Chapter 25 The Fairy in the Painting Devours

Liu Mingyuan stared blankly as Shao Yanzhe rolled up his sleeves and walked towards Shen Moyuan. He stammered as he asked the other three questions.

"Brother Wen, Brother Su, Brother Chen, what should we do?"

Wen Yanqing glanced in the direction Shao Yanzhe had left and said calmly, "Just do as Brother Shao asks. With our current abilities, we can't help at all."

"Too."

The four of them could only watch Sun Heqing and Shao Yanzhe with worried expressions.

Shao Yanzhe was very fast; he was already close to Shen Moyuan before Shen could react.

"What do you want to do?" Shen Moyuan looked at Shao Yanzhe with suspicion and uncertainty, not understanding how he had the audacity to come here.

Shao Yanzhe raised an eyebrow at him and smiled, his eyes filled with ill intent: "I'll hit you!"

He had barely finished speaking when he punched Shen Moyuan in the right eye.

Shen Moyuan staggered from the blow, clutching his right eye in disbelief: "How dare you hit me!"

"That's exactly what I'm going to do!"

Taking advantage of his initiative, Shao Yanzhe showed no mercy and beat Shen Moyuan until he howled in pain, leaving him no chance to summon Mo Ying.

Sun Heqing, who was panting and entangled with Mo Ying, twitched at the corner of his mouth and muttered under his breath, "What kind of behavior is this?"

The other officials had strange expressions, but none of them spoke up to stop it. Instead, they smiled and thought to themselves, "Well done!"

Mo Ying pretended not to see it. Shen Moyuan had ordered her to kill these people. Disobeying orders and going to help her would cause her soul to be scattered. It wasn't that she didn't want to go and help!

Taking advantage of the beating between the two, Shao Yanzhe ripped off Shen Moyuan's official robe. Seeing that Shen Moyuan didn't care about the robe that had been thrown on the ground, Shao Yanzhe continued to tear off his clothes.

In fights, tearing clothes is a very common occurrence.

With a ripping sound, Shen Moyuan's sleeve was ripped off.

Shen Moyuan's expression immediately changed. He covered his arm and, with a grim face, ordered Mo Ying, "Come here and kill him!"

Upon receiving the order, Mo Ying paused, and couldn't help but sigh with regret, wondering why she hadn't killed him!

Upon seeing this, Shao Yanzhe's eyes lit up, and he quickly reached out to pry Shen Moyuan's hand off.

Seeing his movements, Shen Moyuan quickly realized: "What are you looking for?"

Thinking of Yun Weiyue, who hadn't appeared yet, his eyes darted around, and he said through gritted teeth, somewhat excitedly, "Yun Weiyue hasn't broken free of control yet, has she?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he pressed his fingers on the spider mark on his arm, trying to control Yun Weiyue to appear.

How could Shao Yanzhe let him succeed? He immediately reached out and grabbed one of his fingers, forcefully prying it outward. Shen Moyuan immediately trembled in pain and was unable to do anything else.

Mo Ying was trapped by Sun Heqing and the others, and they did not let her escape.

With a swift movement, Shao Yanzhe pinned Shen Moyuan to the ground and quickly tied him up with his belt.

Only then did he notice the red spider tattoo on Shen Moyuan's forearm.

"How do we untie this?" he asked.

"Hmph! You're dreaming!" Shen Moyuan gritted his teeth and refused, then looked at Mo Ying with icy eyes.

Mo Ying realized that she could no longer slack off, so she hurled a tantrum at Sun Heqing. As he dodged, she flashed to Shao Yanzhe's side.

With lightning speed, Shao Yanzhe pulled out a short dagger from his sleeve and stabbed it directly at the spider mark on Shen Moyuan's arm.

He had discussed it with Yun Weiyue and Yun Suqing. Given Shen Moyuan's personality, it was impossible for him to tell them how to undo it. Therefore, Yun Suqing told him to find an opportunity to destroy it directly!

"ah!"

Instantly, after Shen Moyuan let out a miserable howl, Mo Ying also suddenly let out a ghostly howl, and the resentment on her body fluctuated violently, and her soul seemed to be on the verge of disintegrating.

"You! You actually dared to break the seal! You're finished!" Shen Moyuan, clutching his bleeding forearm, actually chuckled.

Shao Yanzhe frowned, about to say something, when suddenly a red figure appeared in mid-air.

"Shen Moyuan! You're finished!"

Upon hearing this calm voice, Shen Moyuan couldn't help but shudder.

Everyone looked over and saw a woman in a red robe floating in mid-air, her body emanating a terrifying aura of resentment. Her long black hair danced wildly as the resentment surged, and an oppressive pressure pressed down on everyone.

At a glance, they realized that the woman in red was much stronger than Mo Ying.

After succeeding, Shao Yanzhe immediately left and hid behind Sun Heqing and the others.

Shen Moyuan's face was pale, whether from fright or from excessive blood loss, it was hard to tell.

Having witnessed things unfold to this point, he knew that things were unlikely to end well today.

He squeezed his eyes shut, a fierce glint in them, and his blood-stained fingers quickly began to draw on his arm.

In a very short time, he drew the pattern on his arm, with the spider engraving positioned exactly in the center.

He glanced around and grinned maliciously, "I'm going to kill you all!"

"You! You actually dared to use forbidden techniques!" Sun Heqing's face was extremely ugly.

