Chapter 316: Karmic Fire
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
This time, her tone wasn’t questioning, but oppressive. Her threat was obvious.
” ” Shangqing, who was prostrating on the ground, gritted his teeth and sweat poured down like rain. He endured the pain of being burned by the Karmic Fire, and his body trembled even more.
He still didn’t say anything. His withered hands were clenched into fists, and veins were almost popping out from under his skin.
If he confessed, he wouldn’t be the only one who would lose.
How stubborn. Gu Yanfei thought to herself. Without any hint of mercy on her face, she raised her hand and snapped her fingers.
The next moment, the golden-red Karma Fire on Shangqing’s body suddenly rose and swallowed his entire body, leaving only his head exposed.
His soul seemed to have been submerged in boiling lava as it rapidly began to melt...
The gap in his soul was getting bigger and bigger.
He knew that if a person’s soul had a gap, it meant that they would become a fool in their next life or even reincarnate as an animal.
However, as long as the incomplete soul was still there, there was a chance to encounter opportunities again and again in reincarnation to replenish the soul. Once the soul dissipated, there would be no chance at all.
Sizzle—
Something in Shangqing’s pupils seemed to have completely shattered and disintegrated.
Shangqing’s lips trembled as he spat out four words with difficulty, “It’s the Yu Family.”
His voice wasn’t loud and was as soft as a mosquito’s buzz.
Gu Yanfei was close enough to hear it clearly, but she still smiled and said, “1 didn’t hear it.”
These four words were neither light nor heavy. They were neither warm nor cold. To Shangqing, they were like a death warrant.
Shangqing’s lips were already devoid of any color. The scorching flames from her shoulder fiercely wrapped around his throat. The flames made his face, which was as pale as a skeleton, turn red, revealing a demonic aura that was on the verge of death.
Shangqing repeated, “It’s the Yu Family.”
His raspy voice rose another three pitches.
The Karmic Fire wrapped around his neck like a poisonous snake, wrapping around his soul like a cocoon. It burned, twisted, and crushed him.
In the face of the cruel and merciless Karmic Fire, Shangqing was like a weak baby, unable to fight back. He could only passively endure the pain from the depths of his soul.
Shangqing screamed in pain again, his voice hoarse. ‘Those children are all in the secret room of the Yu Residence in Wutong Lane.”
“The Yu Family?” The commoners in the crowd were still a little confused.
Many of them didn’t react. ‘Which Yu Family?”
“If it’s the Yu Residence in Wutong Lane, that must be the Yu Family of Yuzhou!” Soon, a loud male voice spoke with certainty. “Yes, there’s a family in Wutong Lane with the surname Yu.”
The commoners all revealed shocked expressions.
The new dynasty had only been established for 50 years. To most people, those aristocratic families that had been prestigious for hundreds of years were deeply rooted in their hearts.
Especially the Yu Family.
“Is it that Yu Family? The Yu Family that had more than ten prime ministers in the previous dynasty?”
“I remember that the elders in my family also said that the Yu Family produced an empress in the previous dynasty.”
“That’s right, that’s right. The descendants of the Yu Family occupy half of the imperial court of the previous dynasty and have power over the court. ‘
“I also heard that many memorial tablets of the Yu Family are enshrined in the ancestral hall...”
The older generation also knew how glorious the Yu Family was in the previous dynasty, far surpassing the current Yuan Family. One by one, they spoke about what they knew about the Yu Family as if they were familiar with it. Their excited tone carried a hint of reverence and admiration.
To commoners like them, these high and mighty aristocratic families were like the legendary princes and princesses. They were all nobles that they could only dream of.
The commoners who had lost their children were all burning with anxiety.
The middle-aged woman with tears all over her face grabbed Scholar Zhang Min’s sleeve and asked anxiously, “Did Shangqing Spiritual Master just say that the children are all in the Yu Family’s secret room?”
Zhang Min nodded and looked at his daughter, who was leaning against him. He frowned and said, “So, the Yu Family kidnapped my daughter and other children?”
But why?!
Why did the Yu Family kidnap so many children?!
This question appeared in everyone’s minds.
Some of them had some guesses in their hearts and looked thoughtfully at the Emperor in front of them. Could it be to frame the Emperor?
‘Why?” Gu Yanfei stared fixedly at Shangqing on the ground and asked their doubts on behalf of everyone around him.
” ” Shangqing looked like he was struggling and hesitating. His entire body was trembling violently in the flames. He no longer looked like a living person, and instead looked more like a ghost that was suffering the torture of hellfire.
Even after enduring such inhumane torture, he still retained his last bit of rationality.
If the sons of the Yu Family were leaves, the Yu Family was their root.
From a young age, he had been taught that only when the Yu Family was good would the Yu Family descendants be good. The family was the backbone of all of them.
For the prosperity of their family, all the sons of the Yu Family were willing to give up everything.
If the leaves were gone, the roots could regenerate the leaves. However, once the roots were destroyed, the leaves would eventually wither and rot!
Gu Yanfei smiled slightly. She couldn’t be bothered to waste her breath on Shangqing anymore. She raised her hand and made a gesture of snapping her fingers, letting her thumb touch her middle finger.
Shangqing seemed to have received an invisible blow and shouted, “Borrowing luck!”
“It was to borrow luck!”
At this moment, the last bit of rationality and perseverance in his heart was completely burned away..