“Clean them up properly. I have new drugs to test on them.” Ke Cang Ju let out a spine chilling cackle as he turned to walk further inside.
Within the dimly lit underground chamber, the torches flickered, and the pretty faced youth hung from the wall, his face pale. He was not moving, and it seemed as though he could be dead.
Ke Cang Ju lifted a water scoop from a bucket and splashed it heavily upon the youth.
The icy cold water woke the unconscious youth and he raised his head slowly, his eyes glinted with a trace of hatred, the tiny teardrop mole below his eye showing clearly on his face.
“I can see you are still very spirited. That’s good. Let’s play a different game today.” Ke Cang Ju cackled maliciously, and pulled a thin cane from a bucket filled with a black gooey liquid. The cane was soaked through with the black liquid and it glistened darkly within the dim firelight, and thorns were embedded throughout its length.
This youth was from the previous batch of new recruits brought into the Hidden Cloud Peak last month. All the others from the same batch that had been brought in had already died under his hands. This youth had possessed exceptional life force and his vitality had far surpassed all the others. Even after more than two weeks’ torture, he had remained alive.
The cane soaked in the poisonous black liquid was slashed upon the youth’s tall slender body, every stroke left glaringly gashing red wounds as the thorns dug into his flesh. The black poison liquid stuck to the wounds and the red bloody gashes soon turned a dark purple.
“This is the poisonous cane that grows only on the Eastern Spirit Mountain, I collected and immersed them in the juice of the Heart Eroding Grass. The poisonous cane’s barbed hooks might be sharp, but were rather brittle. They break off easily after just a few uses and lose its effectiveness. But when it is soaked in the juice of the Heart Eroding Grass, it hardens and strengthens the barbed hooks, making them unbelievably strong and increases its poisonous qualities greatly.” As he continued lashing, Ke Cang Ju was immersed in his ‘teaching’ as he rattled on with his hoarse voice.
“The best thing about it is, the poison is not lethal enough to kill, but will induce unbearable pain and agony in the human body. The wounds it leaves behind will feel like thousands of ants biting away at the flesh. Hua Yao, have you remembered everything your Master had so painstakingly prepared for your lesson today?” The cane slashed mercilessly within the dim chamber, and Ke Cang Ju’s eyes grew crazed, his face contorted in glee, and his breaths grew shorter as he got more and more excited.
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The youth took on the slashes without uttering a single sound with his head lowered, as he clenched his jaw tight. Within the pair of pretty eyes, they did not show any trace of fear or terror, but flashed with a chill and showed defiant calm.
The endless cracks from the cane echoed throughout the underground chamber while the two disciples outside lowered their heads as they began to “prepare” the two newly arrived sacrificial sheep.
“That kid in there can really take it, he’s actually still alive!” One of the disciples said indifferently, having gotten used to the daily tortuous experiments that happened daily in the underground chamber, and Hua Yao was the only one to still survive after more than ten days under the malicious hands of Ke Cang Ju. Before him, none had managed to last that long.
Forget ten days, none had lasted more than even five days! Basically, any of the new recruits sent here mostly die in three days and even if they miraculously survived, an outcome worse than death awaited them. Their vision and voices would be snatched away from them, becoming blind and mute, unable to utter a single word of protest or curse and immersed in the urns that were filled to the brim with poison. Death was actually a relief for these people.
“I took a look at him earlier this morning, he would not last much longer.” The other disciple replied without any expression.
“I wonder how long these two sheep here would last, two days? Or three days….. This kid here had looked rather thin, but he is actually rather muscular.” The disciple exclaimed as he cut up Qiao Chu’s clothes. Under the tattered tunic, his firm muscular chest glistened under the dim flickering torches, as the disciple admired for a little longer before he reached out his hand and stroked Qiao Chu’s chest when he could not resist it any longer. The disciple, absorbed in his admiration and the feeling that lingered on his fingertips, had not noticed that the sacrificial sheep that laid there, had seemed to shiver from his touch.
