Hell Emperor.

Chapter 345 Xia Wei - Sincerity
Xia Wei's firm tone contained an unquestionable meaning. She swept the surroundings with a cold gaze. Everyone who was swept by her gaze was terrified, thinking that they were being targeted by some terrible demon king.

The city lord's expression changed for a while, but he didn't dare to refuse, so he said: "Okay... please follow me."

Led by the city lord, the crowd walked quickly forward and soon came to a large building. Before they got close, the strong fishy smell in the air, mixed with a faint smell of corruption, made people frown.

"It's the breath of a beastman... and there's more than one."

Just by smelling the smell, Xia Wei frowned. There were more beastmen in the City Lord's Mansion than she expected. "Didn't you say that you had dealt with those beastmen? Why are there still so many?"

The city lord quickly apologized with a smile, "When I say deal with them, I mean to lock them up and make sure they don't harm other people. These beast-shaped people came unexpectedly and caused a lot of losses. The practitioners in the city are studying the changes in their spiritual power to see if there is any way to restore them."

Xia Wei didn't answer. Suddenly, there was a wave of noise coming from the building, one after another, like cheering or laughter.

Xia Wei walked quickly forward and entered the building in front. The scene inside shocked her.

However, this building was originally a martial arts arena for practitioners to compete with each other. Various long weapons were displayed on the knife rack next to it. However, now, the people competing in the martial arts arena are no longer practitioners, but someone else.

It was said to be a sparring match, but it was more like a fight of life and death. One of them had red eyes and was breathing heavily. Although he was a human, he had lost all his rationality and was more like a mad beast. The other was a pale and skinny young man in tattered clothes. He was obviously scared by his opponent and the fear made him burst into tears.

With trembling hands, the young man tightly grasped the spear that was several times longer than his body. The tip of the spear pierced into the chest of the beastman, but it could not stop the beastman. The beastman waved his hands around and moved forward against the spear. The strong force caused the spear to bend and crack, and it could break at any time.

Along with a series of creaking sounds, the gun's curved arc became larger and larger. The young man was frightened to death and watched the beast-shaped creature getting closer and closer, and its red eyes getting bigger and bigger.

Finally, there was a crisp sound, and the spear broke completely. The beast-shaped creature was no longer obstructed, and waved his hands and pounced directly at the boy in front of him. The boy's face was full of despair, and he closed his eyes, not daring to watch what happened next.

The expected pain did not come for a long time. The young man opened his eyes tremblingly, only to see that the beast-shaped creature, who was so ferocious just now, was now cut in half and lay dead on the ground. The cut surface of the waist seemed to have been burned by a fierce fire. It was charred black and still steaming.

The spectators who were watching from all around, many of whom were dressed in luxurious clothes and wearing fine robes and jade belts, suddenly encountered something unexpected. Their cheers stopped abruptly and they looked at each other for a moment. They couldn't help but turn their gazes to the source of the accident, Xia Wei.

After killing the beast-shaped ghost, Xia Wei's eyes still had a devilish glow. She slowly turned her head and looked directly at the frightened city lord, and said in a deep voice: "Tell me, what on earth are you doing?"

The city lord took a deep breath. Xia Wei's strength was even more terrifying than he expected. Even he didn't see clearly when the laser came. By the time he reacted, the beast-shaped man had died on the spot.

The city lord said hurriedly: "This... This is to test the strength of the beastmen. These beastmen have extraordinary value and are enough for us to use. If the beast tide comes in the future, we can find an opportunity to release the beastmen and teach those monsters a painful lesson. For this reason, we must test the strength of the beastmen in advance."

"Really? But it seems to me that you are taking pleasure from the beastmen and people's lives?" Xia Wei asked angrily.

The city lord said confidently: "These are just incidental. The beastmen have caused considerable property losses to the city. Of course I have to find a way to make up for it from them..."

Before the city lord could finish his words, he saw a blazing purple light occupying his entire field of vision, his head exploded, and his body fell to his knees and hit the ground heavily.

The change came so suddenly that even Ren Changhong was unable to react. He could never have imagined that Xia Wei would just attack and kill the city lord on the spot without any reason!

With the city lord dead, how dare the soldiers around resist? The suppression of the realm made them unable to have any thoughts of revenge, and they immediately scattered like birds and beasts and fled.

