Chapter 541: It's All About Comparison

"Wumian, you don't know who the person behind the scenes is, but do you know who the people who have been replaced are?"

"And you said your inheritance comes from Mo Sanniang; I am interested in all of this!"

"This..." Faced with Shen Yu's repeated questioning, Wumian fell silent. It was not that he did not want to speak, but that he could not.

Clearly, Shen Yu was already interested in his words, so he could speak even less.

His goal had been achieved; he had let Shen Yu see where his value lay. The remaining hard facts had to be revealed bit by bit; only in this way could he continue to live well.

If he were completely emptied out, leaving no value to be utilized, there would be only one outcome for a person.

"My Lord!" After hesitating for a moment, Wumian then said, "I can tell you all of this, and I can also work for you, I only ask that you spare my life!"

"My Lord, can you agree to this small request of mine?"

"Didn't I just say it? Whether you can live or not depends on whether I am satisfied!"

As he spoke, Shen Yu shook his head and said somewhat helplessly, "Clearly, I am not yet too satisfied with what you have said. Tell me everything you know, and perhaps I can consider it."

"You!" Shen Yu's words made the flesh on Wumian's face tremble involuntarily.

He had seen shameless people, but someone as shameless as this was truly rare; this ability of yours to hoodwink people is simply too poor.

No, this was clearly just stalling him, and he couldn't even be bothered to stall anymore.

Wumian seemed to have sensed what Shen Yu meant; he had no intention of letting him go at all.

In the past, he had also hoodwinked others like this; once he had extracted everything he knew and drained them dry, he would kill them.

He could completely go back on things he had promised; he was all too familiar with this routine!

"Lord Shen, I have no other requests, I just want to survive, nothing more!"

"How about you change to a different request?"

"Damn it!" His heart trembled; was this shameless man not even bothering to hide his killing intent?

"Shen Yu, you are playing with me!"

"So what if I am playing with you! Don't people always say that I don't leave any survivors? If I were to break this rule of mine, how bad would that be!"

"You think I can't tell? You are using this to hold me hostage so I will let you off the hook. How could I have the spare time to waste with you!"

"If you aren't willing to speak, I will help you so you can speak properly!"

While speaking, Shen Yu had already looked up, and a strange light seemed to flash between his eyes.

At the same time, Wumian, who was opposite him, suddenly felt a wave of dizziness; his whole person felt as if he hadn't slept for many days, his brain even stopped thinking, and he just wanted to have a good sleep.

"It's over!" At the moment he lost consciousness, a bitter thought flashed through Wumian's mind; he had calculated everything, but he hadn't expected that this person wouldn't follow the script at all. He couldn't escape this.

"Little brat, still trying to play mind games with me!"

Just a moment ago, he had used his Mental Power to probe; there were no hidden traps in Wumian's Spiritual Sea, which allowed him to safely and boldly use his Illusion Technique.

I gave you a chance, but you didn't want it, forcing me to play hardball!

Soon, Shen Yu learned everything he wanted from Wumian.

The Wumian of the past was just a small-time thug who, by a stroke of luck, obtained a portion of Mo Sanniang's inheritance.

Of course, this inheritance was likely just something Mo Sanniang left behind casually; one wonders if she was having a fit of dark humor at the time to leave such an inheritance.

However, although it was left casually, one must look at who left it. Even among those old monsters who have lived for who knows how many years, Mo Sanniang is a renowned existence.

The name Pink Skeleton is enough to make people turn pale at the mention of it. It is said that no one who has seen her face has ever survived; this fierce reputation is evident.

After obtaining this inheritance, the small-time thug Wumian learned the Cultivation Method of harvesting yin to replenish yang, successfully growing from a small-time thug into a flower-plucking thief that everyone wanted to beat up.

The trade of a flower-plucking thief is not easy to practice; no matter where it is, it is an existence that makes people gnash their teeth, and one careless move could lead to being besieged.

During one flower-plucking attempt, Wumian was discovered and nearly beaten to death, and from then on, he had the idea of retreating behind the scenes.

