Chapter 103 No Phase Hell

When Zhao Ci spoke, I deliberately glanced back and breathed a sigh of relief when I saw Su Su catching up.

It was only later that I understood why Su Su, having exhausted her good fortune, was still able to help us turn danger into safety.

It was because she had placed all the misfortune on the two young attendants.

The tribulation brought about by misfortune caused them to crash into the Three Lives Well. This inadvertently saved our lives.

Sometimes, what can turn the tide of battle is not only a person's own good fortune, but also the misfortune of the opponent.

As I pressed closer to Zhao Ci, Zhao Ci retreated into a hall filled with torture instruments, stopping between two wooden racks with corpses hanging from them.

When I stopped, my eyes involuntarily turned to the corpses hanging in mid-air, their faces covered with white cloths.

As soon as my gaze met the corpses, the white cloths on their faces fell off on their own, revealing faces that had been scraped down to the bone.

Suddenly, a layer of blood appeared on the faces of the corpses, looking as if they were human bones that had just been skinned and had not had time to wipe off the blood.

I also suddenly felt a sharp tightening of my arms. When I looked back, I found several marks on my arms that looked like rope marks.

Zhao Ci said, "Hall Master, this place should be called No Phase Hell rather than No Phase Heaven."

"Every corpse here has no face. When you look at the corpse, their faces will slowly grow flesh and blood until they look exactly like you."

"The punishments they suffered will also be transferred to you."

"At that time, there will be a few more corpses in No Phase Heaven."

"If you don't believe me, you can look at the marks on your arm. Aren't they in the same position as where the corpse was tied?"

I had already noticed the position of the marks on my body. Even if Zhao Ci didn't say it, I could imagine the result.

I could see a total of three corpses with the cloths falling from their faces, which meant that Ye Yang, Su Su, and I were all in desperate situations.

Zhao Ci slowly said, "Hall Master, we can chat now."

"I think you should know why I attacked you, right?"

I replied, "Is it for Zhao Yuezhu?"

"Yes!" Zhao Ci nodded and said, "I, Zhao Ci, have never betrayed my conscience in my life. The only person in this world who can make me go against my conscience and morality is Yuezhu."

"I don't want to talk about the days when Yuezhu and I depended on each other to gain your forgiveness. When someone wants your life, no reason can be forgiven."

"Besides, this is already the second time I have betrayed Liangjie Tang."

Zhao Ci paused and said, "The first time I betrayed Liangjie Tang, although I was willing to believe in my heart that Liangjie Tang would definitely break through and become famous in the world of术道 (Shu Dao, the world of esoteric arts)."

"However, I also understood that it was a gamble between Liangjie Tang and the Reincarnation Division. I didn't dare to be sure that Liangjie Tang would win."

"I didn't dare to risk Yuezhu's life to witness the miracle of Liangjie Tang with you, so I chose to betray you."

"This time, I did the same thing for the same reason. I can't expect your forgiveness. I can only atone for my sins with my own life."

After Zhao Ci finished speaking, he slowly turned around and looked at a corpse locked in a cage.

Although the corpse was not tied up in the iron cage, apart from its face being intact, there was not a single complete spot on its body. Its death was extremely miserable.

Zhao Ci deliberately chose such a corpse to atone for his sins to us.

When the white cloth on the corpse's face fell off, Zhao Ci turned around and looked at me with a calm gaze and said, "The reason why the Reincarnation Division chose me is because I have spent some time with the people of Liangjie Tang. No one in the Reincarnation Division knows Liangjie Tang better than I do, and no one knows the Hall Master better than I do."

"Of course, my research on everyone in Liangjie Tang is out of an instinct to collect information. It wasn't that I had the intention to betray Liangjie Tang from the beginning."

I said coldly, "I don't need you to explain anything to me. Whether you betrayed Liangjie Tang from the beginning or became a traitor later, it's the same to me."

"What I want to know is, has Zhao Yuezhu also joined the Reincarnation Division?"

"No!" Zhao Ci shook his head and said, "Yuezhu not only did not join the Reincarnation Division, but she also doesn't know that I'm working for the Reincarnation Division. She always thought that I had gone overseas to live in seclusion."

"In fact, I did go overseas. However, I came back after living there for two months."

"I couldn't leave Yuezhu here alone, so I came back just to take care of Yuezhu. I didn't expect to run into Zhu Zining."

"Zhu Zining didn't force me. She just told me that Yuezhu was the Yueying Thief back then."

"It was because of this sentence that I chose to join the Reincarnation Division."

"If Yuezhu knows that I have betrayed Liangjie Tang again, she probably won't forgive me, right?"

Zhao Ci couldn't help but smile bitterly when he said this, "There's probably no point in saying this now. We will all die here. No one will know that I, Zhao Ci, murdered the Hall Master and Ye Dangjia. No one will blame Yuezhu, right?"