Heavenly Dao Engine -
Chapter 987 - 987 0589 Let You Taste What Its Like to Not Be
Chapter 987: Chapter 0589: Let You Taste What It’s Like to Not Be a Man_2 Chapter 987: Chapter 0589: Let You Taste What It’s Like to Not Be a Man_2 Speaking, Su Jinghan put more strength into his hands and pulled the crack in the void open wider, then he squeezed through it.
Emperor Jianwu’s voice became angry as he roared, “Dog servant, such audacity you have! When did I permit you such insolence? How dare you enter my personal retreat without my permission. Do you believe I won’t kill you, exterminate your entire family?”
“Hahaha…” Su Jinghan’s voice suddenly turned manic as he spoke, “Emperor Jianwu, you bastard, the day has finally come. You still dream of exterminating my family, do I even have a family left? Remember the old days? You were just a common prince, traveling outside, facing danger, nearly losing your life, when I happened to pass by. Seeing you in trouble, I didn’t hesitate to draw my sword to help, saving your life. Back then, your promises were so pleasant to hear. You wanted to become sworn brothers with me, bound by life and death, to share trials and fortunes together. Young and naive, not understanding the evil of human hearts, I actually believed your lies, treating you as a dear brother. For your ascension to the throne, what didn’t my family and I sacrifice? We drained our wealth, recruited soldiers and bought horses for you, secured you cultivation resources, and even my father married my sister to you. Tell me, how much did my family sacrifice for you? But what did you do? As soon as you defeated your brothers and ascended to the throne, becoming the Emperor, you pretended to make my sister the Empress. However, when she was about to give birth to your child, you sinisterly caused her to die in childbirth. And before her body was even cold, you framed my family for rebellion with forged evidence and slaughtered over three hundred of my kin, leaving only me. You then stood in court, claiming to remember my family’s kindness and my sister’s affection for you, pretending to spare my life as gratitude, but saying, ‘Death can be avoided, but punishment cannot.’ You had someone castrate me, ending my family line. This is how you repaid us.”
Emperor Jingwu said, “Didn’t I investigate and clear your family’s name afterward? Didn’t I execute all those who framed your family and exterminate their entire families? You even thanked me for all I did for your family, and said you wanted to stay by my side in memory of your sister, to assist me loyally and diligently. I always trusted you, even promoting you to Chief Guard. I provided you with unlimited cultivation resources, and let you choose cultivation methods first. I never wronged you.”
With a bitter laugh, Su Jinghan said, “You killed my entire family, and you still say you never wronged me. Emperor Jianwu, Zhao Tianyu, in my entire life, I have never seen someone as shamelessly brazen as you, committing deeds and refusing to acknowledge them. Stop using others’ heads as excuses — don’t you know well what my family did for you? Yet, you still use those people as excuses, which proves you never trusted us. From the start to the end, it was all about using us, and when we were no longer useful, you kicked us to the curb. If you had simply kicked us away, that might have been the end of it. But what you did — is that the act of a human? You killed off my family, leaving not one alive; you destroyed your bridges after crossing the river, cooked the hound once the hare was caught. None of you emperors are good; all of you are ungrateful and heartless.”
Emperor Jianwu said, “I know that no explanation would satisfy you at this point. I really didn’t expect it — a moment of hesitation back then, not killing you and keeping you by my side, only to face such a threat now. You’ve gone to such lengths to prepare poison for me, and now I’ve consumed it, unable to move at all. Tell me, how do you plan to deal with me? Kill or carve me up, just say it quickly. If I so much as frown, I’m not a man.”
Su Jinghan said, “I won’t kill you easily. Before I kill you, I will let you taste what it’s like to be less than a man.”
Hearing this, Emperor Jianwu’s face changed drastically as he said, “Su Jinghan, you dare? I am the sovereign of ten thousand chariots. If you dare to harm my body, even as a ghost, I will never forgive you.”
Su Jinghan burst into laughter and said, “If there were ghosts in this world, the over three hundred members of my family you killed would have already become fierce spirits, haunting you in new forms every day. But do they? Since you’re not afraid of my family’s spirits, why should I be afraid of you?”
Emperor Jianwu’s face changed again as he spoke, “Su Jinghan, let’s talk this through. I admit that I may have wronged you in the past, and I am willing to compensate you. Just say the word, and I shall agree to whatever conditions you require.”
Su Jinghan replied, “You’ll agree to any condition I ask for? Then drink the bowl of medicine you brought for me first, and we can talk about other conditions after.”
Staring at the medicinal soup Su Jinghan had brought over, Emperor Jianwu knew without tasting it that this was not going to be anything good. It was likely spiked with some kind of poison. But at this moment, refusal was not an option. After drinking that previous bowl of medicine, Su Jinghan had added some ingredients, and now he was completely paralyzed, barely able to speak. He couldn’t mobilize even a shred of his True Essence. To say it wasn’t an exaggeration, killing him would be far too easy for Su Jinghan at this time.
“Fine, no problem, I agree to this condition. Bring the soup over, and I’ll drink it right now,” Emperor Jianwu firmly stated.
Su Jinghan brought the medicinal soup to Emperor Jianwu, up to his lips. Emperor Jianwu opened his mouth with some difficulty, and Su Jinghan pressed the edge of the bowl against his lips, uncaring of how hard it was for Emperor Jianwu to swallow. He simply poured the broth into Emperor Jianwu’s mouth, quickly finishing the task of feeding him.
Emperor Jianwu’s clothes were soaked through, and he felt extremely uncomfortable. However, the thought of changing clothes was the last thing on his mind at the moment. He said, “What other conditions do you have? Lay them all out now.”
With a cold smile, Su Jinghan declared, “I won’t kill you, nor will I demand any other conditions. It’s not that I don’t wish to kill you or that there are no other conditions, but this bowl of soup I’ve prepared for you, while it won’t take your life, will strip you of all your power. It will leave you absolutely immobile, your body becoming a prison trapping your soul within, where you can listen and see but can’t speak or make any movement. Even if you wish to communicate with the outside world using your Divine Sense, you won’t be able to. From now on, you’ll be nothing more than a living corpse. And I, I shall be the supreme ruler of Jianwu Palace in your name, seizing all of Jianwu Palace for myself. Haha, the feeling must be quite pleasant, Zhao Tianyu, you will watch helplessly as I lord over your Jianwu Palace, regaining everything our family lost to you, slowly but surely, exacting my revenge in your name. I will exterminate every person related to you in Jianwu Palace without exception, only that will quench the rage in my heart, only that will avenge my family. I intend to let you watch all this unfold, powerless to intervene, leaving you to live the latter part of your life in endless regret.”
Emperor Jianwu hadn’t expected Su Jinghan’s plan to be so vicious. He longed to scold and punish Su Jinghan as harshly as he used to, but at this moment, the medicine Su Jinghan had forced him to swallow was taking effect. Just as Su Jinghan had said, he had completely lost control over his own body. He couldn’t even move a finger or a toe, let alone control his lips to move, or even blink his eyelids. Even the most basic movements, which were normally so easy, had become impossibly difficult for him now.
Emperor Jianwu even wanted to glare fiercely at Su Jinghan, but he couldn’t. He had lost all control over his body. Now, the only two things he could do were to listen, passively, to whatever sounds there were, and to look, also passively, at whatever took place before his eyes. He couldn’t even move his eyeballs anymore.
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