Chapter 31: The Perverted Master and the Brutal Maid

Tianji Workshop, Old Street.

Because there were many vacant houses here, the number of refugees gathering grew, but then began to decrease, as more and more low-level cultivator refugees took a liking to this place.

Those thugs who had not mastered extraordinary powers had no choice but to head toward larger refugee gathering spots.

Just as these refugees—either at the end of their rope or already twisted in spirit—were waiting in silence.

A sudden, thunderous "boom" erupted from a courtyard on Old Street; the commotion nearly triggered a riot prematurely.

Fortunately, it subsided quickly, though the greedy gazes cast toward that courtyard increased even more.

One hour of time!

Soon, it slipped away.

Wanfu City, having been restless and panicked for so long, finally entered the night, and in the blink of an eye, moved toward the Hour of the Rat.

When that moment arrived!

Above the city, all the airships and tower ships sounded their piercing whistles in unison; the single sound, like a starting signal, echoed throughout the entire city.

"Nothing is forbidden!"

"Everything is permitted!"

"Citizens, please begin."

Following the outburst of this sound, in the four major districts of Dongnanxibei—excluding the areas where high-sequence powerhouses lurked—shouts of killing filled with soaring malice erupted simultaneously.

A terrifying frenzy had begun.

……

"Bang!"

"Everyone, charge this house! It has the best courtyard, and it's a butcher shop; it must be hiding lots and lots of good meat."

"Hahaha... I'm going to have a feast."

"I saw it clearly during the day; this place only has a pretty boy and a maid. That little wench is gorgeous; I want her, I want her."

"The maid is yours, the pretty boy is mine."

Even though Li Yu had appeared once during the day and revealed his identity as a cultivator, it was still useless.

Because refugees were coming and going, not to mention those with ulterior motives mixing in to stir up trouble.

Aside from the ten obviously vacant houses that triggered the most intense fighting, his courtyard with the butcher shop became one of the most conspicuous targets.

Accompanied by this foul language, the already old and mottled courtyard gate was dismantled in an instant.

The first three refugees, ragged but with murderous glints in their eyes, yellow teeth, and emitting an indescribable stench, had just squeezed in, not even having time to survey the scene in the courtyard.

They only saw a streak of fiery red light speeding toward them.

It struck the forehead of the lead refugee, and before he could even feel the pain, this streak of light, which revealed itself to be an elixir, exploded.

Boom!

A sound much louder than the one during the day erupted.

Following that was a scene as brilliant as fireworks.

Unfortunately, for the group of refugees at the gate, it was a flower of death.

A rain of fire filled the sky, sparks falling quite evenly onto every refugee, including but not limited to the first three.

Every one of the dozen or so refugees who had charged in received a brilliant, dazzling spark without exception.

They instinctively reached out to swat at them!

But this was also their final conscious act.

As the sparks flickered, charred corpses with cracked surfaces were born, then "bang, bang, bang," they slammed into the ground, turning into piles of fragments and corpse ash.

A gust of foul-smelling night wind blew, and dust danced in the air.

When this incident occurred!

The rest of Old Street was still embroiled in slaughter and looting, but inside and outside this small courtyard, a deathly silence fell.

The refugees who had been a step too slow and hadn't managed to squeeze in were now feeling incredibly fortunate in their hearts.

They didn't even dare to peek at the so-called pretty boy and maid in the courtyard, scattering in a panic.

At the street corner, a few low-level cultivators who had lost much of their human appearance and clearly possessed extraordinary powers.

Seeing this scene, they looked at each other and muttered:

"Are... are they all dead?"

"What path is this? What sequence?"

"Is that object a magic treasure, or some kind of evil art?"

"Forget it, this is a tough nut to crack. With this grudge, even if we become neighbors later, we'll have to guard against his retaliation day and night."

"Let's give up on this street and go to the next one."

The few exchanged glances, involuntarily imagining the reaction of that strange thing hitting them, and after shivering in unison, they all retreated.

In the courtyard, Li Yu looked at the fragments and corpse ash not far away, his face filled with astonishment. It had such great power?

