The villain's daily corpse collection

"Just say what you want to say. Why do you want to torture us and kill people like this? You still say you are not a monster!" The voices of dissatisfaction from the audience gradually rose. Shi Yao glanced at him and killed him with just one strike.

"Quiet."

Shi Yao's calm voice made everyone freeze in their places, not daring to move. "I don't like people interrupting my story."

"I was born into a wealthy family. In the early days, everyone respectfully called the Shi family the Jade King. Thanks to them, who worked day and night in the mines, I became a fragile premature baby. I was born to be a sickly person... They only cared about whether they could mine flawless white jade, and never cared about me who was suffering from a stubborn disease."

The Shi family couple, who were busy digging a new mine, entrusted Shi Yao to their nurse A Ke. After that, the two led the team to the mountains and forests, and were not seen for ten days or half a month.

"When they started to take me seriously, I was already over ten years old. The girl from the Rong family had already gone to the store to learn accounting, but I was like a loser. All kinds of drugs were poured into my body as soon as I opened my eyes, and I couldn't do anything." He sneered at himself, "They only care about their own careers and families, and they don't really care about useless people like me. Later, when they saw that I was useless, they planned to have another child. Don't you think it's funny?"

Shi Yao's mother suffered from severe bleeding during labor and delivery of her second child, which ultimately resulted in two deaths.

This was something that everyone in Fangqiu City knew. Later, the former head of the Shi family, Shi Yao's father, married a concubine to ensure the continuation of the family business. They had a bastard son - the domineering young master Shi Luo who was often emotionally unstable.

Shi Yao, who was sitting on the round table, jumped to the ground. Huo Feng, who was standing in the front row, could clearly see tears in his eyes.

"Shi Luo, he has been my follower since he was young. Even if I showed my extreme disgust for him, put bugs in his food, or deliberately tripped him... he still didn't give up. I had no choice but to treat him as my follower, gradually get along with him, and establish a brotherhood with him." Tears flashed in his eyes when he recalled his childhood.

Someone couldn't help but speak up: "Then you shouldn't kill people, right? You trapped us here and posed a great threat to our lives. We know that you had a miserable past, and we sympathize with you after listening to you, but there must be a way to save you. We can help you, at least I am willing to, but can you please not hurt us."

Shi Yao smiled gently: "It seems that you have misunderstood me too deeply. The few people I just killed were people who had a long-standing grudge against me or the Shi family after I took over. It was not an indiscriminate attack. You and I have no grudges, so there is no need for me to waste my time on words."

"I admit that the monster in my heart was born since I was born. I don't reject it and gradually begin to accept being with the monster. You say I am a monster, and I don't refute it."

"Pfft-"

Wang Wei, who was still standing on the platform, couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Monster, can you really accept this?"

"Of course, I've..." Before Shi Yao could finish his words, a sharp bone china fragment flew towards him. He dodged naturally, but his action was predicted and he was hit by another fragment in his hand.

The splinter pierced the middle of his throat, and blood gushed out immediately. However, he seemed to feel nothing, and pulled out the splinter that had pierced his skin with an expressionless face.

Everyone looked shocked. Wang Wei spread her hands and explained, "Look, he doesn't feel any pain. Maybe he is no longer human." She glared at Shi Yao, "Who the hell are you? And what is your shadow guard?"

"Mo Wei, you betrayed me, and I will punish you." Shi Yao still spoke in a gentle voice. He took out a pocket-sized eight-tone jade chime made of pure white jade from his arms and tapped it gently with a small hammer.

The sound of this instrument was ethereal and pleasant, like the sound of gold and jade, and everyone's mood was instantly relaxed.

Suddenly, the jade chime made a rapid sound, and Wang Wei felt that her body was out of control. Her right knee hit the round table, and she remained kneeling on one knee. Her pupils dilated, and she couldn't believe her body's reaction. Then, she felt a tearing pain in the other supporting leg, as if there was a thunderbolt pressing down on her from above.

"Master, how are you?" Huo Feng ignored Wang Wei's advice "Just in case, don't recognize me in front of Shi Yao", he just wanted to go forward and check on his master's condition.

Blood was seeping out of her light-colored clothes, and she had no intention of kneeling before a mortal.

The jade chime jingled, and the next moment her arm was lifted up. Huo Feng saw clearly that there was an extremely thin silver thread embedded under her flesh.

The audience immediately understood the real purpose of the thread. Isn't this the method of puppetry and shadow play? They were afraid that they would also be treated as puppets, so they all quietly stayed where they were and reduced their presence.

Wang Wei thought that as long as she moved in the opposite direction, her flesh and blood would be torn by the buried silk threads.

We can’t waste the divine blood anymore, she thought to herself.

