Execution
The entrance to the city was crowded every noon ever since the formation of Five Mountains Alliance as they executed some powerhouse daily. Even though they suspended dismembered corpses of the executed defiant cultivators in soul energy bubbles above the city doors to deter people from opposing Third Heaven Palace, it clearly was not working when they had to keep executing people. Executing Greater Heaven Stage formation casters from Formation Sect, nonetheless, was comparable to the nail in the coffin as Formation Sect’s formation casters had been elevated to another level since the war between elemental demons and humankind ignited.
Airborne and bloody, Lu Deyi and Situ Yangtian’s breaths were faint.
Tie Shasheng, the Ascension Realm First Layer executioner from Life and Death Sect with a twisted hobby for designing varieties of methods of torturing cultivators and refining their leftover weapons for himself, licked his lips after lodging a soul nail through a middle-aged man’s skull and into a cross. Sounding akin to a man high on drugs, Tie Shasheng mocked, “Daoist Nanwei, patriarch of Nanwei Sect, you vilified Third Heaven Palace’s name and questioned our policies. How shall I execute you?”
Daoist Nandao raged, “All you’ve done is oppress cultivators and kill the innocent. The heavens will execute you heartless bullies!”
“We’re heartless? Well, now I want to see how your heart looks?” Tie Shashang extended his yellow fingernails that resembled infected fingernails and then easily slipped them into Daoist Nanwei’s chest.
“Ugh!” Daoist Nanwei watched as Tie Shasheng held his beating up to his face.
Tie Shasheng placed corpse qi into the now empty chest cavity to sustain Daoist Nanwei’s life. “My corpse qi will sustain your life for another thirty minutes. Enjoy watching me kill you. This is what happens to those who oppose Five Mountains Alliance.” Tie Shasheng ate Daoist Nanwei’s heart live in public. Tie Shasheng swept his gaze over the people watching as a warning, then announced, “That was just the appetiser.”
Tie Shasheng tore off Daoist Nanwei’s arms, then his left leg, then his right leg… Daoist Nanwei let out muffled grunts from his wall of teeth.
“I won’t ruin your face, or people won’t recognise you. Have to remind people what the consequences of disobedience are, after all.”
Daoist Nanwei cried out as Tie Shasheng scraped off his skin, taking time to ensure the former maintained awareness over the course of thirty minutes. Once the corpse qi’s time was almost up, Tie Shasheng harvested Daoist Nanwei’s head.
Two cultivators took the initiative to tidy up Daoist Nanwei’s hair and wash the bloodstains off his face, all for the purpose of showing who the dead were to the public.
“It’s such a pity nobody came to Daoist Nanwei’s rescue,” lamented Lu Deyi.
Situ Yangtian smiled bitterly. “You must be bored out of your skin because we’re next up.”
Lu Deyi quietly laughed off the remark. “Upright men don’t bat an eye if it’s sacrificing for the greater good. My only regret is not being around to witness us dethrone Third Heaven Palace and execute these scums heralding in human skin. Luckily, there are cultivators out there with a back bone who will fight on for us.”
“Hahaha, that’s the first time I’ve heard you give such a heroic speech.”
Lu Deyi looked to Situ Yangtian, then the executed people and cracked a melancholic smile. “Although vultures prey on the dead’s bodies, at least they clean up our heads. I reckon Patriarch and Mu Yu will collect our corpses. I’d say that’s the silver lining in all of this.”
“You have a point. If only… If only I could witness Third Heaven Palace’s downfall.”
Lu Deyi peered down to the crowd and then the dome overhead. “The real regret is that we couldn’t deliver what we found out back to Patriarch. If Mu Yu doesn’t learn about it, sigh…”
“Let’s hope Mu Yu finds out. We failed in our duty and lost our lives.”
Lu Deyi expressed, “I’m reminded of when I mistook Mu Yu for a servant. I really want to watch him develop Formation Sect and return us to our heydays.”
“He’ll avenge us. We’ll hear about it from Five Mountains Alliance when he sends them to us,” asserted Situ Yangtian.
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