Although the dozen or so refugees who charged in were all mortals with absolutely no resistance.

But the scene just now still left Li Yu somewhat incredulous.

It was too fast!

The speed of cremation was even faster than Hongdou.

At this moment, Li Yu suddenly fully understood the phrase on the elixir recipe: "Once it touches human flesh, it will be incinerated into charcoal in the blink of an eye." It truly had not a shred of exaggeration.

He looked again at the exquisite wooden box he was holding, lined with extremely soft silk, where eight more Flame-Burst Pills still sat.

Out of ten sets of ingredients, except for the first one that blew up the furnace, the subsequent nine were all successful.

He had originally thought that after the battle royale began, he would throw one out to test its power, and if it didn't work, he would let Hongdou go up and mow them down.

Who would have expected this outcome.

After a moment of daze, Li Yu suddenly smiled.

"So, it's not that [Alchemist Apprentice] isn't good at fighting."

"It's just that the method is different; I understand now."

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"Calculating it this way, that Flame-Burst Pill just now was a waste on a dozen vicious refugees who had clearly eaten human flesh; it should have been thrown at those evil cultivators behind the scenes who were instigating things and following some unknown evil god."

Muttering this, Li Yu no longer felt like using these eight Flame-Burst Pills on mortals.

After thinking for a moment, he had to trouble his maid, and spoke directly:

"Hongdou, the rest is up to you; do not let a single refugee cross that threshold."

"Understood, Master!"

Accompanied by a sweet girl's voice, a dainty and lovely maid, holding a strangely shaped gun and shield, headed to the courtyard gate.

Who knew how many refugee thugs the Three Kingdoms had driven over?

The commotion just now was merely the first wave.

It hadn't even truly ceased; those refugees who had successfully seized vacant houses or looted occupied homes hadn't even had time to enjoy the fruits of their victory.

A second wave, even more brutal, arrived suddenly.

With the gate gone, Li Yu's small courtyard, with its elegant environment, the brightly lit butcher shop, plus a pretty boy and a dainty maid, was an irresistible temptation for any passing refugee.

Even some who weren't in groups, acting alone, couldn't help but charge in.

And so!

In the full hour that followed.

Hongdou went on a killing spree.

She didn't use the chain-saw sword technique, which had greater power but also terrifying energy consumption, but instead held her electric blade gun and shield.

Guarding the entrance firmly, every refugee who rushed over was slaughtered by her.

After all, she was a mechanical doll; she made no unnecessary movements when attacking, and since the order her master gave was only to "block," not "kill."

So after striking, she didn't perform any finishing blows.

Consequently, these invading refugees suffered even more cruel torture.

Their invasion was terminated almost entirely because their torsos or limbs were severed by Hongdou's electric blade gun.

And this weapon came with a cauterizing function.

Thus, as wave after wave charged in, the entrance to Li Yu's small courtyard became littered with "broken people."

They were either cut in half at the waist or turned into human stumps.

But none died quickly, forced to lie on the ground, writhing and wailing in the bloody mud, one after another, in a truly chilling manner.

Refugees were usually chaotic, without any organization or channels to spread information.

But this sight was simply too terrifying.

Gradually, starting from the second half of the night, a horrific rumor spread at high speed to the ears of almost all the refugees in the Tianji Workshop area:

"Hey, have you heard?"

"There's an old street in Tianji Workshop where a cruel evil cultivator lives; he looks very handsome, but he keeps an extremely fierce and tyrannical maid."

"I know, anyone who breaks into their house gets cut in half or turned into a human stump by that maid, and she deliberately cauterizes their wounds just to listen to their wailing."

"Brothers, definitely don't pass by there; give up on that street, there's no profit to be made there anyway."

"Even more perverted than that maid is her master; rumor has it he's a completely insane and cold-blooded evil cultivator who deliberately ordered his maid to do that just to enjoy our wailing and screaming."

"They say everyone in Wanfu City is an evil cultivator with special hobbies; they didn't lie to me."

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