Ye Wuchen could imagine how much humiliation Qiao Qingxue had suffered over the years!
"Where is Qingxue?" Ye Wuchen asked coldly.
Zhou Wuyang sneered and stared coldly at Ye Wuchen. "What if I refuse to tell you?"
"Do you want to become a eunuch?" Ye Wuchen asked indifferently.
Zhou Wuyang's expression darkened. Clenching his fists, he said, "At Qingxue Palace! I specially prepared that palace for her!"
"Lead the way!" Ye Wuchen lifted Zhou Wuyang up.
They soon arrived at Qingxue Palace.
At that moment, Qingxue Palace held only a scant handful of palace maids and a tall, mature woman dressed in an elegant and dignified palace gown.
Her beauty was beyond exceptional. Her skin was as smooth as congealed jade, and based on her looks alone, she was a rare beauty throughout the entire Eastern Region.
This woman was Qiao Qingxue.
Qiao Qingxue sat in a cushioned chair, her expression numb and her eyes vacant.
She had spent a full sixteen years in this deep palace. She knew nothing about the outside world, and in all those sixteen years, she had not even seen her parents once.
"The sixteen-year period has ended. The Eastern Region and the outer regions have been completely cut off. I..."
Qiao Qingxue's expression was numb, her vacant eyes filled with despair.
Zhou Wuyang had threatened her: if she refused to obey, he would kill Ye Wuchen and her parents!
Thinking about it now, Zhou Wuyang certainly would not spare Brother Wuchen. But even if Zhou Wuyang killed Brother Wuchen, would she dare to die?
If she killed herself, Zhou Wuyang would wipe out her entire clan.
Qiao Qingxue had fallen into despair. She wanted to die but could not, and this feeling of being worse than dead had left her numb, like a walking corpse.
"Imperial Consort, this servant will apply your medicine."
At that moment, two palace maids came over carrying some medicine for external injuries.
Qiao Qingxue remained numb, as if she had not heard them.
The palace maids secretly sighed. They stepped forward and pulled some of Qiao Qingxue's clothes aside.
Her arms, chest, and back were covered in whip marks.
The palace maids trembled slightly at the horrifying sight of those wounds. One could imagine what humiliation Qiao Qingxue had suffered before the Lord of Great Zhou.
The Lord of Great Zhou was simply a beast!
And it was not only these wounds. Even her lower body was covered in them...
The two palace maids were horrified, their hair standing on end and their scalps tingling. Even though they saw such a scene once every month, they still found it horrifying.
Especially on the first night of every month, the Imperial Consort's shrill screams would echo from Qingxue Palace.
They made the listeners' scalps crawl and filled their hearts with fear.
Though Qiao Qingxue was an Imperial Consort and seemed to hold a noble status in the imperial harem, not a single person envied her. Instead, every one of them was horrified and acted extremely obediently before Zhou Wuyang.
Even the Empress behaved just as meekly before Zhou Wuyang.
"Imperial Consort..." The palace maid choked up, wanting to speak but stopping herself.
Qiao Qingxue's expression was vacant, as if she had not heard. She had long grown accustomed to the pain in her body and had long since become numb to it.
At that moment, she was like a walking corpse. The only beliefs sustaining her were her Brother Wuchen and her family...
Without those beliefs, she would have ended her life long ago.
After the palace maids finished applying the medicine, they dressed Qiao Qingxue properly.
Above Qingxue Palace, Ye Wuchen's expression was extremely gloomy, and his eyes gleamed with cruel ferocity.
"Zhou Wuyang! You deserve to die!"
Ye Wuchen's voice trembled with intense killing intent as he stared at Zhou Wuyang with savage eyes.
Fear arose in Zhou Wuyang's heart, but he forced himself to remain strong. "My Imperial Father is King Wu!"
Bang!
Ye Wuchen waved his sleeve. Vast spiritual power formed a miniature whirlwind. With wind blades spinning within it, the whirlwind ravaged toward Zhou Wuyang's crotch!
Bit by bit, it ground him down until he became a eunuch!
"Ah!!!!!"
Zhou Wuyang was horrified to the marrow and screamed in terror. "No, don't... don't!"
Zhou Wuyang's voice was filled with terrifying panic, echoing throughout Qingxue Palace.
Hearing the screams, the palace maids of Qingxue Palace immediately rushed out. When they looked up, they saw a scene that shocked them beyond measure, one they had never even imagined.
The Lord of Great Zhou was being tortured by a handsome young man!
Several Great Zhou experts hurried over, but the moment they arrived, they were crushed to pieces by an overwhelming pressure!