Huo Feng understood that Yu Qing was the culprit of the manipulation. He drew the long sword from his sleeve and stabbed Yu Qing in Shi Yao's hand.

Shi Yao smiled as if he had guessed it long ago: "If the Silk Rain Jade Chime is broken, she and everyone who has eaten the jade food at the scene will die."

Huo Feng had to stop, and everyone's mentality collapsed again.

"I'm only punishing her now, everyone else is safe." He assured the crowd, and people began to waver.

"Young man, don't act rashly. These are the lives of more than twenty of us." Someone couldn't help but remind Huo Feng.

"I have never eaten jade, so why are there silk threads in my body? Could it be that there was something wrong with the tea I drank last time?" Wang Wei tried to stay calm.

"You haven't tasted it. My tea is definitely top-quality tea. In fact, the clues were laid the first time I met you."

Was it that handkerchief? No wonder she felt like she was pricked by a needle that day, but she thought it was just the embroidery on the handkerchief and didn't pay any attention to it.

Wang Wei frowned in confusion, but Shi Yao patiently explained: "I have saved countless people in the past few years, but only Mo Wei, with blood all over his face, did not panic at all, but instead cared about an insignificant issue. I knew you were definitely not simple."

"What do you want to do?" Huo Feng raised his sword and asked, blocking Wang Wei.

"I didn't expect that there would be a fish that slipped through the net." Shi Yao glanced at Huo Feng and struck the jade chime again, "But it doesn't matter. I want to make you my shadow guard. When you lose all your will and become my use, it will be a success. No matter what the relationship between you is, it doesn't matter. How do you feel now?"

Wang Wei leaned sideways on the table, her mind was extremely confused. She didn't understand why the means of mortals could work on her. Where did this strange silk thread and power come from?

Her head was splitting with pain, and the scene in front of her eyes was hazy and blurry. She could only see Huo Feng's blurry back. Her ears were buzzing and she couldn't hear any sounds clearly.

No, she must activate the power of the devil.

Even if this power would make Huo Feng dream again, allowing him to peek into more of his past self and increase his suspicion of her.

——All that is said later must be done to overcome the current difficulties.

She silently chanted the spell behind Huo Feng, and her fingers lightly touched the back of his hand. When Huo Feng turned his head, a dark red light flashed in Wang Wei's eyes. She wanted to raise her hand to activate the whisk or Huo Feng's sword, but she felt a strong restriction. She looked up at the paintings of the gods on the wall above.

The more powerful a force is, the more it will be suppressed when facing the weak in the lower world, in order to protect the lives below the heaven from being wiped out in one day. This is the iron law of heaven. Although she can find loopholes, she doesn't want to cause trouble at the moment.

"Huo Feng, draw your sword!"

"……what?"

Huo Feng suspected that he was hallucinating for a moment, but when he saw Wang Wei's unquestionable eyes, he realized that he had heard it correctly. But Shi Yao had just said that if the jade chime was cut off, everyone would die.

He didn't know what to do for a moment, as this concerned everyone's life. The eight jade chimes represented the eight sounds, and if they were cut wrong, more than twenty people including his master would die.

Shi Yao stood in front, smiling: "Be careful, do you really want to kill Master with your own hands?"

A thin layer of sweat seeped out of Huo Feng's forehead. He couldn't and didn't dare to gamble. He had to calm down and find clues. He turned around and looked at Wang Wei again.

Wang Wei was sitting in meditation with her head bowed. She closed her eyes and was healing her injured body at a very slow speed. She had no time to care about Huo Feng's disobedience to her again. After failing to break the Heavenly Dao restriction, she felt a little shaky.

Du Ximiao was in the corner, poking Yuan Xiang who was standing in front of him: "I feel like she is the statue we saw in the deserted temple that day. She is definitely not an ordinary cultivator."

Yuan Xiang turned around and said, "We are in a difficult situation right now. Your Highness, you should have a good rest, conserve your energy, and stop thinking about these things."

Du Ximiao shook her head and walked straight to Huo Feng's side. Yuan Xiang had to follow her. Everyone saw this but did not dare to stop Di Ji from coming forward.

"My Lord, I have an idea." Du Ximiao nodded slightly, "The jade chimes represent eight different sounds. I wonder if they are related to Taoist mystical arts such as the I Ching and the Eight Diagrams?"

Huo Feng also thought of a related point, but he didn't know music theory, so he bowed to Du Ximiao and said, "What are these eight tones? Please teach me, Your Highness."

"I dare not teach you. I grew up in the palace and know a little more than others." She was humble and polite, looking at the magic weapon in Shi Yao's hand, "The first sound is gold, the second sound is stone..."

