Chapter 455: Tit for Tat

"Do you not know in your own heart how you obtained this position as the garrison commander of Ruowu City?"

Gripping Mu Cheng's neck, Luo Qingyu did not kill him; it was more like she was repeatedly torturing him, as if venting years of dissatisfaction.

Shen Yu turned a blind eye to all of this; a piece of human trash was not worth him stepping in to save.

On the contrary, this old monster before him was somewhat interesting, making it impossible for him to accurately pinpoint a location even now; the Compass in his hand was flicking back and forth as if broken.

If he could not determine the location, he could not easily make a move, otherwise, if the person ran away, it would surely lead to endless trouble.

Shen Yu did not move first, and Luo Qingyu did not move against him either, as if all her focus was spent on Mu Cheng.

"Mu Cheng, oh Mu Cheng. If not for you marrying your wife and gaining the support of the Luo family, how could you have driven away the original garrison commander and become the new one?"

"With your meager literary and military talents, how can you be mentioned in the same breath as the previous garrison commander?"

"Now that the Luo family has lost power, you have begun to seek a new backer, casting aside your original wife like worn-out shoes; you tell me, does a person like you even deserve to be called human?"

"I, I..." Seemingly rendered speechless, Mu Cheng did not know how to open his mouth for a moment, but his state at this time explained the problem even better.

No matter how one looked at it, this was a person as scummy as they could be, willing to abandon his wife for the sake of his own power and status.

Facing such a person, it was likely that anyone would lose heart, and original love would turn into hate. As the saying goes, the deeper the love, the deeper the hate, not to mention there was someone on the side constantly fanning the flames.

"Luo Qingyu, pick up the blade and kill him; as long as you kill him, you can be free!"

The low-voiced words were full of temptation, seemingly guiding Luo Qingyu step by step according to their own plan.

However, Shen Yu did not feel any Mental Power from it; this was merely verbal guidance and not active control—the other party wanted Luo Qingyu to do it herself.

This was letting her take revenge herself; could the old monster really be so kind-hearted?

"Not right!" The more he thought about it, the more wrong it felt, but Shen Yu could not say exactly what was wrong.

Since he could not wait for it to come, he might as well take the initiative.

Quietly leaking a trace of his aura, Shen Yu originally thought the other party would reveal a greedy gaze and then be unable to wait to make a move on him.

But the result was that although the other party revealed greed just as he had expected, they never made a move on him; from beginning to end, the target was Mu Cheng.

"Kill!" A cold voice rang out from his ear, and when Shen Yu looked up again, Luo Qingyu had already raised the blade in her hand and fiercely stabbed toward the person opposite.

And at this moment, facing this blade, Mu Cheng no longer dodged, but instead closed his eyes tightly, seemingly having completely compromised with all of this. On his face was nothing but remorse and despair.

"Wrong, wrong!" Suddenly seeming to perceive something, Shen Yu intercepted in front of Mu Cheng, blocking this blade.

Luo Qingyu's crazed blade stopped not far in front of Shen Yu, unable to advance even an inch further.

"You want to protect such human trash?" Lifting her head abruptly, her bloodshot eyes were filled with infinite hatred, as if she hated Shen Yu along with him.

However, Luo Qingyu still did not strike at Shen Yu, as if fearing something.

Yet this behavior only made Shen Yu more certain of his guess: it was not that the other party did not want to attack him, but that they simply lacked the ability.

Or rather, the other party's abilities were all added to Mental Power, used to bewitch people's hearts.

If not for that, these old monsters should have been unable to hold back the moment they sensed his aura.

Having seen so many old monsters, he knew too well the attraction of so-called Heavenly Pride to these old monsters; it was absolutely a fatal temptation.

Under such temptation, unless they were unable to do so, how could they remain indifferent?

Although the fleeting aura that had just been exposed disappeared quickly, it was still perceived by Shen Yu.

"I just felt something wasn't right earlier; the Compass in my hand was pointing south one moment and north the next, and even spinning constantly."

While speaking, Shen Yu raised the Compass in his hand and looked at Luo Qingyu and Mu Cheng.

"It's not that this piece of junk is broken, but that both of them have your aura on them; all of this is being guided by you."

"Controlling two people at the same time, this method is indeed astonishing. I think your ultimate goal is to make them kill each other. Making a pair of lovers kill each other really fits your style."

He threw the Mountain and River Map into the sky; if his guess was true, the old monster before him would not be able to resist it at all.

Sure enough, the Mountain and River Map unfolded smoothly, and everything around was drawn into it.

The moment the Mountain and River Map in his hand descended, the two people before him, Mu Cheng and Luo Qingyu, began to radiate extreme malice, wanting to resist the power from the Mountain and River Map so as not to be absorbed.

But the power on them was too weak; they could not resist at all and could only watch helplessly as they were locked inside.

Taking advantage of this exposure, the homogeneous Mental Power was grabbed out by Shen Yu with one hand and firmly locked by the power of the Mountain and River Map.

Only then did Luo Qingyu wake up as if from a dream; the various things that had happened before flooded into her mind, causing them to break out in a cold sweat.

"Many thanks, my lord!" After the dust covering their hearts was swept away, the clear-headed Mu Cheng hurriedly thanked Shen Yu.

If not for this Lord Shen before them acting in time, perhaps the two of them as husband and wife would have already been schemed to death.

Just now, when being stabbed by his wife, Mu Cheng only felt pain in his heart. Even he felt that his own actions deserved death, so he did not resist.

At this moment, when the Mental Power entrenched in his body was removed by Shen Yu, he remembered everything.

There was no Miss Xia, no heartless person; there was only a story fabricated by someone.

And the two of them, as husband and wife, had actually accepted this story in just one day and believed in it deeply.

Mu Cheng felt he was that heartless piece of trash who sought power, and Luo Qingyu also believed that the husband she loved deeply had betrayed her.

Therefore, when Luo Qingyu raised the blade, Mu Cheng did not resist, only feeling waves of despair.

He loved Luo Qingyu deeply; being killed by the person he loved most, this kind of pain was hard for ordinary people to imagine.

And presumably, when Luo Qingyu remembered everything and learned that she had killed her own husband with her own hands, she would certainly not want to live.

By then, two affectionate people would have died by her hand while carrying infinite remorse in their hearts; it was truly killing two birds with one stone.

However, these old monsters would not do useless work; presumably, the other party fed on Mental Power. After waking up, what they needed was not ordinary Spirit Qi, but powerful Mental Power.

This was the special energy that would only erupt after affectionate people killed each other, which was why they liked to toy with people's hearts.

And Shen Yu guessed that the other party had nothing but Mental Power, and their Mental Power must be scattered everywhere, simultaneously absorbing power to strengthen themselves.

It was precisely because of this that the other party was so weak. Otherwise, when facing him, how could they not have even a shred of room to resist?

Being scattered meant weakness, but it also meant a greater chance of survival than others; isn't quantity a form of quality?

"I admit you are very powerful, but you cannot kill me! As long as there are so-called lovers in this world, you cannot kill me!"

"Then let's try and see if I can kill you or not. I want to see exactly how many you can split yourself into."