No matter how many came, they all died!
"Zhou Wuyang, I'll cripple your qi sea, cut off your limbs, and imprison you for eternity! I'll make you unable to live or die!"
Ye Wuchen's voice echoed through Qingxue Palace.
Bang!
Zhou Wuyang had become a eunuch. Blood streamed everywhere as he fell from the sky and struck the ground, staining a patch of earth red.
Inside Qingxue Palace, Qiao Qingxue's originally vacant expression regained a trace of awareness when she heard Zhou Wuyang's horrifying screams. Confusion arose in her heart...
Then she heard a voice she had not forgotten in sixteen years!
Qiao Qingxue's beautiful face changed. She immediately walked out of the palace and saw Zhou Wuyang on the ground, screaming in terror.
Beside Zhou Wuyang stood a white-robed young man with a handsome and extraordinary appearance and a face full of savage fury.
When Qiao Qingxue saw him, her delicate body suddenly trembled, and her expression turned vacant.
"Wu... Wuchen... Brother."
Qiao Qingxue's voice trembled as she stared at Ye Wuchen in shock and daze.
As a Spirit Gathering Realm cultivator, Ye Wuchen had developed Spiritual Sense. Spiritual Sense was like a second pair of human eyes, capable of flying far away to investigate.
He had seen the wounds covering Qiao Qingxue's entire body!
With one glance, he knew what kind of humiliation Qiao Qingxue had suffered!!!
Especially since she had endured it for a full sixteen years!
Ye Wuchen's killing intent had never been this intense. Yet when killing intent reached its peak, it was precisely when he least wanted to kill someone, because killing Zhou Wuyang would be letting him off far too easily!
He wanted to make Zhou Wuyang suffer a fate worse than death!
"Qingxue, cripple him!"
Ye Wuchen handed her a sword and looked at Qiao Qingxue with heartache.
Qiao Qingxue woodenly accepted the sword, then slowly looked toward Zhou Wuyang, who was collapsed on the ground and howling.
For Zhou Wuyang, a little bodily injury was nothing. But he had become a eunuch!
He could not accept this reality!
Even with Qiao Qingxue holding a sword now, he remained completely unaware, still trapped in his breakdown.
Qiao Qingxue recalled the humiliation she had suffered over the years. Her eyes suddenly turned sharp. With four slashes, she severed Zhou Wuyang's four limbs!
Ye Wuchen waved his sleeve toward Zhou Wuyang and stopped the bleeding. Then he waved his sleeve again, carrying Qiao Qingxue, Ye Hao, and Zhou Wuyang, whose four limbs had been completely crippled, away from the imperial city!
They flew all the way to the edge of a cliff.
Zhou Wuyang's hair hung loose, his face pale, his eyes empty...
He had lost all four limbs, become a eunuch, and had his qi sea crippled...
Just a moment ago, he had still been the Lord of Great Zhou, admiring the palace maids' enchanting dance...
Yet now, he had become a cripple!
A cripple among cripples!
Ye Wuchen's face was cold. Even though Zhou Wuyang had become a cripple, it still could not dispel the hatred in his heart.
Qiao Qingxue's attention, however, was focused mostly on Ye Wuchen...
After sixteen years, her Brother Wuchen was still handsome and extraordinary, while she had already been defiled...
She no longer had the right to harbor even the slightest fantasy about her Brother Wuchen.
Qiao Qingxue wept bitterly, covering her face as she sobbed.
Ye Wuchen looked at her with heartache and stepped forward to pull her into his arms. "From now on, stay with me."
"Hahaha!" When Zhou Wuyang heard those words, he immediately regained consciousness. His face twisted viciously as he laughed maniacally. "Ye Wuchen, you'd actually take a woman I've already played with until she was ruined? Hahahahaha...!"
Ye Wuchen's expression suddenly turned icy, his eyes razor-sharp.
A crazed expression appeared on Qiao Qingxue's face. She raised her long sword, her eyes cold and fierce, and thrust it straight into Zhou Wuyang's heart!
Although killing Zhou Wuyang outright would have been far too easy for him!
His words had driven her into a frenzy of disgust!
Zhou Wuyang was dead!
Qiao Qingxue dropped the long sword in a daze. Tears streamed down her face, tracing her clear, beautiful cheeks before dripping from her chin onto her chest...
"Brother Wuchen... I've been defiled... I'm not worthy of you..."
Qiao Qingxue sobbed.
She had once loved Ye Wuchen, but back then, she had still been untouched. Now, she had been defiled...
If she were together with Ye Wuchen, she did not know how much gossip and ridicule he would have to endure.
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