Chapter 14 The Last of the Hua Family

Fang Yue's face darkened. He clenched his fist, then released it, tightened it again, and released it again. After a long while, he took a deep breath and tentatively checked Hua Qiuqiu's breath…

As expected, she no longer showed any signs of breathing.

He checked her heartbeat; there was no pulse either.

At this moment, Hua Qiuqiu was like an artistic statue, her corpse crafted into a [human candle], her hands, feet, and body nailed to the stone platform, suffering utter humiliation!

How could this be…

Fang Yue's face was ashen.

His last memory of Hua Qiuqiu was seeing her briefly in Mo Village, and then, after returning from Qingsi County, entrusting a box to Tian Danzhiyuanwu before hurriedly leaving again.

When Fang Yue later learned of the destruction of Mo Village, he wondered if Hua Qiuqiu would return, how she would react to the fall of the Hua family, and whether she might come to live in Guyue Village.

Who would have thought that until the Wu Yu tribe annihilated Guyue Village, there would be no news of Hua Qiuqiu.

Until today… when he saw her again, the last of the Hua family's bloodline was already a corpse.

He pulled out the iron nails that fixed Hua Qiuqiu's posture, and the black short sword that pierced her mouth.

"Wait…"

Qing Chen spoke, but it was too late.

The instant Fang Yue pulled out the black short sword, Hua Qiuqiu's formerly solid corpse suddenly crumbled to the ground like sand.

Fang Yue instinctively grabbed at it, but all he caught were grains of sand.

Staring at the 'corpse' that had shattered into sand, Fang Yue was stunned.

"What's going on?"

"…That black short sword is a strange object called the Seven Seals Short Sword. Lord Liao once showed it off to us, demonstrating its power in front of us. It can seal and imprison a corpse in its current form… at least that's the surface-level effect. But in reality, it seems to seal away strangeness. As for the specifics, Lord Liao said he was still researching it. Seeing how carefully he hid the Seven Seals Short Sword in the secret chamber, it must be something special."

Fang Yue looked at the black short sword in his hand, then at the sand on the ground, and sighed deeply.

He wasn't interested in whether the Seven Seals Short Sword was extraordinary for the time being. All he knew was…

The Hua family… was finished.

Like the villagers of Guyue Village and Mo Village, they had disappeared silently into the river of time. Apart from this group of people, no one would remember them.

Fang Yue's emotions surged. Just then, Qing Chen suddenly shouted, "Boss, come here and take a look. Does this keyhole match your key?"

Fang Yue composed himself and walked over to Qing Chen. Sure enough, he saw another keyhole on the wall of the secret room.

It felt like an ultimate nesting doll of secret rooms within secret rooms!

The underground stronghold was already a large secret room. Manager Liao's room was also a secret room. Inside the room was another secret room, and inside that secret room was yet another secret room. Was there no end to these secret rooms?

Inserting the key, Fang Yue immediately knew it was the right one.

He twisted the key to open the door…

Swish!

A cold gleam brushed past the edge of Fang Yue's cheek, missing him.

With a lightning-fast reaction, Fang Yue abruptly stopped himself from punching the black shadow's heart.

"Lin Ling?"

Thump.

The sound of the black shadow falling to the ground and Fang Yue's surprised voice rang out simultaneously.

"Mmmph?!"

The black shadow on the ground twisted and turned around.

Upon seeing that it was Fang Yue, he began to tremble with excitement.

The sharp iron needles stuck in his cheeks also trembled, causing blood to flow down his face.

Fang Yue's eyes instantly turned red.

Lin Ling was tightly bound from head to toe with thin iron chains.

His left eye was completely black, like that of a strange creature, while his right eye was completely gone, the eyeball gouged out.

His mouth was sewn shut with iron wire, and any movement would cause blood to flow.

Lin Ling's desperate attack just now seemed to involve finding a long, sharp iron needle himself, and then smashing his face into it, piercing his cheek, piercing through the inside of his mouth horizontally, lodging it in his teeth, and using his teeth to hold the long iron needle firmly in place, resulting in a counterattack.

To be honest, even if Fang Yue had been hit in the neck by the force of that attack, it would only have resulted in a cut; it would have been difficult to kill him.

But Lin Ling had managed to do this in such a desperate situation, which deeply shocked Fang Yue.

He quickly used high heat to cut the iron chains binding Lin Ling, and then carefully removed the iron wire sewn into his mouth.

Just watching the process made Fang Yue feel excruciating pain. But Lin Ling didn't make a sound, his body only trembled slightly in pain.

After Fang Yue pulled the iron wire out of his mouth and then removed the long iron needle piercing his cheek,

Fang Yue quickly fed him several pills to restore his injuries, qi and blood, and stamina.

With the pills in his stomach, the dying Lin Ling barely regained some strength.

He looked at Fang Yue and smiled miserably: "...I knew you'd come to save me."

Just that one smile caused blood to gush out of the dozen or so holes in his lips, spilling over his lips and dripping onto the ground.

"So I held on. I couldn't give up on myself… I had to live!"

"This life of mine was given to me by Hua Wuye, the blood hunters, and everyone in Guyue Village. I can't die… I can't die…"

As if speaking to Fang Yue, and also speaking to himself, Lin Ling passed out weakly after saying the last sentence.

"Help me carry him. Wait for me outside."

Fang Yue's voice trembled slightly.

It was a tremble of extreme rage, almost uncontrollable!

He lit his fire blade, illuminating the surroundings of the small secret room.

Fang Yue discovered that it contained all kinds of torture instruments, in a wide variety. Some of the tools Fang Yue didn't even recognize or know how to use.

The small secret room was very small. In the corner, dried, black blood stained the ground. Judging from the traces, Lin Ling had been sleeping and resting in this corner during his imprisonment.

"Phoenix! Organization!"

Violent flames soared into the sky.

The originally scorching red flames turned directly into a blazing white!

The terrifying high temperature directly melted all the ironware in the small black room into molten iron, incinerating the ground and destroying everything!

When Fang Yue stepped out of the small black room, treading on the blazing white flames, all that remained behind was a pool of molten iron and a terrifying, oven-like heat.

The flames slowly dissipated, and Fang Yue's expression was ashen.

"We're going up. If Lin Ling received this treatment, then Lord Han must be in an even worse state! I'm going back up there to kill all the strange beings and wait for the Grand Manager and Second Manager to return in the Ning Residence!"

A violent chill flickered in Fang Yue's eyes.

"This… this might not be a good idea. Those two lords are very strong, at least at the Xiantian realm. You're no match for them…" Qing Chen said cautiously, carrying Lin Ling on his back.

"Xiantian realm? Even if they're rain-level today, I'm going to slaughter them both!!"