The Emperor's Domineering Favor, the Evil Consort's Unparalleled Reign

"Grandma, waah! Please let us go! Ugh! Grandma, please have mercy!"

"Ouch! It hurts!!!"

"..."

The once spacious and clean hall was now filled with the incessant ravages of the Flame Bird of Paradise. Master Hu and his servants roared and screamed, while the bird flew about with unrestrained joy, as if it were a deliberate act by its master. Each attack was slow and intense, intended to torture these people to death.

If Ying Li didn't devise a proper way to kill these vicious and wicked people, he would feel he was doing them a disservice.

"Master! Master, what's wrong?!"

More than a dozen servants rushed over from other courtyards in response to the call. Among them, an old man in his forties or fifties with a pockmarked face saw flames soaring into the sky in the main hall and saw Ying Litong standing aside watching the show with the girl he had just arrested that morning. His face turned sinister and fierce.

"Come on, kill them!" He waved his right hand, and seven or eight people behind him received the order. They gathered spiritual energy in their hands, and swords suddenly appeared in their hands, attacking Ying Li's direction. Immediately afterwards, four or five people behind him carried buckets of water to put out the fire, while the last three or four stayed behind to protect his safety.

The girl standing behind Ying Li had never seen anything like it before. She was terrified and hid behind Ying Li, not daring to move an inch. Since morning, she had been subjected to the unbridled humiliation of Master Hu. Just thinking about how he had groped and plundered her filled her with disgust and hatred. At this moment, the Flaming Bird of Paradise was still flying and shouting, and Master Hu's voice was getting softer and softer. The water that the servants had poured on her was like a drop in the ocean, completely useless.

That old geezer should just die already!

As she thought this, she looked at Ying Li, who was protecting her. She gathered spiritual energy in her right hand and formed a huge barrier in front of the two of them. Enveloped in it, she felt the powerful spiritual energy protecting her, and a sense of security she had never felt before arose spontaneously.

Looking at Ying Li again, she had already shot off, her palms swirling with powerful force and her fists flashing with countless shadows. In just a few moments, the arrogant crowd was either injured or crippled, with most of them lying on the ground unable to move.

"Trying to mess with me? You're utterly absurd!"

Ying Li's expression changed, a layer of frost clinging to her face. This was no longer a fifteen-year-old girl. She stood there, her long purple dress fluttering in the cold wind, making a whooshing sound. Her face, slightly pale from the cold, carried a bone-chilling cold.

He slowly extended his right hand, flicking a strand of hair with his index finger. The moment it left the hair, there was a whooshing sound as a small red bird of paradise spun and danced on his fingertip. Its fiery red eyes held the same killing intent as its master. Ying Li's lips curled up as he looked at the pockmarked old man, and his right hand suddenly shot forward!

"Ugh!"

The bird of paradise pierced through the guards in front of the pockmarked old man and struck his heart. With just one blow, his facial features contorted, his mouth filled with pain, and he let out a scream before falling backward and never breathing again.

The remaining servants had purplish-black faces, some of them standing there dumbfounded, holding buckets of water, wondering how Ying Li would deal with them. After a while, "clang!" The sound of the buckets hitting the ground suddenly rang out in the empty courtyard.

"Grandma, spare our lives! We were forced by Master Hu, we know nothing else, we beg you to spare our lives!"

"Grandma, please spare us! Master Hu is the real beast and lecher! He orchestrated everything! We really didn't know anything! Spare us! Spare us!"

"..."

Seeing Ying Li return in a rage, they had probably guessed that she knew about the scandalous affair between Master Hu and their young mistress. They hadn't expected this girl to escape from her mistress's clutches and then single-handedly wipe out the Hu family. Ying Li was not someone to be trifled with; even if their numbers were doubled, they couldn't afford to offend her. Their only option now was to retreat strategically and save their own lives.

"Nonsense! You've done all sorts of evil things with that old lecher! Last night, my sister and I were just staying at home when you came in masked and brutally murdered my parents. You even kidnapped my sister and me to be humiliated like this by that old lecher! There were at least twenty girls around my age who were kidnapped at the same time, and quite a few of them were abused by you two!"

Hearing those people defend her like that, the woman, who had been trembling with fear just moments before, suddenly became hysterical, pointing at the two people kneeling in front of Ying Li and screaming. Her face was bruised, tears were streaming down her face, and her shoulders were shaking uncontrollably. The hatred in her eyes did not dissipate because of the tears, but instead deepened.

Ying Li narrowed her eyes, and her pupil power burst forth from them. The two people pointed out by the woman were stretched into the air by her spiritual power. Their faces turned blue and purple, and their hands kept grabbing in the void. The hatred in their eyes almost tore the maid next to Ying Li to pieces.

"Speak! Where are the rest?!" Ying Li said coldly, tightening his grip on the two servants. Their faces turned purplish-black. Seeing Ying Li's anger, the servants finally pointed to the arched courtyard beside them with their right fingers. One of them said hoarsely, "Go through this courtyard, under the artificial hill... there's a secret room..."

