Chapter 83 Suppressing her panting breath, she struggled to suppress the almost tearing sensation...
"I'm going to lock you all up and feed you nothing but scraps and stale porridge every day. It's true, it's not human for me to do this. After all, when I was in Biyun Pavilion, you weren't so inhumane and didn't feed me those things every day, but I... I'm not human anymore! You've already driven me to the point of being inhuman!"
“My dear senior and junior sisters, do you still remember?” Her tone suddenly became very gentle. “I used to want to ask you so many times why you bullied me, why you ostracized me. If you had just told me, I would have admitted my mistakes, I could have changed, I could have changed anything…”
"But when I asked you, how did you answer me? Do you remember?"
As she spoke, she chuckled twice. "Some of you say I'm ugly, so you don't like looking at me; some say I don't smile often, so you hate me; and some even say... there's no reason, you just think I'm cheap, so you want to stay away from me. Do you still remember these reasons?"
Hearing her words, the people on the second floor were all sweating profusely and dared not utter a single word, as if they were afraid of angering her and losing their lives.
But Liu Yan didn't seem to care much, and continued quietly, "Actually, I even asked Senior Sister. At the time, I really felt that since none of you liked me, it must be my fault, so I begged for reconciliation and forgiveness. I would do anything you asked me to do, and I would change anything you asked me to change... But do you know what Senior Sister said?"
Her voice suddenly dropped to a very low hue, and her whole demeanor became exceptionally somber. "Senior Sister's reason is much simpler than yours. She said... no reason, absolutely no reason, she just doesn't like me, that's all, that's all. Hehehe..."
After chuckling softly for a while, she suddenly threw her head back and burst into laughter. She laughed for a long time before slowly stopping and continuing, "Now, I'll tell you."
"No matter how much you beg for mercy now, to me you are utterly hypocritical and repulsive. I suddenly don't want to waste time torturing you anymore, because I still want you dead, I want every single one of you to die! I want everyone in this world to go to hell!!"
With that, she waved her hand sharply, and the puppets upstairs ruthlessly pushed all the weeping and pleading Biyun Pavilion disciples off the railing.
At the same time, she took out a small idol the size of a palm from her bosom and slammed it hard onto the ground with all her might.
The moment the statue touched the ground and shattered, an extremely powerful force surged forth, like an invisible giant wave, spreading outwards in all directions.
In an instant, Li Chenjin, who was about to go to save people, was knocked aside and his back slammed into a pillar in the distance. He felt a sweet taste in his throat and coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Not everyone who fell from the second floor died instantly.
Some people had broken their arms or legs and lay in pools of blood, unable to get up for a while due to the excruciating pain. They could only wail in agony, standing very close to the corpses of the dead. The scene was so tragic that it truly resembled a scene from hell on earth.
The puppets and visitors who had been standing still suddenly became active.
All of them revealed a strange smile on their faces, and then rushed in from all directions like a tide.
In that instant, Shen Zhengyuan appeared beside her and was about to take her pulse when she blocked his hand.
She wiped the blood from her lips, looked at the blood on her hands, and said in a hoarse voice, "As you get older, you're not as agile as you used to be."
"Don't worry, I'm fine. Let's take care of business first."
Shen Zhengyuan gave her a deep look, said nothing, but raised his hand to form a hand seal. A huge magic array composed of obscure runes suddenly unfolded from beneath his feet, golden light flowing and instantly enveloping the entire hall.
The light from the magic array caused the pounced puppets to freeze abruptly, and then wisps of black and red smoke drifted out from their bodies.
As the smoke dissipated, the puppets' bodies instantly collapsed to the ground like broken puppets, their joints scattering and crackling.
In that instant, the eyes of those visitors, who had been unfocused, gradually regained their sparkle.
They looked around blankly, as if they didn't understand when they had left the room, their eyes filled with surprise and confusion.
But upon seeing the hellish scene around them, their astonishment and doubt instantly turned into panic and horror.
They stared at the scattered limbs on the ground, screamed in terror, and tried to flee this eerie place, but then stopped in their tracks as if suddenly remembering something, even forgetting that they were trying to escape.
"Where is my sister? Where is my sister?!"
"Auntie...where's my auntie? Where's my auntie?!"
"Miss...Miss...Where is Miss? My Miss? Miss..."
"Young Master... my young master, my young master, young master... where did the young master go? Where did the young master go? How could I forget the young master? Young Master... young master!"
"My child, my child, my child! Where is my daughter? Where has she gone?! How could I forget her?! She clearly came with me! Where is she? Where is she?!"
"How could I not remember... how could I not remember... little sister... how could I not remember..."
