I Have 10 Equipment Slots-Chapter 119 - 99: Kill Them All

Gu Zheng fell silent.

Beside him, Zhao Fang shrank back, so terrified he wanted to clamp his hands over his ears.

No, he wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it.

It was too terrifying!

"Chief, I got it out of him."

Zhang Ning walked out, his hands covered in blood and his face ashen.

"Beasts. These people are all beasts!"

"What did you find out?" An Xiaoxue took several sharp breaths, forcing herself to calm down.

"I asked everything I needed to."

Zhang Ning replied, "They’ve all fallen. But they were just following orders..."

"Whose orders?" Gu Zheng’s sword-like brows furrowed.

"I don’t know."

Zhang Ning shook his head and sighed. "A mysterious person gave Yu Chengjun the Demon Creation Gourd. That same person also gave him a Treasure Pill, allowing him to break through his limits and gain a Divine Wondrous ability."

"It wasn’t just Yu Chengjun of the Baihua Building. The sect leaders of the Impermanence Sect in Zhongxi County, the Luotian Sect in Shuanghe County, the Pure Yang Sword Sect in Xiongying County, and the Badao Sect in Bamen County were all given a Demon Creation Gourd and a Treasure Pill by this mysterious person to help them break through their limits and obtain a Divine Wondrous ability."

"But what they didn’t expect was that the mysterious person had hidden a Poisonous Insect in every Treasure Pill!"

"A Poisonous Insect?" An Xiaoxue was stunned. "Are you saying Yu Chengjun was forced? That he was being controlled?"

"He must have been forced at first. When the Poisonous Insect acted up, the pain was worse than death, so Yu Chengjun had no choice but to obey. But later, he just gave up and decided to indulge his every whim, doing as he pleased in Lesheng County."

Zhang Ning said coldly, "If anyone even slightly disobeyed him, Yu Chengjun would either kill them or turn them into Demon Fiends. That includes anyone in the Baihua Building who was unwilling to obey or who resisted him—they were all turned into Demon Fiends. The rest became his running dogs, his beasts!"

"Is it the same in the other counties?"

Gu Zheng pressed, "The Impermanence Sect and the Luotian Sect aren’t well-known, but the Pure Yang Sword Sect and the Badao Sect have quite the reputation. I’ve even heard of their sect leaders, Du Yanjun and Gao Batian."

"It’s the same. Yu Chengjun said the other counties are also controlled by their respective Martial World sects. Anyone who didn’t submit or who resisted was turned into a Demon Fiend." Zhang Ning gritted his teeth.

"Beasts! They’re all beasts!" An Xiaoxue cursed. "Every last one of them deserves to die!"

"They do."

Gu Zheng took a deep breath. "Did Yu Chengjun say where the Baihua Building’s main altar is?" 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

"I made him talk."

Zhang Ning gave a vicious grin. "The bastard tried to lie to me at first, but after I used a few of my methods, he spilled everything. The Baihua Building’s main altar is in Qiuming Valley, thirty li northeast of Lesheng County’s city."

"I also got the locations of the main altars for the Impermanence Sect, the Luotian Sect, the Badao Sect, and the Pure Yang Sword Sect."

"But more important than the locations of these sects is the Demon Fiend army marching out of the prefecture at the end of the month! That’s the real issue!"

Zhang Ning’s expression was grim as he said gravely, "Yu Chengjun confessed that the mysterious person sent an order at the beginning of the month. He told the five sects to gather all the Demon Fiends at the end of the month and march out of the prefecture!"

"March... march out of the prefecture to attack the State City?" An Xiaoxue’s pupils shrank, and she asked in a trembling voice.

"Those were the mysterious person’s orders."

Zhang Ning took a deep breath. "In the five counties—Lesheng, Zhongxi, Shuanghe, Bamen, and Xiongying—everything outside the county seats has fallen. Of the people outside the cities, fifty percent were turned into Demon Fiends, thirty percent were killed by them, and the remaining twenty percent fled into the mountains. The total number of people turned into Demon Fiends is nearly five hundred thousand!"

"..." An Xiaoxue opened her mouth, but she didn’t know what to say.

Gu Zheng closed his eyes, breathing deeply and constantly regulating his breath.

"I was forced, I was forced, I was forced..." Zhao Fang muttered painfully, curled up on the ground with his hands over his head.

THUD!

Zhang Ning kicked him, sending him flying. He roared, "You think you can escape responsibility just because you were forced? We’re talking about hundreds of thousands of people! They weren’t pigs or sheep, not chickens or ducks, but hundreds of thousands of people! Real people! And you bastards turned them all into Demon Fiends!"

"Zhao Fang! Magistrate Zhao the Elder! When you dream at midnight, do your dead parents curse you? When you go home and see your children, do you have the face to teach them right from wrong? When you’re old and you go to meet your ancestors, will you be able to bear the shame?"

"The Wandering Souls of hundreds of thousands of people, crying out in your ears day and night..."

"Stop it! Stop talking!" Zhao Fang rolled several times on the ground before collapsing onto his stomach, screaming in despair. "What could I do? You think I don’t know all that? The point is, what could I have done? What could I do! WAHHH—"

Zhang Ning fell silent.

He knew that Zhao Fang had been forced to collaborate under the threat of death, and that his crimes were limited to the people outside the city of Lesheng County.

But the fire burning in his heart just made him want to curse them all out and vent his fury.

The thought of hundreds of thousands of people being controlled by an evil Marvel and turned into Demon Fiends made his hands, his feet, his very heart tremble uncontrollably.

"Huuuu..."

Gu Zheng finished regulating his breath and regained his composure.

He could understand how Zhang Ning felt.

And because he understood, he knew it was even more crucial to remain calm.

The mastermind who handed out the Demon Creation Gourds had to die. Yu Chengjun, Du Yanjun, Gao Batian—that whole group had to die, too!

"We still have time."

Gu Zheng said in a low voice, "Right now, they don’t know we’re here, and they don’t know that Yu Chengjun has been captured and confessed everything. As long as we act before the mastermind has a chance to react—if we can eliminate all five sects and destroy the Demon Creation Gourds—then the Demon Fiend army will never march out of the prefecture!"

"Right!"

An Xiaoxue and Zhang Ning were still burning with anger, while Zhao Fang was crying his eyes out. But upon hearing Gu Zheng’s words, he suddenly shouted, "The gentleman is right, we still have time! I am willing to atone for my crimes through meritorious service! I’ll lead the charge and slaughter every last one of those beasts from the Baihua Building!"

"...You?"

Zhang Ning laughed in exasperation. "With your pathetic level of strength? Are you trying to serve yourself up on a platter?"