“It’s this. The soul contract’s curse will take a few days, right?”
Yi Yun knew that the ghost head in the soul contract was actually a curse. Once the contract was signed, and until the contract was nullified, the ghost head would slowly eat into the signee’s soul, till they died a painful death.
Only by fulfilling the contract would the ghost head disappear. This process varied depending on the person. Those with high cultivation levels could last for 70-80 days, while those with low cultivation levels could only last slightly more than ten days.
Matriarch Lin gently nodded.
“Right… Young master Nantian’s strength is good, and he can definitely endure it for a long time.” Yi Yun smiled gently as he praised Shen Tu Nantian. However, this “praise” made Shen Tu Nantian’s heart freeze.
As he looked at Yi Yun’s cold mask and the two red blood lines where the eyes should be, a sense of foreboding was felt by Shen Tu Nantian. What was this kid going to do?
“It’s this. This junior has heard that the Shen Tu family clan has a form of torture, called the “Dismembering the Heart” punishment. In a period of 36 days, a red-hot blade would be slashed on the criminal 36,000 times. After each day’s slashing, a heart dismembering worm’s egg would be placed in the wounds. The eggs would then slowly hatch and eat at the flesh and blood. Finally, when the 36,000 slashes were completed, the heart dismembering worms would follow the blood vessels and meridians all the way to the heart. There, tens of thousands of worms would bite at the heart, eventually leading to one’s death…
The Dismembering the Heart punishment was what Shen Tu Nantian had told Yi Yun a few months ago.
Back then, Shen Tu Nantian wanted to use “Dismembering the Heart” as a way to deal with Yi Yun, to force the Shepherd Boy to save him.
However, now, it had switched to Yi Yun talking about the “Dismembering the Heart”.
Shen Tu Nantian’s face immediately turned as white as paper!
As a member of the Shen Tu family clan, he had witnessed with his own eyes how the “Dismembering the Heart” punishment was carried out by the Shen Tu family clan. The slashes were nothing much, but once the heart dismembering worm’s eggs were placed in one’s body, the feeling of the larvae crawling inside one’s body was a pain that was worse than death!
Back then as a spectator, Shen Tu Nantian felt some pleasure seeing people suffer this punishment. However, if it was him suffering it, he could not imagine it!
“Torture?” Matriarch Lin asked. She was surprised that Yi Yun was so vicious in his methods, even though he was so young!
“To get truths out of torture, that would be the best.”
“If it is useless, we can release news that the sentencing will happen in ten days later to allow the Shen Tu family clan to come and redeem him. Of course, the price of redeeming him is the information of the Great Empress mystic realm. The Shen Tu family clan would probably not give up on Shen Tu Nantian, right? …After all, the Great Empress mystic realm cannot be opened by the Shen Tu family clan. So things they cannot obtained can’t be more important than the future successor of the Shen Tu family clan.”
Shen Tu Nantian was extremely important for the Shen Tu family clan. His importance far exceeded the importance of Lin Xintong in the Lin family.
Matriarch Lin would not give up on Lin Xintong.
Then, the Shen Tu family clan’s Shen Tu Patriarch would also not give up on Shen Tu Nantian. He was the most favorite and beloved junior.
“This…” Matriarch Lin felt suspicious, “Then, wouldn’t Shen Tu Nantian be let off, what’s the difference?”
“The difference is, we can use these ten days to ‘take care’ of Young master Nantian well. After all, Young master Nantian’s injuries are quite severe. If we can ‘treat’ his wounds such as feeding him some poisonous items that might affect his future cultivation, then…”
When Yi Yun said this, Matriarch Lin’s eyes twitched. This little rascal sure wasn’t any goody two shoes.
Seeing Matriarch Lin look at him with disbelieving eyes, Yi Yun scratched his head sheepishly, “This junior is just letting him have a taste of his own medicine.”
Yi Yun had said that with his Yuan Qi.