Chapter 159 - Liar
Li Huowang almost passed out from the pain, but somehow endured it as he ran over and sliced off Er Bing’s face, revealing the bloody, mahjong tile face hidden underneath.
Li Huowang grabbed Er Bing’s neck and raised her into the air. “Stop fighting! Look at this! She’s someone from the Sitting Oblivion Dao! Everyone here has been lied to!”
But his only response was an arrow to his abdomen—they were all beyond reasoning.
It might’ve been a misunderstanding in the beginning, but at this point, too many people had died. There was no turning back.
Li Huowang threw Er Bing down and crushed the bones in all her limbs before charging into the battlefield. “Xiaoman, make sure she doesn’t escape!”
As she saw Li Huowang become a demon of bloodshed, Er Bing started chuckling.
Seeing this, Xiaoman placed her sword on Er Bing’s neck. “You still have the gall to laugh? You will be crying soon enough.”
Hearing this, Er Bing started laughing even more loudly, all while her face underwent numerous transformations before settling on a new face. “When should I be laughing if not now? Risking my own life to fool someone feels especially amazing.”
Today, Jiang Yingzi did not glare at Li Huowang like she usually did. Instead, she was looking at Er Bing with a complicated look on her face; among the various faces that Er Bing’s face transformed into was the face of Elder Yan Jianxi.
After a while, the assailants finally retreated; not because they had realized that it was all a ploy devised by Er Bing, but because they’d lost too many men.
The sky slowly brightened while the sound of horse hooves and camel bells gradually became distant, leaving an entire battlefield littered with bodies as well as several camels with no owners.
As the sun gradually arose at the horizon, the blood on the ground, as well as everyone’s bodies looked a lot more red.
Li Huowang had suffered numerous injuries, yet he still stood tall like a statue amidst a pool of blood.
In this battle, both parties had been innocent, but the Sitting Oblivion Dao’s devious plot pushed both sides past the point of no return.
At this moment, Jiang Yingzi was staring at the scene in front of her, panicking; it was as if she was finally starting to piece the puzzle pieces together.
“Hahaha! Not bad! Not bad at all.” The limbless Er Bing laughed.
Her voice attracted Li Huowang’s attention as he too started to laugh. Then, Li Huowang let go of his sword and stumbled back.
Once he reached Er Bing, he stuffed several Blood Nourishing Pills into her mouth and instructed Xiaoman, “Go and fetch the Golden Wound medication that we bought in town.”
“What?” Xiaoman thought she had misheard.
“Did you not hear what I said? Go and bring the Golden Wound medication, NOW!” shouted Li Huowang.
Once she retrieved it, Li Huowang carefully scattered the medication on Er Bing’s disembowelled intestines. Then, he unfurled his torture tools in front of her before speaking lightly, “Feel like confessing?”
Er Bing was confused. “Confess? Did I do something that I need to confess?”
Li Huowang positioned Er Bing’s listless right arm and carefully used his torture tools to pry out her fingernails, one by one. He didn’t stop until all five fingernails on her right arm had been pried out. “Feel like confessing?”
“What do you want me to tell you?” asked Er Bing.
“DO YOU FEEL LIKE CONFESSING OR NOT?!” Li Huowang rammed his remaining hand into one of her eye sockets.
As Li Huowang crushed one of her eyeballs, Er Bing screamed in pain.
“Do you feel like confessing yet?!” asked Li Huowang once again.
“Senior Li, are you alright?” Bai Lingmiao approached carefully.
Li Huowang took a deep breath and gently said to her, “I’m fine. Help me check on the others. Summon the Immortals to heal those who have been heavily injured.”
Just as Bai Lingmiao left to follow his instructions, Li Huowang stomped on Er Bing’s intestines, and shouted in a voice filled with anger and hatred, “JUST TELL ME EVERYTHING!”
However, at this point, he didn’t want her to tell him anything; he just needed an outlet to channel all his rage. He wanted to get his revenge on Er Bing. Everything had happened because of her, so she needed to pay the price.
Li Huowang often used only some of the torture tools, leaving the other tools untouched. However, those tools now had their chance to shine.
As more and more of his torture tools were stained with blood, Er Bing’s once beautiful figure transformed into a bloody human stick.
Throughout the process, the intense pain caused Er Bing to faint and wake up over and over again.
However, Li Huowang didn’t let her go regardless of how painful it was.
After a while, Er Bing stared at him with her one remaining eye and started laughing, her laughter gradually getting louder and louder.
The more she was tortured, the louder she laughed.
Eventually, Er Bing’s breathing grew faint. Finally, Li Huowang, who was panting heavily, lost his patience and used his sword to aim for her heart.
“Li Huowang, wait, can you help me and ask her a question?”
This sudden voice caused Li Huowang to stop. He turned around and saw who it was that had spoken to him.
It was Jiang Yingzi’s illusion.
At this moment, she looked conflicted, a mix of expectations and fear.
“Can you ask her if the Sitting Oblivion Dao was the one responsible for the massacre of my town four years ago?” asked Jiang Yingzi.
This question immediately caught Li Huowang off-guard, so much so that he didn’t even notice how bizarre his illusion was.
At that moment, Li Huowang’s pupils shrank, and he had a bold hypothesis. When he asked Er Bing the question, the latter started laughing loudly. “Hehehe~ Didn’t you kill them? Be more confident! After all, you are a Strayed One! It’s a piece of cake for you to kill those tens of thousands of people!”
As soon as she said those words, her remaining eye was crushed by Li Huowang. “You guys were the ones responsible for it! The massacre from four years ago was done by you guys! And you framed me!”
On the other hand, Jiang Yingzi’s body became unstable and she started crying. She dragged her wounded body and approached Li Huowang. “Li Huowang, I was wrong. The Sitting Oblivion Dao was the one who killed my family. We’ve all been fooled.”
Then, without even waiting for his reply, she wiped away her tears. “Li Huowang, I know it’s too much for me to ask this, but can you get revenge for my family? If you help me, then I will tell you something important.”
Hearing that, Li Huowang was curious but snapped out of it in an instant. “Why should I listen to an illusion like you?”
“I might be an illusion, and so was Monk, but Dan Yangzi is not! He’s real! The elders of the Ao Jing Sect had all been replaced by the members of the Sitting Oblivion Dao! You’ve been fooled by them! They did not help you get rid of Dan Yangzi, but instead hid him further down inside of you! Your personality is still being influenced by Dan Yangzi!”
Just as Yingzi had just finished telling those words to Li Huowang, her body slowly started disappearing. “I’m sorry...”
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