My Gentle and Pure Sect Leader Husband - Chapter 81

This room was an extremely special existence for Yu Luocha.

It wasn’t large—even feeling somewhat cramped when two people were inside—but it didn’t quite resemble a torture chamber either. What felt more fitting was actually that word Gong Jiu had mentioned earlier.

——Release.

Yan Hongyin turned one hand behind her back to pull Yu Luocha’s right hand away from her waist, carefully examining the silver powder on this person’s index finger. “What did you use to make those marks next to the mechanism outside?”

That should have been a marker Yu Luocha had deliberately left for Yan Hongyin to enter after capturing Gong Jiu.

“Broke off some silver pieces and ground them up.” Yu Luocha’s arm clung back stickily onto Yan Hongyin’s waist, pulling her closer again. “This place never had anyone enter except me before. That youngster Gong Jiu has some skills.”

During the recent period, Gong Jiu had kept himself locked in his room without coming out. Yu Luocha and Yan Hongyin had other matters to attend to and hadn’t paid much attention to him, but Yu Luocha’s vigilance toward Gong Jiu was greater than toward the other two, so he had instructed secret guards to keep an eye on Gong Jiu.

Unexpectedly, Gong Jiu had figured out their daily schedule of visiting Su Mengzhen, and had sneaked into Yu Luocha’s room through the back window, climbing along tree branches to avoid the maids and guards.

Having such abilities without martial arts training genuinely impressed Yu Luocha. With proper honing, a genius like this would likely become an extremely useful blade.

“Wasteful,” Yan Hongyin expressed her disapproval of Yu Luocha’s behavior. “Do you want to keep Gong Jiu?”

Yu Luocha thought seriously for a long time before shaking his head. “No.”

Yan Hongyin was somewhat surprised.

Previously with that Fang Bai, Yu Luocha had been willing to lend a hand, but toward Gong Jiu, whom he clearly admired more, Yu Luocha’s attitude was completely different.

“I don’t have suitable techniques for him, and his behavior and conduct might influence me… Moreover, if the Luocha Sect kept him, it might be difficult to control him in the future.”

The Luocha Sect didn’t have much in terms of heritage and accumulated knowledge, and Yu Luocha was too lazy to deal with such things. Even his own cultivation technique was uniquely developed; teaching Gong Jiu would likely create unpredictable chaos.

“You’ve been constantly running to Senior Su’s place all this time, isn’t it because you want to send all three of them over?”

“Yes, let Senior Su deal with the headache.” Yan Hongyin agreed, recounting the conversation at Su Mengzhen’s place today, and then asked Yu Luocha, “What’s the story with the Luocha Sect?”

Yu Luocha truly hadn’t expected Su Mengzhen’s evaluation of him to be so high. He was stunned for quite a while before saying, “Actually, I didn’t do much. When I said I’m not good at managing the sect, it was true. In the earlier years, I didn’t have anyone I could trust, and Agha didn’t want to get involved in my affairs, so I had to find another approach.”

“But it’s also related to the founding of the Luocha Sect. Most of the evil men at the establishment of the Luocha Sect were assassins who had accepted bounties from beyond the border to kill me. Later, I beat most of them half to death, held a knife to their throats, and asked if they wanted to work for me. Since they were all mercenaries, few had strong principles.”

“Afterward, I basically challenged each of the small nations in the Western Regions one by one.”

“But after their wounds healed, they would often come to cause trouble for me. At that time…” Yu Luocha paused. “At that time, I was searching various regions for the remains of my parents and elder sister, and didn’t want to waste time with them, so I thought of a solution.”

“I established the Luocha Sect at the foot of a snow mountain, and every person who joined the Luocha Sect had to personally bury a fire mine on the nearby snow mountain.”

“As the Luocha Sect grew, the fire mines under the snow mountain also overlapped and extended to unknown places. If one spot was detonated, everything would collapse.”

“Everyone wants to live, and the Luocha Sect was the only place that accommodated evil spirits, so they could only restrain and regulate each other. If one person went mad, everyone would perish together.”

“And whenever a sect member who knew this secret capable of destroying the Luocha Sect wanted to leave, naturally countless people who didn’t want to leave would, for self-preservation, travel far and wide regardless of consequences to kill that person.”

“When I learned of sect members rebelling in the Central Plains, I wasn’t overly concerned.”

“Because there would be people who knew better than me, the sect leader, how to make those individuals keep quiet and guard secrets that shouldn’t be revealed.”

Yu Luocha’s palm pressed against Yan Hongyin’s waist while Yan Hongyin’s hand rubbed Yu Luocha’s head, listening to his voice becoming muffled and hoarse.

“They collaborated with the prince simply because they wanted to walk under the sunlight, to transform from evil spirits into real people. I originally didn’t care about their desires and attempts, but never thought that my negligence would ultimately harm Ah Xue’s parents.”

Extreme anger and regret triggered self-hatred in Yu Luocha’s heart, and that was also when he entered this dark chamber again after many years.

