Chapter 715: Quantity is Also Quality

"How you obtained this position as the garrison commander of Ruowu City—don't you know that in your own heart?"

Gripping Mu Cheng's neck, Luo Qingyu did not kill him; it was more like she was repeatedly tormenting 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 taking action to save.

On the contrary, this old monster before him was somewhat interesting, making it impossible for him to accurately pinpoint its 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 strike; otherwise, if the person ran away, the future troubles would be endless.

Shen Yu did not make the first move, and Luo Qingyu did not attack 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 former garrison commander?"

"Now that the Luo family has lost power, you have started looking for a new backer, casting aside your wedded 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 trashy as could be, willing to abandon his wedded wife for the sake of his own power and status.

Facing such a person, presumably anyone would lose heart; the original love would also 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-spoken words were full of temptation, seemingly guiding Luo Qingyu step by step according to its own plan.

However, Shen Yu did not feel any Mental Power within it; this was merely verbal guidance and not active control. The opponent simply wanted Luo Qingyu to do it herself.

This was letting her take revenge herself. Could the old monster really be so kind-hearted now?

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

Since it wouldn't come out, he might as well take the initiative.

Quietly leaking a trace of his aura, Shen Yu originally thought the opponent would reveal a greedy gaze and then impatiently move to attack him.

But the result was that although the opponent revealed greed just as he had imagined, it never attacked him; its target from beginning to end was Mu Cheng.

"Kill!" A cold voice rang out by his ear. By the time 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, as if he had completely compromised with all of this. His face was full of remorse and despair.

"Wrong, wrong!" Suddenly seeming to perceive something, Shen Yu stepped 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 too?" 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 wary of something.

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

Or rather, the opponent's ability was all poured into Mental Power, used for bewitching people's hearts.

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

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

Under such temptation, unless it was impossible to do so, how could it remain indifferent?

Although the fleeting aura that had just been exposed disappeared quickly, it was still detected 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 it kept spinning around."

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 tossed the Mountain and River Map into the sky; if his guess was true, the old monster before him would have no way 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, both 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 sucked in.

But the power within them was too weak to resist at all, and they could only watch helplessly as they were locked inside.

Taking advantage of this exposure, the source-sharing Mental Power was grabbed out by Shen Yu with one hand and firmly locked down 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 his heart was swept away, the clear-headed Mu Cheng hurriedly thanked Shen Yu.

If not for this Lord Shen before them taking action in time, perhaps the two of them as husband and wife would have already been plotted to death by now.

Just now, when being stabbed by his own 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 within a single day and believed it implicitly.

Mu Cheng felt he was that piece of human trash who was heartless for the sake of 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; to be 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 deeply affectionate people would have died by her hand, 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 opponent fed on Mental Power. What it needed after waking up 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 it had to toy with people's hearts.

And Shen Yu guessed that the opponent had nothing but Mental Power, and its Mental Power must be scattered everywhere, simultaneously absorbing power to strengthen itself.

It was precisely because of this that the opponent was so weak. Otherwise, when facing him, how could it have had no room for resistance at all?

Dispersion meant weakness, but it also meant a greater chance of survival than others; why is quantity not 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 just how many you can split into."