Chapter 70: The True Purpose of Hui Liyi

Auditory hallucination?

Chen Anping had been exposed to the constant killing, screaming, roaring, and howling in the game, so he wasn’t too surprised by this sudden sound in reality.

After a normal person hears a certain sound for a long time, their mind will occasionally hallucinate that sound. This is an illusion brought about by conditioned reflexes.

Chen Anping could only use this method to cover up the truth. He didn’t dare to admit that his time was running out.

That sound wasn’t a judgment from hell, not a precursor to the soul-reaping of Ox-Head and Horse-Face.

He just wanted to be with his baby Lingqing, to be with his baby Lingqing forever and ever.

At this moment, Chen Anping wanted to say her name, but the words wouldn’t come out.

…

Xu Lingqing sat in her room, looking up at the sky through the window.

This time, she not only saw the handsome figure she longed for in the sky, but also her mother.

Mom…

Is what Sect Master Hui said true?

I can’t believe there are such heartless people in the world. Even if there are, they must be like ‘Senior’, doing great things to save the world outside.

She caressed the pipa. Although it was already damaged, she could still hear her mother’s voice coming from within it.

It was the most beautiful voice Xu Lingqing had ever heard. Whenever she was unhappy, just caressing the pipa would bring her comfort.

Mom… you’ve always been by my side, right?

Xu Lingqing murmured to herself. Touched by the scene, little pearls fell from the corners of her eyes.

Unconsciously, she fell asleep by the bed, hugging the pipa.

Anjin City.

Lin Jintian had just returned. He didn’t go to find Xu Lingqing first, but instead found Gong Yue.

The two of them were good friends who could talk about anything. They were like blood brothers.

However, when Gong Yue saw Lin Jintian’s appearance, his heart grew cold. He suppressed the unease in his heart and asked.

“City Lord Lin, what happened to you?”

A faint bloody light flashed across Lin Jintian’s eyes. He pulled open his sleeve to explain, revealing fresh wounds all over his body.

“Alas, I personally killed that Green Sun Black Ape. I was too heavily injured, so I found a cave to recuperate for a few days.”

The sharp-eyed Gong Yue immediately noticed that something was wrong. His body showed no signs of healing, not at all like someone who had been recuperating.

Gong Yue took a breath, suppressed the doubt in his heart, and recounted what had happened in Anjin City the day before.

After hearing it, Lin Jintian broke out in a cold sweat, even squeezing a clump of black blood from his wound.

“Damn Jialan Academy! I’ll fight you to the death!”

“City Lord Lin, your wound?”

Lin Jintian realized the seriousness of the situation and forcefully explained, “The flames of the Green Sun Black Ape burn the bloodline. After being injured, the blood will be black for a short time.”

“In that case, City Lord Lin should go to the City Lord’s Mansion to recuperate first!”

Lin Jintian then asked with feigned calmness, “Brother Gong, what should we do about that divine realm Dao Soldier?”

“Let’s take it one step at a time. If the sky falls, there will be those strong enough to hold it up!”

…

Green Luan Sect.

Hui Liyi and Hui Ziying arrived together at the room where her ‘mother’ lived.

The room was not too large. The air was filled with the smell of blood and rot. Even during the day, one couldn’t see inside without lighting a candle.

She lit a candle after arriving. The faint candlelight illuminated the surroundings. The cold iron chains reflected the light, revealing a hint of chill.

Following the chains, one could see a disheveled woman tied in the center of several iron chains.

The woman’s messy hair covered her face, but the few torn pieces of clothing could not hide the wounds on her chest, back, arms, and legs.

They were clearly wounds left by whipping.

New wounds were superimposed on old ones. The stark white bones were almost exposed, the skin was split open, and the flesh was mangled. It was a horrible sight.

This woman was the ‘mother’ Hui Liyi had spoken of.

Seeing Hui Liyi’s arrival, the woman, who seemed to have long been accustomed to this torture, roared loudly.

“Hui Liyi, you heartless beast! If you dare to lay a hand on my sister’s daughter, my brother-in-law will not let you go, even if he has to chase you to the ends of the earth!”

It turned out that the ‘mother’ she spoke of was none other than Xu Lingqing’s mother’s sister, Xu Bijie.

Chen Anping scratched the back of his head in frustration. I think I’ve said that before?

Hui Liyi smiled coldly, “Xu Biqin is already dead. How would that wild man care about an abandoned child.”

“She’s not dead, she’s not dead!”

Hui Liyi raised Xu Bijie’s chin with her hand with great interest. Her usually gentle eyes were now as venomous as a snake’s.

“How do you know she’s still alive?”

Xu Bijie pulled weakly at the chains, which made a faint ‘clang, clang, clang’ sound.

“You can forget about knowing! I won’t tell you even if I die!”

Hui Liyi’s fingers suddenly pushed upwards, then flung her away. A heart-wrenching pain shot through Xu Bijie’s neck.

“Ah…”

The scream echoed throughout the dark room, but only within the dark room.

Seeing this, Hui Liyi’s face grew even more sullen, “Are you going to talk or not? Don’t refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit!”

Slap!

Hui Ziying picked up a willow whip from the side. The whip still had dried blood on it, and she lashed it fiercely at her body.

“You bitch, just talk when the Sect Master tells you to!”

“Kill… kill me…”

Xu Bijie bit her tongue, mustering the courage to commit suicide by biting her tongue.

Sister, I’m sorry…

Your sister is useless and can’t let your child go to find you. I hope you can bless Lingqing with peace and safety from heaven.

Hiss…

The pain of biting one’s tongue was far beyond what an ordinary person could bear. The moment she bit her tongue, her body convulsed violently.

Hui Liyi slapped her across the face, stopping her suicide attempt.

Immediately, Hui Liyi said in a hypocritically gentle voice, “Xu Bijie, have you forgotten the message you left before you died?”

Xu Bijie remembered. How could she forget!

If she hadn’t carved that sentence into her heart, she would have long given up hope of living and committed suicide here.

For the past few years, she had been tortured by Hui Liyi and Hui Ziying until she was neither human nor ghost, just to abide by that promise.

“Tch… ptooey…”

Xu Bijie spat a mouthful of bloody saliva onto Hui Liyi’s face, staining half of it red.

Hui Ziying was about to teach her a lesson, but Hui Liyi raised her hand, blocking her with a smile instead of anger.

“Sister Bijie, why are you so stubborn? If you tell me the method to advance to the divine realm, I will also protect your sister’s daughter, won’t I?”

Xu Bijie sneered inwardly, knowing full well that Hui Liyi was a woman with a honeyed mouth and a sword in her belly. Not even a single punctuation mark of her words could be trusted.

In that battle back then, if her sister hadn’t trusted Hui Liyi, allowing her to find an opportunity to sneak attack Xu Biqin from behind, even ten thousand people would have had a hard time stopping that peerless empress who looked down on the world.

“Hui Liyi, you can forget about it!”

“Although I, Xu Bijie, dare not die, I will not do anything to let my sister down!”

[End of Chapter]