The next moment, accompanied by a shrill scream, Yu Sheng covered his right eye in pain, his voice was sharp as he shouted, “My eyes, my eyes can’t see!”
In front of Yu Sheng, Su Zian was holding a broken sword, gritting his teeth and staring at him with hatred. If the people around him hadn’t stopped him in time, Yu Sheng’s two eyes would have been destroyed.
But even if one eye was still intact, Yu Sheng’s entire face was ruined. The wound was cut diagonally from his right eye, his nose and left face were not spared. The bleeding wound was extremely horrible, making his originally unremarkable face even uglier.
Seeing this, Qin Yu put down his fingers calmly. He had just controlled the demonic energy in Su Zian’s body to attack Yu Sheng. In his previous life, when he fell into poverty, Yu Sheng had often taken advantage of him. Now he was just giving him a taste of his own medicine. Qin Yu glanced at Su Zian, who was still eroded by the demonic energy and whose consciousness had not yet recovered. Then he turned around and said to Yu Sheng with a look of pity and compassion, “Now, Master Yu Sheng should believe it.”
How could he not believe it! Yu Sheng covered his eyes with blood, pointed at Su Zian who was suppressed and said fiercely, “This guy who betrays his master and destroys his ancestors must not be let go!” No longer seeing the good master who protected his apprentice just now, Qin Yu turned his eyes to Su Zian with a cold expression.
What happened next was just like a replay of the previous life, except that the target had changed. The person who was despised, found to have demonic energy in the sect competition, was convicted and imprisoned was replaced by Su Zian and not Qin Yu…
The next day, Qin Yu received a message from the prison that Su Zian wanted to see him. This was completely within Qin Yu’s expectations, so he agreed without thinking. Walking to the cage where Su Zian was imprisoned, feeling the chill in the cage, Qin Yu suddenly remembered his life as the crown prince of the demon clan.
The scene that seemed to be re-enacted yesterday suddenly gave Qin Yu a vague premonition that everything was about to end.
At this moment, Qin Yu, who was in deep thought, suddenly heard Su Zian’s cry, “I am innocent.”
“Everyone who comes in says so.” Obviously, the jailer didn’t believe Su Zian’s words at all. He turned around, saw Qin Yu and immediately saluted, “Master Dao Jun, you are here.”
When Su Zian heard that Qin Yu was here, his face immediately brightened with joy. He was saved. Su Zian clung to the bars with an excited look on his face, “Master, Dao Jun, I’ve been wronged, please save me!”
Qin Yu gently waved his hand at the jailer, “You go out first.”
“I’ll go out right away.”
When Qin Yu and Su Zian were the only ones left around, Qin Yu suddenly smiled and Su Zian felt uneasy. He gripped the bars tightly with his fingers, his joints turned white and said in a dry voice, “Dao Jun?”
“Yes.” Qin Yu nodded. He first looked around the surrounding environment, then leaned over and looked into Su Zian’s eyes and said, “I heard you say that you have been wronged?”
“That’s right, Dao Jun,” Su Zian nodded hurriedly, “I was wrongly accused. I don’t know what happened, I was in jail the moment I opened my eyes. They said I hurt my master, but I don’t remember anything about it and I don’t know what happened afterwards.”
Qin Yu knew that Su Zian didn’t lie about this, but he brushed his sleeves nonchalantly, “Then do you remember that you wanted to kill Xiao Yun?” Xiao Yun is the disciple who defeated Su Zian earlier.
“I…” Su Zian was about to say that he didn’t remember, but when he met Qin Yu’s almost ruthless eyes, he was speechless in an instant.
“It seems that you remember.” Qin Yu hooked his lips, “How are you going to explain now, Su Zian?”
Hearing this, Su Zian frowned, then immediately lowered his head and stared at the ground, and said in a low voice with guilt, “At that time, I was completely blinded by my desire to win, so I attacked Senior Brother Xiao. I have realized my mistake and I will apologize to him after I get out of prison.”
“Get out of prison?” Qin Yu raised his eyebrows slightly and said word by word to Su Zian who looked confused, “No, you don’t have a chance to get out.”
