Feng Yue of Heaven-Que Fortress and Han Tianya of Knife-Refining Dock both took pleasure in torturing and killing fellow cultivators. Li Feiyu suspected this was linked to the difficulty they faced in achieving Foundation Establishment. Over time, their mental states had become warped, and they sought to derive pleasure from such cruelty.
Li Feiyu collected Han Tianya’s top-tier, high-quality magical instrument—the Cold Moon Scimitar—as well as a Blood-Drinking Blade Talisman Treasure. Although Han Tianya lacked a Foundation Establishment Pill, the six stalks of spiritual herbs he had scavenged now fell into Li Feiyu’s storage pouch. Li Feiyu then took to the air to retrieve Han Tianya’s storage pouch, followed by his own Breaking Dharma Halberd and Gale Spear. The Gale Spear, an ordinary top-tier magical instrument, had been gashed with several large holes by the Cold Moon Scimitar; this instrument, once a fine tool for sneak attacks, would likely have to be retired.
Li Feiyu drove forty or fifty slender ice needles into Han Tianya’s body, leaving him to bleed out slowly. He himself sat broad-legged and imposing upon a rock near the main gate, listening to Han Tianya’s screams. Those cultivators lurking in the shadows were too terrified by the piercing shrieks to emerge; they had hoped the man from the Giant Sword Sect might be reasonable, but judging by this level of depravity, he seemed little different from the victim.
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