Crowned by the Treacherous Big Shot

Chapter 865: Chapter 710

Duan Mingyue’s hand, buried under a wide sleeve, clenched into a fist.

Duan Wenliang smiled faintly, closing his eyes with indifference: "Do as you please, kill or torture me!"

"That’s what you said."

The words of the Loulan Witch were directed at Duan Wenliang, but his gaze was aimed at Duan Mingyue, as if wanting Duan Mingyue to watch with open eyes as he personally ended his brother’s life.

He was the adopted son of Prime Minister Xun, ranking as the eldest, and Xun Wu called him eldest brother.

In his own family, he was the fourth, and Duan Wenliang called him fourth brother.

Yet, regardless of whether it was Xun Wu or Duan Wenliang, they genuinely treated him as a brother, ready to sacrifice their lives for him at any moment.

It was he who failed to protect them...

He was unworthy of being their elder brother...

A line of bloody tears flowed from his left eye.

Duan Wenliang smiled: "Big brother, don’t be sad..."

After speaking, he put away his smile and glared coldly at the Loulan Witch, "Toghtai, is it? Come on! Kill me! I’d like to see how you, a second-rate sorcerer, plan to kill me? Back then, you weren’t even fit to carry that witch’s shoes, were you!"

"Wenliang!"

Duan Mingyue called out.

Duan Wenliang was deliberately provoking the Loulan Witch.

A heart as calm as still water, Toghtai rarely encountered anything that could anger him.

Yet, Duan Wenliang’s words pierced the deepest pride of his heart.

Duan Mingyue saw jealousy, resentment, and madness in his eyes.

This expression was familiar.

Gongsun Yanming’s face suddenly flashed through his mind.

He remembered.

When Shang Jue was mentioned in front of Gongsun Yanming, he had the same expression.

If Shang Jue was Gongsun Yanming’s heart demon, then the witch rumored to assist the king of the Western Regions was Toghtai’s heart demon.

Toghtai’s skull walking stick was raised high, striking heavily toward Duan Mingyue’s chest.

"Stop!"

Toghtai’s movement paused.

He turned to see Xun Wu, dust-laden and in a sorry state, standing breathlessly at the doorway with a drawn long sword.

He pulled off the cloth covering his face, beads of sweat as large as beans rolling down his cheeks, crashing onto the floor laid with moonlight.

He swallowed, his dry throat ached with pain: "Don’t kill him, what you want to know, I’ll tell you."

Duan Wenliang looked at him in disbelief, complex emotions showing as he called out, "Fifth brother..."

Duan Mingyue closed his eyes.

Xun Wu glanced at him, eyes incredibly determined: "Big brother, even if you stop me, I must speak. I don’t know what you’re holding onto, or how important the person you’re protecting is to you, I only know I can’t let you lose your only brother, can’t let you spend the rest of your life in endless pain and regret."

Duan Wenliang choked, "Fifth brother, don’t..."

Xun Wu said to the Loulan Witch, "Let him go, and I’ll tell you everything I know."

"You speak first."

The Loulan Witch wouldn’t be easily fooled.

Xun Wu said seriously, "Which do you want to hear first? The whereabouts of the descendants of the West Night Saintess, or the relationship between Zhongli Yuan and the West Night Saintess?"

The Loulan Witch said, "The descendants of the West Night Saintess."

Xun Wu sneered, "You pride yourself as a Loulan Witch, esteemed as the State Preceptor, yet you couldn’t even recognize the descendants of the West Night Saintess."

The Loulan Witch squinted.

Duan Wenliang was dumbfounded, "Fifth brother, who?"

Xun Wu ignored Duan Wenliang and continued speaking to the Loulan Witch: "What? Still haven’t figured out who she is?"

The Loulan Witch pondered for a moment, his gaze fixed on Xun Wu as if judging the truth of his words.

Xun Wu sneered: "I’ve already told you about the descendants of the West Night Saintess, now release him, and I’ll tell you the second secret, otherwise even if you kill him, kill all of us, you won’t pry another word from my mouth!"

Xun Wu was a businessman, he knew well how to manipulate people’s greed.

