The atmosphere inside the cave was eerie and terrifying.

Under the torchlight, the shadows appeared distorted, like demons.

Li Chang'an remained silent for a long, long time before he squatted down, looked at the little girl, and spoke.

"Tell me, how would you like these bad guys to die?"

The little girl lowered her head and began to sob, her shoulders shaking as tears streamed down her face.

"I don't want anything to happen to them. I miss my mother and my sister."

Upon hearing this, Li Chang'an paused for a moment before speaking to her apologetically.

"I'm sorry I'm late."

"It's okay, you're a good person."

The little girl reached out and touched the red crystal on the armor; perhaps she wanted to help wipe away the tears.

"Chen Da!"

"Yes, sir!"

Li Chang'an stood up and kicked the water vat, shattering it. Scalding hot water spilled all over the floor, burning Xiong Laohu and the others until their skin turned red.

"Have your men dig a hole and give these bodies a proper burial."

"And cook something to feed these kids."

Li Chang'an waved his hand, and blankets and rice appeared on the ground. He instructed Chen Da and the others to take the blankets and cover the children with them.

"yes!"

Chen Da cupped his hands in greeting and turned to instruct his men to get to work.

Li Chang'an took out a hammer, nails, sickle, hoe and other items from his backpack.

He searched his backpack for any useful tools.

Tools that can be used on bears and tigers.

How can we make them experience the most extreme pain in the world?

The soldiers began digging pits and carrying away the bodies.

After assigning them tasks, Chen Da turned around and saw Li Chang'an holding a hammer, hammering nails into Xiong San's hand. He couldn't help but walk over.

"My lord, I used to work in the Jinyiwei's prison and learned a few torture techniques. How about I do it?"

Li Chang'an, who had hammered iron nails all over Xiong San's hands, couldn't help but laugh when he heard Chen Da's words.

"Alright, alright, I was just thinking about how to make sure the three of them don't die so easily. Since you have this ability, let me see it for myself."

He handed the tools to Chen Da and then gave him some instructions.

"Remember, don't let them die too quickly. If they are tortured well, I will reward them handsomely."

"Thank you, sir! I swear to serve you to the death!"

Chen Da took the tools, his face beaming with joy. He knelt down and kowtowed to Li Chang'an before starting his work.

The methods used by the Embroidered Uniform Guard to torture people were varied and numerous.

A steel knife, a nail, a sickle, and a hammer—Chen Da used them in all sorts of creative ways.

Peeling skin and bones while playing the pipa, iron nails piercing the eyes, boiling water irrigating the valley.

Li Chang'an found it extremely satisfying to see these methods used on Xiong Laohu and the others.

When Li Chang'an saw Chen Dayong press the red-hot steel knife against Tian Boguang's wound, he felt that Tian Boguang's screams were the most beautiful music in the world.

"Sir, to prevent them from bleeding to death, I'll help them stop the bleeding first."

"Well done, reward me!"

Li Chang'an tossed ten gold ingots over, letting him continue his work.

Turning his head, he saw that the group of children were also watching, and couldn't help but give an order to Chen Da's men.

“Take them away, don’t let them see this kind of thing.”

The group of children didn't want to leave. They drank their porridge while watching Chen Da torture Xiong San and the others. Their eyes began to shine, no longer as numb as before.

The little girl, drinking her porridge, said in a frightened voice, "Can we watch them? Please, I'll go without eating. I want to watch them die, okay?"

Li Chang'an didn't speak, thought for a moment, and then nodded.

"Thank you, sir!"

A dozen or so children knelt on the ground and kowtowed, following the little girl. They did not understand right from wrong.

All they knew was that their parents had been killed by bad people, and that they themselves would be turned into food by those same bad people.

Now there are people helping them kill and torture bad guys.

Then he is the best person in the world.

This ordeal lasted for eight hours.

Xiong San and his gang were no longer human.

His body was covered in sores, his ribs were exposed, and his hands and feet had been cut off.

Start cutting with your fingers, little by little, like cutting pork.

He made over a hundred cuts, which pleased Li Chang'an, who rewarded Chen Da with one hundred taels of gold.

Chen Da's men had already led the group of children away.

They simply couldn't bear this scene of hell on earth.

Only Li Chang'an was enjoying himself.

She even learned how to play the pipa from Chen Da.

It involves taking a steel knife and moving it back and forth across the exposed ribs.

It looks like someone is playing the pipa.

This kind of punishment was just right for Tian Boguang and others.

Li Chang'an believes that all rapists and traffickers of women and children should be punished in this way.

Otherwise, how could we face those innocent souls who were wronged?

Li Chang'an sat on a rock, closed his eyes, and listened to Xiong San and the others screaming in agony. He couldn't help but start clapping along.

"I was admiring the mountain scenery from the city tower when I heard a commotion outside the city. Banners fluttered in the air, casting empty shadows; it turned out to be the army sent by Sima..."

He was singing the Empty City Stratagem while listening to the increasingly faint screams.

Li Chang'an finally suppressed the murderous intent in his heart.

Just as Xiong San and the others breathed their last, the system in their minds beeped.

"Beep, hidden quest unlocking in progress - Helllight."

"Where there is light, there will be darkness. Please help this world clear away some of the shadows in the darkness, and by the way, let them get their just deserts and never be reincarnated."

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