Chapter 315: Hellfire
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
‘What do you want?” Shangqing’s face was even more twisted. Her face was pale, and her breath was getting heavier. The fire in her lower body was still spreading upward, like maggots in her bones.
Gu Yanfei smiled leisurely and didn’t answer the question. “The Karmic Fire will burn your cultivation.”
“And the soul.”
“Until your soul is destroyed and you turn into ashes, there will be no reincarnation.”
Her voice became colder and colder. It was as if she was soaked in ice water in the middle of winter. It slowly flowed into the depths of Shangqing’s heart and pierced it like ice needles.
Everyone believed in reincarnation. Shangqing was a cultivator and believed in reincarnation even more.
Moreover, Shangqing could also feel that the cultivation in her body was slipping away bit by bit. The fire around him wasn’t only burning his body, but also his soul...
The Karmic Fire produced by this “Hellfire Talisman” weren’t ordinary flames, but Karmic flames that could burn the soul!
He was conceited that he was born with a Dao bone and far surpassed others. He had strived his entire life just to enter the Dao.
Even if he couldn’t do it in this life, he had to lay down his fortune to enter the Dao in his next life.
All these years, he had always been confident that he could do it. Even his master’s cultivation was inferior to his at his age.
But now, for the first time, Shangqing felt the fear that came from the depths of his soul. The fear quickly spread throughout his body and turned into a bone-chilling chill.
Gu Yanfei straightened her body and asked coldly, “Shangqing, where are those children?’
When she said this, her voice suddenly became louder, and her clear and calm voice spread throughout the entire area of Chengtian Gate. The surrounding commoners could also hear her clearly.
The noisy commoners instantly quieted down, and the surroundings were silent.
“I don’t know...” Shangqing gritted his teeth. Beads of sweat the size of soybeans rolled down his forehead and neck, dripping onto his dirty Daoist robe. In an instant, they were evaporated by the flames.
He gritted his teeth so hard that he almost crushed them, but he endured the torturous pain.
His body trembled violently because of the burning pain and also because he was afraid.
This was the reverence mortals had for cultivators.
This was a fear of his soul dissipating and turning into ashes.
He could feel his soul being burned to ashes bit by bit by the Karmic Fire.
He could feel that a corner of his soul was missing, and it was becoming bigger...
He knew that Gu Yanfei wasn’t scaring him, she was simply threatening him. He was already in a desperate situation, and if the Karmic Fire continued to burn, his soul might really be destroyed. That would mean that he would be completely destroyed.
There was no next life.
Gu Yanfei casually played with the snow-green headband that hung down to his chest and said nonchalantly, “The Eldest Princess has been poisoned by a Gu worm. It’s impossible for the person who cast the Gu worm not to know that the Gu worm has its own way of curing the illness. The so-called ‘Heart Pill’ is useless. ‘
This sentence still echoed clearly throughout the square for the commoners to hear.
Long before Gu Yanfei expelled the Gu worm for An Le, she had said that the Heart Pill was useless, but at that time, most of the commoners were skeptical and felt that words were useless.
And now, they had witnessed the development of the entire matter with their own eyes. They had witnessed that terrifying Gu worm being lured out of the Eldest Princess’s body, and Shangqing had even suffered the backlash of the fire on the spot.
Then, there was no doubt that Shangqing was the user of the Blood Gu.
Then, why did Shangqing and his accomplices kidnap so many children?!
The families who had lost their children were so nervous and worried that their bodies were trembling. The middle-aged woman beside Zhang Min gritted her teeth tightly, her eyes filled with tears. She was worried that her children would be harmed by sorcery.
“Demonic priest, hurry up and tell us the whereabouts of those children!” In the crowd, someone tried his best to fan the flames.
With his shout, the other commoners also roared. They were all certain that Shangqing had abducted those children. It was somewhat like how everyone kicks a man who is down.
Gu Yanfei narrowed her eyes. Seeing the fear in Shangqing’s eyes and how his gaze was starting to lose focus, she knew that he was about to break down.
She chuckled and said slowly and clearly, “Shangqing, you used the Eldest Princess’s illness to encourage the Emperor to collect the blood from the children’s hearts.”
“The Emperor is benevolent and doesn’t want to hurt innocent people. You did it on your own and even wanted to shift the blame to the Eldest Princess.”
Gu Yanfei tilted her exquisite and flawless little face and looked at Shangqing.
A faint smile appeared on her lips. Her smile was like a flower, but it made
Shangqing’s heart turn cold for no reason.. “Tell me, where are those children!”