allendalepharm Chapter 77 Jiang Manli is not of the Jiang family bloodline at all
Chapter 77 Jiang Manli is not of the Jiang family bloodline at all
Villa room.
Shen Yu casually threw Zhao Ergou, whom he was carrying, onto the ground.
Zhao Ergou fell to the ground, groaning in pain, but he didn't even have the strength to turn over. He could only lie on his back, looking down at Shen Yu who was standing in front of him.
The afterglow of the setting sun fell on Shen Yu's profile, half in light and half in shadow. Despite his gentle and handsome features, Zhao Ergou felt an overwhelming sense of oppression.
It was as if he was facing not a person, but an unshakable, bottomless mountain, making him even more cautious in his breathing.
Shen Yu slowly turned around, looking down at him, and without uttering a single unnecessary word, went straight to the point.
"I have a few questions for you, and you'd better answer them truthfully."
"First, what is your relationship with Jiang Manli?"
"Secondly, why has Jiang Manli repeatedly targeted Jiang Xinlan, determined to kill her, since six years ago?"
"And why did you set up the luck-absorbing array to steal Lin Wan's life-bound fortune? What was your purpose behind it?"
Faced with Shen Yu's icy gaze, Zhao Ergou instinctively shrank back, a hint of panic flashing in his eyes, but he quickly suppressed it.
He gritted his teeth, suppressing the fear in his heart, his neck stiff, still clinging to the last shred of hope, and uttered harsh words:
"Why should I tell you? Shen Yu, I advise you to release me now! My master is a top-tier Xuanmen master in Beijing, with decades of experience and connections all over the world!"
"If you dare touch me today, my master will absolutely not let you off! And Jiang Manli, she's the only daughter of the Jiang family, one of the top wealthy families in Beijing! If you dare to go against her, the Jiang family will definitely not let it go!"
"If you know what's good for you, let me go now. I won't hold it against you for hurting me; from now on, we'll be even and won't interfere with each other!"
He was certain that even if Shen Yu held absolute power in Jiangcheng, he would never dare to easily offend the Jiang family, a top-tier wealthy family in Beijing, let alone Liu Qingxuan, who was renowned in the Xuanmen circle.
As long as these two powerful figures are removed, no matter how capable Shen Yu is, he won't dare to do anything to him.
But he didn't know that the person standing in front of him was no ordinary person.
As the only cultivator in the world, the power and influence of mortal families and the empty prestige of the Xuanmen are nothing but fleeting clouds in his eyes.
Shen Yu looked at his blustering but cowardly appearance, his eyes showing no emotion whatsoever, only a barely perceptible hint of impatience.
He had no interest in wasting time on this dying ant, nor in playing any psychological games with him.
With a flick of his fingertip, Shen Yu sent a barely perceptible golden spiritual energy, as thin as a hair, silently into Zhao Ergou's sea of consciousness.
This is the most basic soul-binding technique in the cultivation world. It does not harm the physical body in the slightest, but it can make the cultivator's soul suffer extreme pain, like being devoured by ten thousand ants.
For Zhao Ergou, a half-baked Xuanmen cultivator who relied on evil arts for cultivation, this was a thousand times, ten thousand times more unbearable than any torture in the world.
The moment the spiritual energy entered his body, Zhao Ergou suddenly let out a heart-wrenching scream. As if electrocuted, he curled up violently and convulsed and rolled on the ground.
"Ah—! Stop! Stop now!!"
His face was contorted in extreme pain, veins bulging on his face, and cold sweat covering his forehead and neck.
I felt as if my three souls and seven spirits were being devoured by countless ants, or as if they were being repeatedly roasted on a raging fire. Every inch of my soul was screaming, and every breath was accompanied by excruciating pain.
This kind of pain is incomparable to physical torture; it directly affects the soul, and there is no way to avoid or escape it.
He had practiced mystical arts for over a decade, witnessed countless tortures, and tormented many people with evil magic, but he had never experienced such a feeling of being worse than dead.
In just over ten seconds, his mental defenses completely collapsed.
"I'll tell you! I'll tell you everything! Please stop! Please stop torturing me!!"
Zhao Ergou, tears streaming down his face, frantically kowtowed to Shen Yu, his forehead hitting the cold ground and quickly drawing blood. But he dared not stop, only begging Shen Yu to stop this agonizing torture.
Shen Yu twitched his fingertips slightly, withdrawing the spiritual power.
That extreme, almost maddening pain vanished without a trace in an instant.
Zhao Ergou collapsed to the ground, panting heavily, his whole body looking as if he had just been pulled out of the water.
Looking at Shen Yu, all that remained in her eyes was the fear etched into her bones. She dared not be stubborn in the slightest, nor dared to hide anything.
"Speak," Shen Yu uttered a single word, remaining standing in place without moving an inch.
Without pausing for a moment, Zhao Ergou, his voice trembling, revealed the secret he had kept hidden for over twenty years:
"It was...it was Liu Wanhua, the birth mother of Jiang Manli, the eldest daughter of the Jiang family, and my master Liu Qingxuan who made me do all this...Liu Wanhua and my master are from the same village and grew up together as childhood sweethearts..."
"When she was young, Liu Wanhua studied metaphysics with my master for a few days. Later, she went to work in Beijing and met Jiang Zhenbang, the head of the Jiang family. She was determined to marry into the Jiang family."
"But Jiang Zhenbang already had a wife of equal social standing and looked down on her. Liu Wanhua, unable to get what she wanted, turned her love into hatred and started an affair with my master..."
"Jiang Manli... Jiang Manli isn't a member of the Jiang family at all. She's the illegitimate daughter of my master, Liu Qingxuan, and Liu Wanhua!"
"Back then... back then, when Jiang Zhenbang's first wife, who was also Jiang Xinlan's biological mother, was giving birth, my master used mystical arts to manipulate the head nurse and nurses in the delivery room beforehand. Liu Wanhua also calculated the date in advance and gave birth to Jiang Manli via cesarean section in the same hospital."
"Just as Madam Jiang had given birth and was unconscious, they switched the two babies and abandoned the newborn Jiang Xinlan at the gate of a welfare home in Jiangcheng, hundreds of miles away..."
"Madam Jiang suffered a postpartum hemorrhage and passed away a few months later. Jiang Zhenbang never knew that the daughter he had raised for over twenty years was not his biological child at all..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Ergou felt as if the air around him had frozen.
I was so panicked and scared that I couldn't breathe.
He cautiously glanced at Shen Yu, whose face had turned cold. Seeing that Shen Yu didn't intend to stop him, he took a deep breath and continued speaking tremblingly.
"Jiang Manli's fate was inherently fragile and could not withstand the fortune of a top-tier wealthy family like the Jiang family. In addition, my master practiced the evil arts of the Xuanmen sect and committed the two evils of loneliness and premature death among the three lacks and five deficiencies. The backlash directly fell on his only daughter, Jiang Manli."
"She was frail and sickly from a young age, and accidents happened every few days. Her fortunes fluctuated greatly, and she could never hold onto her position as the eldest daughter of the Jiang family. She almost died several times..."