The other disciple pouted at his partner’s luck as he stared at the petite and skinny specimen of a boy before him, and was about to begin with his task in disdain.
“I don’t know about yours, but this one here, should be lucky if he could even last through today.”
As he spoke, he picked up the blade, raised his hand and was about to cut through the clothes when his hand was back in mid action.
The disciple froze, the shock paralyzing him a moment, as he looked in disbelief at the small hand that was gripped on his wrist!
That hand, belonged to the little brat that lay before him.
“Little Black.” Jun Wu Xie, who had been unconscious just a second ago suddenly snapped her cold and chilling eyes open, and with a low call, a massive black shadow had suddenly appeared in the underground chamber!
The two disciples had been rather laid back and relaxed when suddenly, they spotted the big black beast, but it had pounced on them from within the shadows fast as lightning before they could react and pinned them firmly onto the ground!
How did such a huge beast get into this underground chamber?
And they had not even noticed anything at all!
The daggers that they held within their hands had dropped on the ground when the massive beast had pounced on them, and it held them both down under a paw each pressed against their necks, its sharp claws digging into their carotid artery. A little more pressure, and the beast would have taken their lives!
Everything had happened too fast, and they only glimpsed a massive shadow before they found themselves pinned, and were unable to react in the slightest.
“Hear them utter one word and kill them.” The cold clear voice sounded in the ears of the two Hidden Cloud Peak disciples and their eyes widened in fear when they saw where the voice had come from.
A small petite figure sat up slowly on the wooden platform unhurriedly. The small youth who had been unconscious just moments ago now sat there looking at them with eyes that sent a chill deep into their bones as they lay on the floor, not daring to move a muscle.
Gulp.
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Jun Wu Xie stood up and glanced at the two daggers lying on the floor near her feet. Her cold gaze shifted as she turned and came to stand beside Qiao Chu. She then pried his mouth open and popped an elixir into it.
The next moment, the rigid figure lying upon the wooden platform jumped up suddenly and Qiao Chu screamed!
“Disgusting!!! Ptui!!” Qiao Chu stood pulling at his cut up clothes and both his hands wiped his chest furiously till his skin turned red and sore.
‘Damn! He was just caressed by a man!’
‘Was that idiot a pervert!?’
The images of him being caressed by that perverted trash when he was fully conscious but was unable to move made Qiao Chu lose his mind! He walked single mindedly towards that despicable face that made him boil over with rage and stood next to the black beast, his eyes burning with unbridled anger!
The black beast hesitated and blinked at the fuming Qiao Chu, and cast a confused glance at Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly.
And the black beast lifted its right paw.
The same moment that the black beast lifted its paw, the relieved disciple took a deep breath, but found himself lifted in the air by a raging Qiao Chu who exploded in the very next second!
“Keep it down.”Jun W
u Xie shot Qiao Chu a look of warning.
Qiao Chu flipped his hand and covered it over the mouth of the disciple who was about to scream and pressed him onto the ground. With his free hand, he clenched it into a fist and rained heavy punches, pummeling away to vent out the disgust and frustration within!
The disciple could not escape from the hand covering his mouth nor break free from Qiao Chu as he struggled his hardest to escape. However, the thin frame of Qiao Chu hid surprising strength that could rival Drunk Lotus as he held the disciple down with one hand and pummeled away with his other, ravaging the face under his fist!
The other Hidden Cloud Peak disciple still pinned under the black beast was forced to watch on as his compatriot was hammered into a bloody mess, his bones almost completely broken all over, and he himself began to shiver.
Only when the man breathed his last, did Qiao Chu release him. He slowly stood up, wiped his blood covered fist on his tattered clothes, and said with a frown: “These were my best clothes! And now they’re ruined too!”
