Chapter 1 The Bottom of the Holy Tower

The very bottom of the Holy Tower.

Here was a dungeon where the sun never shone.

Imprisoned here were mechanical race powerhouses or traitors from the human race.

In the dim tunnel, Ouyang Li dragged the Scholar Ghost along towards the dungeon.

Red candles flickered on the reddish-brown walls on both sides of the tunnel, their flames dancing with Ouyang Li's movements.

The flickering light made Ouyang Li's face appear even more sinister.

The dungeon had originally been incredibly noisy, with some people screaming in pain from their injuries, others cursing madly, and still others banging on the cell doors, shouting to be let out.

However, the moment they saw Ouyang Li, all sound ceased.

Wherever Ouyang Li went, there was silence.

The people locked in the dungeon instantly showed fear in their eyes when they saw Ouyang Li, seemingly terrified of this hunched-over man.

When they saw the Scholar Ghost being dragged by Ouyang Li, the prisoners' eyes instantly showed pity.

*sigh*, another unlucky ghost about to be tortured to death by Ouyang Li.

Ouyang Li seemed to enjoy these fearful gazes, and the smile on his face grew even wider.

"Big brother, where are you taking me? Can you just let me go? I really don't know anything..."

Upon entering the dungeon, the Scholar Ghost became even more frightened, his body trembling uncontrollably.

"Oh? It doesn't matter. I don't care what you know. I'm just happy to have another toy."

Ouyang Li chuckled, but the laughter sounded like fingernails scratching a chalkboard, making the Scholar Ghost's heart clench.

Then, he dragged the Scholar Ghost into a seemingly clean cell, which contained nothing but an iron rack.

Even the floor of this cell was impeccably clean, as if someone had meticulously scrubbed it countless times.

"Lord Ouyang, your exclusive cell has been cleaned. Please inspect it~"

A jailer carefully held out a string of keys to Ouyang Li.

"Mm."

Ouyang Li nodded faintly and took the keys.

Just as the jailer breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to leave, Ouyang Li's dry, eerie voice rang out like a death knell.

"Wait!"

"Lord Ouyang, do you have any other instructions?"

The jailer's heart leaped into his throat, and Ouyang Li's next action caused it to plummet to the bottom.

Ouyang Li slowly squatted down and seemed to pick something up.

"There's a strand of hair here. You didn't clean it properly."

Ouyang Li's tone was calm, but the jailer looked as if he had seen the most terrifying thing in the world, and immediately knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly.

"I'm sorry! Please forgive me, Lord Ouyang! I was wrong! Please forgive me!"

After a few kowtows, blood was already streaming from the jailer's forehead, indicating the force with which he was hitting the ground.

"Forgive you? If I set this precedent for you, wouldn't everyone be asking for my forgiveness in the future? Don't worry, I won't let you suffer too much."

Ouyang Li extended a dark hand, covered in disgusting pustules.

As his hand approached the jailer's terrified face, the pustules suddenly burst open!

A swarm of extremely disgusting insects emerged from the pustules, rushing towards the jailer like a tide, entering his body through his mouth, nostrils, and ears.

The jailer didn't even have time to scream before he died.

His corpse began to swell slowly, quickly expanding into a huge sphere.

Then, a white worm about the thickness of an index finger crawled out of his navel. As the worm emerged, the jailer's entire body deflated like a punctured balloon, instantly turning into a human skin.

After the worm crawled out, it devoured the jailer's skin in a few quick bites before crawling back onto Ouyang Li's hand.

After the white worm crawled back in, another pustule bulged on Ouyang Li's hand.

Many of the prisoners in the dungeon felt like vomiting after witnessing this disgusting scene, but facing Ouyang Li, they didn't even dare to vomit, forced to hold it in.

No one wanted to suffer the same fate as the jailer.

"Alright, now it's your turn!" Ouyang Li said with a smile, looking at the Scholar Ghost.

The Scholar Ghost was almost scared out of his mind at this point, and he shook his head desperately.

"No... please, no!!!"

But in front of Ouyang Li, he had no chance of resisting and could only be tied to the iron rack in the cell.

Then, the iron door slammed shut.

The prisoners in the dungeon exchanged glances, shuddering involuntarily.

No one had ever walked out of Ouyang Li's cell alive.

No one knew exactly what Ouyang Li did inside, but no matter how strong someone was, they would let out inhumanly tragic screams after entering that cell.

Therefore, the only emotion they had for Ouyang Li and that cell was fear.

"You mechanical beings are a little different from humans."

Ouyang Li muttered as he fiddled with something, not knowing if he was speaking to the Scholar Ghost or just talking to himself.

"With humans, all I have to do is torture their bodies to make them feel all kinds of pain, but mechanical beings are much less sensitive to pain."

"But it doesn't matter. No matter what, you mechanical races are still a type of living creature! And as living creatures, you have souls!"

"I've recently developed a new method that can destroy your mechanical bodies while preserving your souls for me to torture!"

Ouyang Li turned around with a sinister smile, and in his hand, he was holding a translucent centipede as thick as a thumb!

This centipede was entirely blue, with two scythe-like fangs beneath its long antennae. It writhed in Ouyang Li's hand, looking incredibly terrifying.

"This is the Soul Devouring Blue Centipede. It will give you an extremely wonderful experience~"

"No! Please, no!!!"

The Scholar Ghost trembled all over in fright, and the iron rack clanged under his struggles.

But Ouyang Li ignored his pleas and raised the Soul Devouring Blue Centipede to the Scholar Ghost's ear.

The Soul Devouring Blue Centipede seemed to smell its prey, and it began crawling into the Scholar Ghost's ear on its dense mass of hundreds of legs.

"Ah!!!"

The Scholar Ghost let out a bloodcurdling scream, and Ouyang Li's smile became even more twisted as he heard the scream.

"Hehehe, the Soul Devouring Blue Centipede will first devour all the connection facilities inside your mechanical body!"

"When all the connection facilities have been eaten away, this mechanical body will be completely useless. At that time, the Soul Devouring Blue Centipede will crawl out with your soul in its mouth!"

"Don't worry, the real show will have only just begun. I will torture your soul properly!"

Ouyang Li looked at the Scholar Ghost, who was twitching and struggling non-stop, and became more and more excited.

"Jie jie jie, cry, beg, struggle! That's the feeling! I'll show you what real hell is like!"