"Lord Sun, what forbidden technique did Shen Moyuan use?" Shao Yanzhe asked curiously.

Sun Heqing glanced at him and said sternly, "This is not something you should know. Don't meddle!"

Shao Yanzhe bowed respectfully and said, "Yes!"

That group wasn't difficult; he had already memorized it.

He'll know whether he should use the forbidden technique in the future once he sees what Shen Moyuan looks like after using it.

As the pattern on Shen Moyuan's arm was completed, the spider engraving in the center of the pattern burst forth with a red light, and the blood flowing on his arm was quickly absorbed into it.

Once the bloodstains on its arm were absorbed, it began to absorb the surrounding flesh and blood. In just a moment, its forearm became skin and bones.

"Ah!" The pain of having his flesh and blood sucked made Shen Moyuan scream, and he knelt on the ground, clutching his arm.

"Stop, stop!" He pinched his arm hard, trying to stop the spider from absorbing his flesh, but to no avail.

He could only watch helplessly as his arm gradually collapsed, waves of pain shooting through his brain. His body trembled with pain, and a few drops of menstrual tears mixed with sweat dripped down his face. His clothes were soaked with sweat and stuck to his body, making him look extremely disheveled.

Everyone present stared at him indifferently, feeling no sympathy for his disheveled state, only a sense of satisfaction.

Shen Moyuan was completely powerless from the pain. He collapsed to the ground, turned his head to look at Sun Heqing, and reached out to him for help.

"Help, help me!"

Sun Heqing looked at him with a stern face and indifferent eyes: "Those who do many evil deeds will surely perish. I can't save you. You should have thought about the consequences when you used the forbidden technique."

Faced with this scene, the scholars dared not utter a word, treating themselves as nothing more than cabbages.

Fortunately, Shen Moyuan didn't take them seriously and simply ignored them.

He looked up at the red figure in the air, his body numb with pain.

"Ah Yue, I'm sorry. I was blinded by greed and listened to that person to slander you for cheating. Now I'm getting my comeuppance. I suppose you should be very happy now!"

“It was my fault. I shouldn’t have hurt you for the sake of my career, and I shouldn’t have erased your traces for the sake of my reputation.”

“It wasn’t that I wanted to betray you. Mo Ying seduced me. She wanted to be my concubine. I was drunk at the time and mistook her for you. Don’t blame me.”

"That lord came to me. If I didn't listen to his slander that you cheated, he would kill me. I'm the only one left in the Shen family. I can't let the Shen family die out in my hands. You probably don't want that either, right?"

"Actually, if you hadn't taken the imperial examination, you wouldn't have offended that official. My husband and I could still be composing poems and enjoying the scenery every day. Looking back now, that was the happiest time of my life."

"Ah Yue, I know you won't forgive me. I deserve to end up like this."

Shen Moyuan muttered to himself, his eyes vacant as he continued to confess his past thoughts, his face full of regret.

Seeing him like this, some people really felt sorry for him and were filled with sympathy.

"Alas, even the most hateful person has a pitiable side!"

"What's so pitiful about him? He has beautiful wives and concubines, endless money, and a renowned reputation throughout Dayong. What do you have?" Shao Yanzhe retorted.

Immediately, those who were wavering realized, "Yes, I am just a scholar. Why should I pity someone who is better off than me?"

Shao Yanzhe's voice was loud enough for everyone present to hear.

Shen Moyuan paused in his speech, a flash of resentment crossing his eyes before quickly disappearing.

He reached out to Yun Weiyue: "A-Yue, I just want to apologize to you before I die. Come here, I'll return what belongs to you."

"Miss Weiyue, be careful!" Shao Yanzhe didn't believe Shen Moyuan would repent, so he quickly warned him.

Yun Suqing nodded; she understood Shen Moyuan better than he did.

She approached Shen Moyuan, and as his flesh and blood were devoured by the spider imprints, she could clearly feel that the restraints on her were gradually decreasing.

She figured that once Shen Moyuan was completely devoured, she would be free.

She looked at Shen Moyuan with a cold face, watching him being devoured bit by bit, watching his whole body tremble with pain, and a look of pleasure flashed in her eyes.

“Where are my things? Give them to me!” she said.

Shen Moyuan stared at her intently, his eyes filled with complex emotions. He laboriously reached his hand to the top of his head and then pulled something out of his hair.

"Give!"

Yun Suqing looked down and saw a jade hairpin pen in his hand, the pen handle entwined with red and white patterns, extremely beautiful.

This was a token of love that Yun Weiyue gave to Shen Moyuan when they got engaged.

With a flick of her sleeve, the jade hairpin pen slipped from Shen Moyuan's hand and was taken directly by her.

As Shen Moyuan was devoured by the spider imprint, those around him felt a dull ache in their heads, and something slowly appeared in their minds.

Soon, they remembered Yun Weiyue, and everyone frowned, their expressions very complicated.

From then on, everything Shen Moyuan had done was revealed to the world.

"Ah Yue, can you forgive me?" Shen Moyuan's weak voice rang out.

"No," Yun Suqing answered decisively.

Shen Moyuan's vision blurred, and when he heard the answer, he just chuckled.

"Be careful!" Shao Yanzhe immediately warned.

Yun Suqing looked behind her and saw that Shen Moyuan, who should have died, was slowly standing up.