“Say, Little Xie, what did you feed me with anyway? I could not move a muscle at all!” Qiao Chu decided that he would never want to go through that again. When Ke Cang Ju had appeared, he had wanted to punch him then, but his body refused to move a single inch, until Jun Wu Xie popped the second elixir into him before he regained the movement of his limbs and body.
“The act must be complete.” Jun Wu Xie said softly, as she eyed the other Hidden Cloud Peak disciple under the black beast’s paw.
The disciple noticed Jun Wu Xie’s eyes on him and he started to shiver more violently and he stared at Jun Wu Xie in fear, shaking his head, in a silent plea for his life.
“Kill.” Jun Wu Xie commanded.
Before he could make a noise, the black beast bit through his neck. His face was still frozen, with a look of horror upon it.
With the two disciples dealt with, Jun Wu Xie and Qiao Chu proceeded deeper into the underground chamber.
In there, the “lesson of the day” for Hua Yao was still ongoing, with Ke Cang Ju “teaching”. Totally immersed in his instruction of his students, he suddenly noticed a reaction for his student. The pretty youth under torture finally raised his head, his eyes bright, staring straight in front of him.
“Finally? You’ve reached your limit?” Ke Cang Ju cackled, and his evil laughter echoed in the underground chamber. All this time, Hua Yao had not shown the slightest reaction to the numerous torture inflicted upon him, but finally, his eyes had changed. Did this mean that the boy can finally no longer bear up under his ingenuity?
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“If you beg me, I might just consider lessening your agony. After all, a disciple like you, is someone I greatly favour.” Ke Cang Ju sneered with a cackling laugh. He absolutely loved it when he saw these beautiful blooming flowers of youth, struggle to live and succumb in the end under the torment of his making, to wilt and finally die.
When pain and fear overtook them, especially when their fair supple flesh of youth were torn and shredded, it had always made excitement surge up within and gave him a twisted sense of satisfaction.
Hua Yao was undoubtedly, among all the “disciples” he had recruited, the one who had the most outstanding looks. When he had first laid eyes on this pretty youth that stirred his heart, his soul had roared to rip apart the pretty face before him, to use poison to rot the bones beneath those distinctly sharp and prominent features, to destroy and grind into the mud, the beauty that was shamelessly being flaunted, stinging his eyes and gnawed at his soul.
“Too slow.” The pretty youth, with a trail of blood flowing down the corner of his mouth, said suddenly, slowly.
Ke Cang Ju paused, not understanding what Hua Yao had meant by those words.
“I thought you were enjoying what the hideous monster had specially prepared for you.” A clear carefree voice suddenly sounded out behind Ke Cang Ju!
Ke Cang Ju turned immediately and looked in puzzlement at the two youths standing just steps away from him!
Weren’t these two boys unconscious and barely alive just moments ago?
“Yucks! At this close distance, your face looks absolutely ugly and disgusting!” Qiao Chu held his hand to his mouth in mock terror, taunting the shocked Ke Cang Ju.
“Ugly!? Who are you calling ugly? You imbecile!” Ke Cang Ju’s face contorted in rage.
All his life, Ke Cang Ju had absolutely hated anyone to talk about his looks. And because of that, he had hated any male he came across who were blessed with good looks, and not even children, were spared from his wrath!
This pipsqueak here, dared to call him ugly to his face!?
He could not wait to shred him into a thousand pieces!
Ke Cang Ju made his move immediately, unable to contain his rage, as three dark cold glints shot towards Qiao Chu’s vitals!
At the same moment that Ke Cang Ju made his move, streaks of silver flashed and stopped the three dark glints in mid flight!
Clink! Clink! Clink!
Three clinks sounded successively!
The moment the silver streaks had clashed into the dark glints, three black needles and three silver needles clattered to the floor, glinting under the flickering torches.
Ke Cang Ju’s eyes widened in amazement, staring in disbelief at the unremarkable youth before him.
