HLnovel Chapter 323: Corrupted and Tragic
Chapter 323: Corrupted and Tragic
After all, he still felt a little regretful. He regretted not taking Li Nian and Jiang Yuxia away from Tianyan Sect. He raised his hand and stroked the door frame.
He closed his eyes slightly, as if taking a rest.
In an old house.
The moss-covered bluestone path winds its way through a verdant bamboo forest and leads to the damp and shady inner courtyard.
She reached out and pushed open the gate, then stepped in. The hem of her red skirt rose and fell as she passed around the hall, blocking out the ray of light coming through the window lattice.
The light suddenly dimmed, the corner was damp and oppressive, with only a little light reflected from the smooth stone cave.
Light footsteps were heard, startling a swarm of bats that flew overhead and headed straight for the stone bed in the cave.
It was narrow and dark, with fallen leaves and stagnant water rotting here. The gray railings and walls were all shrouded in darkness.
"Wow--"
There was a sound of chains sliding across the ground, and the friction between the black iron and the ground made a harsh sound, which was quite abrupt.
An old man, lying on all fours and covered in dirt, was crawling on the cold, rotten ground, emitting a disgusting odor.
"You haven't been here for a long time."
The voice was hoarse, as if rolled through rough sand, and the tone was strange.
It is hard to imagine that Yuan Gaozhuo, the head of the Yuan family who was once high and mighty and in control of everyone's life and death, would become like this.
The red skirt rippled with the woman's footsteps, and then stopped not far from the old man.
"Daughter, it's been a while since we last met. How is the Yuan family doing?"
Yuan Gaozhuo didn't really care about the attitude of the person in front of him. His wild hair and unkempt beard half covered his blurry face.
He continued talking to himself.
The old man's hoarse voice was like a thin snake that quietly swam out from the wreckage of memories, slippery and cold, and penetrated into the most rotten wounds in people's hearts.
Suddenly, all the unbearable, painful and desperate memories of the past came flooding back.
There was no warmth in Yuan Liangjue's eyes. His fingertips moved slightly, and the chains passing through the old man's limbs slowly tightened, making a slight noise.
“Ugh… ah—”
The pain spread from his limbs, and the old man made an unbearable sound as if he could not bear the severe pain.
Dried, foul-smelling blood soaked the chains and dripped down.
"Does it feel good?"
Yuan Liangjue looked at this scene indifferently, with blood spreading from the bottom of her eyes.
Yuan Gaozhuo's hawk-like sharp eyes shot out from between his hair, and there was an almost crazy and numb light in his eyes.
The two of them have such similar eyebrows and eyes, and the same blood flows in their bodies. He has devoted all his efforts to training them to be the qualified next head of the family.
“Ha! Haha——”
Yuan Gaozhuo laughed out loud towards the sky. More than ten years of imprisonment and daily torture had not diminished his crazy ambition at all. Instead, it had made it even more intense.
"Liang Jue, I raised you, so why haven't you learned my essence? You could have become a master, but you failed because of that little bit of kindness."
"It's not worth it, it's not worth it!"
He murmured softly, like a devil crawling out of hell.
Yuan Liangjue was already tired of hearing these words. This was her third time here in more than ten years, but the words she heard had never changed.
There was an almost insane arc at the corner of her mouth, the chains were still tightening, and blood was dripping.
His eyes were the same color as the old man's, a pair of divine eyes that could predict the future and see through the mysteries of nature.
But it was precisely this that made Yuan Gaozhuo develop dark thoughts. After catching a glimpse of the future, he tried to grasp the secrets of heaven and override the laws of nature.
"Why, you were the one who made this happen, so why are you not satisfied now?" She sneered.
Yuan Gaozhuo's eyes were gloomy, and his hands, which were so dry that only the finger bones were left, were clenched tightly, as if he was lecturing a disobedient child.
"Daughter, you are so ignorant. If you stay with Li Shizhang, the offspring you will give birth to will be of the noblest and finest bloodline."
Yuan Liangjue's eyes widened instantly, and her voice suddenly became sharp and piercing, as if awakening her most unbearable memory.
"Enough, enough!"
"You did something ridiculous for your own selfish reasons, forcing me to marry Li Shizhang. In front of everyone, did you treat me as a human being?"
Yuan Gaozhuo shook his head in disapproval, ignoring the man's despair and collapse. "The Yuan family has always been like this."
"That's to ensure the purity of the bloodline. Your mother and I did the same. Why can't it be done for you?"
Yuan Liangjue closed his eyes and suppressed the myriad thoughts in his mind, including those ridiculous, absurd, and decadent so-called traditions of the Yuan family.
The Taoist partners of the Yuan family patriarchs of all generations were just tools for reproduction, without any dignity, and were drowned in this sad and ridiculous rule.
How many people have been harmed by the heavy shackles and high-sounding rules?
"Listen, sooner or later, I will destroy the Yuan family with my own hands. I want it to disappear."
Yuan Liangjue suddenly smiled, her eyes filled with sadness and panic, with only one last obsession supporting her.
Upon hearing this, Yuan Gaozhuo's skinny, bloodstained hands began to struggle violently. After sizing her up for a long moment, he said, "You've found Yuan Chunian, haven't you? Even if you destroy the Yuan family, it won't change anything."
As soon as these words were spoken, Yuan Liangjue's whole body trembled, and fear surged in his heart again. The person in front of him seemed like a devil.
Although I have been trapped here for more than ten years, there is no obstruction and I seem to know everything that is happening outside clearly.
"It doesn't matter. I've kept you here until now so that you can witness with your own eyes how the Yuan family, which you once cared about and would do anything to achieve it, is destroyed."
Yuan Liangjue forced himself to calm down, said this, opened the mechanism in the cave, and then left the dark cave step by step.
A hoarse and painful sound came from behind me, day and night, for more than ten years, and never stopped.
After leaving the house, Yuan Liangjue stood quietly for a moment, his eyes lowered, wondering what he was thinking.
A man walked quickly towards them from a distance. Lin Yuan adjusted his rapid breathing and then said respectfully:
"Master, the young master's identity has been leaked by someone with ulterior motives. Now everyone in the cultivation world knows about it. They want the young master... to be treated like Patriarch Li..."
Before he could finish his words, Yuan Liangjue's eyes flashed with coldness, and the air around him seemed to be crushed. He sneered.
"More than a decade has passed, and those people are still so hypocritical, without a care for shame, and resort to this trick."
She was about to say something when she suddenly remembered Yuan Chunian... no, it should be said that it was Li Nian's identity. Her expression paused slightly.
Lin Yuan carefully glanced at his master's face, a look of embarrassment on his face. "Master, Master Taixi has stated that the young master does not need to return to the Li family and will remain a disciple of the Tianyan Sect."
Yuan Liangjue was slightly stunned, and his mind recalled the girl's heart-wrenching cry from more than ten years ago, so desperate and helpless.
Her expression changed several times before she finally suppressed her thoughts and said, "That's fine."