Becoming the Villainess: I Dominate the Cultivation Realm with My Wok!-Chapter 450

The two of them temporarily put the matter of the god statue behind them. Cen Lizhui even took the trouble to seal the entrance to the tunnel with soil, restoring it to its original mound appearance, to prevent any suspicion from others.

After all, the statue had taken on Chen Muxue’s likeness, and they were unsure of the true purpose of the altar. But since that soul and Xiao Feng, and even Chen Muxue’s other self, valued the statue so much, it must hold some significance.

Given this, if more people with ulterior motives saw the statue resembling Chen Muxue, it might inevitably bring further misfortune to her; therefore, Cen Lizhui carefully restored the mound.

Inside the forbidden grounds, the crows remained active, watching the two as they walked side by side, each with bright eyes staring at them. This uncanny feeling inexplicably reminded Chen Muxue of witch surveillance.

"Where did Chu Wuyi run off to? We’ve been here so long, there’s been no noise from Chu Wuxin. Could it be that he’s completely indifferent to us, having nothing to fear?"

Cen Lizhui shook his head: "Judging by the situation here, it’s likely she doesn’t care to bother with us either."

The broken wall, the scarce presence of people; from the outside, the Chu Family appears unchanged, but inside, it seems as if the place has been abandoned.

"The Chu Family people don’t seem to know where they’ve gone. Weren’t they always most concerned about this forbidden ground?" Chen Muxue tried to understand what was happening here, even though the surroundings seemed unchanged; she still carefully searched.

If she had been this meticulous when playing ’Spot the Difference’... oh, if she had been this meticulous while checking exam papers, perhaps she would have scored a few spots higher on the college entrance exam...

Ahem, not too much higher though; sometimes checking resulted in changing correct answers to wrong ones... 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

"Spare me... spare me!"

Suddenly, a scream startled the crows, and the overwhelming flock left Chen Muxue no room to avoid it—birds are direct; with so many flying above, there must have been a few droppings falling...

Alas, if ever describing sparsely populated areas again, one might hesitate to call them places where birds don’t leave droppings, because don’t these birds drop quite a lot?

Chen Muxue and Cen Lizhui exchanged a look, and immediately rushed towards the direction from which the scream came.

"Mercy... ah!!"

The two stealthily approached, only to witness an indescribable scene; Cen Lizhui quickly reached out to cover Chen Muxue’s eyes.

Chen Muxue, having seen many a scene, removed Cen Lizhui’s hand, glanced briefly, and then silently returned his hand to cover her eyes again.

Chu Family’s Second Master, Chu Yue, the one who had his hand chopped off by the Second Prince for harassing the Second Prince Consort Yan Luan, was now impaled by a tree branch, nearly as thick as a wrist, starting from between his legs and protruding from his mouth, strung up like a roasted pig.

The man was completely naked now, his limbs hanging lifelessly, including the arm that lacked a hand; it occasionally twitched. Clearly, he couldn’t survive this, but the branch seemed to have just run through him, a gentle black qi swirling around him, seemingly sustaining his remaining vital signs. He wouldn’t live much longer, but for the moment, he wouldn’t die immediately either.

Chu Yue’s entire body was covered in old and new scars, alternating with each other, revealing he had been tortured for some time. Perhaps the tormentor had lost interest, offering him this final agony.

"Mercy? When you committed those acts, did you ever think of sparing others?"

As the voice spoke, the person who stepped out slightly surprised Chen Muxue.