The corpse purification workload for five bodies was no small matter.
Every decapitated corpse had to be fitted with wooden pegs, sewn back together layer by layer. To speed things up, Qin He first chose the two relatively smaller bodies, then sent them into the furnace together once they were stitched up.
He soaked them thoroughly with fire oil, pumped the air blower at a furious pace, and fed in nothing but premium coal.
The roaring blaze immediately baked the entire Corpse Burning Chamber until it grew somewhat scorching.
White Yama's palm strike had blasted the entire corpse-burning yard into ruins. Qin He's Corpse Burning Chamber had shattered doors and windows, drafts leaking in from every direction. The bodies brought inside were frozen stiff as boards.
Qin He suddenly missed Steel Pillar a little.
With it around, he would not have needed to worry about burning corpses himself.
"One hundred thousand heavenly demons?"
Qin He rubbed his chin, a feeling of unease hanging in his heart.
Amid the raging flames, the two corpses gradually burned away. Qin He also took the opportunity to finish purifying the remaining three bodies.
Shadow Play arrived. Things were indeed as Gu Fei had said: the City Patrol Division was conducting a purge. Nearly every prisoner in the entire jail had been executed, regardless of whether their crimes were grave or minor.
Even many innocent prisoners who had not committed any crime at all had been executed, and they had been among the first batch.
There was no questioning, no pity, nothing else.
They were dragged from their cells, pinned onto the chopping block, and with a crack, beheaded—like chickens being slaughtered in an abattoir.
The executioners were expressionless, like cold machines.
Reward: one Demon Essence Pill, one bottle of Essence Restoration Pills.
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