I waited in comfortable silence, occasionally checking on my captive to ensure he didn't die prematurely. The healing pill I'd given him was working, stabilizing his shattered body enough to keep him conscious and aware.
That was important. I wanted him to witness everything that was coming.
Time passed slowly in the cave. Ten minutes. Twenty. Thirty.
Then the token vibrated.
"Brother Lu, I am at the location you described. But I cannot find the boulder."
I felt it, a spiritual signature approaching rapidly. The bandit leader, his Qi Refining cultivation blazing like a beacon as he rushed toward the location I'd given him.
"Leader, I will send my man to guide you. Wait a moment."
"Alright, brother Lu."
I pocketed the token and stood up, stretching slowly. "Looks like our guest has arrived. Time to play my part."
Then I walked to where the overseer lay on the ground, lifted him without ceremony, and placed him on the rock bed.
"Don't move," I said. "Unless you want more pain."
He blinked once. Slowly.
"Good."
Moving to the entrance, I checked that my mask was properly in place and stepped out of the boulder, just as I went out, a figure burst through the trees. The bandit leader, a rough-looking man in his forties with scarred features and wild eyes.
"Brother Lu!" he called out, scanning the area. "Where are you?"
I deactivated my concealment slightly, allowing him to see me in my disguised state. "Leader! Over here! Quickly, before the overseer recovers!"
He rushed over, his face twisted with vengeful excitement. "You are the one brother Lu sent, right? Where is he? Where's that bastard Zhang Wuhen?"
"Deep inside the cave, leader. He's badly wounded, barely conscious. Accountant Lu was also inside the cave waiting for you at the entrance. This is our chance!"
The bandit leader drew his sword, spiritual energy surging around him. "Finally! After everything he's put us through, it's time for that demon to pay!"
He charged into the cave without hesitation, and I followed calmly behind.
The bandit leader came through the entrance laughing, broad and loud and thoroughly pleased with himself. I followed a step behind him, unhurried. As the leader's eyes adjusted to the interior of the cave and he saw the overseer laid out on the rock bed, his laughter stopped.
"What. Why is he here?" He turned, scanning the space. "And where is brother Lu?"
I placed my hand on his shoulder from behind which seemed like a friendly gesture.
He went still. Then his voice came out low and dangerous. "What are you doing. Do you want to die. You dare to place your hand on me."
"I am going to give you something much sweeter," I said, smiling behind the mask.
The bandit leader's eyes went wide with shock and agony. "What... what are you doing..."
I punched him in the lower abdomen. with the same devastating precision I'd used on Zhang Wuhen.
Crack!
His dantian shattered just like the overseer's had. The force of the blow lifted him into the air, and I caught his upper body with my left hand, preventing him from flying into the wall.
He hung there suspended for few seconds before I released him, letting him crumple to the ground clutching his abdomen. Bestial cries of pain tore from his throat as the reality of his destroyed cultivation sank in.
I checked his dantian with my spiritual sense, confirming it was thoroughly shattered. Then I forced another healing pill into his mouth and sealed his acupoints as well making his body still.
I made him sit against the wall facing the rock bed.
I looked at him. "Watch everything. All of it. If I find your eyes closed or turned away I will put you in his place."
He stared at me with the eyes of a man who believed me completely.
Then I stood and looked at the overseer, who had watched the entire thing without making a sound.
"Now that we have our audience," I said pleasantly, "let us begin the show."
I walked to the center of the room and stood beside the rock bed. I looked down at the overseer and lowered my mask until my face was visible.
"Are you ready for your treatment, patient?"
He made no sound.
"Ah. I forgot to take consent." I removed the blockage from his vocal acupoint.
What came out of him was not dignified, not the voice of a senior cultivator or a man who had once held power over others. It was the voice of something small and cornered.
"Please. Please. Show mercy. Kill me quickly. I am begging you."
I considered this for a moment.
"I have your consent," I said. "You can rest easy."
He heard only what he wanted to hear, and something in his face settled slightly, the way a man's face settles when he thinks the worst is almost over.
He closed his eyes.
Then he felt something like a liquid hit his lower part. He flinched
He did not understand what it was for half a second. Then the burning began, concentrated and absolute, spreading from the most vulnerable point of his body outward, and the sound he made was nothing like a human voice.
AAAhhh!!!
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