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Then, under his gaze, the stone sculpture face, which had originally looked compassionate and solemn, slowly revealed an extremely ferocious and eerie smile, seemingly filled with extreme malice.
"thump……"
Li Chen was just about to speak when a muffled thud suddenly came from beside him as he was watching Liu Yan being slowly pushed out of the darkness.
She turned her head and saw Han Shannan lying straight on the ground, his eyes closed, as if he had fallen asleep.
Li Chenjin: "...?"
Young man, do you sleep so well?
Does saying you're taking a break mean you're really taking a break?
As she pulled Han Shannan behind her, she took the opportunity to check his pulse. After confirming that he was alright, just in case, she asked Shen Zhengyuan for a calming talisman and stuck it on his forehead with a "snap".
This kid's character is really terrible. If we encounter any places involving illusions again, we must never let him get involved.
After settling Han Shannan in, she turned her attention back to Liu Yan.
She was still wearing her magnificent attire as a pavilion master, looking extremely elegant and noble.
But in her eyes burned an almost insane obsession and hatred, as if they were her mortal enemies.
Li Chen bowed slightly in her direction and said gently, "Sect Leader Liu, we generally know that you did all this to avenge the fellow disciples who humiliated you back then. I cannot judge the right and wrong of this matter, but those guests who came because of the Biyun dispute are innocent. Why don't you be lenient and let those innocent people leave?"
As Liu Yan listened to her words, a strange smile slowly crept onto her lips. She lowered her head, her shoulders trembling slightly, then suddenly threw her head back and let out a hysterical laugh, as if she had heard the most absurd joke in the world.
"Innocent? Hahaha... Who in this world is innocent?!" Her laughter abruptly stopped, her eyes filled with boundless hatred. "When I suffered endless humiliation, when I cried out to heaven and earth in vain, who thought of my innocence? When people in the world saw me suffering and no one was willing to lend a helping hand, who thought of my innocence? When they learned that I had been tortured in the bandits' den and barely escaped with my life, those who didn't even know me pointed at me and said I was 'unclean,' who thought of my innocence then?!"
"Everyone in this world is the same! They all like to stand by and watch, and they're happy to fan the flames, watching those weaker than themselves fall into even more miserable situations! As long as it doesn't concern them, they can stay out of it! As long as it doesn't hurt them, they can say others are just whining! Everyone is like that, everyone is like that! Everyone in this world should go to hell, everyone should go to hell with me!!"
As she spoke, she threw her head back and laughed for a while.
Her laughter echoed throughout the hall, sending chills down one's spine.
She stopped laughing slowly after she had finished, then clapped her hands. Soon after, the remaining people from Biyun Pavilion were roughly escorted by several puppets to the railing on the second floor, with most of their bodies sticking out of the railing as if they would be pushed off at any moment.
The fear of falling at any moment caused them to scream uncontrollably, their shrill and piercing screams echoing throughout the hall.
As Liu Yan listened to the screams around her, a look of ecstasy appeared on her face, as if what she was hearing was not screams of agony, but the most beautiful music in the world.
Those who were teetering on the brink of death naturally noticed the people below. One of them immediately screamed, "I knew it! I knew it!! You, you deliberately set us up here! You want revenge on us, you want revenge on us!!"
Hearing the man's shout, Li Chen couldn't help but turn his head away and hissed, as if he couldn't bear to look at it.
Even at this point, when his own life was in danger, he still couldn't say anything conciliatory. I don't know whether to say that person was fearless or just too fearless.
And if there is one person who is not afraid of death, then there are naturally others who are not afraid of death.
No sooner had that person finished speaking than another shouted, "Liu Yan! We may have wronged you in the past, but that's all in the past! You're doing quite well now, so why are you doing this?!"
"Liu Yan! You deserve to die, you deserve to die, you deserve to die! You just deserve to die! Why didn't you die in the bandit's den?! Those bandits ruined your legs, why didn't you die there?! Why did you come back? Why did you come back?!"
As the man finished speaking, the last faint smile on Liu Yan's face vanished completely.
With a single wave of her hand, she pressed down the puppets of the two people and shoved them violently off the second floor without hesitation.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
With two muffled thuds, Li Chenjin couldn't help but sigh.
The two men were not very lucky; their heads hit the ground just as they were about to fall, and in an instant, blood and brain matter splattered out, blooming into two blood-red flowers on the ground.
The owner of those two "flowers" only twitched a few times before falling silent.
