Chapter 506: Torture, Delay

After Li Miao left, the mountain gate of Dayan Hall fell into silence.

An hour later, birds and beasts caught the scent of blood. Testing the waters, they entered the gate, and seeing no one around, they lowered their heads to feast greedily upon the corpses scattered everywhere.

Ten hours later, a great tiger paced into the gate, startling the birds and beasts into scattering in all directions; for a time, the interior of the gate was in chaos. Some larger beasts, unwilling to abandon the field of corpses, lowered their heads and crouched, growling in warning at the tiger.

The tiger did not even spare them a glance, stepping directly over the corpses and heading toward a side hall.

It had no interest in dead things.

It smelled a scent that interested it, a scent so rich it left the beast somewhat confused... logically, with such a heavy stench of blood, the wounded prey should have died long ago. Yet, the scent coming from the room ahead was fresh and scalding; the heat drifted over, condensing into beads of water on the tip of its nose.

Tiger claws stepped into the side hall.

At the same time, a cry mixed with both agony and joy came from ahead.

"Ah! Come! Come eat me!"

"Come, hurry and eat me!"

The tiger raised its head and saw a hairless monkey nailed to the wall, shouting at it incessantly.

It paid no mind to the hairless monkey's shouting and provocation, only turning its gaze in confusion toward the monkey's open abdomen, the very source of the scent.

The tiger stepped closer.

A look of wild ecstasy appeared on Lan Qinyu's face.

Although Li Miao had only been gone for ten hours, he had fully grasped the terror of Li Miao's method. It did not lie in the pain alone... but in the fact that as time passed, his internal organs slowly shifted, the pain gradually intensified, and the speed was sometimes fast and sometimes slow... this made it impossible for him to predict his time of death.

The increasingly severe pain, combined with the anxiety of not knowing to what extent the pain would reach or when it would end, was the true torture.

Watching the tiger walk beneath him, Lan Qinyu was not afraid; instead, his face was filled with pleasant surprise.

"Pah! Pah!"

He spat saliva at the tiger incessantly, attempting to enrage it.

And the tiger, as he wished, bared its fangs, opened its blood-red maw, and reached toward his exposed abdomen.

"Finally—"

Lan Qinyu closed his eyes in satisfaction.

His final thought was, unexpectedly, one of slight complacency.

Because he had bested the two strongest people in the world, twice.

Ji Tianrui could not trap him, and Li Miao could not torture him.

Even if the end was just death, he had done enough to surpass the countless heroes who had fallen at the hands of those two.

Lan Qinyu waited for that instant of sharp pain and release.

*Ssh—*

A sound of viscous tearing.

Lan Qinyu snapped his eyes open and looked at his own body.

The tiger narrowed its eyes, licking the blood in his abdomen with a look of intoxication. The barbs on its tongue licked against his delicate internal organs, bringing waves of sharp pain—yet it was not fatal.

"Eat me! Eat me!"

"You beast! Eat me!"

Lan Qinyu shouted violently, but the tiger turned a deaf ear.

Once it had licked the blood in the abdominal cavity dry, it lay down on its own, eyes narrowed, staring at Lan Qinyu's abdomen, anticipating the next filling of blood.

Lan Qinyu's gaze was locked onto his own abdomen.

Just now, when the tiger was licking the blood, he had vaguely seen a worm poke its head out from his internal organs, only to burrow back into the flesh and disappear.

"Ah..."

He finally understood why, with so many corpses outside, this tiger had come straight for him... it was precisely because this Gu worm had transformed his blood into sweet nectar in the tiger's eyes. And watching the blood gradually fill his abdomen, the Gu worm seemed to have the effect of regenerating flesh.

Before Li Miao's method ended, the tiger would likely continue to lick his internal organs.

Li Miao should know Gu arts, but he shouldn't be carrying Gu worms on his person... therefore, this Gu worm was planted on him by Ji Tianrui. And Li Miao had sensed this, pushing the boat with the current to seal Lan Qinyu's fate.

From beginning to end, he had never won against either of these two people.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!"

Lan Qinyu's screams echoed incessantly.

He had gone mad.

The tiger rose again, beginning to lick his blood.

Just at this moment, a clamor suddenly came from outside; the howling, screaming, and wailing of wild beasts erupted, only to return to silence within a few breaths.

The tiger turned abruptly, growling toward the outside. ===== CHAPTER 507 =====