These words came too suddenly, and Su Zian’s heart suddenly rose to his throat. He widened his eyes and stared at Qin Yu through the bars, “What does Dao Jun mean by this?”
“Ahem.” Qin Yu covered his lips with his hand, looking apologetic, “Sorry, I just said it wrong, you will get out of here.”
[mfn]I will get out?![/mfn] Su Zian’s mind was immediately occupied by these words, and he was overwhelmed with joy, it turned out to be a slip of the tongue. Fortunately, it seems that things have not yet reached a desperate situation and there is still room for maneuver.
He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead in fear and laughed dryly, “Dao Jun just scared me, I thought I would stay in this cage forever.”
Qin Yu had already appreciated Su Zian’s face-changing performance enough, and he said directly, “Of course you can’t stay here forever, after all…”
Qin Yu suddenly stretched out his hand through the gap in the cell and clamped Su Zian’s chin. Looking at Su Zian’s changing expression, he said faintly, “After all, this place is too cheap for you. Don’t you know what happened later? I will tell you everything bit by bit…”
“No, it’s impossible.” After listening to Qin Yu’s story, Su Zian took several steps back, his body pressed tightly against the wall of the cell, his whole body stiff and pale, “Dao Jun is lying to me, right?”
Qin Yu, who was wiping his fingers with a silk handkerchief, smiled and asked him as if he had heard a joke, “Su Zian, ask yourself, what is there about you that is worth me lying to you?”
Su Zian’s face turned blue and his body slid down the wall uncontrollably. Indeed, he had no need to lie to himself, and he had never lied to himself. So, his possession of the devil was really discovered!
He looked at Qin Yu in panic. He still remembered the ending of Qin Yu in his previous life. He didn’t want to end up like him. Su Zian subconsciously ignored that the tragedy of Qin Yu’s previous life was entirely caused by him.
Under the threat of death, he rolled and crawled to Qin Yu, collapsed on the ground and looked up at Qin Yu through the bars, “Dao Jun, my becoming a demon was completely an accident. It was not my intention. You have to believe me.” Qin Yu was unmoved. Su Zian was hit by his indifference again. His nose was sore, and he held back his tears and said in a hoarse voice, “I’m telling the truth, Dao Jun.”
“Words are not enough. Besides, it is a fact that you hurt people and wanted to kill people. Su Zian, you can’t escape the punishment.”
Speaking of punishment, Su Zian immediately thought of what Qin Yu said in the secret realm. His eyes dimmed, and suddenly a light of hope ignited, “I can make up for my sins, Dao Jun. I killed Chi Huai, the second prince of the Demon Realm. I can use it to make up for my mistake. Please don’t kill me.”
As a result, after Su Zian finished speaking, Qin Yu looked at him as if he were a madman, “Su Zian, do you know what you are saying?”
“I know.” Su Zian stretched out his arm and tried to grab Qin Yu with a life-saving straw mentality, but Qin Yu didn’t even let him touch the corner of his clothes. “Don’t do unnecessary things.”
Su Zian reluctantly retracted his hand. He lowered his head and emphasized again in a sullen tone, “It was indeed me who killed Chi Huai.” Qin Yu curled his lips sarcastically, “Just you? Do you think anyone will believe it?”
Qin Yu’s disdainful tone was not concealed. After Su Zian heard it, the expression on his face froze. He licked his lips helplessly and wanted to explain himself. At this time, Qin Yu spoke again. He said, “But I believe you, Su Zian.”
“You believe me?” Su Zian looked up at Qin Yu, his eyes full of shock and excitement, and his voice was sobbing. He knew that Qin Yu would not ignore him.
Qin Yu didn’t know how to evaluate Su Zian when he found that he had hope again. The Han Rong who trusted him unconditionally had been killed by him a long time ago. Now it was Qin Yu who stood here. A cold light flashed in Qin Yu’s eyes. It was time to let Su Zian face the facts. “Of course I believe that you killed Chi Huai. After all, I was the one who secretly revealed his whereabouts to you.”
Su Zian heard the most unbelievable sentence since his rebirth. He even suspected that he had been in the dark and damp prison for too long and had auditory hallucinations. “Dao Jun must be joking, right?”
