paranoianovel Chapter 85 Retribution
Chapter 85 Retribution
"Is being this direct really a good thing?"
Fang Hongxuan secretly grumbled to himself while becoming increasingly curious about how much of Dao Yuan's past life's abilities he still possessed.
She was able to communicate with him remotely without anyone noticing.
"I was just a seven or eight-year-old child then, what does it have to do with me?"
Luo Ji gradually calmed down and then focused his mind.
But the woman refused to give up, staring intently at Luo Quanzhou with a frosty expression.
"Every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt its debtor. This is certainly true, but the premise of 'the sins do not extend to the parents, and the misfortunes do not extend to the wife and children' is that the benefits do not involve the family!"
"Let me ask you this: in the entire Shiliang Village, besides Luo Ji, who else dares to claim innocence?"
"Not only am I unwilling to give myself to you, but even the nine Shadow Spiders nurtured in the Great Immortal Cave would not allow it."
"Now that I think about it, things will become clear in a few days."
"What do you mean?!"
Luo Quanzhou, who was originally trembling with fear, has now become fearless.
The mixture of fear and anger on that sharply distorted face looked incredibly bizarre.
"Yesterday's cause, today's effect. It seems this place is doomed to extinction..."
Dao Yuan was not surprised. In the Secret Realm, he had seen all kinds of horrific scenes, and even more extreme ones were commonplace.
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Shiliang Village
Luo Licheng, who was huddled inside the ancestral hall, felt unbearable pain all over his body. Not only was he dizzy, but his thin body also began to swell violently.
"The ceremony is complete. What's wrong with you?"
Someone in the crowd gasped, their horrified gaze impossible to conceal.
Luo Nanying rushed forward and helped Luo Licheng, who had fallen to the ground.
"Uncle Eagle, I feel so uncomfortable...it feels like my whole body is being torn apart..."
"puff..."
The swollen Luo Licheng actually exploded into two pieces.
Everyone in the ancestral hall got their faces soaked.
Everyone stared blankly at the lower body that had collapsed limply to the ground.
The two legs on the ground were still twitching violently, and its internal organs were spilling out all over the ground.
Upon seeing their former friend die tragically before them, the group of teenagers were all terrified and burst into tears.
Even some women and children, still shaken, turned away, unable to bear to look any longer.
Luo Guisheng's face flushed red and then turned pale. He looked in the direction where Luo Ji was, both shocked and angry.
"It must be those two thieves who did this! Why hasn't Master Zhiquan killed them yet?"
For the entire Shiliang Village, Luo Licheng was a true seed of learning.
Luo Ji was not among them. The reason was simply that he had passed the imperial examinations too quickly, and some tactics to win people's hearts and bind them with interests had not yet been used against him.
In the blink of an eye, he became the top scholar in the provincial examination. If left unchecked, the entire Shiliang Village would fall under his control.
To protect his power and the interests of his various allies, he broke his wings to give back to Shiliang Village.
"Let's go! Let's go see them together! Even if they've already been killed, I'll still chop them a couple of times to vent my anger!"
"Yes! They must be torn to pieces! They must be buried with them at the ceremony!"
Relying on Zhiquan's support, the indignant crowd immediately pushed open the side door of the ancestral hall and headed towards the end of the village.
Above the unnoticed memorial tablets, a vast array of illusory, half-body old men all wore furrowed brows.
"Why...."
"Once you step out of this place, from this day forward, the entire line of my Shiqiao Village will be wiped out..."
"Hmph, unworthy descendant, narrow-minded, ambitious but incompetent, destined for this calamity..."
Even someone born with extraordinary abilities dares to harbor such wicked intentions, destroying their fundamental qualities and blunting their spirit. If I were in their shoes, I would find it difficult to swallow this insult...
"This incredible opportunity was placed right in front of them, yet they couldn't resist it. They're truly useless!"
Very well, in this way, the "Prison Crossing Doro Locking Curse" that binds the Luo family bloodline should also dissipate...
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All the memorial tablets on the altar shook violently, and boundless karmic fire appeared in the void, which then set the antique ancestral hall ablaze.
Outside
Before they could react, everyone turned around as they felt the sweltering heat behind them.
"What...what happened here! Why did the ancestral hall catch fire?!"
"Put out the fire! Put out the fire! At least protect the ancestral tablets!"
That night
A chilling wind howled, and ghostly wails echoed.
The crowd, filled with terror, panic, and weeping, felt an impending doom, and a somber atmosphere quickly filled their hearts.
"Honey, what's wrong?"
The woman covered her mouth and gasped, startling everyone who turned their attention to her.
Countless fine white spider silks gushed from the seven orifices of the burly, dark-skinned, rough man.
Before he could speak, his entire body quickly withered and then crumbled into dust.
The strange behavior of this man seemed to have opened some kind of valve.
Everyone present vanished in an instant, leaving only Luo Guisheng trembling and limp in the mud.
In the firelight, the eight enormous shadow spiders, after absorbing the Luo clan members, began to tear at and devour each other.
It started with the Shadow Spider that was hacked to pieces by the swordsman, and then one after another, the weaker Shadow Spiders died at the hands of their own kind.
After about half an incense stick's time, only one Shadow Spider remained on the field, its limbs mutilated and covered in wounds.
It then spat out a large amount of spider silk, binding Luo Guisheng's various vital points.
"Why don't you kill me! If you have the guts, then take my life!"
After the initial panic, Luo Guisheng calmed down. He shouted and used the most vicious words to provoke Shadow Spider.
All I ask for is a quick and painless death, to spare myself the dreadful torment.
Even though he wanted to bite his tongue and commit suicide, he found that he was out of control.
He was walking at an extremely fast pace toward the end of the village, his appearance showing none of the vitality one would expect from a man in his sixties.
"Please, kill me now..."
Insults failed, and Luo Guisheng softened again. He longed for death, but could not have his wish fulfilled.
"Once we get to Luo Ji's house, let him end your life..."
Upon hearing this, Luo Guisheng went into a frenzy again, acting like a madman and struggling violently. However, the panic on his face betrayed his unease.
"No... I don't want to see him! I don't need to see him! I don't owe him anything!"
His strong words softened instantly. Tears streamed down his face as he muttered to himself in fear.
"It was I who recommended him to my father to assassinate him. He was many times more outstanding than my son. I was jealous of his talent, jealous of everything about him..."
"Na Luo Licheng was actually my illegitimate son... otherwise Na Luo Zhengze wouldn't have died so mysteriously..."
"These were all things I did because I was afraid of being exposed... Was I wrong...? No... I wasn't wrong!"
I hate... I hate that Naraji wasn't born into my family, that's his crime! ...Hahahaha..."
When the last fig leaf was torn off, the sordid past was completely exposed and could no longer hide in the shadows.
Having already lost his mind, Luo Guisheng poured out all the words he had kept hidden in his heart.
The Shadow Spider remained silent, focusing solely on its journey. Under the dim moonlight, the entire Stone Beam Village seemed to lose its color.
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