Chapter 397 - Determination (1/2)

Lady Phoenix had intentionally left these survivors alive. They’d been asked to testify that the beauty, who’d looked like a fairy that day, was the killer. This description referred to Feng Tianlan. However, the woman who had shown up to testify certainly wasn’t the beauty from that day, although she’d claimed to be Feng Tianlan.

Therefore, to accomplish the mission that Lady Phoenix had given them, the magistrate and the others thought that this woman before them should die solely because she was called Feng Tianlan. They testified against her without even bothering to investigate the truth.

However, even though the beauty that day had been brutal, the ugly lady before them today was even more ruthless.

Feng Tianlan lowered her eyes and looked at the magistrate, who was lying in a pool of blood. She then looked at those pleading for mercy and confessing the truth. “Spare your lives?”

“Thank you—”

Before they could finish talking, the vine twisted their necks, and slashing sounds were heard. Their heads became like frosted eggplants hanging crookedly from their necks.

Feng Tianlan retracted her vine and stepped over the bodies. “And who among you spared me?”

Innocent?

Since they had brazenly lied and said that she was the murderer, they could not be called innocent at all.

Chuling glanced at the corpses and followed along behind Feng Tianlan, asking, “Miss, are you going to leave matters like this? Aren’t you going to go after the person behind all of this?”

“It’s Tu Xiupei without a doubt.” Feng Tianlan glanced at the deserted town then said, “Burn it down.”

As she thought about it, she realized that Tu Xiupei had not killed everyone simply to keep her secret. She’d wanted to shift the blame for the crime of murder to Feng Tianlan. She’d even colluded with the Magistrates’ Office while they’d waited for her in town.

What exactly was the definition of cruelty without mercy?

Tu Xiupei. That was the definition. To keep her secret, she had not hesitated to kill hundreds of people. To set up her sister, she’d shifted the blame for her crime to Tianlan. She was truly capable of anything.

It seemed like Feng Tianlan had underestimated Tu Xiupei after all!

After a short while, the Misty Town was in flames. The raging fire lit up Feng Tianlan’s eyes. However, even the conflagration couldn’t warm her up.