197: 135 Capsize 197: 135 Capsize As soon as this was said!

Everyone was shocked, astonished, and confused.

To be honest, Shi Xiangyang had watched as his righteous rebel brothers were slaughtered without confessing a single word.

Seeing this, everyone started to have doubts, wondering if they had wrongly accused Shi Xiangyang.

The whole incident might have been the work of another power, completely unrelated to Shi Xiangyang.

Shi Xiangyang was wronged!

After all, both he and his son were imprisoned.

No matter how crazy he was, he wouldn’t do something that would surely kill himself and his son, would he!

Who would have thought…

“It really was that bastard Shi Xiangyang who caused all this trouble!”

“Why, he had already surrendered?!”

“He had handed over the county to us willingly, why continue to resist stubbornly?”

“I don’t understand, why didn’t he simply defend the city gates and fight us to the death?”

People looked at each other, baffled and perplexed.

Luo Peiyun calmly walked up to Shi Xiangyang, and a boundless rage finally appeared on his composed face as he said, word by word, “It was indeed you.”

Shi Xiangyang sneered, “Although you had guessed it was me, too bad, you realized too late.”

Luo Peiyun said grimly, “What can a bunch of rats that scurry and hide accomplish?”

Shi Xiangyang laughed aloud, “In terms of combat power, you have an overwhelming advantage.

On our side, there are only two from the Five Beasts Realm; we could never have held this county.

Even if we fought to the death, the result would only be annihilation and slaughter, and we might not achieve any significant results.

Everyone says you, Luo Peiyun, are as cunning as a fox.

To tell you the truth, you alone put a lot of pressure on us, let alone the fact that you also have strong figures like Luo Zhaodong among you.

But by using myself as bait and numbing you, now we have not only killed a member of the Luo Family bloodline but also burnt your granary.

Hahaha, to be able to achieve such significant results against you, Luo Peiyun, is nothing short of a miracle!”

Luo Peiyun’s veins bulged with anger, and he asked coldly, “So, who exactly killed my son?”

Shi Xiangyang mocked, “The one who killed your son is both far away and within your sight.”

A sinister cold smile appeared on the corners of Luo Peiyun’s mouth.

“Very well, today I want to see whether your heart is made of iron, or if your accomplices are even more cold-blooded and ruthless.”

He clapped his hands.

Clap!

Immediately, two burly men ran over quickly, grabbed Shi Zaixing, and tied him to a wooden rack.

At the same time, a hunched-over man with a wooden box walked over.

This man was extremely ugly, with a white-spotted beard and a strong smell of alcohol, and appeared to be over fifty years old.

Luo Peiyun introduced him indifferently, “This is Sun Jiude, known in the Jianghu as ‘Three Thousand Cuts,’ skilled in the art of lingering death.”

Upon hearing this, Shi Xiangyang’s throat moved involuntarily.

He looked at his son Shi Zaixing and cried out urgently, “Damn official, come at me if you have issues, don’t take it out on my son!”

Luo Peiyun ignored him, his gaze deep and fixed on the distant street.

Sun Jiude opened his box, which was filled with various types of sharp blades.

He took out a small knife and scraped it on a whetstone twice, then cut open Shi Zaixing’s clothes and stripped him clean.

After that, Sun Jiude switched to a knife as thin as a cicada’s wing and started from the left foot, making a cut.

“Ah~”

Shi Zaixing couldn’t help but scream out.

A bloody thin slice drifted to the ground.

With each cut Sun Jiude made, he sliced off slice after slice of thin flesh.

In no time, Shi Zaixing’s entire left foot turned into a skeleton, with all the flesh peeled off.

The street was deathly quiet, only the sound of incessant screams echoed without pause.

Shi Zaixing passed out from pain twice, and each time he just passed out, he was immediately awakened by a bucket of cold water.

Shi Xiangyang turned his head away, tears streaming down.

“Father, I’m alright, I can endure!”

Shi Zaixing gasped heavily through clenched teeth.

Shi Xiangyang cried, “Zaixing, father is sorry.”

Shi Zaixing defiantly said, “Father, remember what you taught me, everyone must die one day, and a true man who dies for the people has no regrets!”

Shi Xiangyang cried, “Good, for Father to have a son as stalwart as you, what more could I possibly ask for!”

He turned his head, looking coldly at Luo Peiyun and the others, and said in a deep voice, “Do you know how we took over the county?

Not because we were that powerful, but because we rallied forty to fifty thousand civilians.

They poured into the city like a flood, destroying everything in their path.

However, after taking the county, when the civilians got their hands on money, grain, and houses, they no longer wanted to join our rebellion; they just wanted to survive.

As Shi Xiangyang reached this point, a fierce and insane light burst forth in his eyes.

“Thank you for your atrocities last night, as you looted everywhere, killing civilians, leaving them with nothing again, and without the hope of survival.”

Shi Xiangyang turned his head towards the long street and bellowed, “Folks, the city gates are sealed shut.

If you don’t resist now, you only have one path to death!

Everyone unite, eliminate the tyrants, and even out the world!”

The roar gradually spread far and wide.

“To survive, you must resist!”

“Water can carry a boat, it can also capsize it!”

“Eliminate the tyrants, even out the world!”

Shi Xiangyang kept shouting, his voice almost breaking.

Suddenly, a figure appeared on the long street.

It was a frail middle-aged man with an ashen face, staggering as he walked.

He had a cut on his chest, a ghastly sight, and his whole being was listless, seemingly not far from death.

It was evident to anyone that endless rage and hatred filled the man’s eyes.