
Please read the novel guys. This whole chapter is so much better in the novel. He wasn’t just beat up. The eastern emperor physically tortured him and it was such a good scene. Like it was much longer and well thought out. There was build up and made his return even better.

https://www.foxaholic.com/novel/how-to-survive-as-a-villain/167/
I think chapter 155 in the novel is equivalent to chapter 80 in the manga.
Oml I literally love him so much for that ending