Raging fury burned through his heart and lungs. Elder Hao Yuan erupted!
Using the power sealed within him, he blasted the Pipa Clasp to pieces. At the cost of harming himself eight hundred to injure the enemy a thousand, he broke the seal and slew on the spot the senior brother who had been riding Liu Meng.
After killing that beast in human skin, he found the antidote to the deadly poison in Liu Meng's body inside his storage ring!
He fed the antidote to the woman he loved, and the girl awakened. Though she had been unable to move and unconscious all these years, she had actually known everything that had happened to her!
"Senior Brother killed Master..."
Those were Liu Meng's first words upon awakening, and Elder Hao Yuan felt his scalp explode.
"After you left, Senior Brother kept courting me. At first, I thought he was your senior brother, and since he had agreed to your request to look after me, I did not feel it was right to say too much. Who knew... he would only push his luck further and further, constantly saying you were already dead, that only by following him could I find happiness... In a blaze of rage, I slapped him! Then..."
Tears shimmered in Liu Meng's eyes. "That night, he apologized to me. He said he was wrong and begged for my forgiveness. He did not seem to be faking it, so I believed him and fell into his trap... He drugged my food, and that very day, he... he raped me..."
"When I woke up, I wanted to kill myself, but he stopped me. He sealed all my strength and kept me in his residence like livestock, venting his desires on me every day! Back then, all I wanted was