I Am Immortal in Great Yu

Chapter 238: Chapter 97: Burial Flower

CLANK! CLANK!

Kang Huaifeng, weighed down by heavy shackles, was led to the iron chair for serious offenders.

Fang Rui sat silently not far opposite him, his arms crossed and his gaze cold.

Behind him, beams of light streamed down from the cell’s high window, enveloping his body. But this time, he no longer dared to claim he represented light and justice.

After all, as far as Fang Rui understood, Kang Huaifeng’s preference for men and his preying on a few foppish young masters from the brothels... such minor evils were nothing compared to the filth lurking in the shadows of the Great Yu. By comparison, this man could indeed be called ’clean’.

”Recently, there have been incidents in the city...”

Fang Rui wasted no words, getting straight to the point about the disappearances of infants and young children.

”It’s starting! It’s starting again!”

Kang Huaifeng spoke these cryptic words, a mocking smile suddenly appearing on his face. ”If I’m not mistaken, not too long ago, your Divine Capture Bureau released a temporary list for redeeming Contribution Points, featuring items like the Half-Spirit Pill, right?”

”So you do know.”

Fang Rui’s eyes narrowed. ”What is going on? Forget it, I’ll just ask you directly. How exactly is this so-called Spirit Medicine cultivated?”

”It seems you have your own suspicions!”

Kang Huaifeng gave Fang Rui a deep look, then answered with surprising compliance. ”The methods vary from place to place, but they are all largely the same. They all require one key ingredient: the Blood of Extreme Yin and Extreme Emotion.”

’The Blood of Extreme Yin and Extreme Emotion again?!’

Hearing the term once more, Fang Rui asked with a grave expression, ”What is the Blood of Extreme Yin and Extreme Emotion?”

”The Blood of Extreme Yin and Extreme Emotion, heh heh!”

Kang Huaifeng sneered and explained directly, ”Extreme Yin naturally refers to being born in a Yin year, Yin month, Yin day, and Yin hour. However, typically, just meeting three of these conditions is enough to be classified as a Yin Body, barely passable for use. As for Extreme Emotion... extreme love, satisfaction, pain... any of them will do.”

”Achieving positive emotions like extreme love or satisfaction is incredibly difficult. But extreme pain and resentment? That’s very easy to create! Especially in pure-hearted infants, and young boys and girls...”

”Therefore, within the Court, the Blood of Extreme Yin and Extreme Emotion specifically refers to the heart’s blood of pure-hearted infants and children with Yin Bodies, taken at the moment of their death under extreme torture!”

”Those missing infants and children...” Fang Rui’s pupils constricted violently.

”That’s right!”

Kang Huaifeng remained exceedingly cooperative, as if he would answer anything Fang Rui dared to ask. ”They were all captured by the local Government Office forces and Noble Families, working together. They are tortured for their blood, which is then used as an ingredient to cultivate Spirit Medicine, or as Alchemy Materials.”

”And you think what you’re consuming is Spirit Medicine?”

He shot up from his seat in a frenzy, the shackles on his body clattering loudly. His eyes widened, staring deathly at Fang Rui. ”No! You’re eating people! It’s people!”

”This...” Fang Rui was deeply shaken, and his brow twitched instinctively.

He imagined the scene: a group of small infants, pure young boys and girls in the flower of their youth, being brutally tortured to death, slaughtered to extract their heart’s blood for cultivating Spirit Medicine...

He had anticipated the filth and cruelty that might be hiding behind the Great Yu, but he had never imagined it would be this vile, this brutal. It was utterly appalling.

After a long moment, Fang Rui calmed himself down and calculated silently in his mind. ’Nannan doesn’t have a Yin Body. But Ling’Er... Yin year, Yin month, Yin hour... she meets three of the conditions. Yet, according to what Bajin said before, Ling’Er isn’t on the capture list. Is it because a Yin Body that only meets three conditions isn’t considered that valuable? Or... is it because of me?’

’But then why was Li Dadan’s son, Heiwa, still taken?’

Puzzled, he looked over at Kang Huaifeng.

After revealing the truth about cannibalism, the man now seemed somewhat deranged. His mental state was off, and he was making guttural sounds, endlessly repeating, ”Eating people... eating people...”

”Hm?”

Fang Rui frowned. A faint cyan light flashed at his fingertip as he tapped the tabletop with a ’DING’. The sound carried a strange rhythm that was impossible to describe with words, instantly snapping the man back to his senses.

”You... you...”

Kang Huaifeng stared at Fang Rui and swallowed subconsciously. The man before him appeared completely ordinary and normal, yet for some reason, Kang Huaifeng felt a primal fear in his heart, as if facing a terrifying beast.

”Kang Huaifeng, I have one more question for you. I have a Seventh Grade Chief Constable under my command...”

Fang Rui began dispassionately, recounting Li Dadan’s situation.

”This...”

Kang Huaifeng was also somewhat surprised after hearing the story. ”These days, the Great Yu Court is even devouring its own people?!”

...

Stepping out of the interrogation room, Fang Rui let out a long breath.

’Just as Kang Huaifeng said, the Divine Capture Bureau of Huaiyin Prefecture, the Zheng Family, and even the Martial Artists of the Noble Families throughout the entire Great Yu... they are all eating people.’

’In this environment, if you don’t eat people, you become the outcast.’

At this thought, a profound sense of powerlessness washed over him.

It was as if the entire world had gone mad, and the only sane one left was the freak.

Fang Rui recalled Kang Huaifeng’s final, meaningful words as he was leaving earlier: ’Want to become part of the Great Yu’s upper echelon? You can. But first, you have to learn to eat people.’

”Eating people... this is truly...”

Fang Rui sighed and shook his head, his thoughts wandering. ’According to Kang Huaifeng, even when they’re capturing people, they usually don’t go after their own. Not just Silver Seal Chief Constables like me, but even Chief Constables, Head Constables, constables, and governmental officers are all supposed to be exempt.’

’But this time in Huaiyin Prefecture, it seems they need a huge number of Qualified individuals—so many that they had to relax certain restrictions. They even went after the family of a Chief Constable like Li Dadan.’

”What kind of secret is hiding behind all this?” he muttered, striding away.

”Chief!”

From behind, Li Dadan came running after him, his eyes red. ”Those two ’tongues’ confessed! They said this is related to the Zheng Family. Is that true?”