The man’s splendid clothes were now tattered, his hair a mess, and countless wounds big and small covered his huddled body. Bright red blood dripped from glaring wounds and spilled on the cold marble floors and his usual upright and straight poise had been reduced to become a tightly curled up ball, trembling in agony.
The palace maids and eunuchs huddled in a corner, forced to witness the horror before them, for never in their dreams, had they thought they would witness such atrocities.
“Your Majesty still refuses to divulge the locations of the Soul Jade? Why do you choose to suffer such torment? Qing Yun Clan and the Qi Kingdom had always been friends, why do you choose to cause us such annoyance?” Qin Yu Yan sat imposingly upon the Emperor’s throne and sighed in mock exasperation, looking aggrieved, her eyes on the figure sprawled upon the cold floor.
Mo Qian Yuan, the newly crowned Emperor of the Qi Kingdom, was slated to enjoy the celebrations and the great admiration his people had for him, but he was being tortured cruelly instead, in the same main hall of the Imperial Palace, by the people from the Qing Yun Clan.
He no longer possessed the strength to struggle, and can only gasp weakly with his face upon the cold hard floor. The good looking face, had had two deep gashes, and they opened from his left and right temples and crossed upon his face to his jaws. The blood was still flowing unabated and the pain had been forgotten by Mo Qian Yuan, as the pain of his flesh, was overshadowed by the excruciating agony felt inside his body. It felt like everything inside was being churned, with blades and he was supposed to pass out from the agony.
Mo Qian Yuan knew though, the sweet comfort of unconsciousness would not come.
He did not know how long he had been suffering under the torment, he had only remembered that it had been early in the morning when the Qing Yun Clan had barged into the Imperial Palace, and drove out all the court officials, and slammed the doors to the main hall shut. They had then dragged the ruler of the kingdom down from his throne and forced unknown poison down his throat.
The pain had begun from then…..
They had cut the tendons of his hands and feet and broken his spine. He could not even count the number of slashes and cuts he had been put through. The pain should have been too much for the mind to take, but the Qing Yun Clan disciples had forced fed him a medicine that kept him conscious. No matter how much of the excruciating pain and agony he felt, he could never fall into a dead faint, and under feel every single heart rending ounce of torment the pain brought.
Mo Qian Yuan felt like laughing, to laugh at his own naivety, to laugh at his own foolishness. All the suffering he was put through, was brought about by his very own naive compassion…..
If he had listened to Jun Wu Xie, and struck at them first, he wouldn’t have fallen into the hands of the QIng Yun Clan.
But he had never imagined that the top clan under the skies, a clan known for their healing knowledge of Medicine, were capable of employing such malevolent and cruel means against their enemies. Refusing them the sweet embrace of death, only to suffer further under torment.
He had thought that Jun Wu Xie was vicious, but what the Qing Yun Clan had put him under, made Jun Wu Xie look like an angel.
At the very least, Jun Wu Xie would never raise her hand against the innocent.
This was the wager he agreed to make with her?
Whether the Qing Yun Clan would uphold their reputation as the most revered clan throughout the lands? And whether Qin Yu Yan would be as understanding and accommodating as he had imagined her to be?
Mo Qian Yuan swallowed the blood that trickled up his throat, and his mouth curled in derision at himself with much difficulty, and the last traces of magnanimity in him was snuffed out, as he drowned in the agonising torment that washed over him.
“You still refuse to tell?” Qin Yu Yan propped her chin onto her hand, as she looked on in impatience at the mute Mo Qian Yuan. She had not expected that, a weak Emperor of such a tiny kingdom, had the audacity to lie to her.
Volume 3
Chapter 230:”Torture (2)”
She had been to the Royal Tomb and the Jun Family’s graveyard. She had turned the places upside down and still did not manage to locate any sign of the Soul Jade.
Qin Yu Yan had decided that Mo Qian Yuan had lied to her.
The price for having deceived the Qing Yun Clan, was not something everyone could bear up under.
She would not kill Mo Qian Yuan, but keep him within an inch of his life. After she manages to force Mo Qian Yuan to divulge the location of the Soul Jade, she would personally bring him back to the Qing Yun Clan, dismember his limbs and leave him soaked in her medicinal urns, which were filled with devastating poison, and make him suffer unspeakable torment, while keeping him alive.