Xia Wei did not give them a chance to escape. She dodged and moved as fast as lightning. Rays of purple devilish light poured out from her pupils. Soldiers would be injured if they touched them, and die if they were touched by them. Soon, no one was left standing.

Ren Changhong blinked. The situation changed so quickly that she was a little slow to react. She said in surprise, "I thought we were here to deal with the beastmen."

"I knew there would be trouble..." Hua Xiaomei stroked her forehead. She had guessed what Xia Wei would do. As early as when Xia Wei was preparing to go to the City Lord's Mansion, she knew that this trip would be bad. Now she saw that it was true.

After killing all the soldiers within sight, Xia Wei was furious, her face was stern, the devilish light in her bright eyes was condensed and did not dissipate, her pupils were bright and shining like stars, and soon she set her sights on the trembling spectators in the martial arts arena.

The spectators were terrified and confused as to how it could turn out like this. Especially when Xia Wei's icy gaze like a knife swept over them, their fear reached its peak and some even couldn't help crying out loud.

Xia Wei's expression did not waver at all because of the reactions of the crowd, as if in her eyes, they were already a group of dead people.

Seeing this, Hua Xiaomei hurried forward, forcing a smile on her pale face: "Sister Xia Wei, you have already killed the culprit who took people's lives for fun, why do you still look unhappy? Why don't we laugh together."

Xia Wei shook her head: "I'm unhappy because I know that I have to eradicate all evil, but I haven't killed all the people I want to kill yet."

Hearing this, Hua Xiaomei's smile was uglier than crying, but she heard a loud voice from the audience asking: "We have no grudges against you, why do you want to hurt us?"

Xia Wei turned her head, stared at everyone, and said angrily: "You ask me? Why not ask you what you have done?"

Xia Wei's words caused a lot of discussion among the crowd, and they were even more confused:
"What did we do? We were just watching the show prepared by the city lord. We didn't do anything, but we still spent money to get in!"

"That's what I mean. Now there's no show to watch. Who can we go to for justice? We need a refund!"

"Could it be that I have offended the Immortal in some way? Or is there someone the Immortal knows among the performers?"

Someone realized that Xia Wei was so angry. Could it be that someone she knew had died in an accident? Otherwise, how could she be like this?

Facing everyone's questions, Xia Wei slowly shook her head: "I don't know them."

After hearing this answer, everyone became even more confused:
"The Immortal clearly doesn't know these people, so why is he punishing us?"

"Even if you want us to die, you should give us a reason. We should die with a clear mind." "You don't know, Immortal, those who fought with the madman are either beggars or slaves. Their lives are worthless. If Immortal is willing to let me go, I am willing to give out my treasured treasures..."

"And me, too..."

Everyone was talking one after another, and the scene was a little chaotic. Seeing this, Xia Wei took a deep breath, pointed at the huddled, trembling boy in the scene, and growled:
"Look at that man. Isn't he one of your kind? Even beastmen won't attack their own kind. Not only did you not stop this, but you actually watched it with relish. How can you be so complacent? How can you be indifferent to the murder of your own kind?"

At the end of her speech, Xia Wei opened her eyes wide, and under the reflection of the magic light, her pupils were filled with tears. She couldn't believe what was happening, and was even more heartbroken by people's choices.

All kinds of complicated emotions turned into a surging anger in Xia Wei's heart, and then she vented it out, with dazzling magic light bursting with divine power, and she screamed: "You are a bunch of callous, cold-blooded scum, you have wisdom but are not even as good as beasts, you are not worthy of being human! In this case, all of you die!"

As soon as the words came out, Hua Xiaomei realized that something was wrong and hurriedly pulled Ren Changhong. The two of them squatted down together. At the same time, the devilish light swept across the surroundings, and the blazing purple light almost cut everything apart.

The scream only lasted for a moment, and apart from the teeth-grinding cutting sound, there was no other sound.

After an unknown amount of time, the surging spiritual power gradually subsided. Hua Xiaomei stood up with trembling legs and looked around, only to see a mess around her. The entire top of the originally tall building had been blown off. Except for the young man who had fought before and the people who were captured like him, there was no one else alive around.

When he looked over, he saw Xia Wei working without stopping for a moment, stepping over the corpses of the people and clearing out the beast-shaped people imprisoned in the back.

