Wen Shangyin and Song Lian watched Su Ling's actions, both of them extremely horrified.
What Su Ling intended to do was all too obvious.
They weren't fools; they couldn't possibly fail to see it!
Su Ling had finished pouring the salt and chili powder. Shang Qi had also finished heating the water in the iron barrel.
Su Ling, meanwhile, picked up a wooden ladle.
She dipped the wooden ladle into the iron barrel, scooped up a ladleful of the chili water, and poured it onto Song Lian and Wen Shangyin, who were huddled together.
The moment the spiced water touched their skin, Wen Shangyin and Song Lian felt as if life were worse than death.
Su Ling listened to their pained cries, pouring ladle after ladle of chili water onto them.
Su Ling had never been soft-hearted towards her enemies.
She would offer opportunities, but if they weren't cherished, then they shouldn't blame her for harboring murderous intent!
Shang Qi, doting on his wife, held the barrel as a prop.
Su Ling poured the chili water over Song Lian and Wen Shangyin. They became drenched, from head to toe, not a single spot left untouched.
The chili water, warm and stinging, was poured over their torn and bleeding flesh. The sensation was akin to being slowly dismembered, inflicting unbearable agony.
After emptying the barrel of chili water, Su Ling put her things away into her space. She crouched down, looking at the dying Wen Shangyin and Song Lian at close range. "If you wish to die with clarity, then I shall grant you a clear demise."
"From the moment you conceived your scheme, every single one of your actions has been within our control. You thought your plan was foolproof, flawless. In reality, it was merely an illusion we created to make you underestimate us."
Wen Shangyin and Song Lian could no longer hear anything, their minds buzzing. Their entire bodies felt as if thousands of ants were crawling and biting them, an unbearable itchiness, pain, and heat, more agonizing than death itself.
Su Ling knew full well that they were in so much pain they wished for death and could barely hear her.
But she still chose to ramble on, intensifying their suffering: "The moment your people entered the forest, they were subdued by our operatives. Xu Yan was killed by Shang Qi as soon as she entered the castle. As for her abilities, they were also absorbed by Shang Qi..."
Song Lian, enduring the pain, listened to Su Ling's words. He was utterly defeated by the people before him. At the brink of death, he still wanted to provoke Su Ling: "In that case, you must know what we, and Xu Yan with your face, have done, right?"
Having said this, Song Lian let out a loud laugh.
With this laugh, he coughed up blood uncontrollably.
After spitting blood, Song Lian tried to say more. As soon as he opened his mouth, blood began to flow incessantly, gushing out of his mouth in large quantities.
Song Lian tried to reach up to block the blood that was continuously flowing from his mouth, but his hand had already lost all sensation and strength.
Wen Shangyin beside him was no better off, also spitting up blood.
They had wanted to say something to enrage Su Ling and Shang Qi, but fate was not on their side. Their words were completely blocked by the continuously overflowing blood.
Their urgency to speak, in turn, caused them to choke on the blood.
Su Ling stood up, her expressionless gaze fixed on the two men who were close to death.
She threw a flame onto them. The moment the flame touched their bodies, it rapidly ignited.
Wen Shangyin and Song Lian, who had been in excruciating pain and barely clinging to life, were now on fire. They couldn't put it out, and even if they tried to roll to extinguish the flames, their bodies were too weak to move.
They wanted to scream in agony to vent the physical pain, but as soon as they opened their mouths, they nearly choked on blood.
This was truly a case of calling to heaven and earth with no response, their deaths a tragic spectacle.
But whom could they blame?
They had only themselves to blame for their insatiable greed and boundless desires, which ultimately led to their own destruction!