A year ago, two Saints and ten Ancestral Immortals encircled and killed Zhong Shan and eleven others from the Great Zheng Sacred Court.
The news had once shaken countless experts across the Thunder Sound Territory. When it spread to the other territories, large numbers of experts from nearby territories also flew over.
They all wanted to glimpse Zhong Shan's fiendish appearance.
Unfortunately, throughout that year, Zhong Shan and his group had seemingly vanished without a trace, leaving countless experts deeply disappointed.
But last night, the Thunder Sound Territory boiled over once more: blood had been spilled at the Great Thunderclap Temple.
And there had been only one person. One person had destroyed the Five Hundred Arhat Battle Array of the Great Thunderclap Temple with a single move. With his second move, he had annihilated all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. As for the temple master, Tathagata Buddha Ancestor, he had endured a full seventy-two strokes of Lingchi before finally being slain.
It was not that Tathagata had resisted for seventy-two strokes. Rather, the one flaying Tathagata alive had forcibly dragged out the killing until the seventy-second stroke.
The method had been utterly cruel, and the force utterly savage.
During it all, Saint Mo Zi had appeared to mediate. Unfortunately, this man called Emperor Xuan Sha was far too ferocious. With a single threat—"If you dare interfere, I'll annihilate your entire clan"—he had forced Mo Zi to stop helping Tathagata and watch helplessly as Tathagata was flayed to death, one blade at a time, by Emperor Xuan Sha.
Too savage. Tathagata Buddha Ancestor had been one of the strongest contenders at this Ten Thousand Buddhas Ascend Sect Assembly, yet he had been utterly powerless to resist. This Emperor Xuan Sha was simply too savage.
A wolf howl rang out, its sound piercing