On the third day, when Lin Mo arrives with a letter, Ye Kai’s face is pale, and he looks utterly devoid of life. He no longer cries out.
Lin Mo is also surprised. “Junior Brother Ye, it doesn’t hurt today?”
“How could it not hurt?” Ye Kai is in too much pain to even speak.
He has become numb from the pain.
These three days feel like an eternity, and he understands what it means to live each day as if it were a year.
He speaks with great difficulty, asking what’s on his mind: “Senior Brother Lin, hasn’t this punishment been enough? Please let me go.”
“Ah?” Lin Mo looks at him in confusion: “When did your punishment begin?”
Ye Kai’s eyes widen: “Senior Brother Lin, you’re not keeping your word.”
Lin Mo finds it ridiculous: “Don’t you find it ridiculous? I made myself clear yesterday. That was just your appetizer.”
“Your punishment only begins today. Do you think I don’t know how long it will take to punish you?”
Ye Kai’s mind buzzes. The torture from yesterday, which was like hell, was just an appetizer?
What will he have to endure next?
Ye Kai, in his haste, impatiently blurts out: “Senior Brother Lin, don’t push people too far.”
“Ah, Junior Brother Ye also knows about ‘pushing people too far.’ Why is he using it now?”
Lin Mo sneers.
“Haven’t your past actions been pushing people too far?”
“My repeated tolerance for you has only resulted in you harming me even more.”
Sensing the bone-chilling killing intent from Lin Mo, Ye Kai swallows hard and says: “I admit, I spoke a bit too loudly just now…”
He still wants to live.
It’s the same principle: as long as he lives, he has everything.
He can have women, status, and a long lifespan.
Since he has endured such unbearable pain, what other pain can he not endure?
The next moment, he sees Lin Mo take out a transparent jar containing more than a dozen wriggling black worms.
Lin Mo leisurely explains:
“These insects are ‘Lu worms’ from the Demon Realm. They love to feed on human flesh and blood and use human bodies as their homes.”
As he speaks, he slowly approaches Ye Kai.
Ye Kai listens to Lin Mo’s explanation, not understanding: “Senior Brother Lin, why are you telling me this?”
Lin Mo displays a kind and amiable smile.
“These Lu worms have been hungry for a long time.”
“They are all in a very violent state.”
“Junior Brother Ye, why do you think I’m telling you this?”
Lin Mo’s smile appears extremely sinister in Ye Kai’s eyes.
He makes a terrifying guess and says with a face full of dread: “Lin… Senior Brother, you’re not thinking of pouring these Lu worms into me, are you?”
Lin Mo taps his chin and exclaims: “Oh my, Junior Brother Ye, your mind is quite sharp today.”
Upon hearing Lin Mo’s reply, Ye Kai seems to be struck by lightning and shakes his body in the glass box: “Senior Brother Lin, you, you can’t do this!”
His own torment is greatly amplified.
As if his flesh were being crushed by thousands of pounds, he screams again.
[Ding, someone regrets because of the host, gaining 48000 Regret points.]
[Ding, someone regrets because of the host, gaining 53000 Regret points.]
…
A series of system prompts chime.
This time, Lin Mo gains tens of thousands of Regret points without doing anything else.
Judging by the amount of Regret points, Ye Kai genuinely fears this method.
With this thought, Lin Mo uncovers the lid of the jar.
He begins pouring the insects into Ye Kai’s glass box.
“Lin Mo, stop! Stop it!” In his panic, Ye Kai shouts Lin Mo’s name, not his title.
They smell the bloody scent from Ye Kai’s body, and they begin to writhe frantically, crawling in all directions along Ye Kai’s body.
Soon, a dozen worms crawl past Ye Kai’s half-severed little finger and reach his face.
Ye Kai feels his scalp tingle and his whole body shakes violently: “Get away! Don’t crawl on me, get away!”
These weak shouts of rage are clearly useless.
Several worms then crawl into Ye Kai’s eyeless socket. Following this, the other crawling insects seem to find an entry point and wriggle in rapidly.
They burrow into his ears, nose, wounds on his limbs, and even through his bodily fluids. Ye Kai can clearly perceive the dozen black insects moving around his body, even biting his flesh.
“They’re biting me, they’re biting me.” Ye Kai’s pupils contract, and the expression on his entire face becomes ferocious.
He can endure the pain caused by these bugs gnawing at him. But he cannot tolerate these bugs crawling inside his body and moving around. He can even clearly sense their wriggling and their exact locations.
However, what infuriates Ye Kai the most is far from these. Lin Mo then drops a bombshell.
“Junior Brother Ye, I forgot to remind you, these bugs are pregnant mothers who love to give birth in human bodies.”
“Let me think, how many small bugs can one mother bug lay at a time?”
Hearing this, Ye Kai frantically headbutts the glass box: “Senior Brother Lin, you can’t do this to me! Please don’t use such cruel methods, please take out those bugs!”
