Xu Yi patted Lord Tong on the shoulder. "Brother Tong, I have a task for you. Do it well, and you'll suffer a little less. Do it poorly, and I'll make you feel that being alive is your greatest regret."
Lord Tong stammered, "Just tell me what to do. As long as it's within Tong's power, I'll do everything I can."
Xu Yi said, "You don't need to make promises to me. Make them to your own life instead. Gather up that rabble of yours. I'm looking for her."
As he spoke, Xu Yi took out a sheet of white paper. With a light tap of his finger, Yan Zi's features appeared on it. A few more strokes, and she looked as though she had stepped right off the page, alive once more.
Lord Tong took the portrait and immediately activated the Ruyi Pearl, shouting himself hoarse as he issued orders.
Before long, more than a hundred people had gathered before him, all of them looking like important figures in their own right.
As they arrived, their gazes couldn't help sweeping over the people impaled like meat skewers. The two Tribulation Transcending Experts were no exception.
Every one of them fell silent with fear, assuming Lord Tong had unleashed his might and slaughtered them with ruthless cruelty to create this grisly scene.
Lord Tong offered no explanation. In a sinister voice, he swore oaths as he announced the task, laid out the rewards, and made the punishments clear.
Xu Yi gave them the time it took an incense stick to burn. The hundred leaders went out, mobilizing more than ten thousand Spiritual Root stage cultivators, along with countless Spirit Nurturing Stage cultivators below them.
Xu Yi had given them the time it took an incense stick to burn. In that