"Stone" is the earth of the five elements, that's right.

"…the fifth is gourd, the sixth is earth, and the last two are leather and wood."

The sixth is also the earth of the five elements.

This place is the northeast Gen Palace. Gen represents the gate of life and also earth. You will never go wrong if you cut off these two sounds!

Huo Feng gathered his strength and condensed the tip of his sword, and with a swing, the two jade chimes representing "stone" and "earth" broke, and the silver chain on the jade chimes broke in response, making a "ding-ling-dang" sound, and the two pieces of jade fell to the ground, with the lingering sound lasting for a long time.

At the same time, everyone squatted in place, holding their heads in fear, waiting for death to come.

"..."

But, nothing happened.

Someone stood up and broke the silence: "I'm still alive? I'm fine!"

Everyone checked their bodies and found that the strange feeling gradually subsided.

Shi Yao didn't expect that they found the answer in just a few sentences. Isn't this thing known as a magical object from outer space?

He tore off his gentle mask and his expression became ferocious: "You actually...uh——" He flew out with a dagger in his chest. He was nailed to the snow-white back wall, and blood kept flowing behind him.

Everyone turned to look and saw that Wang Wei, who was sitting at the round table, had stood up at some point and was making a spellcasting gesture. The origin of the dagger was self-evident.

She approached Shi Yao, but Shi Yao greeted her with a smile. He said in a voice that only he and Wang Wei could hear: "I knew you didn't care about them at all—"

"Shut up." With a "click", Wang Wei removed his jaw. She admitted that she had just asked Huo Feng to cut off the jade bell, which was a desperate move, but she didn't need anyone to remind her.

Several overlapping voices suddenly broke into Shi Yao's mind: "Idiot! You are really useless, you are indeed a waste. Let me out, and I will meet her in person."

Instantly, he had a shadow knife in his hand. There was a huge crack on the blade, and red lava seemed to flow inside. Shi Yao's eyes changed. He completely ignored the wound on his body and the dagger stuck in his shoulder, and swung the knife towards Wang Wei.

Wang Wei used his wolf-tail whisk and exchanged a few moves with him. The wolf's tail took advantage of the situation to climb up and entangle the hilt of the sword. Huo Feng attacked from the side and finally forced the opponent to abandon his weapons.

However, the loss of the weapon did not make the opponent retreat, and the knife turned into a shadow and disappeared. "Shi Yao" muttered something in his mouth, like an ancient and complicated spell.

Wang Wei suddenly felt that the power of the demon seemed to be affected by something huge, and she turned to look at Huo Feng.

Huo Feng's breath was unstable, his Dantian was burning for no reason, and the power in his sea of ​​consciousness surged, suppressing the little power he had recovered. Night fell in his sea of ​​consciousness, blood-red lightning streaked through the void, and a sudden rainstorm came.

Wang Wei launched an attack again, but "Shi Yao" gently raised his hand and swallowed up all her strength. A black vortex appeared in the palm of his hand, as if it could annihilate everything in the world.

He stared at her coldly, his pupils swallowed by black. Wang Wei thought that she seemed to have seen this scene somewhere before, but she didn't have time to study it now. She was wondering whether her decision to visit Rong's house at night was right.

"Since you don't care about them, I will kill them first." He rushed towards the guests. The guests did not expect that "Shi Yao" would break his promise so quickly. They fled in all directions and the scene became chaotic again.

At this time, the door of Rongbao Building was pushed open, and the strong light outside shone into the dim building. Everyone stopped moving and looked towards the door.

The person in the lead was Rong Fei. This time she didn't wear anything to cover her face. She walked in step by step. There seemed to be infinite light behind her, and the thing attached to Shi Yao also disappeared temporarily.

"Master Rong! So you are okay. Are you here to save us?" The guests rolled and crawled towards her.

At this time, they reached a consensus and agreed that the scar on Rong Fei's face was extremely beautiful. No, it was not a scar, it was the glory of a warrior!

Rong Fei saw that most of the guests were safe and sound. She looked at Wang Wei and said, "I'm sorry, I'm late. I was tripped by a weirdo just now."

Several guards came behind her and threw the tied-up black shadow to the ground. This was the shadow guard who had been with Shi Yao before. Because most of Shi Yao's power was here, the shadow guard was uncontrolled and could be subdued by them.

"You have already done what you promised me, and I will also fulfill my promise to you." As she spoke, she took out a jade box from a bundle and opened it, revealing a jade sculpture. This jade sculpture was crystal clear and surrounded by an ice-blue glow.

Artifact!

Huo Feng looked at Wang Wei, only to see that she was suppressing her excitement. She raised her hand and put the jade carving into her sleeve.

What exactly is going on?