Chương 80: Interrogating the Grand Eunuch

Back to Shuili City. The five-clawed golden dragon wailed in the sky. The immense pain nearly caused it to lose consciousness, but it also gave it great power. The will to live drove it to thrash and flee into the void. Fortunately, Fang Cheng did not give chase, letting it escape. Urgh... Fang Cheng patted his stomach, his face full of discomfort. The severed dragon tail had dissolved into a pool of black liquid in his mouth.

The foul stench filled his entire mouth, nearly making him vomit all the human-head fruits he had just eaten.

"Stinking bug! You are actually a stinking bug! Damn it! You deceptive bastard! You are cheating the consumer! Damn it! If you had not run so fast, I would have burned you to ash!" Fang Cheng cursed at the sky, his anger burning. This was the most disgusting thing he had ever eaten in his life. He could not believe there was something in this world he could not swallow. Unbelievable! Though the dragon tail was foul, it was not entirely useless. The pungent stench jolted Fang Cheng back to his senses.

The red feathers covering his body faded away. But after regaining his clarity, he grew even angrier. Damn it! Su Mu had died just like that. The Demonic Spirit Gathering Array was still unresolved. Su Mu's accomplice in the capital, he couldn't get a word out about that either. Wait. I seem to have overlooked something... Hehe. A newly born eunuch! Hahaha. Grand Eunuch Hu, here I come! Fang Cheng descended to the ground, following the hole torn open by the great tree back underground.

He used his Heavenly Eye to scan the area. Finally, he found Hu Tong cowering behind some rubble, trembling. Without a word, Fang Cheng went up and gave him a thorough beating.

"Damn it! It is all because your thing did not work! A high-level cultivator of the upper three realms, and your thing could not even do its job! I am so mad!" He cursed as he beat him. Hu Tong, the only normal person who had witnessed the entire spectacle, had long since pissed himself. Without his thing, it was like a reservoir without a dam. Urine gushed out like a flood, bringing both unbearable pain and a strange, exhilarating release.

Under the stimulation of that pleasure, he expelled every last drop of urine from his bladder, along with the moisture from his kidneys and nephrons. But after the release came emptiness, followed by even more intense pain, like a thousand ants gnawing at his heart, like being boiled in oil a thousand times over. Now, Fang Cheng's beating was almost soothing. It even brought a strange pleasure that dulled the pain below.

"Come on! Come on! Whip me! Beat me! Let me forget the pain of losing my thing! Hahaha..." Hu Tong's face was full of joy. His mood was pure bliss. Nothing in life could compare to this. This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. Now it was Fang Cheng's turn to be baffled. After all that punching and kicking, he was getting tired and breathing heavily. But this Grand Eunuch Hu was getting happier with each blow, laughing like a simpleton.

What the hell. Had he beaten him stupid? Fang Cheng stopped and patted Hu Tong's cheek.

"Hey, hey. Grand Eunuch Hu, do you even know your own name anymore?"

"Of course I do!" Hu Tong blurted out, then caught himself and quickly changed his tune.

"Oh, no, I do not! I have lost my mind! Haha! Losing it is good! Good! Come on! Keep beating me! Whip me! Harder..."

"Heh." Fang Cheng snorted coldly. As a righteous cultivator who had lost his mind many times before, he could tell Hu Tong was faking.

"Hmph. I hate lying fakers more than anything. Grand Eunuch Hu, you had better confess. Or I will run you through with my sword."

"Confess what? Do not kill me! I will tell you whatever you want to know! Please, do not kill me!" Hu Tong cried out in terror. Seeing that he could not bluff his way out, he begged for mercy. Everything that had just happened had taught him a profound lesson: life was precious, and he only had one. Even without his thing, he could still live a good life. But without his life, he had nothing. Seeing this, Fang Cheng nodded in satisfaction.

He sat down next to Hu Tong, patted his cheek, and said, "Admitting your mistakes is the greatest good. As long as you answer honestly and show a good attitude, I promise I will not eat you. Hmm... Where should I start..." Fang Cheng glanced at the broken Spirit Gathering Array and smiled.

"Who gave you the Demonic Spirit Gathering Array?" Hu Tong replied, "I do not know. A year ago, Su Mu came to me secretly and showed me the blueprints. He wanted to cooperate and build an underground kingdom in Lianshan Prefecture. I asked him where the blueprints came from. He just shook his head and said: " The new era is coming. Every visionary will have the blueprints appear in their hands. Do not worry about the source. I thought he was right. The blueprints did not matter.

What mattered was the Immortal Crystals, and avoiding being caught by the Underworld Bureau and the Hall of Eternal Life. But unfortunately, we were exposed. I went to the capital recently. Under my father-in-law's questioning, I confessed everything. To be honest, my father-in-law has not favored me since Han'er died. But this time, for some reason, he spoke up for me in front of the Chief.

The Chief dropped the matter and only told me to surrender all the Immortal Crystals I had earned and bring Su Mu back to the capital. Strangely, the Chief told me to keep Su Mu alive. His Dark Night organization usually kills on sight. Why spare Su Mu? Though the Chief ordered it, I had no intention of letting Su Mu live. He knew too many of my dirty secrets. If he lived, he would threaten me later..."

"Stop rambling. Focus on the questions." Fang Cheng slapped Hu Tong's head.

"Su Mu had a friend in the capital. Do you know who he is?" Hu Tong shook his head.

"I do not know. Su Mu had too many friends. Anyone who had the blueprints or agreed with his truth was a friend. But I am certain the friend in the capital was someone important. Su Mu mentioned him often, with respect and admiration in his eyes."

"Someone important..." Fang Cheng thought for a moment.

"Could it be an elder of the Hall of Eternal Life? Or your father-in-law? I got the feeling Su Mu respected your father-in-law." Hu Tong shook his head again.

"It would not be a high-ranking Hall official. Su Mu despised them the most. It would not be my father-in-law either. Su Mu respected him as an elder. The friend he spoke of was more like a kindred spirit, a confidant. Many of the new era terms came from that friend. My father-in-law never talked about the new era. I suspect the friend might be from one of the old capital families. The Han family, or the Tang family..." Fang Cheng nodded, noting the term "new era." He had almost forgotten.

Su Mu talked about the new era constantly. This might be connected to the Anti-Cultivator Alliance. He asked Hu Tong, "You must know Secretary Zhou Zhixin from Xiangshi City. He was a member of the Anti-Cultivator Alliance. Was Su Mu also a member?" Hu Tong scoffed.

"Of course I have heard of the Anti-Cultivator Alliance. That group is just a bunch of deluded mortals. Su Mu was a high-level cultivator, exactly what they wanted to overthrow. Why would he join them? Haha. Those mortals are laughable. They think they are saviors who can overthrow the world. Ridiculous. A bunch of overconfident ants." Smack! Smack! Fang Cheng slapped him twice.

"What kind of attitude is that! Is that how you confess? Huh? Do you think you are so great and powerful? If your thing had not failed, Great Cult Master Su would not have died, and all the answers would have been revealed! Damn it! Grand Eunuch Hu, you deserve to die!"