3624

Chapter 3624: 4.1224 Why Not Try?

Qiao Mu suddenly began to laugh.

This laughter immediately stunned everyone.

Because this child rarely smiled; since returning to the Mu family, she hadn't given a single smile to any Mu family member.

But today, she suddenly laughed, and her laughter instantly sent a shiver down everyone's spines.

"Divine retribution? If the Heavenly Dao truly has a spirit, such a filthy and ugly soul should have died ten thousand times over by now, shouldn't it?" Her icy voice, like snow that had not melted for ten thousand years in the abyss, poured coldly into everyone's hearts.

"Let's try it!"

"If the Heavenly Dao comes to strike me down, I'll endure it! If it doesn't come, hahaha哈哈哈!" Qiao Mu burst out laughing, her face a picture of unrestrained defiance.

She simply raised her small hand, and several black-clad youths immediately pressed down on the struggling Mu Jingfeng, dragging him towards a nearby tree.

After tightly binding him to the tree, Aoye pulled out a shiny black leather whip and personally began the punishment.

"According to the laws of the Divine State, those who slander and defame royal family members shall be whipped one hundred times as a warning to others!"

Snap! A whip, swift as lightning, landed heavily on Mu Jingfeng's body.

"Ah!" Mu Jingfeng howled instantly, his eyes glinting with cold malice as he stared furiously at Qiao Mu.

"You ordered the whipping of your own father!" Mu Jingfeng's muscles trembled incessantly. He tried desperately to pull out a defensive talisman from his inner world, but Aoye had him restrained.

"You evil woman, devoid of conscience! The Heavenly Dao will not spare you!" Mu Jingfeng roared with all his might.

As he spoke, the sky above seemed to threaten a dry thunderstorm; dark clouds gathered, and a faint rumbling of thunder could be heard.

"Heavenly Dao." Qiao Mu scoffed, slowly raising her head to look at the swirling dark clouds. "Let's see who it decides to strike."

No sooner said than done, a rolling bolt of lightning suddenly descended from the clouds, striking the bewildered Mu Jingfeng, nearly singeing all the hair off his body.

Several more lashes followed, giving him no time to react.

"Ah!!" Mu Jingfeng could only shriek in agony.

Qiao Mu laughed heartily, watching the man before her with an air of composure, her gaze slowly turning cold and resolute. "Mu Jingfeng! Now you know, don't you? Who is the Heavenly Dao going to destroy?"

"It's you, this trash who disregards the sovereign, extinguishes familial humanity, and is worse than a pig or a dog."

"Qiao Qiao, Qiao Qiao, no, Qiao Qiao!" Mu Qingya tried to rush forward but was held tightly by Cong Lu and嬷嬷 Qiu Mammy, who were by her side.

Good heavens, even Master's cultivation could barely withstand the lightning and the whip, let alone Madam, who was completely defenseless.

Qiao Mu glanced expressionlessly at Mu Qingya, who was putting on a show of deep affection, and pursed her lips. "Such an ignorant and useless man—if he dies, he dies. You can just remarry! What's there to be reluctant about, hmph."

Everyone stared at her, dumbfounded.

They felt as though the young girl didn't see Mu Jingfeng as a father at all; she didn't even see him as a human being.

"If he dies, he dies"? And she even encouraged Mu Qingya to remarry? Was this something a daughter should say?

Qiao Mu swept her gaze over the crowd, then turned and walked away from the periphery, coldly looking down at Shi Huixin, who had already dissolved into a pool of murky liquid. She coldly ordered, "Go search Concubine Aunt Shi's courtyard. Didn't she say she had good things left for me?"

Everyone present looked at the young girl with a myriad of changing expressions.