"Now I understand why you had a conflict with the people from the Golden Wheel Palace before..."

Seeing the mess around him, Ren Changhong's mouth twitched and he sighed.

Hua Xiaomei showed an expression that said she finally understood, and pulled Ren Changhong and said, "Xia Wei has committed murder again, so she will lose a lot of merit... Next time you encounter this kind of situation, you must persuade her well."

Ren Changhong glanced at Xia Wei and asked, "Why should I persuade her?"

"Why?" Hua Xiaomei was stunned. "Don't you think Xia Wei went a little too far? The people here can actually be given a chance to live..."

Ren Changhong shrugged his shoulders: "Does Shura need a reason to kill people? He just kills when he wants to. I am at a high level, why should I be merciful when killing those who are not as high as me? It's ridiculous to ask for a reason."

Hua Xiaomei was speechless. Then she remembered that Ren Changhong was not an ordinary ghost messenger. She used to be a Shura in the Demon Palace! How could the Shura's concept be measured by common sense? In the eyes of Shura, killing is as common as eating and drinking.

"But...but Xia Wei is not a Shura, so of course she can't commit murder casually." Hua Xiaomei said hurriedly.

Ren Changhong remained silent. Xia Wei was indeed not a Shura, but the murderous aura in her eyes was even more murderous than that of the Shura King, which made her very concerned.

"To be honest, her cold tone just now scared me, just like a real Shura..."

Thinking of Xia Wei's cold shout, Hua Xiaomei shuddered all over and couldn't help but lean towards Ren Changhong beside her. She felt that Xia Wei's ruthlessness when she made up her mind was no less than that of Shura.

Ren Changhong was silent for a long time, thinking of the hot tears in Xia Wei's eyes when she was furious, and sighed: "They both committed murder, but I can feel that Xia Wei is completely different from the Shuras. The Shuras' hearts are cold, but her heart is full of sincerity, like a wildfire that burns people..."

Hua Xiaomei raised her eyebrows: "Are you sure? Why didn't I feel it?

Ren Changhong suddenly asked: "When you were alive, did you ever drink hot water?"

"No, I never drank water when I was alive, let alone hot water." Hua Xiaomei waved her hand.

"Really? Do you have any unique talents or supernatural powers?" Ren Changhong looked incredulous and looked at Hua Xiaomei carefully. She clearly had no talents, so how could she not drink water?

Hua Xiaomei's mouth twitched, her face full of madness. As expected, Shura had no sense of humor at all: "Do you think it's possible? Of course I drank hot water! What kind of question is this?"

Ren Changhong didn't take it seriously and continued, "If you have ever drunk hot water, you should understand that you can't feel it the moment it enters your mouth. You may even mistake the boiling hot water for ice-cold water. By the time you come to your senses, you've already been scalded."

Hua Xiaomei was stunned. Ren Changhong's words made her heart tremble. Suddenly, she seemed to understand something and her face was full of emotion.

As a true Shura, Ren Changhong could naturally tell the difference between Xia Wei and Shura. Xia Wei's arrogant, noble, cynical and sincere heart was something Shuras could never possess.

It’s a pity that Hua Xiaomei was unable to see through all of this due to her own narrow-mindedness and almost mistook Xia Wei for Shura.

After realizing her mistake, Hua Xiaomei walked around Ren Changhong and looked at him carefully, with a hint of surprise in her eyes, which made Ren Changhong speechless: "What are you looking at?"

"I originally thought that Shuras were all full of murderous desires, but now it seems that is not the case..." Hua Xiaomei sighed.

Ren Changhong held his forehead with his hand: "I am the descendant of Xuannv after all, don't confuse me with ordinary Shuras."

Hua Xiaomei touched her chin and said, "Come to think of it... I also have the opportunity to become the successor of Xuannv."

Ren Changhong gave two emotionless fake laughs: "That's a good joke. You succeeded in making me laugh."

"I'm not kidding, it's true!" Hua Xiaomei was anxious and quickly explained, "It's just that it's not me in this life, but me in the next life. At that time, I will have five innate magical powers..."

As the two were talking, Ren Changhong suddenly seemed to sense something and showed an interested look: "I seem to have sensed one of the ingredients for alchemy. Follow me."

(End of this chapter)