Release

Alda, Bilibili, and the others did not dare make a sound. They walked along silently with their heads lowered, terrified of setting Lin Qi off.

Ever since Lin Qi had begun dissecting Anshun's soul, his expression had grown uglier and uglier. In the end, his face had turned pitch-black, and an invisible Killing Intent that made one shudder with cold radiated from his entire body.

This Anshun was a complete and utter bastard—rotten to the bone from birth.

Dispatching deathsworn men to assassinate rivals was not something he had done once, but many times. Among the cases Anshun remembered most clearly were several wealthy merchants of Twin Sun Red Dragon City. While traveling outside the city, they had been slaughtered by deathsworn men Anshun had assembled, and their family fortunes had then been swallowed up by him.

Taking their property would have been bad enough, but Anshun's mind was twisted to the extreme. The merchants' families, including several underage girls, had all been tortured to death by his various perverse methods. Even after they died, he had not spared those pitiable people. He had skinned those innocent women and turned their hides into exquisite embroidered leather, which he wore as undergarments!

Beyond that, Anshun had eliminated dissidents within the imperial palace, suppressed and framed others, and even fabricated crimes out of thin air to falsely accuse innocent people. These were all the means by which he had climbed step by step, until he became Noble Consort Ya's favored retainer. To win Noble Consort Ya's delight, Anshun had somehow obtained a sinister secret recipe which claimed that ointment refined from beautiful young girls could preserve beauty and enhance one's appearance. He had hunted down over a thousand girls and presented Noble Consort Ya with this ointment so vicious it defied all