Chapter 2157 - 2153: Coercion

Li Yunhuo had absolutely no room to resist in front of Ye Fan.

Even before, Ye Fan’s cultivation was far above his; now Ye Fan’s cultivation had been strengthened by the power of heavenly tribulation, making it incomparably formidable. Li Yunhuo, before Ye Fan, was like a frail, powerless child—any small bit of force Ye Fan used was enough to force Li Yunhuo to struggle desperately to cope.

"Ye Fan, if you want to kill me then kill me. What’s the point of torturing me like this?" Li Yunhuo looked furious, because Ye Fan was completely playing cat-and-mouse, using his power to bombard him without directly killing him, forcing him to flail helplessly in the face of that overwhelming force.

The irony was that if he didn’t resist, he would die anyway, because the power Ye Fan unleashed offered no retreat; it was entirely up to how capable Li Yunhuo was in resisting the corrosion of that power.

Ye Fan said, "If you’re looking for death, you can do it anytime yourself. Why bother making me do it? Right now I just want to savor a bit of the victor’s glory, that’s all."

Li Yunhuo’s hatred deepened. He had no idea how to deal with Ye Fan; he racked his brains but couldn’t come up with any good countermeasure, and Ye Fan was still launching attacks against him nonstop, making it even more humiliating. He definitely wasn’t the type to seek death on his own; even though the resistance before him had already exceeded his limits, he still refused to give up.

Leizu said, "Ye Fan, what’s the meaning of what you’re doing? Didn’t you say you wanted to use him to recover your own memories? Are you trying to recover your memories now, or are you trying to torture him to achieve some other purpose? I need to find my daughter—hurry up and help me!"

"You woman, no wonder Ye Fan came looking for me. So it was you who harmed me!" Li Yunhuo hadn’t been as angry before Leizu spoke; after hearing her, it was like he had found a breakthrough point, and his fury shifted toward Leizu.

"So what if I harmed you? My life is about to be gone too, and you’re the one harming me!" Leizu said. "I just want to use Ye Fan to find my daughter. And you? You also want to use my daughter. Where is Nuwa now? Did she go to find my daughter, planning to use her to achieve some goal?"

Li Yunhuo no longer had the mind to answer; right now he had to devote himself entirely to dealing with Ye Fan’s attacks.

Ye Fan looked utterly at ease as he said, "The questions Leizu wants to ask are also the ones I want to know. Where exactly did Nuwa’s avatar go? If I find that woman, I’ll make her suffer a fate worse than death, just like you."

"Ye Fan, threatening me is pointless. If you’ve got the guts, go find Nuwa’s avatar and kill even her true body!" Li Yunhuo said. "Everything I’m doing now is just under the orders of Nuwa’s avatar. Don’t forget, I am also your master. I once brought you into the cultivation world—I’ve shown you favor. On what grounds do you kill me?"

"Is that so? Ha. You say all this like it’s a joke. Do you think I’ll believe it?" Ye Fan sneered.

Now Li Yunhuo had a splitting headache; the pressure Ye Fan was exerting on him was wave after wave, each heavier than the last. A few more rounds and he feared he would die. Ye Fan seemed to be waiting for an answer from him.

"Fine. Whatever you want to know, ask. I’ll hold nothing back. You devil—I showed you favor, and you repay kindness with betrayal. I won’t let you off!" Li Yunhuo said.

Ye Fan still didn’t ease his attacks. He continued using that pressure to coerce Li Yunhuo. Ye Fan said, "Then talk. How did you make me suffer the assault of the heavenly tribulation’s power, and how did I lose my memories?"

"You’re asking me? Ha. You’re the one who raised that Divine weapon yourself. It was your own choice to walk that path. If we’re talking about who’s at fault, the one most at fault is you, not me!" Li Yunhuo said. "If you hadn’t chosen to pick up that weapon yourself and throw yourself into the camp of heavenly tribulation, do you think I’d have had the qualifications to interfere with you? At that time you even had me imprisoned—I had no way of exerting any influence over you at all!"

"Your answer doesn’t satisfy me." Ye Fan closed his eyes, and the next wave of attacks came, even stronger than before.

But even though they were strong, they still didn’t directly kill Li Yunhuo. They only corroded him little by little, like watching himself bleed out, like watching his oil run dry and his lamp go out, bit by bit.

"What do you want to hear to be satisfied?" Li Yunhuo already felt death approaching, and it terrified him. He said, "Whatever you want to know, I’ll tell you! You say you want to know how I harmed you... To put it bluntly, I was born for the forces of heavenly tribulation, and you were born to overcome the forces of heavenly tribulation. We were never on the same side. Why should I help you? Everything I did was just my duty. When I took out that Divine Weapon, I only meant to give you one more choice. In the end, you’re the one who chose that path!"

Ye Fan shook his head and said, "Your answer still doesn’t satisfy me. Looks like I’ll have to use some extreme methods on you."

As Ye Fan spoke, he sent out a power against which Li Yunhuo had no way to struggle—a power that would inevitably kill him upon contact—slowly approaching Li Yunhuo.

At this moment Li Yunhuo had no other way to run. He could only watch, eyes wide open, as that disaster-like guillotine inched toward him, something he simply could not accept.

"What more answer do you want?" Li Yunhuo said. "Fine, I admit it. From the very beginning, when I led you into the cultivation world, I was using you. Every step you took was carefully designed by me. Even you killing Qing Lian, you going up against those ancient cultivators—all of it was orchestrated by me. Are you satisfied now?"

Li Yunhuo thought that this explanation would be accepted by Ye Fan, but clearly Ye Fan had no intention of accepting his story.

Ye Fan’s attacks were already beyond relentless, and he still had no intention of stopping. At last, Li Yunhuo grit his teeth and said, "Since you’re forcing me this far, then I’ll..."

Just as Xi He and Leizu thought Li Yunhuo was going to fight Ye Fan to the bitter end, they heard Li Yunhuo say, "Then I’ll confess everything to you. Your current Destiny is also controlled by me. Nuwa’s avatar even captured your woman, all for the sake of dealing with you—keeping you from ever waking up and remembering the past. Nuwa’s avatar wants the power of heavenly tribulation to destroy everything... including you!"

He thought this admission would mean his certain death, but Ye Fan’s attacks suddenly stopped.

Xi He said, "Li Yunhuo, I didn’t expect you to be this despicable, to use such methods against Master!"

"Each of us just serves our own lord. What’s so surprising about that?" Li Yunhuo still didn’t relax, because Ye Fan could kill him at any moment.