“Is there any fun in deceiving you, Su Zian?” Qin Yu sneered at his pretense of deafness.
As soon as Qin Yu said this, Su Zian could no longer maintain his calm. With a crazy look and red eyes, he asked Qin Yu, “Why did you do this?”
Qin Yu shook his head with regret, “I thought you wanted to thank me, thank me for telling you Chi Huai’s whereabouts, so that you can make up for your mistakes.”
Qin Yu spoke the words “make up for your mistakes” clearly and slowly. Su Zian could no longer comfort himself with the excuse of auditory hallucination. He trembled all over and asked Qin Yu in horror, “What do you know?”
Qin Yu did not answer this question, but asked him in return, “How does it feel to have nightmares every day and be tortured by demons?”
“How much do you know?” Su Zian was on the verge of collapse, shaking his head constantly, as if he wanted to escape reality in this way, but Qin Yu’s next sentence directly sent him to hell.
He said, “All.”
“Impossible!” Su Zian immediately denied it.
Qin Yu opened his thin lips, “I know you are reborn, I know you killed Chi Huai, I know how you killed him…” The more Qin Yu spoke, the more Su Zian’s body trembled. Seeing that Su Zian was about to convulse, Qin Yu pulled a chair over and sat down, and asked him leisurely, “Should I continue?”
Su Zian shook his head stiffly like a puppet without flesh and blood, “Please stop talking.” After saying that, Su Zian suddenly thought of a question, “Why do you…”
“Why do I know all this?” Qin Yu looked at him with a smile, and Su Zian suddenly thought of a possibility. He widened his eyes in shock and pointed at Qin Yu and said, “You are also reborn?”
Qin Yu sneered, “Isn’t it a little too late to find out at the end, my good disciple?”
Qin Yu admitted it. No wonder his attitude towards himself is completely different from that of his previous life! Su Zian’s heart suddenly sank. He quickly supported himself with his hands and dragged his body back, fearing that he would be caught and retaliated against by Qin Yu if he acted too late. Qin Yu watched him quietly finish this series of actions, with a look of contempt, “What can I say about you, Su Zian? The word “trash” is too flattering.”
Su Zian shrank in the corner, hugged his knees with his arms and his lips opened and closed, but he did not dare to refute. His life was now completely in Qin Yu’s hands. Qin Yu examined him and said, “Aren’t you very talkative on weekdays? Why don’t you talk now? Speak!”
“I…” Su Zian took a quick look. He felt that there was an unfathomable abyss hidden under Qin Yu’s calm surface. He did not dare to disobey Qin Yu and could only rack his brains to organize his words and say, “Master, I didn’t mean to kill you at the beginning. I was deceived by Chi Huai. He deliberately let me see you hurt him. He used this insidious and cunning way to use me!”
“What else?” Qin Yu asked again.
“And…” Su Zian looked anxious, “And, I have killed Chi Huai and avenged you.”
“Avenged me?” Qin Yu raised his eyebrows slightly, his voice full of sarcasm, “Are you sure you are not avenging yourself? Avenging the murder in your previous life!”
Su Zian was stunned. He didn’t expect that the other party knew such things, but when he thought that he was the Dao Jun, Han Rong, who was admired by countless people, he instantly felt it was reasonable. He shed tears and cleared himself again, “Master, I regretted it since I knew the truth. I died with anger and resentment. The first thing I did after rebirth was to worship you as my master again and repay you well.”
“I think repaying is fake, and currying favor is more real.” Qin Yu’s reply was still without any mercy.
It hit the nail on the head. At this moment, Su Zian was completely aware that the Qin Yu in front of him was no longer the master who indulged him in his previous life. Now he was indifferent and ruthless to him, making it difficult for him to approach.
But since it was a matter of safety, Su Zian could not retreat. “Master, as long as you forgive me, you can do anything to me, even let me be your slave.”
Qin Yu was indifferent, as his emotions did not fluctuate at all. Obviously, these words could not touch him. Su Zian’s blood froze. He climbed to the bars again with fear, knelt down to Qin Yu, cried and pleaded for himself, “I know I was wrong, Master, please, let me go…”
Qin Yu lowered his eyes, “Su Zian, how did I treat you in my previous life?”