"Senior sister... Junior... Junior sister... Where did she go? How could I not remember her? Where did she go... How could I not remember her... What... What happened..."
Before their doubts and fears could be relieved, a series of teeth-grinding "clattering" sounds rang in their ears.
The crowd looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the huge statue in the center of the hall seemed to have come to life, with stone chips falling all around it as it moved.
It slowly opened its eyes, turned its head slowly in their direction, and lowered its head.
Then, under their gaze, the corners of the statue's mouth slowly grinned into a ferocious arc.
Before the people could recover from the shock of the statue coming to life, they saw its huge stone arm suddenly rise up and, with a sharp gust of wind, smash down hard into the densely packed crowd!
In the instant a deafening roar resounded, the exquisite beams, pillars, doors, and windows inside the Weeping Dew Pavilion were easily destroyed.
Faced with absolute power, the things inside those houses seemed as if they were made of paper.
Those who saw the statue raise its stone arm but failed to escape in time were enveloped by the giant hand and turned into pools of indistinct flesh without even uttering a scream.
Limbs and severed arms, mixed with blood, splattered everywhere. Some people ran halfway when they suddenly felt a warm sensation on their heads. They instinctively touched their heads and found a blurry lump of flesh.
Sticky blood clung to my hands, and warm blood streamed down my cheeks, the heavy stench of blood almost making me want to vomit.
Some people were so frightened that they dropped their things, screamed, and ran away as fast as they could.
But some people were so frightened that they froze on the spot, or fainted from extreme fear. The next second, those who didn't have time to run away and those who had fainted became the new souls under the palm of that statue.
Li Chen saw all of this and subconsciously reached out, only to find that he had no suitable weapon beside him. Just as he was about to run to Han Shannan, wake him up, and get his sword,
Shen Zhengyuan suddenly reached out, and a long sword appeared in his hand. "I..."
Li Chen had no time to listen to what he wanted to say, nor did he have time to ask where he got the sword. He simply pulled the sword from the man's hand, threw him to a place he thought was relatively safe, and left with the words "Take good care of Han Shannan." Then, like an arrow released from a bow, he shot straight toward the statue that was taking lives everywhere.
She moved with the agility of a bird, and in just a few steps, she darted to the statue.
The moment the statue saw her, it reached out to grab her, but she took advantage of the situation, stepped on the back of its hand, and with a light touch of her toes, sped up its arm.
As the statue reached out its other hand to grab her, she leaped onto its shoulder, channeling her spiritual power into the longsword. The sword immediately shone brightly and hummed incessantly. Then, with a forceful pull, the sword pierced deeply into the joint between its shoulder blade and the statue's shoulder blade.
A series of ear-piercing cracking sounds rang out, and an extremely long crack instantly spread out from the junction of its shoulder and arm.
The statue couldn't stop in time, and a giant hand slammed down on its right arm. With a loud "bang," it not only failed to grab Li Chen, but also broke off its entire stone arm, which crashed heavily to the ground!
At this moment, Li Chenjin had already used the momentum to leap onto its head. As the statue raised its hand to grab her, she suddenly jumped down, and her long sword pierced into the back of its neck, slicing down its spine. Sparks flew everywhere.
Finally, as she leaped down from its lower back, she somersaulted in mid-air, simultaneously gathering all her spiritual energy at the tip of her sword. A powerful sword aura, like a rainbow piercing the sun, pierced directly through the back of its left knee!
Suddenly losing its lower leg, it lost its balance and fell to one side with a thud.
Even though it kept reaching out, trying to grab something, there was nothing there to support its weight.
Finally, it crashed heavily to the ground, collapsing half of the buildings in the Weeping Dew Pavilion and stirring up a cloud of dust.
Perhaps it was the thing controlling the statue that, seeing that the body was no longer usable, transformed into a ball of red light entwined with black mist, violently smashed through the magic array set up by Shen Zhengyuan, and disappeared into the horizon in the blink of an eye.
Li Chenjin couldn't care less about the red light at that moment. As soon as he landed on the ground, he felt his knees buckle and he knelt down on one knee, coughing up blood.
A somewhat familiar, sharp pain exploded in her chest, then quickly spread to every part of her body, causing her head to buzz and her vision to blur.
She used her sword to prop herself up, seemingly trying not to look too disheveled. However, due to the pain, she pressed one hand tightly against her chest, and under the pressure of a churning pain inside her body, she suddenly coughed up another mouthful of blood.
Shen Zhengyuan appeared beside her without her noticing. She glanced up and caught a glimpse of his dark robes, then closed her eyes again, panting and trying her best to suppress the excruciating pain that was almost tearing her soul apart.
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