The Soul-Consoling Valley was the place designated by the Wuji Sect for wandering souls. Filled with gloomy yin energy and devoid of all spiritual energy, ordinary people could not survive there.
Elder Ling bore old injuries; the whipping alone would be hard to endure, let alone having his cultivation crippled. How could a battered body without any cultivation withstand the yin energy of the Soul-Consoling Valley? Ling Yongjia could easily imagine the consequences: it would simply mean dragging out his final days.
Yet, given what he had done, sparing the Ling Family from implication was already an act of leniency.
Chapter 349