Time flew by.
Jiang Bei precisely controlled his spiritual power, going all out to protect these shattered heart meridians.
At the same time, he tried to disperse the medicinal power of the Marrow-corroding Life-reviving Powder that had seeped deep into these commoners' bones.
Yet Jiang Bei discovered that the medicinal power had already fused with their flesh, blood, and marrow. Removing it was almost impossible!
The life auras within these commoners were exceedingly faint. Even though he did everything he could to stabilize them, they were still dissipating at a rapid pace.
In the end, after spending several full hours,
he had saved only a small number of people. Every one of them was barely clinging to life, and whether they could truly survive remained unknown.
As for the greater number of commoners, the life auras within their bodies rapidly faded. Under the Wu Family's flesh-stripping torture, they had completely become desiccated corpses with only half a breath left—neither human nor ghost.
It was hard to imagine the depth of their despair as they endured bone-corroding, heart-devouring agony day and night, unable to live and unable to die!
Jiang Bei slowly rose to his feet and looked at the hell before him, built from hundreds of desiccated corpses.
His five fingers clenched again. From the force, his nails nearly pierced the flesh of his palms.
Back at the Tianyao Alliance, he had only thought the Wu Family was overbearing and arrogant, indulging its descendants.
At the Seven Great Sects, he had believed the Wu Family was aiding the enemy, betraying the alliance, and colluding with demons.
But he had never imagined that beneath Tianheng City's prosperity, the Wu Family could commit evil so monstrous and inhuman!
Raising living people like livestock that endlessly produced flesh and blood—torturing them, draining them...