This was the price for deceiving the Qing Yun Clan.
“Yun Xian.” Qin Yu Yan called out suddenly. Bai Yun Xian, who had been standing quietly at the side snapped to her senses, and paled visibly, as she fell to her knees in a panic before Qin Yu Yan who sat high up upon the Emperor’s throne.
“Senior! I have wronged you! I will never create such mischief again!” Beads of sweat rolled down the side of her face. People were usually charmed by the gentle facade that Qin Yu Yan portrays, but as a disciple of the Qing Yun Clan who knew the inner workings within well, she knew the terror that hid behind the mask that Qin Yu Yan presented to the outside world.
The Eldest Miss of the Qing Yun Clan who always appeared gentle and affable, was actually a demoness in disguise.
Qin Yu Yan’s area of expertise was not medicine, but the development of poisons!
In Qin Yu Yan’s backyard, tens of enormous medicinal urns were kept. In every urn, it was filled with various brews made from myriad poisons. She would then dismember the limbs, gouge out the eyes and cut off the tongues of people who displeased her and dump them into the urns to conduct her research into her study of poison. These people used for her research were all kept alive and refused death to suffer under their painful existence.
Even the disciples of the Qing Yun Clan were terrified of Qin Yu Yan.
The woman had never been benevolent in her ways, even when their own Qing Yun Clan disciples caused her to be annoyed, they were not let off easy either.
Qin Yu Yan looked smilingly at Bai Yun Xian who was sweating profusely and waved her hand slightly. A Qing Yun Clan disciple appeared from the back of the hall pushing a wheelchair. And seated upon the wheelchair, was the hideous and gruesome Mo Xuan Fei.
“Since you admit to your mistake, you would know what to do. You are my junior, and my father harboured high hopes for you. Being hopelessly tangled with a duke, would not be something my father would like to hear about.” Having said that, Qin Yu Yan threw a dagger at the feet of Bai Yun Xian. “Kill him, and go back with me to receive your punishment.”
Bai Yun Xian was stunned as she stared at the dagger at her feet. She hesitated a moment before she bent to gingerly pick it up. She trembled as she straightened herself and walked unsteadily towards the obviously delirious Mo Xuan Fei.
He had been a suave and charming guy, and he had been reduced to such a sorry state. He lost his good looks, and his elegant charm was missing. He was now just a nauseating pile of rot that smelled just as bad as he looked.
“Can’t bear to?” Qin Yu Yan asked, observing Bai Yun Xian.
“It’s not that.” Bai Yun Xian calmed herself. If it was Mo Xuan Fei in the past, she might have considered herself to have some feelings for him. But after he was reduced to such a state, Bai Yun Xian had given up on any thoughts of that.
‘Kill him and my senior will spare me.’
Without much of a hesitation, Bai Yun Xian drove the dagger in her hands deep into the chest of Mo Xuan Fei. Mo Xuan Fei who had been muddled and delirious for a time seemed to wake up and regain his consciousness at that moment. The distant look in his eyes lifted and he stared befuddled at the hands holding the dagger hilt that stuck out from his chest
and turned to look at Bai Yun Xian with his eyes in disbelief and grudging resentment.
“I had no other choice. Having you dead is better than getting myself killed.” Bai Yun Xian whispered through her teeth as she watched the light fade from Mo Xuan Fei’s eyes. And when he breathed his last, Bai Yun Xian turned and knelt before Qin Yu Yan.
“My senior, he is dead.”
Volume 3
Chapter 231: Torture (3)
Qin Yu Yan nodded, satisfied. Bai Yun Xian hurried in retreat to the side as she was relieved from her burden. Qin Yu Yan gestured to another Qing Yun Clan disciple and he walked over to the curled up figure of Mo Qian Yuan who was still upon the floor and pulled his head up by the hair, to let him see Mo Xuan Fei on the wheelchair, motionless in death.
