Torn Apart Alive

Xu Jie's methods had grown ever more vicious!

Likewise, his nerve had grown ever greater!

More than a hundred mercenaries flying the Guard Army's banner—he killed them whenever he pleased, and by means of utmost cruelty.

He did not grant them a swift death with a single stroke; he tortured them to death.

Cruel, merciless, ruthless—a demon that delighted in slaughter and drew pleasure from tormenting living beings!

Within the village where flames soared into the sky, Xu Jie strode up to Commander Qin.

He tilted his head and bared his teeth in a cruel grin.

"Xu Jie... you... are as good as dead..."

"Is that so? What a pity you won't live to see it. But I'll watch you die!"

Xu Jie casually discarded his chipped war saber, ignoring the half-bodied mercenaries all around him as they wailed and screamed without end.

Like a butcher examining flesh on a chopping block, he circled Commander Qin once.

Then Xu Jie's lips curled faintly upward. He planted a foot on Commander Qin's chest, grabbed one of his arms with both hands, and viciously yanked outward.

"AAAHHH!!!"

A shrill, broken scream suddenly rang out. Commander Qin's eyes bulged to their limit, bloodshot veins filling his eyeballs as overwhelming terror swept through his heart.

Xu Jie was going to tear him apart alive!

Rip—crack!

Under Xu Jie's manipulation, Commander Qin's arm first split open, then flesh and blood tore apart, tendons and vessels snapped, bones shattered, and finally, Xu Jie forcibly ripped off one of his arms.

His movements were not fast. He seemed to be deliberately slowing down, exerting force bit by bit.

It was so Commander Qin could clearly feel the ultimate agony, watching helplessly as he was torn into pieces little by little.

The pain was so unbearable that after letting out a roar, Commander Qin actually fainted on the spot.

Xu Jie did not care in the slightest. He gripped the hilt of the blade embedded in Commander Qin's chest and twisted it viciously, shredding part of his internal organs.

The immense pain woke Commander Qin once more. His face was filled with despair and terror as he stared at expressionless Xu Jie.

"Don't rush. There's still plenty of time!"

After waking Commander Qin, Xu Jie moved to another side and repeated the process, forcibly tearing off one leg.

He was like a butcher... no!

Butchers and executioners killed with a single blow when slaughtering lives!

Xu Jie was different. He was tormenting Commander Qin bit by bit!

During the live tearing, Commander Qin fainted several times. Xu Jie merely impassively twisted the hilt once, forcing him to remain awake. His methods were cruel to the extreme.

In the end, Commander Qin lay there numb after all four of his limbs had been torn apart one by one. His eyes were hollow and lifeless, as though his soul had left him.

Xu Jie remained utterly indifferent. He walked to Commander Qin's head, stepped on his shoulder, grabbed his hair with one hand, and slowly began exerting force again.

Riiip!

The sound of scalp tearing away in strips rang out, provoking Commander Qin into screaming once more.

Seeing this, Xu Jie frowned in dissatisfaction, as if blaming Commander Qin's scalp for not being tough enough.

So he simply bent down, hooked one hand into the other man's eye socket, found a point to grip like a handle, and continued pulling him apart by brute force.

Rip!

Commander Qin's neck broke apart bit by bit, spraying countless jets of blood.

Xu Jie slowly loosened his grip, allowing Commander Qin to catch his breath, then exerted force again and continued tormenting him.

He repeated this an unknown number of times before Commander Qin finally could not endure any longer.

Determination flashed through his one remaining eye. His jaw moved, as if he intended to bite off his tongue and kill himself.

Who had Xu Jie been in his previous life?

He had tortured countless enemies. How could he not know what Commander Qin was about to do?

Xu Jie knew very clearly what Commander Qin was thinking at that moment.

Therefore, he struck first with a palm, smashing Commander Qin's jaw into pulp. Half his face vanished, and only a lonely fragment of a mouth remained.

Nodding in satisfaction, Xu Jie continued torturing Commander Qin.

Until Commander Qin's pain became so extreme that he suffered brain death on the spot. His lone eye turned grayish white, completely devoid of life!

Only then did Xu Jie release him indifferently, pull out the war saber, and decapitate Commander Qin with one slash.

Glancing at the half-bodied mercenaries still crawling across the ground around him, Xu Jie could not help frowning.

Why hadn't he received any Lifespan rewards?

That puzzled him somewhat. By all rights, with so many mercenaries dead, there should not have been no rewards at all.

Some mercenaries at Blood-Moving Low-Stage, whose vitality was not strong enough, had probably already breathed their last by now.

Yet up to this point, not the slightest bit of usable Lifespan had reached Xu Jie's account.

From the looks of it...

Did his Life-Sacrifice System only plunder usable Lifespan when he killed living beings on the spot?

In other words, the mercenary group here would not provide him with any rewards.

Whatever!

Xu Jie did not move to kill those mercenaries who were still alive and struggling.

His purpose was to vent his fury. Even without usable Lifespan, he would still do this!

If he did not torture this group to death, it would be impossible to dispel the resentment and rage in Xu Jie's heart.

It was only usable Lifespan. Xia Country had tens of billions of people and hundreds of billions of demons. How could he possibly lack usable Lifespan for cultivation in the future?

With a cold sneer, Xu Jie spat on Commander Qin's corpse, shouldered his war saber, and prepared to leave the village to hunt down the few mercenaries who had fled.

As he passed that courtyard engulfed in flames, Xu Jie's steps paused...

He turned and walked over to the little girl's body, lying in a corner and covered in wounds.

Squatting down, he closed the little girl's wide-open eyes, then removed his own outer garment and covered her naked body, barely preserving the last shred of her dignity.

Then Xu Jie went to the courtyard entrance and lowered the little girl who had been hung in midair by ropes, her entire body drenched in blood and her lower half equally too horrific to behold.

He held the little girl's corpse and gently placed her beside her older sister.

Damn them! They deserved to die!

Looking at the miserable state of the two little girls, Xu Jie, who had always been cold to the extreme, trembled faintly for the first time.

The large hand that had held his saber while slaughtering the mercenary group earlier now, for the first time, did not quite dare touch the corpses.

Gradually, the madness in his eyes grew denser and denser, until it completely burst past the threshold of his reason.

It was not as though Xu Jie had never witnessed tragedies of the human world. On the contrary, he had seen them many times in his previous life.

But back then, he had been in Southeast Asia, where he encountered ruthless people. It had never struck him as deeply as this did now.

Truthfully, even in a place like Southeast Asia, most warlords and local armed forces would not bully ordinary farmers without cause, because people needed to eat!

No matter how difficult things became, those at the bottom could at least still have a mouthful of food and stay alive.

Xu Jie did not understand!

Why could the martial artists of this world bully and humiliate commoners without restraint? Did they not need to eat?

Those people were already humble beyond measure, living lives less worthy than grass. As martial artists, even if they did not protect their homes and defend their country, they should at least have some bottom line.

Whether in his previous life or this one, Xu Jie had never deigned to bully the weak. All he had ever cared about was becoming stronger without end!