HPDBC Chapter 96 Crisis
Chapter 96 Crisis
chapter 96 crisis
translator: borntobe
“wilde, mom has let you down.”
mrs. long was truly agonized. wilde was a good child, and even at such a time, he still didn’t have the slightest bit of resentment against her. he was actually consoling her instead. that made her feel even more forlorn.
if it weren’t for her family’s schemes, she wouldn’t have implicated everyone. looking at wilde who was on his last breaths but still acted as though he were fine, she felt as if a knife was stabbing into her heart.
“mom, don’t be afraid. long chen will definitely come and save us,” comforted wilde. he did his best to sit up. that way he could alleviate some of the pressure from the needles and he could feel a bit more ‘comfortable’.
“child, it’s been hard on you.” each bone eroding needle was a horrifying torturing object, and seeing them cover his body so densely caused her to cry even harder. just how much pain had this child suffered?
“mom, i’m fine. that bastard marquis ying interrogated me, but i didn’t even know what he was talking about. in any case, i didn’t say a word, infuriating the old bastard,” laughed wilde.
once marquis ying had recovered from his wounds, he had heard that wilde had been captured. he had immediately gone to interrogate him alone.
he was extremely curious about wilde’s physical body. he was still in disbelief that a novice like him, who hadn’t even reached blood condensation, had been able to block his sword.
he wanted to know how wilde cultivated. however, he didn’t have long chen’s powerful soul. he was unable to see through the situation with wilde’s cells.
although he did find that wilde’s body was extremely strange with only four meridians, he had assumed that it was the result of training in some sort of mysterious cultivation technique since childhood.
marquis ying naturally wouldn’t give up a chance to obtain such a mysterious cultivation technique. even if he couldn’t cultivate it, it would definitely be a priceless treasure if he could obtain it.
but he hadn’t expected for a kid like wilde to be so tough. he didn’t say a single word, and no matter how he hit him, he didn’t make a single sound.
he had tried all sorts of torture, in the end even using the cruelest bone eroding needles all over his body. but he still didn’t say a single word.
later, marquis ying gradually realized that wilde’s body’s strangeness was most likely due to his constitution.
perhaps wilde’s cultivation technique was something that others would be incapable of cultivating even if they had the technique! forcefully cultivating in it would only result in death.
the real question was just what kind of existence could block the pain of the bone eroding needle? even if you could resist one needle, who could possibly take ten of them without dying? even a tendon transformation expert would go crazy from the pain of ten bone eroding needles.
having understood that point, marquis ying no longer bothered with wilde’s cultivation technique. he was more interested in wilde’s physical body. he wanted to see just how many bone eroding needles a person’s body could take.
and that was how wilde had turned into a human-shaped hedgehog. that was absolutely shocking to marquis ying. even being covered by the bone eroding needles, he still didn’t die. his physical body was too terrifying.
it was at that time that he had been ordered to send wilde to the execution ground, and only then did he stop his torture of wilde.
“hmph, i guess you are pretty difficult to deal with since you could survive that many bone eroding needles. i wonder if your neck will be able to stop my blade? i truly am curious,” li feng said to wilde coldly.
the fourth prince’s words immediately caused him to awaken from his grief. he nodded, “correct, peace is the dream of the people.”
“that’s entirely true. but peace must be built on a foundation of trust and equality. those who would attempt to break our empires’ peace must die.”
he coldly smiled and look towards the eldest prince and his people. his smile suddenly disappeared and he harshly shouted, “chu yang, do you admit your crimes?!”
chu yang, who was originally just lying there, was jolted suddenly and looked up into the sky, terrified. it seemed as if he was seeing some terrifying image, and he incessantly kowtowed.
“guilty, i’m guilty!”
he repeated he was guilty over and over as he kowtowed, seeming to be full of remorse. but not a single person noticed that within the hair on the back of his head were three extremely thin needles.
he wasn’t the only one with needles in his head. the calm and slightly lifeless empress dowager also had such thin needles on the back of her head, but her hair blocked it so that no one could see.
the fourth prince looked over everyone and coldly shouted, “our phoenix cry’s eldest prince tried in vain to destroy the peace between our two nations. he threatened to throw our people into an abyss of torture. death without pardon - kill!”
following his cold order, the head executioner’s blade fell.
blood flew everywhere. over ten heads fell to the ground and dyed the earth red. of the members of the long household in the row behind them, over half of them fainted directly.
the commoners watching from a distance closed their eyes in fright. it wasn’t that they hadn’t seen executions before, but they had never seen so many people executed for some heinous crimes.
furthermore, those people were all the highest officials of the empire, causing many of them to not be able to bear the sight. at the same time, their respect of the fourth prince only grew.
seeing all those people be executed, the fourth prince took a deep breath. he was too excited. he loved this feeling of control. just a single thought on his part controlled the life and death of the people around him. that was the fascination of power.
he looked towards the pale faces of the princes, princesses, and nobilities. the fear in their eyes was exactly what he had wanted to see.
he would borrow this chance to clear out any other parties and make everyone acknowledge allegiance to him while making it so that they didn’t dare rebel against him. he would become a king who ruled through complete power. follow me and prosper; oppose me and die.
“this is the result of disloyalty!”
the fourth prince coldly looked up from those corpses and looked at the terrified expression of mrs. long.
her entire body was trembling now and she was filled with terror. she didn’t faint, but just watched woodenly instead.
“mrs. long, i’m sorry. long chen committed such a huge offense that even i am unable to protect you. don’t blame me.”
after saying that, he regretfully waved his hand, causing a dozen executioner’s blades to be pressed against their necks.
“bastards, you better stop for this master!”
suddenly, a wild shout rang out and a group of people began to charge over to the execution stage.