“Your Majesty, your brother is dead. If you do not want to be like him, then tell us what we want to know.” Qin Yu Yan said indifferently to Mo Qian Yuan, who had held his mouth longer than she had expected. The poison that he had been forced to take was no ordinary poison. Its potency was not enough to immediately claim his life, but it would have caused untold damage to his internal organs, and brought enough pain to make him want to end his own life.
Even after having gone through all that, Mo Qian Yuan still refused to spill the beans.
This was what really frustrated Qin Yu Yan.
“It seems Your Majesty still does not understand your predicament.” Qin Yu Yan said softly, as she gestured for the disciple to lift Mo Qian Yuan up. “Perhaps we have been too lenient, and we need to do more to make you talk. Uncle Jiang, can you do us the honour please?”
Jiang Chen Qing walked over and grabbed the limp right hand of Mo Qian Yuan. He then held the tip of Mo Qian Yuan’s little finger and released his spiritual energy…..
“ARGHHHH!!!” A pitiful howl filled the main hall.
Mo Qian Yuan’s little finger was crushed bit by bit starting from the tip by Jiang Chen Qing. More blood splattered on the floor and the palace maids and eunuchs shrank back even further into their corner as the horrible scene played out before them.
“Is that pain enough for you?” Qin Yu Yan laughed aloud, the tinkle of her laughter was filled with malice and cruelty.
Mo Qian Yuan had been utterly decimated, the pain had driven deep into heart as he howled in agony. He did not know how much more of this unrelenting torment he would have to take before the end comes.
If only he had listened to Jun Wu Xie….. If he had gone along with what Jun Wu Xie wanted, all these would not have happened…..
“Carry on.” Qin Yu Yan laughed as she uttered those words of venom.
Jiang Chen Qing readied himself to continue his torture of Mo Qian Yuan when suddenly, the tightly shut doors of the main hall burst open, hit by a powerful force!
A handsome youth with his clothes splattered with blood rode upon a magnificent black beast charged into the main hall!
“ROAARRR!!” The black beast gave out a earth shattering roar!
After the black beast devoured the Golden Lion, he acquired the ability to roar like the Golden Lion. The roar sounded so much more dominating than its meek meows!
“Who are you!” Jiang Chen Qing threw down the hand of Mo Qian Yuan and straightened up to face the intruders, as he stared at the duo of flower and beast.
“That question, should be from me, and directed at all of you.” The cold chilly voice rang out suddenly outside the open doors. The cold expression on her face showed at the door after those words and she stood, her frosty eyes surveying everyone within the main hall, as Jun Wu Yao stood silently behind her, a hint of a curl at the corners of his mouth.
“Who and what kind of people would dare come to the Qi Kingdom to commit such atrocities!?” Jun Wu Xie’s eyes fell upon the crumpled form of Mo Qian Yuan on the floor in the middle of the hall and her brow wrinkled intensely as she frowned deeply.
Before you beat a dog, you have to know who its master is….. She had wanted Mo Qian Yuan to learn his lesson from this, but she had underestimated the cruelty of the most revered Qing Yun Clan, worshipped throughout the lands.
“Wu….. Xie…..” He barely whispered, his face white with weakness. When he saw Jun Wu Xie appear before the doors, the excruciating agony that tormented him had lifted for that moment and he summoned everything he had left within to move his mouth sporadically to form a slight lift at the ends of his mouth in relief.
‘She’s here….. finally…..’
Volume 3
Chapter 232:”Torture (4)”
Mo Qian Yuan voice was barely a whisper but the faint sound had burned into her ears when he had looked up at the figure of Jun Wu Xie standing at the entrance to the main hall.
‘Wu Xie?’
‘If her memory served her correctly, the Eldest Miss of the Jun Family seemed to have been named Jun Wu Xie.’
‘But they had sent their men to the Lin Palace, why would Jun Wu Xie be here?’
However, when Qin Yu Yan noticed the fabulously good looking Jun Wu Yao who stood behind Jun Wu Xie, her smile had widened and she could not take her eyes off him.
‘What a unbelievably handsome man!’
She had not known that such a attractive man existed in this world.
