Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 261: The Girl in the Second Shrine
Pei Nai's eyes trembled a little, that was an instinctive reaction to the heartache, "Didn't you go in to help? Go and rescue the people first!"

"After hearing what the cook said, we wanted to go in. However, as soon as we stepped into the harem, the girls started screaming wildly, and we didn't dare to go any deeper." The face of the Anbu general was full of embarrassment and helplessness.

Pei Nai looked at Grandma Xun.

Before she could speak, Grandma Axun answered: "In Yue Cang's harem, most girls wear revealing clothes. If a girl is seen by a man outside, even if he is a eunuch, he and the girl will be immediately executed. This is the rule that Yue Cang has set for all girls since they were young. It will make them timid from the bottom of their hearts and dare not see other men."

Everyone listened in silence, and the atmosphere around them became extremely depressing.

The gates leading to the deep palace were all open, catching the light. They were tall and majestic, like the gates to heaven.

But there are more than two thousand young lives inside, and their hearts are shackled, unable to walk out of the haze of the Wu clan’s palace forever.

Pei Nai and the others did not dismount and continued to rush towards the harem.

On the way, Grandma Xun said, "In fact, one third of the girls rescued by the Valley Country died of depression. They were treated coldly and neglected, and they couldn't get over the hurdle in their hearts, so they committed suicide in the end."

Pei Nai's brows were still furrowed. She listened quietly and rode her horse faster.

After all, there are girls still suffering on the rack.

They stayed outside the entrance of the harem. Gu Jinheng, Han Ruize, Da Xian and all the men would wait outside and deal with the matters of the Wu clan.

Pei Nai, Da Xi Shang Le, Grandma Axun and her maids, as well as several female doctors brought by Grandma Axun, entered the harem accompanied by the cook.

Huyan Weizhao dismounted and stood outside waiting.

He looked at Pei Nai with anxiety and helplessness in his eyes. He didn't know whether he would see his daughter or hear bad news later.

He was hoping for some hope that would keep him going.

Senior Qu was also waiting. The granddaughters of two of his old friends were captured here many years ago.

Although the two old friends died in the process of carrying out the plan, the children still have other family members alive.

Senior Qu felt it was his duty to send them home.

Pei Nai nodded at them, then opened the door and walked in with Grandma Xun and others.

There is no division by courtyard here, only three large areas, and each building is arranged in a regular pattern.

The flying pavilions and the red flowing water make one think of the Jade Terrace and the Langyuan Garden, and the extravagant and luxurious life of Yue Cang is evident everywhere.

There is a large square in the center of the harem, and at the center is the high platform of Yue Cang’s bedroom.

Presumably the cooks had told the girls in advance that the Tianyao army would arrive today, so they did not go out to walk around. Instead, they wore thin clothes that exposed their shoulders and legs, pushed the door open a little, and secretly observed from inside.

Seeing that there were no men present, they relaxed a little, but at the same time they were all very curious about Pei Nai's armor uniform.

Pei Nai looked at their innocent eyes and felt a dull pain in his heart.

How on earth could Yue Cang do this?
She gritted her teeth, wishing she could dig up Yue Cang's body and kill him twice more.

"Everyone's clothes are so thin. It's okay in spring and summer, but what about winter? Do you have other clothes?" Pei Nai asked Grandma Xun.

Grandma Axun replied, "If you don't have thick clothes, take good care of Yue Cang, he will give you a fox fur cape as a reward, but your legs must still be exposed."

"Isn't he afraid that the girls will get frozen and get sick, and that they will infect him with a cold?" Da Xi Shangle found it unreasonable.

Grandma Axun sneered, "He doesn't treat us as human beings at all. We are just tools for his entertainment. If a girl is sick, she can't see him at all. If she recovers, it's her luck. If the illness gets worse, he will directly let the palace servants come in to clean her up."

On the way, Grandma Axun said that there were many deaths in Yue Cang's harem every year.

Girls who were a little older and more mature, or who violated taboos and displeased Yue Cang, would be executed directly and thrown into a mass grave.

He had tortured countless girls to death, their bodies were horrible to look at, and no one with any humanity could bear to look closely at the scars. Moreover, Yue Cang often got excited and would play some perverted games, using human lives as stakes.

For example, the life-telling game that Yue Cang and Grandma Axun talked about when they were in the 21st realm of the Valley Kingdom.

Therefore, it is very likely that Huyan Weizhao's daughter has been killed. Grandma Axun reminded him on the way and asked him to be mentally prepared.

Led by the cook, they headed towards the torture room.

Stepping onto the central square, Pei Nai saw from afar a stone platform at the end of the road on the right, on which was a narrow stone bed.

The reason why she paid attention to that place was because she often went to the battlefield and could feel the evil and bloody energy there, as if there was a deep resentment that could not be dissipated at all.

"What's going on over there?" Pei Nai asked.

Grandma Ah Xun took a quick look and said, "It's the place where pregnant women and their unborn children are beaten to death."

If Yue Cang wants to use the pure tree slices to achieve immortality, he must not leave any offspring, which is a big taboo for him.

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"Won't Yue Cang give you contraceptive soup?" Da Xi Shangle asked doubtfully.

This is what Pei Nai wanted to ask.

They all thought that Yue Cang would use this method to prevent pregnancy.

Grandma Xun sneered, "Contraceptive soup? He hates the smell of medicine. He will only ask the palace maids to prepare contraceptive soup when he favors someone and can't bear to let that person die."

She sighed again, "In the palaces of other countries, the women in the harem fight desperately for the emperor's favor, hoping to conceive an heir, but here, getting pregnant is equivalent to being sentenced to death. Every time we are done with him, we kneel down to beg for favor, then immediately take a bath and wash our bodies, praying to God that we will not get pregnant."

"Yue Cang is really a beast!!" Da Xi Shangle was so angry that his hands were shaking.

Just because he didn't like the smell of medicine, he threw the risk to the girls and even didn't care about his own flesh and blood, creating karma.

It was as if, apart from him, all other lives in this world were equally lowly and not worth his even a glance.

Soon, Pei Nai and the others arrived at the side hall not far below Yue Cang's bedroom.

As soon as he entered, Pei Nai smelled the smell of rotting flesh and blood.

There were seven or eight girls lying on the torture chairs. The movements and scenes were indescribable.

Because they had been holding on for too long, the metal rings on their hands and feet had left bleeding wounds on their bodies, which could not heal and were all festered and bleeding.

One girl was dead and two were in coma.

According to the cook, these days, they or other girls have taken turns to take care of these girls and apply medicine to them.

But if the instrument cannot be removed, the wound cannot heal.

They were unlucky as Yue Cang went out to fight and didn't take care of them.

The maids didn't have the key, so they were locked in here.

Pei Nai could hear their painful groans, and it was obvious that these girls were all running a fever due to illness.

She wasted no time, observing the structure of each metal ring, then took out her dagger and stabbed the surface of the steel ring.

She controlled the force, trying her best to avoid the girls' wounds, and only let the tip of the knife penetrate into the middle of the metal. With a shock of internal force, the metal ring broke into several pieces.

She bent over seriously and destroyed the instruments that bound the girls one by one.

(End of this chapter)