Natural Allies

Now that Great Immortal Green Ox had appeared, Wei Wu could not help feeling emboldened.

What could he do? That immortal's thigh was as thick as a colossal pillar holding up the heavens.

Happiness had come so suddenly, so domineeringly.

The red-robed eunuch swallowed hard, sinking into immense terror and despair.

The one being flayed was the Crown Prince. As his personal eunuch, he could not shirk responsibility. Even if he could, the Crown Prince would still have his entire household slaughtered.

Li Chenggang was brutal and bloodthirsty, and he always meant what he said.

After a single assassin's attack, he had slaughtered people inside and outside the palace until corpses lay piled like mountains.

Now that the Crown Prince was being flayed, the red-robed eunuch did not dare imagine his own fate. Would he be cut into a thousand pieces, branded with red-hot iron, cut in half at the waist? Or would all eighteen varieties of torture be visited upon him in turn?

Not only him—his family, clansmen, even old friends and acquaintances, would all be torn to pieces by Li Chenggang.

Utter terror and the expectation of despair left his entire body rigid, his mind completely blank.

In the brief span of a dozen or so breaths, the red-robed eunuch felt his throat become so dry and hoarse that it seemed to be smoking. He wanted to say something, but no sound would come out.

He stiffly looked back at the world beyond the hanging curtain. When he saw that the gag which had fallen from Li Chenggang's mouth had been stuffed back in, and that the guards, eunuchs, and even the crowd nearby were not focusing their gazes in this direction, his whole body jolted again.

A wildly audacious thought, wrapped in an intense desire to survive,