"Oh my, seriously?" Nan Lou laughed with malicious delight. "Don't tell me I actually guessed right?"
"You really killed Ning Ke?"
"How did you do it?"
"A sword through the heart? Flayed him and tore out his tendons? Dug out his Demon Core? Ruined his face? Or did you break his spirit, too? Torture him mercilessly for ages before finishing him off?"
"Enough!" Hong Yao could no longer hold back. She pressed her fingers against the zither strings, exchanged a glance with Wei Qinghai, and attacked the endlessly chattering Nan Lou!
She felt guilty, too, but she knew this Great Demon was deliberately provoking Lou Yunxiao.
He was undermining their side's morale.
They had to interrupt Nan Lou to give Lou Yunxiao some time to recover.
But...
Even she dared not imagine what a blow it would be to Lou Yunxiao if the truth really was as Nan Lou and Wugou had said.
She remembered that child, A Ke, too.
He had been Lou Yunxiao's emotional support during the time he was blind.
After A Ke died, Lou Yunxiao's temperament had changed drastically. He had become cold and cruel.
He showed not the slightest mercy even to people possessed by demons.
His actions were decisive and ruthless.
That alone showed how much A Ke meant to Lou Yunxiao.
And now, the person who held such an important place in Lou Yunxiao's heart had turned out to be Ning Ke as well.
The person Lou Yunxiao should have cherished, whom he should never have wanted to hurt in the slightest, had instead been tortured by his own hands until he was barely recognizable, his mind shattered...
That reality was probably crueler than killing Lou Yunxiao outright...
The instant Hong Yao charged forward, the Great Demons moved as well.
They each engaged