The end of book 2!
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By now the hall is silent. Blood, stained around the whole hall, the seven oil lamps still shimmering.
Shi Youming’s whole body, just like his hands, are so mangled one can no longer tell which is a body part and which is a bloody mess.
After a while. Shi Youming’s throat was gurgling and it took some time before he strangled out these words, “Zhui Ming… and that pair of young… boy and girl… I know where you still are… Zhui Ming… if not for your wine… and that two… kicks, all of you won’t… won’t be able to kill… to kill me… if not for the poison… on the ‘Divine Collecting… Needle’… all of you… I…. ai!” He finally breathed his last.
Only now did Zhui Ming heave a long sigh and say, “Shi Youming, oh Shi Youming, you cannot blame others. You were so close with ‘Bloody Concubine’ but you refused to save her when she was in trouble. Her ‘Divine Collecting Needle’ took your life, so what goes around comes around.”
Yin Chengfeng added, “Manor Master Shi, it’s all the result of your evil ways. Mister Cai was your good friend and treated you so well yet you wanted to absorb his energy. So it’s just retribution that you were injured by the poison in his body.”
The legend is indeed correct, those who learn the skill ‘Bloody Hand Alteration Skill’ really do die horribly. Shi Youming thought that he will gain great fame and reputation so even if he were to die horribly then, he would still be remembered by others. However, the evil will get their retribution and he has not even left the manor to let others know of his prowess, he is already dead. Fate does make fun of man.
Yin Chengfeng knows very well that in the battle earlier, if Zhui Ming had not distracted Shi Youming by spitting the wine in his face and making him close his eyes, his sword will not be able to pierce Shi Youming’s right shoulder so readily and the Xin brothers will not be able to break Shi Youming’s left shoulder. If Zhui Ming’s kicks have not broken Shi Youming’s legs and his wine blinded him, Qu Benlei’s axe will not be able to hit him and the corpse lying down on the ground will belong to them and not Shi Youming.
Zhui Ming heaved a long sigh, thinking that of those 20 who left the tavern earlier, together with those pugilists who left earlier, almost 40 have died, leaving only the three of them behind. Cai Yunfei felt that what has happened seems like a nightmare that she dare not even think about.
But no matter what, the case of the ‘Secluded Ghostly Manor’ is finally solved, the so called ‘ghost’ in the manor is also ‘dead’.
Zhui Ming picked up the seven oil lamps, poured out the oil and lighted it. In a short while, a huge fire was burning, the fire cleansing this evil manor on a snowy night.
The snowfall is getting heavier, the snow getting whiter and whiter, as if it’s purity is cleansing all the evil on this world.
There were countless messy footprints on the snow, going towards the now burning ‘Secluded Ghostly Manor’ but there were only 3 sets of footprints going away from the manor. Zhui Ming, Yin Chengfeng, Cai Yunfei turned back once in a while to look. The snow falling, the fire rising high in the sky, one red and one white, which became a unique scene in this snowy night.