At the sight of that familiar face, Chen Bapi froze where he stood.
"Y-you... are you human or a ghost?!"
"A ghost." Gongyang Wan sneered. "A vicious ghost here to kill you all!"
Gongyang Wan seized Chen Bapi by the throat with one hand, lifting his entire body off the ground and pinning him hard against the wall. His feet dangled in the air, and no matter how he struggled, he could not break free from her grip.
Her face returned to its original appearance, her eyes narrowing slightly.
"Assassinations, poisonings, stirring conflict, fights to the death... It took me two years to slaughter everyone in Azure Dragon Stronghold. I hung the four chieftains from flags and tortured them one after another, while feeding them every day to keep them alive... Every month, I tortured one of them before the others until they were on the brink of death, then swallowed them alive."
"I castrated the First Chieftain who humiliated my younger brother, chopped him three hundred and twelve times, and by the time I ate him, he had become a pile of mush... I cooked the Second Chieftain in boiling oil until his skin was like that of a dead pig, so hot it burned my tongue... I drowned the Third Chieftain in boiling water six times, soaking him until he swelled up. It took quite some effort to swallow him... I pierced over a thousand bloody holes into the Fourth Chieftain with the tip of a blade, then soaked her in a vat of vinegar. She was so sour I had to drink two whole vats of water..."
"Do you know what their eyes looked like at the very end?"
Gongyang Wan's voice rang by Chen Bapi's ear like a demon's whisper. His face turned deathly pale, and