"Hmph!" After hearing what he said, Ying Li snorted coldly, removed the barrier beside him, and waved his right hand. Thick spiritual power surged out from his body and swept towards the servants who were still kneeling on the ground. Those people were blown away several meters away by the spiritual power and crashed heavily into the wall, suffering unspeakable pain. Even if they didn't die, they would be crippled and their lives would be ruined!

The hall was now charred black, and the culprit, Master Hu, had received his just deserts.

Ying Li led the woman through the arched courtyard to a rockery. The woman was dragged out with her face covered, and she was confused and did not know the entrance. Ying Li was worried that the women would be abused in the dark room, so he used his spiritual power to split the rockery open. Sure enough, in the flying dust, he saw a protruding wooden board under the rockery.

Pry open the wooden board, and a series of pitiful cries can be heard intermittently from inside.

"Little sister!" Upon hearing the shout, the woman quickly knelt down and called out. Her sister was still inside, her fate unknown.

Ying Li helped her up and instructed her to stand guard outside. He then jumped down into the cave, expecting complete darkness, but to his surprise, the dim candlelight, though faint, was surprisingly similar to the outside world thanks to the abundance of candles. It was also a cave, but with wooden doors and windows, many dilapidated tables and chairs, and broken porcelain shards scattered on the floor, suggesting that many pitiful people had likely been here before.

The moment Ying Li's feet touched the ground, the cries intensified several times over. Her expression changed, and she turned around to see another hidden door ajar. Inside, wine was being poured and shadows were heavy. Several greedy breaths accompanied the piercing cries of fear. Ying Li's heart skipped a beat, and she quickened her pace, running to the door. She raised her right foot and kicked the door open with a loud bang!

Eight burly men, completely naked, were on top of three larger women, kissing, biting, kneading, and rubbing them. The three women beneath them were like broken dolls, unable to move, their eyes vacant, their bodies helplessly swaying up and down with the men's abuse, like dead fish. Five of them, unable to find an opportunity, turned their gaze to several teenage girls tied to chairs. Those girls were filled with fear, tears streaming down their faces, their eyes filled with despair.

In that brief moment, Ying Li burst in, and everyone stopped what they were doing, even the crying ceased. The eight burly men were stunned the moment they saw Ying Li. A little girl in purple clothes, with a simple star hair ornament on her forehead, swayed and shone, making her delicate and beautiful face even more striking.

"Hey, some guys actually came to us on their own initiative. Let's get our act together and give them a good welcome!"

The man who was wrestling with one of the women got up first and threw the woman, who seemed to be dead, away. The woman's body fell heavily to the ground, her head was cut by shards of broken porcelain, and bright red blood gushed out. However, she did not scream or shout, but lay stiffly on the ground. Then, the next second, she closed her eyes and stopped breathing.

"Did you secretly hide yesterday, and now that you know you can't get out, you've come out on your own?!"

"Come on, let the older brothers have some fun. Maybe they'll spare your life later!"

"..."

As Ying Li listened to the foul language, she turned to look at the girls who were tied to chairs, their clothes disheveled, their faces streaked with tears and filled with worry. A murderous intent flashed across her face. She looked at them and said, word by word, "If you want to play around, you'll have to see if you have the life to play!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Ying Li charged towards the eight men. Gathering spiritual energy in her right hand, she mobilized all her spiritual power and punched and slapped the men's faces and chests. The muffled sounds echoed continuously in the dark room.

After an unknown amount of time, Ying Li took out a white handkerchief from his waist and wiped his hands. Looking at the disgusting people lying on the ground, lifeless and with their eyes wide open in disbelief, he threw the blood-stained handkerchief hard at their faces.

The girls who were tied up were terrified. They stared at Ying Li in disbelief as she single-handedly killed all eight of them. Their faces showed a mixture of fear, shock, and perhaps both.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here to save you," Ying Li said softly. He then untied the girls. The three girls who had been abused were all dead. The remaining girls cried their hearts out after Ying Li untied them. They were all children from ordinary families, who had been secretly brought here by Master Hu. If it weren't for Ying Li's appearance, their lives would probably have been ruined.

Ying Li led these people out and set fire to the darkroom before she stopped. The woman who had been guarding the exit of the darkroom watched Ying Li and the others come out, especially seeing her younger sister emerge unharmed. Overjoyed, she wept and knelt and bowed to Ying Li before finally stopping.

Ying Li taught them some basic martial arts techniques, and then distributed the spiritual herbs and remedies he had collected from Master Hu's house before sending them home. After doing all this, Ying Li looked down at an ancient book he had collected from the herb room, a look of doubt on his face.

There are no words, no pictures, each sheet is a black scrap of paper, as if telling ancient memories. What is this?

"It's a spirit book! A beginner's manual for spirit masters! I never expected that Miss Hu, who looks like a good-for-nothing, would have such a treasure at home. But judging from her appearance, she definitely hasn't read it. That makes sense, how could a good-for-nothing like her learn such a beginner's spirit book!" The alluring man said with a hint of surprise.

This...it's actually a spiritual book...Ying Li flipped through the blank pages of the book repeatedly, his face filled with confusion and shock.