The secret chamber was very dark after the lights were extinguished, so dark that even with Yan Hongyin’s eyesight, she couldn’t make out what those faint dark marks on the walls and floor actually were. However, judging from Gong Jiu’s previous reaction, it wasn’t difficult for Yan Hongyin to imagine how those marks came to be. She just moved her hand from behind Yu Luocha’s head to massage the back of his neck.

Having his sensitive vulnerable spot massaged over and over, Yu Luocha lost his temper. At first, he would symbolically stiffen his body, but eventually, like a tamed beast, he allowed this person to massage him however she wanted, focusing entirely on burying himself in Yan Hongyin’s embrace to breathe in his wife’s scent.

The lingering atmosphere in this room had made Yu Luocha somewhat agitated from the beginning, but when he embraced Yan Hongyin and detected that subtle fragrance that only he could smell, Yu Luocha felt he could finally calm down.

“Do you know the locations of all the fire mines?” Yan Hongyin hadn’t quite understood what Su Mengzhen meant when he said the laws of the Luocha Sect were Yu Luocha himself.

If Yu Luocha had only done these things, it was merely making the people of the Luocha Sect check and balance each other.

Yu Luocha stiffened a bit, fidgeting for quite a while before stammering. “Well, not exactly. I used to be… a little bit crazy.”

“…How much is a little bit?” From numerous past examples, Yan Hongyin had every reason to doubt Yu Luocha’s statement.

Yu Luocha fell silent again, then reluctantly raised his hand to indicate a distance about the size of a little finger joint, suggesting it was truly just a little bit.

Yan Hongyin narrowed her eyes, unmoved, and pursued the question. “Compared to Gong Jiu just now?”

Yu Luocha: “…Gong Jiu’s situation wouldn’t even rank in the Luocha Sect.”

Yan Hongyin let out a long sigh, saying coolly, “Your Luocha Sect really does give me surprises.”

Yu Luocha wisely remained silent.

“Just tell me what else you did.”

“I didn’t bury fire mines.” Yu Luocha licked his lips. “I… um, I buried several fuses.”

Then he hastily explained. “This behavior deserves punishment on the spot. At that time, I was basically an unreasonable madman. Whatever I did then… shouldn’t be held against who I am now.”

The fuses were in Yu Luocha’s hands. If one day he wasn’t happy or went mad, he wouldn’t even need exceptional martial arts—as long as he had a breath left, he could bring the entire Luocha Sect to its doom under the snow mountain.

Such a spectacular event would likely affect the regions beyond the border as well. Earthquakes in the desert could be deadly, and previously traversed routes could very likely become extremely unsafe, which would undoubtedly be a disaster for other tribes and small nations in the Western Regions.

The choice of location for establishing the Luocha Sect—this person had truly given it some thought.

Yan Hongyin digested this for a while and finally understood, saying slowly, “So your so-called laws mean that the cruel fear the fierce, the fierce fear the reckless, and the reckless fear the madman who would take everyone’s lives, right?”

Yu Luocha innocently replied, “That’s why it’s called the Demonic Sect.”

Yan Hongyin nodded, her expression somewhat speechless. “Fine, that’s very demonic sect-like.”

She suddenly felt an itch in her hand, remembering how wives disciplined their husbands in the capital before. After hesitating for a moment, her fingers touched Yu Luocha’s earlobe and gave it a pinch.

Completely unaware, Yu Luocha still looked somewhat proud. “I thought about it for quite a while back then. I even inscribed the locations of the fuses in reversed Sanskrit on the Luocha badge. When I eventually grow old and need to pass on my position, I’ll let them fight to the death for the Luocha badge, then stir up some more trouble. In the end, those who survive will be easy to handle.”

As Yan Hongyin listened, the hand pinching Yu Luocha’s earlobe suddenly twisted hard. Amid Yu Luocha’s howls of pain, she gently asked, “Do you know how many account books and volumes I’ve had to go through these past ten or more days, hmm?”

“Next time if you dare to play dumb while knowing full well, and keep things to yourself instead of telling me face to face…”

“Wife, let go! Wife, let go! No more, no more! I really only have the Luocha Sect! It hurts, hurts, hurts——I was just trying to help you fully understand and integrate into the Luocha Sect!” Yu Luocha finally managed to rescue his ear from Yan Hongyin’s grasp, rubbing it while looking at Yan Hongyin with grievance and accusation. “Where did Wife learn this move? This action is quite painful…”

…Mainly there was also a kind of indescribable sense of humiliation.

Yan Hongyin thought for a moment and said slowly, “When I was with the Jinyiwei, I saw many things.”

Yu Luocha couldn’t help muttering, “Is being in the Jinyiwei that interesting?”

Finally, he raised his hand and pointed at himself. “Ah Yin, can I pull some strings and also get a position in the Jinyiwei? I’ll be very obedient!”

Let Yu Luocha be in the Jinyiwei?

Even if she went crazy, she would never agree to such a thing.

Yan Hongyin coldly refused, “Don’t even think about it.”