Su Zian paused, as his memory immediately returned to his previous life. In his previous life, Qin Yu was really good to him and he would respond to his every request. Once, Qin Yu was about to break through and had to practice in seclusion, but as soon as he received his request for help, he came out immediately, and he got a backlash in his cultivation. Even after discovering that he (SZ) was eroded by the devil’s energy, he transferred the devil’s energy to himself regardless of his safety…
Thinking of his previous life, Su Zian looked regretful. Qin Yu shook his head with disgust and asked again, “But what did you do to me?”
“I…” Su Zian was speechless. He thought of everything he had done to Qin Yu, and his tears could no longer be stopped as it kept flowing down.
“So, why do you want me to let you go? To tell you the truth, Su Zian, I pushed you to this point behind the scenes…” Then Qin Yu told the whole story from beginning to end.
At the end, Qin Yu sighed again with regret, “In the secret realm, I clearly said not to let you enter behind the stone gate, but you insisted on going in, which led to a series of things that happened later. Tell me, who can you blame for this?”
Of course, it’s my own fault, Su Zian thought painfully, but when he saw Qin Yu’s calm face, he suddenly realized that Qin Yu had long expected that he would not listen to advice and that was why he repeatedly advised him. It seemed that every word was for his own good, but in fact every word was leading him to the abyss. The person who once cared about him the most really hated him the most now.
Everything he had done since his rebirth was in vain. Thinking of this, Su Zian’s eyes were dim.
“By the way,” Qin Yu reminded him again, “it’s impossible for you to make up for your sins with your merits. Don’t forget that in addition to Chi Huai, you also killed other people.” This is why he shouted that he wanted to make up for his sins with merits as soon as he woke up.
Hearing this, Su Zian’s originally pale face turned bloodless. He did kill other people. Someone caught him killing Chi Huai and demanded a huge amount of money from him. Seeing that he was a person with no worldly cultivation, he killed him with a sword…
Looking at the look of panic and loss on Su Zian’s face, Qin Yu stood up, looked down at him, then leaned over with a smile and pinched Su Zian’s neck, applying force a little bit, watching his face gradually turn purple, watching his struggle become weaker and weaker.
Then when Su Zian stopped struggling and was ready to die, he suddenly let him go and crippled one of his arms. “Don’t worry, although I want you to die, I won’t do it now. As for when to do it, it depends on my mood. Cherish every moment of your life, Su Zian.”
Even though Qin Yu would not kill him now, Su Zian was even more terrified. Because there was a sword hanging over his head, he was facing the threat of death at all times and he had to endure the torture of inner demons and nightmares. This was more terrible than dying immediately.
Su Zian watched Qin Yu walk towards the door after he finished speaking. He subconsciously wanted to stretch out his arm to hold him tightly but his arm had been crippled and he couldn’t lift it up at all. At the same time, the inner demon attacked again. In the end, Su Zian could only lie on the cold ground, enduring the endless and heart-wrenching pain, and watching Qin Yu leave his sight with tears in despair, and walk to a place he could never reach in his entire life.
Eyes blurred by tears, Su Zian hugged his broken arm and suddenly remembered the apprenticeship ceremony in his previous life. The handsome immortal sat on the high platform. A glance from him made his heart tremble and he couldn’t control himself.
Did he really not love him? No, he just couldn’t believe how such an immortal who was not stained by the dust could fall in love with such a tiny person like himself. Later, he really didn’t love him. Su Zian stared at the top of the cell and couldn’t help wailing. After all, it was his own fault. He couldn’t blame anyone…
As soon as Qin Yu came out of the prison where Su Zian was imprisoned, he found that everyone he met on the road had a strange expression. They looked at Qin Yu, some wanted to say something but stopped, or gave him looks of admiration… Qin Yu was curious. Whenever he wanted to ask, the other party would quickly say hello and run away immediately, not giving him a chance to speak.
What happened? Qin Yu stood in the sun with a dazed look. What happened in the middle that he didn’t know?
