Urban Undying Lord
Chapter 126 - 126 126 Old Acquaintance

126: Chapter 126: Old Acquaintance 126: Chapter 126: Old Acquaintance The target of public condemnation, the world accused him.

From across the country, people blamed Ye Xuan, and some even jointly petitioned the Ministry of Justice to charge Ye Xuan with abuse of power.

Unfortunately, the numerous complaints seemed to vanish into thin air, and the officials of Xia Country made no statements.

The expanding incident left the upper echelons of Xia Country perplexed and unsure how to handle the situation.

When Martial Arts Heavenly Mansion learned that Gu Dingtian had been imprisoned and that many martial artists had died at the hands of Ye Xuan, and Wu’an Office had branded Martial Arts Heavenly Mansion as traitors, it provoked Martial Arts Heavenly Mansion into rebellion and to issue a public statement.

The statement is as follows!

“Martial Arts Heavenly Mansion has protected the citizens of Xia Country from terrifying monstrous beasts.

However, Xia Country has now labeled us as rebels.

From now on, Martial Arts Heavenly Mansion will no longer defend the citizens of Xia Country from attacks by Mutant Beasts until the Xia Country officials provide a reasonable explanation.”

When this statement was released, it poured fuel on the fire and completely unsettled the public.

In these chaotic times, how fragile is the life of a mortal?

If even Martial Arts Heavenly Mansion abandons them, it undoubtedly adds to these mortals’ suffering.

This matter also alerted the major powers of Xia Country, and even the military began to blame Ye Xuan.

Amid this wave of public opinion, Ye Xuan was cursed by the people, already provoking widespread anger, but a piece of news was broadcast and completely shifted the focus of the public.

News report.

Beishan City was slaughtered by mutant beasts, Qingshui Town suffered countless casualties, Dahe Village was littered with floating corpses, and tens of thousands of Blood Wolf Strange Beasts left no survivors in their wake.

Thousands of miles of land were littered with white bones, the blood-stained soil a stark red.

When these photos appeared online, they instantly caused immense terror among the public.

What frightened the people even more was that tens of thousands of Blood Wolf Strange Beasts were heading towards the Capital City, and it was feared that they would arrive in three days.

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Capital City, the whole city under martial law.

Numerous fully armed soldiers patrolled the city, and the citizens of the Capital City were in panic, secretly praying in their hearts to survive this catastrophe.

At Wu’an Office headquarters, within a dark water prison,

Ye Xuan, dressed in black, his grayish hair draped behind his head, lounged in a chair, giving off an air of drowsiness.

“Ye Xuan, if you’re any kind of man, kill me.”

With a fierce roar and a hoarse bellow from the depths of the water prison, a blonde man, disheveled, was bound by two iron chains, his knees submerged in filthy water.

His limbs were severed, his body bathed in blood, his twisted, fierce face resembling that of a demon that crawled out of hell, struck immense terror into anyone who saw him.

Unfortunately, this scene did not move Ye Xuan in the slightest; he looked indifferently at the blonde man as if watching a clown.

“Sir, this guy is tough, no matter what kind of torture we use, he keeps his mouth shut and even the newest hallucinogenic drugs won’t make him reveal the location of their headquarters!” said a chubby man with a look of shame.

“After all, he’s trained.

It makes sense that you couldn’t break him,” Ye Xuan said, stretching lazily, his voice very calm.

“Sir, I still have two methods that will definitely make him talk.”

The chubby man feared Ye Xuan’s displeasure and hurriedly spoke out, his face showing a deeply sinister expression.

“What method?” Ye Xuan said with a wry smile.

“The first method, I will create a Myriad Snakes Pit and fill it with various poisonous snakes, then administer an antidote to him and throw him into the pit, letting him suffer the agony of a thousand snakes biting him, but I will definitely not take his life.”

“The second method, which is actually my specialty, involves a technique used in ancient times called ‘Fish Scale Flaying.’ Before following you, sir, I was a surgeon, thoroughly knowledgeable about the human body.

We wrap a fishing net around the person, making a cut at each mesh, hence it’s also called Fish Scale Flaying.

In total, we can make three thousand six hundred cuts.

Even if he has the will of iron, he will confess everything under this torture option.”

As Huang Pudgy spoke sinisterly, Ye Xuan took a serious look at the man.

Even hearing these two ruthless methods of torture gave him a chill.

“It seems I was right about you; you truly are cruel,” Ye Xuan said with a strange expression.

Naturally, the conversation was overheard by the blonde man, causing his body to shudder violently as he struggled frantically in the water prison, his pupils already dilated with fear, clearly terrified by Huang Pudgy’s vicious methods.

“Ye…

Ye Xuan…

please…

kill me…

kill me…” the blonde man begged for death, shaking, having never thought in his life that death could be such a blissful thing.

“So, you know what fear is?”

Ye Xuan chuckled lightly, then turned to look at Huang Pudgy, “There’s no need for all that trouble, I haven’t reached the point of sadism for pleasure.

Besides, I have my ways to find out everything I want to know.”

Buzz!

Suddenly, a blood light steamed around Ye Xuan’s body, his eyes rolling eerily, which directly caused the blonde man deep in the water prison to stare blankly as if he had lost his soul.

Soul Capturing Technique!

This technique was extremely malicious; it could not only read the memories of the blonde man, but it also caused the one whose memories were extracted to scatter his soul, leaving him with no chance for reincarnation.

Massive fragments of memories flooded into Ye Xuan’s Sea of Consciousness, and after a minute, Ye Xuan slowly opened his eyes, having understood what kind of force stood behind the blonde man.

At that moment, the blonde man scattered his soul and died, but he had a serene smile on his face as he died, evidently viewing this manner of death as a form of bliss.

Tap tap tap!

Footsteps approached, and Tian Yu quickly appeared before Ye Xuan, then bowed and said, “Mr.

Ye, someone claiming to be an old friend of yours has asked to meet with you!”

“An old friend?”

Hearing Tian Yu’s words, Ye Xuan frowned; he didn’t have any old friends in the Capital City, aside from Azure Dragon, Xue Ji, Xia Qingzhu, and the Ye Family.

Who could this old friend be?

“Lead the way.” Guided by Tian Yu, Ye Xuan walked slowly toward the outside world.

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Wu’an Office, meeting room.

A graceful woman sat in the room, dressed in a red gown that shone like a flame, her beautiful facial features and slightly furrowed delicate eyebrows lending her an exceedingly stunning appearance.

“Is it you?”

As Ye Xuan entered the meeting room and saw the woman, his face briefly showed surprise before returning to normal.

“Mr.

Ye, it has been a year since we parted in Jiangnan.

Wan’er greets you,” Gu Wan’er said with a gentle, charming smile, bowing to Ye Xuan.

Gu Wan’er, the manager of the Jiangnan Brilliant Auction House, Ye Xuan had purchased jade from her in the past, and it was she who had auctioned off a Yunling Pill for him.

Had Gu Wan’er not appeared before him, Ye Xuan might have long forgotten this woman.

Moreover, Ye Xuan considered that he had little interaction with this woman.

Now that Gu Wan’er had come to see him, what could her purpose be?