Although this person was a small-time thug, he was extremely shrewd and knew when to advance or retreat, knowing that if he kept doing this, he would eventually be beaten to death one day.

Afterward, he used Mo Sanniang's inheritance to gradually begin creating human Puppets, thereby living a prosperous life.

Later, after spending countless efforts to refine a beauty as stunning as Mu Shang, that peerless face, combined with the secret techniques left by Mo Sanniang, simply swept away everything.

No one could escape Mu Shang's charm; everyone was willing to become a servant under her skirt, obeying her every command.

Subsequently, he established the Tingfeng Pavilion, using Mu Shang to control who knows how many people, taking root and sprouting in Xichuan.

To put it bluntly, from the Governor of Xichuan down to the civil and military officials everywhere, and the many martial arts experts, which one of them is not a servant under Mu Shang's skirt? Even if she told them to die, they might do so willingly.

Mo Sanniang's charm technique can silently seize a person's will, making them follow orders obediently.

Therefore, in fact, the Tingfeng Pavilion had already become the uncrowned king of Xichuan, and he, Wumian, was already a king without a crown.

But after the incident with He Yuan, Wumian became alert. Even a dignified Governor could be swapped; the waters of Xichuan were deeper than he had imagined.

At this time, he looked back to investigate, only to suddenly discover that he had thought Xichuan was almost his own backyard, but in the end, he was just a clown.

It wasn't just one He Yuan who had been swapped, but many, many others. Many of those high-ranking officials he thought he had in his grasp had been swapped by others.

Even more terrifying was that even these people themselves hadn't noticed; from beginning to end, they thought they were still their original selves, which was quite terrifying.

Such methods were unheard of, and he absolutely believed that when the person behind the scenes truly made a move, those held in Mu Shang's grasp would never turn toward him.

Since they dared to do this, they must have a method of control.

Wumian could not let people know that he had already noticed these things, otherwise, the Tingfeng Pavilion would inevitably become a thorn in someone else's side.

With the other party's methods, making the Tingfeng Pavilion disappear silently probably wouldn't be difficult.

Although the person in charge of the Tingfeng Pavilion on the surface was Mu Shang, there was no guarantee that others wouldn't discover his existence. A cunning rabbit has three burrows; he had to leave himself a way out.

Therefore, Wumian had always been investigating secretly while trying hard to hide himself. Afterward, he even secretly set up a Great Array in the Tingfeng Pavilion, just in case.

But Shen Yu arrived too suddenly, catching him off guard, yet he still managed to escape; the path he had secretly left for himself came in handy.

However, he had not expected that someone could be so fast, fast enough to cover a thousand miles in an instant.

When he saw Shen Yu, Wumian knew he was finished. But he still wanted to struggle; as long as he could let someone see his value, he could live!

Clearly, he had miscalculated and encountered a master who didn't follow the script.

From Wumian, Shen Yu also obtained a partial list; these people were basically Wumian's guesses, and he didn't dare to be too certain, nor did he dare to investigate on a large scale.

Wumian also knew that knowing too much about certain things was not a good thing, as it could bring about a catastrophe.

However, Tingfeng Pavilion had not been open for so many years for nothing; while it might not be easy to investigate who had been swapped, he was crystal clear about who the corrupt officials were and who the heartless rich were.

Of all those who came to Tingfeng Pavilion, how many were decent people? The most bizarre cases were when three generations of a family came at the same time; that scene was truly an eyesore.

Having been open for so many years, the various kinds of people encountered at Tingfeng Pavilion had simply shattered Wumian's worldview over these many years.

He did not consider himself a good person, but compared to those people, he could definitely be considered to have pure and kind character.

They say you should fear comparing goods; only after such a comparison did he realize that although he had committed many evils and harmed countless people, he was still the same youth he was back then; at the very least, he still had some bottom line and was not too rotten, while those people did not even have a bottom line.

Ptooey, a bunch of sanctimonious hypocrites.