Because Xie Lin Lang’s carriage went through special modifications, it traveled extremely fast. Not long after, they had already circled from the side. Presumably, even the people that were planning to trap them didn’t think they would turn back halfway.
Finally, the carriage stopped and the intense sounds of battle and horrifying screams could be heard.
Sitting and overseeing everything on the outside, Xiao Xi couldn’t help but panic.
“GongZi!”
Hearing his yelling, Xie Lin Lang rushed out, and was completely shocked by what she saw!
Below the hills, the two groups of people that were originally supposed to be in an alliance were fighting each other! But what’s even more peculiar, was that one side was swinging their swords with absolutely no tactic, while the other completely abandoned their swords and resorted to fighting solely with their teeth and biting their enemies!
After the arrow Qin Jue shot out landed on that assassin, he didn’t feel anything out of the ordinary at first. It was only until he went to receive treatment on the sidelines that a strange smell began to emit from his body…
The smell caused the guards to become aggressive. Soon, the assassins discovered that the guards who were pretending to fight suddenly bit at them like crazy!
Many of the people were caught unaware, and immediately had parts of their body torn off along with the skin! The moment the blood splattered through the air, both sides of the fight escalated into chaos!
When the assassins realized the situation and picked up their swords, the guards had already become completely mad. As if they were wild beasts, they threw away their sword and bit whoever appeared in their way!
Because of their inability to feel pain, even if the opponent struck them with their sword, they will still continue until they’ve gotten a bite first! This scene was eerily similar to how the previous guard leader was devoured by his own people…
Xiao Xi began to uncontrollably retch while upon seeing this scene, and Xie Lin Lang’s pupils shrank, her heart rate increasingly beating faster. She finally realized what she had overlooked… The terribly ripped apart guard leader’s bloody body wasn’t caused by some sort of wild animal, it was actually done by humans?!
At this moment, Qin Jue also stepped off the carriage. Seeing how terribly the people in the distance were screaming, he couldn’t help but laugh.
“Sure enough, looks like I won the bet.”
Hearing him, Xie Lin Lang looked shockingly at him.
Back when Xiao Xi’s ShiFu, Master Cheng’E, passed his techniques to Qin Jue, he also passed along the teaching of a witchcraft spell.
This witchcraft spell is one that uses the forbidden techniques of poison. If done well, it is a poison that can control the minds of those who consume it. If done poorly, it can cause a massive plague, hurting both the enemies and the caster!
Because it is difficult to control this poison, all the people that learned this technique didn’t learn so they could cast it on others, but rather so they could understand the cure.
When Master Chang’E taught this to Qin Jue, he made him swear an oath that no matter what kind of situation he’s in, he wouldn’t use this poison to harm others. But now, Qin Jue has used it twice already!
She understood him using it when he had no option left, but now that he has choices, why did he still take this risk?
Unable to understand, she stared at him, and with a tight voice, she questioned, “Does killing all these people with your own hands bring you satisfaction? You clearly had a better option if you wanted to take revenge!”
“A better option? What, to beg you?”
He interrupted, a pair of cold icy eyes matched hers, speaking every word with disdain.
“Ever since the day I personally buried my mother, I swore that I would never beg anyone again!”
“All the people that hurt me, I will personally repay the debt to them tenfold!
And you want me to beg you, why? Is it to satisfy your desire for retribution and sense of justice?”
“Or do you think that because you can’t help my mother, you’re now coming to me so I can become the substitute for your target of good deeds? Then you’ve really come to the wrong person! As it turned out, I’m completely fine without your help!”
Each of his words was filled with malice, and his aura was just as cruel and ruthless as if he was wearing a set of thick armor.
His hatred was directed at everyone and the whole world! His gaze was filled with a burning fire, and the flame burning in it was the flames of revenge!
Xie Lin Lang was forced a step back by his gaze, but he kept coming closer.
“What about now? Seeing such a corrupted side of me, do you still want to repay your debt?”
“All of this darkness and cruelness, recklessness and rashness, all of it is me. Even like this, do you still have that laughable and naive expectation for me?”
His rapid questions shot out like arrows, and he ended up standing straight in front of Xie Lin Lang, looking at her with those pitch-black eyes.
“Hell is a dark place…yet you’re still not leaving…Are you waiting for me to drag you down?”
Xie Lin Lang retreated and retreated, and was soon forced to the edge of the hill, with nowhere to go.
Xie Lin Lang looked at this drastically different Crown Prince than the one she remembered. But for some reason, what she saw was the eight-year-old version of Qin Jue overlapping with the one in front of her…
Back then, he was very afraid of the dark, because ever since he was little, the Emperor had been extremely strict with him. Even just the tiniest mistake sent him to the Buddhist temple for confinement.
The cold and dark Buddhist temple became the place he feared most.
But one time, the two of them had gotten in trouble for something and Xie Lin Lang had thought that the Emperor didn’t notice so they went unpunished. But in fact, the Emperor did find out, but Qin Jue came out in time and took the blame alone and was sent to confinement.
After learning the truth, Xie Lin Lang was embarrassed and ashamed. She immediately took some food to see him, and what she saw was the tiny Crown Prince curled up in one corner of the Buddhist temple, frightened out of his mind.
Seeing this, Xie Lin Lang was both heartbroken and angry, and questioned him, “If you’re going to be this scared, why didn’t you give me away when you were caught? Being punished together is better than being punished by yourself!”
The eight-year-old Qin Jue felt ashamed for being caught by her, yet through his embarrassment, he shyly mumbled, “…This place is so dark and so scary. If I can’t escape from being confined in here, why would I drag you with me?”
That immature eight-year-old face began overlapping with the Qin Jue in front of her, just in time for her to hear him ask mockingly, “Hell is a dark place…yet you’re still not leaving…Are you waiting for me to drag you down?”
The two voices inexplicably merged together. At that moment, as if there was a breeze coming from the sky, blowing away the clouds and mist inside Xie Lin Lang’s mind and clearing her head.
It was as if she had finally gotten to see the true Qin Jue, and at the same time, she seemed to have an idea of how she can repay her debt…