Inside a gloomy cave, natural formations had been hollowed out into several stone chambers.
The air was thick with the scent of blood—not pungent or stinging, but rather strangely sweet.
In the center of the largest chamber lay a massive pool of blood, shallow enough that a person could just barely submerge themselves in it.
A young man’s arm reached out from the blood pool. It was covered in gruesome wounds, around which residual *gang qi* still swirled. Yet, under the therapeutic properties of the pool, the wounds were healing rapidly, and the foreign *gang qi* was being expelled.
"Panda" removed his mask, revealing a face of about twenty years. He wore his hair short and possessed an air of wild defiance, his eyes sharp and fierce. If one were to describe him with an animal, it wouldn’t be a panda, but rather a *yazi*—a beast of vengeance.
"Tch."
Panda pursed his lips in frustration. He had hoped to swindle a few Grand Void Illusion Coins, but the person he’d encountered had been far too slick.
He chuckled. "Yet another scion of some noble family? These heirs are truly wealthy."
He stood up, revealing a powerfully built physique, and walked toward the eight corpses from which he had already drained the blood.
"So fragile. I really thought the blood of you noble-born would be more plentiful than that of us commoners."
He took the bodies down from the crosses one by one and dragged them into the rear chambers to be buried, leaving long, thin trails of blood across the floor…
Chapter 140