“I shall teach that mouth of yours some manners! If you choose to seek death, I am only too glad to grant you your wish!” Jiang Chen Qing did not care who she was, and what she looked like. He only knew that whoever dared to mock the Qing Yun Clan like that must die to atone for the unforgivable affront!
Jiang Chen Qing leaped directly at Jun Wu Xie, choosing to ignore Drunk Lotus completely to be beneath his notice. Among the three people and a beast that had suddenly appeared, only the black beast seemed to possess a little ability to battle. They three humans were too young, with the oldest among them to be just over twenty years of age. No matter how prodigious they might be, they were not a match for him!
However, before Jiang Chen Qing could even touch a corner of Jun Wu Xie’s robe, a blood coloured streaked flashed to appear right before his eyes.
The dashing youth threw a lightning quick punch at the face of Jiang Chen Qing. His speedy movements had surprised Jiang Chen Qing and he raised his arms hurriedly to block off the blow, and Drunk Lotus’ punch hit him squarely on his forearms. A searing pain tore through his arms that shot throughout his entire body with its impact!
In a blink, Jiang Chen Qing had been driven back. The arm that blocked the blow from Drunk Lotus had blood running freely down its length, and its bone broken and sticking out of his flesh, visibly exposed.
‘What kind of a monstrous strength was that!?’
Jiang Chen Qing stared at Drunk Lotus, his mouth agape, his mind reeling in shock.
He, a respectably powerful blue spirit user, just had his arm broken by a fledging young youth in his teens, with a single punch? If word of this got around, nobody would have believed it!
Drunk Lotus’ domineering attack, had not only shocked Jiang Chen Qing himself, but had made all the others from the Qing Yun Clan stand up in surprise!
They knew very well, the prowess Jiang Chen Qing possessed. Even if the kid had successfully sneaked an attack on him, it was impossible that Jiang Chen Qing would lose so horribly in a single pass!
Drunk Lotus raised his fists up to his chest and his knuckles made a crackling sound as he clenched his fists. The fresh blood that had just smeared his fist dripped from his fingers. He might be extremely arrogant, but there was one common aspect among all contractual ring spirits. They were fiercely protective of their masters. That obnoxious old man dared to attack Jun Wu Xie before his eyes!? He must have lived too long and was getting tired of living!
“Who in the world are you?” Jiang Chen Qing asked as he gripped his blood covered arm and stared at Drunk Lotus. He could not believe the young teenager before him possessed such power!
“You are not fit to know that.” Drunk Lotus spurned, with a laugh filled with scorn.
Qin Yu
Yan watched from atop the throne with her eyes narrowed after she averted her eyes away from Jun Wu Yao’s good looks. Jiang Chen Qing had attained a blue leveled spirit and ordinary people were not a match for him. Moreover, he was skilled in poison as well. Unless the opponent was an indigo spirit user, no one should be able to dominate over Jiang Chen Qing like this.
But the youth was obviously very young, how did a single punch from him reduce an Elder of the Qing Yun Clan to such a state!?
Qin Yu Yan changed her tact and stood up suddenly. She smiled gently at the annoyingly arrogant Drunk Lotus and said: “I ponder for a reason why a respected individual such as you would grace us with your presence here today. Could it be that some sort of a misunderstanding had mistakenly been formed with the Qing Yun Clan? The Qing Yun Clan are currently handling some private matters and I would humbly request for you gracious acquiescence to make way for us to conclude them, and the Qing Yun Clan will not forget the favour shown to us today.”
No matter who this youth was, Qin Yu Yan did not want to make an enemy of him. She brought up Qing Yun Clan’s name into this to lend her credibility to encourage the youth to accede to her request. As for Mo Qian Yuan and Jun Wu Xie, she will bide her time to decide on their punishments.
Volume 3
Chapter 233: Fourth Slap (1)
Qin Yu Yan’s guess was that the youth was probably external help that Jun Wu Xie had employed from foreign powers.
But she was thinking what Jun Wu Xie, a mere Young Miss of a miserly Lin Palace, had to offer to those foreign powers? Whatever Jun Wu Xie could offer, the Qing Yun Clan can easily double the offer.
There were no such thing such as unshakable alliances. When people stick to so called loyalty and determination, it was just that the offer was not tempting enough.
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