The others were terrified by what they saw. One of them cried out, "Senior Sister Liu Yan, Senior Sister Liu Yan! I know I was wrong, I really know I was wrong... Please, please forgive me. I only meant to play a joke on you. I didn't want you to die, I really didn't..."
With one person taking the lead, the others quickly came to their senses. Seeing the two people on the ground, whose blood was still spreading, their cries for mercy rang out one after another.
"Liu...Liu Yan...Do you remember? At the beginning, we were the best of friends in Biyun Pavilion. I didn't mean to hurt you, I really didn't..."
"I...I was forced into this. Senior Sister insisted that I distance myself from you. I had no choice but to do this to protect myself. I don't want to hurt you, I really don't want to hurt you! Please, please...please let me go, okay? I beg you, please let me go, okay?"
“Junior Sister Liu... Liu Yan, do you remember? I... I was very good to you at first... When you first joined the sect, I made up your bed. And when you were sick, I took care of you for five days and five nights... I really didn't want to hurt you. If I really wanted to harm you, why would I have treated you like that?”
"I... I later wanted to learn from them and hurt you, to isolate you, but it wasn't my true intention... I didn't want to... I really didn't want to... But if I didn't do that, I would be the next one to be bullied, I... I couldn't take it, I couldn't take that kind of life, I really couldn't..."
"Junior Sister Liu Yan, Junior Sister, I didn't want to either... The only reason I went to Biyun Pavilion was to learn to dance properly... I just wanted to learn to dance properly, I just love dancing, I didn't want to hurt anyone, I didn't want to... I really just wanted to learn to dance properly..."
Hearing those tearful pleas, Liu Yan's tightly clenched hands gradually loosened, and she seemed much more relaxed, even with a hint of an enigmatic smile on her face.
She looked up at her former fellow disciples, her smile deepening, and then said softly, "If, if I hadn't been chosen by the God, do you know what would have happened to a cripple like me, abandoned alone on the mountain?"
“My master… she really cares about me. She thinks that by giving me half of the treasures of Biyun Pavilion, she can make up for her guilt, be worthy of my parents who died to save her, and make up for all the mistakes she made in the past by turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to everything I suffered!”
“But she, and you all, wouldn’t even give me a wheelchair when I was forcibly taken down the mountain. Do you remember what you said back then? You said that with all that money, I could just go to town and buy a top-notch wheelchair myself, hahaha…”
"That's well said, but do you remember how far that town is from Biyun Pavilion? Even if my legs weren't crippled, it would still take me five or six days to walk there. But back then, I couldn't even walk. How long would it have taken to crawl there? Have you thought about that for me?"
“Do you know how much hatred I felt when I was thrown down the mountain, crawled on the ground, and scrambled back like a dog, begging you for a wheelchair and to take me to the nearest town amidst your ridicule?
"I wish... I wish everyone in the entire Biyun Pavilion would die! You, you, and all of you!" She traced her fingers across the terrified faces upstairs, her voice sharp, "You all have your own hardships, you all feel that you have it tough, but what about me? What about me?!"
“For over three thousand days and nights, I was tormented by you all in the Biyun Pavilion! During those days, I fawned over each of you like a dog, begging for your mercy, just so you wouldn’t isolate me! Do you still remember how you laughed at me back then? Do you still feel a sense of satisfaction when you think about it now? But back then… I wished I could die right then and there!”
"If it weren't for the God Lord, I would have died long ago. If it weren't for the God Lord, I wouldn't be where I am today, and I wouldn't have had the chance to 'invite' you all here. Aren't you wondering why your master, who used to ignore me, has suddenly changed his ways, not only refusing to pass the position of Pavilion Master to Senior Sister, but also agreeing to hand over the position of Pavilion Master of Biyun Pavilion to me? Hahahahahahahaha!"
"Didn't you all expect this? Your master, who was with you day and night, has long since become an empty shell without a soul! Hahahaha! Oh, right, and all her loyal subordinates are dead too, dead! Hahahaha!!"
"Of all the people left in the entire Biyun Pavilion, only a few of you are still alive. Do you know why I left you all here?" She chuckled, a hint of cat-and-mouse mockery on her face. "Because I want to torment you... just like... you tormented me before..."
Author's Note: Tsk, why do I keep seeing videos of people picking up vegetables on Douyin? Where in Shanghai can I pick up vegetables? There aren't any at the vegetable market near my house, and I haven't seen any trash cans for rotten vegetable leaves. I just wanted to pick up some edible vegetables to slightly improve my meals... Sigh...
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