Ye Kai would rather be cut into a thousand pieces daily by Lin Mo than have those bugs gnaw at his body from the inside and lay a large brood of young bugs. Seeing that Lin Mo ignores him, the bugs inside begin to lay eggs within his body.
Ye Kai collapses and starts shouting hysterically, unable to think clearly, roaring: “Lin Mo, you beast, I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you!”
Immediately after, he laughs maniacally: “Hahaha, the bugs, those bugs are starting to breed, starting to have babies!”
Lin Mo, seeing Ye Kai’s mental state worsening, unceremoniously gives Ye Kai a spirit-stabilizing pill he refined himself, worth over a million spirit stones, all at once. To prevent Ye Kai from committing suicide, he seals Ye Kai’s body with spiritual energy. He can do nothing but breathe and blink. Ye Kai, regaining consciousness, can only glare fiercely at Lin Mo. His eyes are filled with immense hatred and rage. As if he wants to devour Lin Mo alive.
Lin Mo is quite satisfied with Ye Kai’s current gaze: “I hope that after seven days, you can still maintain such a fierce gaze.”
With that said, Lin Mo disappears from the System space. Instantly, the surroundings become pitch black again. Ye Kai can see nothing, but he can hear the sounds of bugs tearing and chewing his body. He senses the bugs planting eggs in various parts of his body.
This continues for a full seven days. Seven days later, Lin Mo returns to the System space. By now, Ye Kai’s face has no intact flesh left.
All that remains are a multitude of festering, swollen lumps.
His eyes have long lost their luster.
Lin Mo snaps his fingers, allowing Ye Kai to speak.
And this time, Ye Kai’s first words are not pleas for mercy, nor curses, nor expressions of hatred.
“Lin Mo, kill me. Let me die.”
Initially, he wanted to live, believing that as long as he lived, everything would later become perfect.
Now, he wants to die, truly wants to die.
These seven days have been a living hell for him.
He knows his body is beyond recognition, a nest for corpse worms.
Rather than continue here, he would prefer death to find a swift release from his pain.
Lin Mo smiles: “Junior Brother Ye, don’t you remember what Senior Brother said at the beginning?”
With the reminder, Ye Kai’s mind gradually recalls Lin Mo’s words: “How could I bear to let you die like this?”
He suddenly understands.
So, Lin Mo truly wanted to torture him, to make his life a living hell.
He was prepared to die.
But his body is once again restrained by Lin Mo’s spiritual energy.
“Why the hurry, Junior Brother Ye? Death is often the greatest release. Your punishment isn’t even over yet; you’re not qualified to die.”
Saying this, Lin Mo snaps his fingers again.
The surrounding scenery changes once more.
Countless mirrors appear from all directions.
The mirrors slowly expand from within, enclosing Ye Kai.
The scene in front of him is very clear.
Ye Kai can see his current appearance perfectly.
His face no longer looks human. The visible flesh on his face is peeling away, revealing his bones.
Ye Kai can even see, within the bloody flesh, countless small pores.
He doesn’t want to look at his own face but cannot avoid it, so he shifts his gaze. However, no matter where he looks, he only sees himself.
Mirrors are everywhere. The reflections within them merge together, showing him, numerous times, his own ugly appearance.
Ye Kai is a cultivator at the Spirit Severing stage, and his strength is beyond that of ordinary people.
Coupled with the medicinal liquid Lin Mo administered, which enhanced his senses.
He can clearly see the millions of ugly reflections of himself, and clearly feel the movement of the bugs within his body.
“I always feel like your clothes are… a bit of an eyesore,”
As soon as Lin Mo finished speaking, he stripped Ye Kai naked.
Lin Mo smiles and then injects Ye Kai with essence.
This time, Ye Kai can no longer bear it.
Originally, at least he was wearing clothes and could only see himself.
Now, his whole body is completely visible.
Compared to the few patches of flesh on his face, the scene on his body is truly horrifying.
His entire body is covered in dense, festering swollen lumps. But at this moment, more than half of these lumps have burst open. Inside them are wriggling bugs. He can even see these black bugs gnawing at his flesh and blood, consuming his bodily fluids.
Ye Kai actually knew that while wearing clothes, he could already feel the condition of all parts of his body. He tried his best to ignore those. But now, the stimulation from the bugs is shaking his will.
He cannot close his eyes and can only constantly gaze at the swarm of reeds on his body, which are, by will, building their home.
Yet, he is powerless.
Even though Lin Mo has given him many high-quality pills,
At this moment, he is on the verge of collapse.
Fortunately, Lin Mo notices in time and personally uses Demonic Energy to stabilize his mind, keeping him rational and composed.
After doing this, Lin Mo sighs and says: “Don’t thank me. As fellow disciples, this is what I should do.”
Ye Kai cannot speak and can only stare blankly at Lin Mo before him.
No, it should be said, at the malevolent ghost before him.
He muses that even if there were a real hell in this world,
He would not feel as miserable as he does now, even if he were to descend to the eighteenth level of hell.
Imprisoned by Lin Mo, he can do nothing – he cannot commit suicide, cannot close his eyes, and cannot even speak.