His poison needles had never failed him before, even when he had used them on an unsuspecting indigo level spirit user and taken him down. But this youth here actually stopped all three of his poison needles after he made his move!? What surprised him more was after he saw that the silver needles that had stopped his dark poison ones were smaller in weight and size!
He had shot out the needles discreetly without holding back. How did the youth detect and reacted within the split second to stopped his dark needles in their tracks!?
He squinted to take a good look at the youth, and that look gave him a great shock when he realised the youth standing at the side was the very same youth that he had snatched right from under Mu Chen’s nose!
Ke Cang Ju hated good looking youths, and the better looking they were, it brought about a greater hatred. Hence, every month, when he picked from the candidates who failed to be accepted into the Qing Yun Clan, he had always chosen the slightly better looking ones. He usually did not pay attention to ones like Jun Wu Xie, small in build, facial features though delicate, but not outstanding. He had forcibly snatched Jun Wu Xie from right under Mu Chen’s eyes because he hated Mu Chen’s youth and his good looks, but was unable to do much more against Mu Chen, when they were both Elders of the Qing Yun Clan.
Compared to Jun Wu Xie, the tall slender youth standing next to him looked more appetising to Ke Cang Ju, as he stirred a greater amount of hatred within, with his better looks.
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Jun Wu Xie, who had been admitted into the Hidden Cloud Peak just to spite Mu Chen, currently became a great shock to Ke Cang Ju.
The youth’s skills and precision with flying needles were on par with him!
How was that possible?
Ke Cang Ju had been unstoppable with his hidden flying poison dark needles in sneak attacks. His discreet attacks on unsuspecting opponents had taken down many senior high leveled spirit experts, and it had failed on a young pipsqueak of a youth here?
The fact remained though, that Jun Wu Xie had done it!
“You really….. disgust me.” Jun Wu Xie, who had remained silent all this time, furrowed her brow, as the image of Ke Cang Ju standing before her, duplicated with her memory of the demonic figure of her past life, who declared in the name of research, and carried out unspeakable cruelty and horrors. People like them, must not be allowed to live at all!
Under that cold gaze, Ke Cang Ju could feel a chill from his feet running up through his bent and crooked body.
It was an insult to him that a gaze from a little brat could send
shivers through him!
“You brat! Such a filthy mouth! It does not matter who you are, but once you set foot onto Hidden Cloud Peak, do not even think of stepping out alive!” Ke Cang Ju cackled with forced bravado, refusing to believe that the two little kids could cause so much of a stir here!
The Hidden Cloud Peak was his domain!
“Can you stop me?” Jun Wu Xie lifted her face, and the corners of her mouth curled into a devilish smile.
The unremarkable face was somehow transformed by that devilish smile that surfaced into a beautiful face!
“Try me and you’ll find out! Rest assured, I will allow you to live longer than the rest, to fully savour the torment I will prepare just for you!” Ke Cang Ju’s evil cackle rang shrilly, as the unbridled hatred broke loose when he saw the beautiful face with the devilish smile on Jun Wu Xie.
All beautiful things, must be totally destroyed!
Qiao Chu stood there, a frown on his face. He had wanted to rush in and teach that malicious hideous monster a lesson.
But Jun Xie had suddenly raised a hand and stopped him in his tracks.
“Stand back.” Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes, her smile growing more radiant.
Qiao Chu paused in hesitation. He felt that the Jun Xie before him was a different person. He was obviously smiling so radiantly, but that smile had sent chills through his body. That unnerving feeling made Qiao Chu submit to Jun Wu Xie’s command, and he took a step back.
“Kid, you are looking to die.” Ke Cang Ju did not think Jun Wu Xie was a threat. It was just a kid before him, and even if he possessed surpassing abilities, it did not matter to him. Ke Cang Ju’s prowess was not in his fighting capabilities, but from his expertise in poison!
Poison that killed his enemies unknowingly, without form!
Under the skies, no one was more familiar than him, how to kill with poison. When he wanted it, he could kill anyone, anytime, to die not not knowing what had killed him!
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