spiritual Artifact, but practically an upgrade in its grade quality, raising it to an A-level! The effect was not much worse than that of an A-level Holy Release!

Such an unbelievable feat.... it goes without saying that this mysterious young man's Spiritual Artifact must be S-class!

It might even be an S-class after Holy Release! Thinking of this, An Ji Saint Shepherd could no longer contain the shock on her face, emotions of mixed flavors surged within her.

At this moment, she was both stunned by Xia Feng's heavenly-defying Spiritual Artifact, and overjoyed that her sister's short life received a tremendous extension.

But after the surging emotions passed, only confusion remained. Her cloudy eyes narrowed slightly as she stared at Xia Feng: "You've already helped me complete the optimization; aren't you afraid I might break the agreement or reveal the secret of your S-class Spiritual Artifact to the world?"

Xia Feng smiled faintly, saying nothing, just quietly observing An Ji Saint Shepherd.

An Ji Saint Shepherd was puzzled, waiting for Xia Feng's answer. Her pupils suddenly contracted like stars, and she quickly raised a hand to signal Xia Feng, nodding solemnly: "Alright, I understand."

Just now, although there was no reaction on the surface of the Spiritual Artifact, she could clearly feel that the heavenly optimization effect on the Spirit Life Ring was about to dissipate.

This feeling of sudden wealth, only to lose it the next moment, instilled an inexplicable fear in her.

She immediately understood that the young man could withdraw the optimization ability at any time, causing her Spiritual Artifact to return to mediocrity and pushing her sister's life back to its final countdown.

"Holy Shepherd, now, can we have a proper talk?"

Hearing Xia Feng's calm voice, An Ji Saint Shepherd understood that the situation had completely reversed.

"Firstly, could you please have this woman let me down?" Xia Feng glanced down with his dark eyes, still being held tightly by Heather, suspended in mid-air.

"....." An Ji snapped back to reality, quickly instructing Heather to release him with a thought.

Xia Feng landed, tugged at his slightly wrinkled collar from the neck-grip, lifted his dark eyes, and was just about to speak, when he saw An Ji Saint Shepherd's figure suddenly flash forward! Like a terrifying ghost, her sinister, chilling eyes overlooking him.

Xia Feng's heart skipped a beat, thinking, isn't this old lunatic really going to break her promise! Even after giving you such a great benefit——

"Thud——" Xia Feng froze, his mind pausing from swearing,

because the terrifying old woman didn't attack him but directly knelt down on one knee before him, lowering her head reverently, the icy voice still bone-chilling, hoarse and heavy:

"Angi Melovis Siderinovich, pledges allegiance to you!"

".....?" Xia Feng blinked, instinctively wanting to step back half a step, but quickly stopped himself, quirking the corner of his mouth,

"Holy Shepherd's demeanor, from arrogance to humility, truly surprising."

"....." She indeed hadn't expected that a young man seemingly only at the Venerate One Realm would possess such an extraordinary Spiritual Artifact.

Having such a Spiritual Artifact, surely the young man would achieve significant heights in the future. Allegiance to someone like this is no disgrace.

Moreover, having already defected from Black Moon, rootless, entering the power behind this young man might be a good choice.

According to her deduction, this young man is likely an unprecedented Divine-level genius secretly cultivated by a certain power for years.

"Young Master, may I ask your honorable name?" Although she held a high position as a Holy Shepherd and was previously a proud Holy Daughter, even several generations older than this young man, she was long prepared to set aside all pride for Heather.

Xia Feng himself hadn't intended to gain the allegiance of this Holy Realm expert, merely intending to establish a good cooperative relationship.

But now it seemed, he slightly underestimated the other party's regard for Heather.

However, this was also good.

Xia Feng was about to speak when Jiang Qiue suddenly stepped forward, gently pressing his shoulder, looking down at the elderly figure before her with ethereal, beautiful eyes, speaking calmly: "Teacher, you were once a Holy Daughter; your familiarity with the Guardian Slave Contract should not be lesser than mine."

"...."

An Ji's chilling gaze lifted slightly at the woman in the azure dress, nodding silently: "Very well, this indeed can make the Young Master more assured."

"Heather was once a Holy Daughter too." At this moment, Cha Naixue whispered a reminder from behind,

"Compared to you, Holy Shepherd, Heather is now the most dangerous presence."

".....!" An Ji's chilling gaze froze, shifting her vision, silently lifting her gaze to the woman in the snow-white dress, her shadowy expression terrifying and murderous intent blatant.

Cha Naixue's beautiful eyes remained calm, lips gently curving into a sweet smile, giving a friendly response.