Chi Yu hung her head sorrowfully, resting it on Gu Yuan's chest. The hatred in her heart lingered for a long time.
"If it's really him, what will you do?" Chi Yu said with a choking voice.
"I've said before, I'll surely make him pay in kind," Gu Yuan said with a gloomy face. His expression turned dark, and he had already made up his mind.
"Second Prince, I know I was wrong. Please spare me. Please..."
A pleading voice from Xue Liang came from the Xuanjing Well. In the darkness, Long Lin grabbed Xue Liang by the back of his neck and walked towards Gu Yuan and the others.
"Elder brother was far - sighted. He knew that Xue Liang would surely use the escape technique to leave, so he asked me to guard the entrance of the Xuanjing Well. And I really caught him."
After Long Lin finished speaking, he gave a hard push with one hand, knocking Xue Liang to the ground. The ground was slippery. After his body was pushed out, he was heading straight for the Blood Pool.
Xue Liang's face turned deathly pale with fear. He dug his limbs tightly into the ground. His fingernails were even turned over, only to avoid falling into the Blood Pool.
He turned around and quickly knelt on the ground, curling up his whole body and shivering.
He didn't even dare to breathe loudly.
Long Lin looked around inside the Xuanjing Well. He should have never seen such a strange and extremely cool sight before.
The Blood Pool was surging, and the blood worms inside were wriggling gurglingly, crawling towards the shore.
"I didn't expect there to be such a bloody place under the Xuanjing Well. What on earth is being raised in the Blood Pool?"
Long Lin scolded Xue Liang.
Hearing Long Lin's scolding, Xue Liang's body trembled violently. He was scared out of his wits.
"Reporting to the Second Prince, what's being raised here is blood... blood worms."
"What are these things for?" Long Lin said coldly.
"They are... are... are..." Xue Liang's face was pale, and his eyes were constantly rolling.
He was probably making up lies and thinking of ways again.
Just then, Chi Yu picked up the barbed whip on the ground and lashed it down.
The barbs on the whip scraped into Xue Liang's back, scraping off a layer of his skin and flesh. He howled in pain and kept wailing on the ground.
"Spare me, miss. Spare me. It hurts... hurts..." Xue Liang's face was distorted with pain, and he didn't know where to put his hands.
"Does it hurt? Did you ever think about how much it would hurt when you whipped my mother?"
Chi Yu was unmoved by his wailing and showed no mercy at all.
She raised the whip in her hand again and lashed it on Xue Liang's back.
Xue Liang's back instantly burst open like a flower. He rolled on the ground in pain.
But this still didn't relieve Chi Yu's anger.
She glanced at the rope beside her. Then she ran over, picked up the rope, made a noose, and put it around Xue Liang's neck. At this moment, Chi Yu had already lost her rationality because of Gu Qingcheng's death.
She pulled the rope with both hands and hung Xue Liang up.
Xue Liang kept clawing at the rope with both hands, trying to break free from it.
However, this was the very rope he used to tie up Gu Qingcheng. It was imbued with magic power.
It was almost impossible for him to break free.
He made grunting sounds from his mouth. His broken fingernails dug into his neck, but it was of no avail.
Just as this guy was about to die of suffocation.
Gu Yuan and Long Lin were like onlookers, thinking that it was his just deserts to die like this.
"Whoosh!" A white light with a strong wind approached in front of Long Lin and Gu Yuan.
The two of them turned around. The white light passed by them and went straight towards Chi Yu.
Chi Yu's attention was all on Xue Liang, and she didn't even look at the white light.
Just as the white light was about to hit Chi Yu, Gu Yuan's face changed drastically.
He quickly rushed in front of Chi Yu, hugged her tightly, protected her in his arms, and teleported to the wall.
Chi Yu just let go of the rope in her hand. Xue Liang, who was hanging in mid - air, fell heavily to the ground.
Xue Liang let out a scream when he hit the ground. Then he immediately pressed his hands on his neck, pulled off the rope around it, and tried to stand up. But he had no strength at all and could only lie on the ground gasping for breath.
At this moment, Xue Liang's eyes were bulging out from being strangled. His eyes were full of bloodshots, and his face was ashen. He looked like a hanged ghost.
"Hide yourselves. Someone's coming," Long Lin said to Gu Yuan and Chi Yu.
Gu Yuan hugged Chi Yu and hid in a dim corner of the Xuanjing Well. It was pitch - black here, and they shouldn't be discovered.
"By the order of the Heavenly Emperor, summon Xue Liang to the back hall to prepare the meal. Don't delay," another man who seemed to be dressed as an eunuch rushed over in a hurry.
When Xue Liang saw this man, he was like a drowning man grasping at a straw. He crawled to the eunuch's feet on all fours, grabbed the hem of his clothes, and said weakly, "Eunuch, I'm here. I'm here. Take me to see the Heavenly Emperor quickly."
The eunuch looked down and was shocked at the sight of Xue Liang's appearance.
When he saw Long Lin was also there, he was even more frightened.
"Second Prince, what's going on?"
"Ask him what good deeds he has done."
"Ah... this..." The eunuch didn't know how to handle this situation. Seeing Xue Liang grabbing his feet, he wanted to break free but didn't dare.
After all, Xue Liang was a long - time favorite of the Heavenly Emperor.
"He has been indulging in debauchery in the Heavenly Court. What's even more cruel is that he even threw those women into the Blood Pool to destroy their bodies. Do you think such a person should still be spared?"
The eunuch was holding a whisk in his hand and didn't know what to do for a moment.
The eunuch shifted his feet. After thinking for a while, he quickly bowed to Long Lin and said,
"Second Prince, neither you nor I can make a decision on this matter. After all, he is the Heavenly Emperor's man and is directly under the Heavenly Emperor. Whether he is right or wrong should surely be decided by the Heavenly Emperor. Now that the Heavenly Emperor is summoning him soon, at least take him to see the Heavenly Emperor first. As for how to punish him, it's up to the Heavenly Emperor to decide."
Xue Liang nodded repeatedly at the eunuch and said weakly, "Yes, yes. Take me to see the Heavenly Emperor. I want to see the Heavenly Emperor."
Hearing the eunuch's words, Long Lin looked at Xue Liang lying on the ground with cold eyes. He was silent for a long time, then replied, "Okay, I'll go with you. I'd like to see how Father Emperor will punish this shameless scoundrel who has indulged in debauchery in the Heavenly Court."
The eunuch immediately nodded, walked up to Xue Liang, and helped him up from the ground.
"Second Prince, please go first. We'll go to see the Heavenly Emperor. The Heavenly Emperor is enjoying the flowers beside the Xuanjing Well."
"You go first. I'll follow right away."
The eunuch received the order and supported Xue Liang, walking towards the entrance of the Xuanjing Well first.
Long Lin stood still, turned his head slightly, glanced at Gu Yuan, nodded at him, and then walked out behind the eunuch.
After waiting for a long time, when the Xuanjing Well fell silent, Gu Yuan pulled Chi Yu out of the darkness.
"Are we just going to let him go like this?" Chi Yu said full of indignation. She wished she could rush out and kill Xue Liang right now.
"This kind of person deserves to die. It's obvious that the Heavenly Emperor sent the eunuch to save him."
"Then why did you let him be taken away? He should have been executed on the spot," Chi Yu was so angry that she had lost her rationality.