Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence-Chapter 485 - 1: Golden Honeysuckle Vine and Freya’s Bathhouse Training (Part 4)
Moonlight filtered through the iron bars of the arch window, casting shadows like a prison cell on their entwined bodies. The ribbon fluttered between Su Li’s fingers as he bound Freya’s wrists to the wall, adorned with an obsidian-carved griffon head. This symbolic posture made the female knight bite her lower lip—she finally understood why Su Li had brought her to this bathhouse; it was expertly crafted to be a water prison!
In the misty air, Su Li caressed the light red marks left by the vine: "This is the trophy we gained in the battle against the tree demon. According to Lunadeshan, it is called the golden honeysuckle vine, the best medium for Tal’s Foot Binding Technique."
Then he whispered against Freya’s heated ear lobe, "Do you know why I chose this plant? This magic plant grows only on creatures that have been stained with green dragon’s dragon blood. The more you struggle, the more intense the fragrance becomes."
Freya instantly bit her cherry lips; this was perfectly crafted as an enchanted item against her.
Su Li’s fingertips skimmed over the green veins of the golden honeysuckle vine, which seemed to respond to the dragon blood’s presence, blooming pearl-like buds around Freya’s ankles. The vaporous mist, laden with honeysuckle’s sweet scent, tinged the female knight’s typically cool breaths with a moist trembling sound.
"The seventh hymn of the Holy Scripture says..." Freya attempted to calm her erratic heartbeat with a prayer, but was choked off by the rose thorns tightening abruptly. Dewy thorns traveled along her spine, weaving secret scriptures in the moonlight-drenched shadows—each vine pattern perfectly covered the Holy Marks forbidden to be depicted under the Church Knight’s robe.
The obsidian griffon at the edge of the bath suddenly opened its ruby-inlaid eyes, illuminating the bell on Freya’s chest as if it were a burning sun wheel. The Shalya Holy Image that Su Li had long prepared began to take effect, enhancing biological resilience. Whenever Freya struggled to close her knees, the bronze bell clinging to her pale body resonated with the enhanced resilience of the vine, its fragmented sound rippling golden waves across the water surface.
Quickly, the golden honeysuckle vine began to grow wildly, pulling Freya’s slender neck into a bowstring under the moonlight. Reya instinctively tensed her waist, trying to break free, but more vines climbed upwards along her pale body. Moonstone cast the vine shadows onto her snow-white skin, resembling some ancient tribal tattoos. When the thorny tips of the vines grazed her waist, she finally let out a suppressed groan, the arch of her neck resembling a battlefield swan on the brink of death.
"Shh—" Su Li pressed his thumb into the center of her violently heaving collarbone, where the bronze bell she wore floated, "The Knight Commander should remember with her body that some battles don’t require swords and shields."
Freya’s pearly teeth that bit into her lower lip suddenly loosened, realizing that the vine’s sap was seeping into her bloodstream, something more scorching than dragon blood coursing through her limbs, transforming the humiliation of being bound into a trembling pleasure. When she realized she had unconsciously pushed her wrists deeper into the ribbon’s bindings, the moonlight just happened to illuminate the flicker of flames in Su Li’s eyes—a light more dangerous than any chain.
"Now," Su Li picked up a goblet filled with wine and a love potion from the table beside the bath: "It’s time to test the Blazing Sun Knight’s devotion." The crimson liquid flowed down the rim, pooling on Freya’s slender collarbone into a stream, and as the first drop of wine slipped from the collarbone towards the bell, the entire bathroom filled with a hazy mist.
The water surface rippled violently, jets of water shot up, and amid the cascading water curtains, the bell on the female knight’s chest rang out with victorious tremors, unveiling the prelude to a splendid Chapter in Su Li’s upcoming days!