People need to taste sweetness first to fall into the desire trap of cooperation.

The Loulan Witch spoke ominously: "If you dare to deceive me..."

Xun Wu lifted his chin: "You know well whether I’m deceiving you, you yourself have long suspected, haven’t you?"

"Fifth brother, what kind of riddles are you talking with this old sorcerer?"

Duan Wenliang felt his mind couldn’t keep up.

Every word Xun Wu said he recognized, but the combined meaning eluded him.

"Clearly, I’ve been knocked sillier by this old sorcerer..."

The Loulan Witch’s skull walking stick pressed under Duan Wenliang’s chin.

Xun Wu’s eyes tightened.

The next moment, the Loulan Witch slowly retracted the skull walking stick.

Xun Wu’s expression relaxed slightly, stepping toward Duan Wenliang.

The Loulan Witch said, "He comes over himself."

Xun Wu stopped his steps, asked Duan Wenliang: "Wenliang, can you still walk?"

Duan Wenliang gritted his teeth, supporting himself with one hand, struggling to stand: "Of course, who am I... I’m the first troublemaker of the workshop..."

His body swayed.

With every step, he could feel his bones shattering.

The intense pain sweated him through, soaking his clothes quickly.

The Loulan Witch was impatient.

Xun Wu hurriedly said, "If you dare touch him, I won’t say anything more!"

The Loulan Witch dismissed the thought of pushing Duan Wenliang with his cane.

When Duan Wenliang was three steps away from Xun Wu, his strength was exhausted.

He turned pale, his vision blacked out as he fell forward.

"Wenliang!"

Duan Mingyue and Xun Wu cried out in unison.

Xun Wu quickly stepped forward, holding Duan Wenliang tightly in his hands.

In that instant, Duan Mingyue and Xun Wu exchanged a glance, and Duan Mingyue shot a hidden mechanism from the wheelchair at the Loulan Witch.

Seizing the moment the Loulan Witch deflected the hidden weapon, Xun Wu took Duan Wenliang out of the private room.

By the time the Loulan Witch went to chase, the door snapped shut.

Another mechanism!

The Loulan Witch turned around, his sinister gaze like a soul-reaping ghost.

Duan Mingyue laughed arrogantly: "Didn’t expect it, did you? I also had a backup plan."

Even at the brink of life-threatening torture, he hadn’t activated any mechanisms, thus lowering the Loulan Witch’s guard.

He never cared for his own life, but Wenliang, he must send out of here.

The Loulan Witch said: "Your foster brother knows a lot, wait until I capture you, threatening him with you works just the same."

Duan Mingyue, half mocking and half sneering, laughed: "He has already told you everything he knows, otherwise, why do you think I let him take Wenliang?"

But the Loulan Witch wasn’t about to believe Duan Mingyue anymore.

His face grave, he stepped towards Duan Mingyue.

But at that moment, the unexpected happened.

Duan Mingyue laughed oddly.

The Loulan Witch’s heart skipped a beat.

A sense of foreboding rose within.

He looked up at the pitch-black ceiling, then towards the drape behind Duan Mingyue.

The fringe on the drape swayed gently.

"You... you want to perish with me!"

The Loulan Witch gripped his cane: "Turns out you’ve been stalling, not waiting for rescue, but for death! You’re waiting for the mechanism to start!"

Duan Mingyue laughed: "You finally figured out, but it’s too late."

The mechanisms crushed beam after beam, as if the whole Weiyang Building was hit by an earth dragon, the ground started to shake, the walls vibrated, tiles clattered down, and chairs and porcelain plates fell all around.

The Loulan Witch lost his footing, collapsing onto a stool.

Duan Mingyue fell to the ground along with his wheelchair.

Seeing an entire roof beam about to crash down on both of them, at the critical moment, the door held by the mechanism was suddenly kicked open with great force!

A tall and slender figure rushed in recklessly, lifting Duan Mingyue without saying a word and dashed out the door.

The Loulan Witch, seeing this, hurried to follow.

Just as he stepped out, Lu Yuan delivered a roundhouse kick, sending him heavily back into the room!

Crash!

The beam collapsed, burying him under the wreckage!