He can neither beg for mercy nor beg for death.
At this moment, he deeply regrets his past actions.
Why did he provoke Lin Mo?
Why didn’t he choose to die before being caught by Lin Mo?
Why is he still alive now?
Of course, these are no longer important.
Lin Mo smiles and says: “I know you want to die, but don’t rush. Hold on a little longer. Wait until I’ve had enough of torturing you.”
“However, since you’re going to die anyway, what’s the use of keeping this cultivation?”
Saying this, Lin Mo begins to absorb all of Ye Kai’s cultivation.
Sensing his cultivation rapidly declining, Ye Kai falls into complete despair.
The reason he has been clinging to life all along is his hard-earned cultivation.
Now that it’s being taken by Lin Mo,
He has lost all hope of living.
Soon, he becomes a complete cripple.
To prevent Ye Kai from dying so easily, Lin Mo uses his soul to protect Ye Kai’s brain.
Even if Ye Kai is left with only his head, he can still live, unless his brain is destroyed.
“I heard Junior Brother Ye used to like original-flavor pig intestines.”
“I imagine Junior Brother Ye has a special fondness for that taste.”
“Senior Brother is benevolent and has prepared a gift for you.”
Before Ye Kai can react, he smells a foul stench.
The glass box he is in is completely filled with… pig feces.
It’s even stuffed into the parts of his body that the reeds had gnawed away.
Ye Kai now can truly be described as an embodiment of disgust.
Ye Kai can’t help but feel nauseated and vomits.
But what comes out is blood, and a large group of wriggling black reeds.
This continues for several days.
He vomits constantly.
Each time he vomits the reeds, they burrow back into his body.
Finally, through the relentless efforts of the reeds, his brain is destroyed.
At this moment, Ye Kai’s soul drifts out of his body.
“Finally, I’m finally dead.”
“I’ve finally shed this disgusting body.”
“I don’t have to endure Lin Mo’s torture anymore.”
Ye Kai’s soul is filled with excitement.
But the next moment, the despairing reality strikes.
He discovers that even his soul cannot escape this bizarre space.
Another round of applause rings out.
“To be able to die just like this…”
Lin Mo reappears in this space.
Ye Kai’s soul trembles in fear.
He feels as if he were almost scared into dissipating.
Ye Kai’s divine sense questions:
“Lin Mo, I’m already dead, what else do you want?”
Lin Mo retorts: “Do you think, Junior Brother Ye, that dying will bring everything to an end?”
“That by dying, you won’t have to continue accepting punishment?”
He has experienced thousands of reincarnations.
Not letting Ye Kai taste his own suffering would be unacceptable!
Lin Mo once again purchases the “Yellow Millet Dream” skill from the System.
This allows Ye Kai to experience various interesting endings.
And in the first life.
Lin Mo specifically places Ye Kai’s soul with Shen Ke’er.
This is Shen Ke’er’s one hundred and thirteenth reincarnation.
Her life this time is different from before.
After being driven out by the beastly Ye Kai, she found a decent job.
She works as a pig farm caretaker in the lower realm.
One day, she has a dream and dreams of her long-desired Senior Brother.
She cries and kneels before him, apologizing: “Senior Brother, I miss you so much. I was wrong, I truly know I was wrong.”
“I shouldn’t have listened to the beast Ye Kai’s nonsense, nor should I have stayed away from you for that beast Ye Kai.”
“I am also a beast. Clearly, you were so good to me, yet I ended up hurting you.”
After more than a hundred reincarnations,
Shen Ke’er knows how good her life was before.
She also understands the meaning of repaying kindness.
Without Lin Mo’s initial rescue, she wouldn’t have survived in this treacherous world.
In several good lifetimes, Lin Mo did not save her.
Her endings were each more tragic than the last, starving to death on the streets because she couldn’t get enough food.
She was beaten to death for fighting another beggar over food.
She has experienced the true harshness of this world.
Shen Ke’er also truly understands how fortunate she was to be saved by Lin Mo back then.
But she herself destroyed that happiness.
She hurt the person who was best to her.
Every time she thinks about how she, for Ye Kai, delivered the final blow to her Senior Brother when he was at his weakest, she feels that death would be too good for her.
“Senior Brother, I don’t expect your forgiveness, but I just want to repay your past kindness and atone for my mistakes.”
She knows this is a dream, but even in a dream, she wants to sincerely apologize to her Senior Brother.
After saying this, she closes her eyes, waiting to see her Senior Brother in her beautiful dream.
Unexpectedly, however.
Lin Mo understands her.
“Shen Ke’er, you really hate Ye Kai?”
Mentioning Ye Kai, Shen Ke’er recalls his hypocritical and ugly true face.
She did everything for him, treated him so well.
And that beast Ye Kai ultimately found pleasure with other women, neglected her, and even delivered the final blow before her death.
Thinking of this, her entire face contorts in madness: “Hate! I wish I could cut him into a thousand pieces, eat his flesh and blood, and crush his bones.”
Regarding Shen Ke’er’s answer,
Lin Mo is also surprised.
