On the other side of the sinkhole, the fat man cried out, "I know who he is! The Butcher, one of the Burning Blood Domain's top fighters, second only to Di Fa!"
On the stone wall, the Butcher pressed both hands to the ground. An imprint phantom appeared behind him, far clearer than the ones behind the fat man, Yan Xiao Jing, and the others. They could even make out its features. Then, to everyone's horror, countless bones burst out from inside the stone wall, accompanied by spikes. They pierced all three men and pinned them to the wall. Blood ran down the stone, staining it red.
Only then did many people notice that the wall held more than those three men. Nearly ten other corpses hung there as well.
Silence fell over everyone who had witnessed the scene inside the sinkhole. They stared at the Butcher in fear. In the blink of an eye, he had killed three experts.
Lu Yin was shaken. Those three men had been no weaklings; every one of them was stronger than the fat man. Yet they hadn't even been able to fight back against this man.
The Butcher rose to his feet. The white bones on his body vanished. They had spread out from inside him, which meant that they had pierced through his own flesh as well. Blood had soaked his clothes.
"An eye for an eye," Miss Qing said.
"If it were anyone else, that would be true," the fat man replied. "But he's the Butcher. His innate gift is absorption. He can absorb the effects of medicine thousands of times more efficiently. Just watch."
They looked over and saw the Butcher take a pill from his pocket and swallow it. The bloody holes in his body visibly healed, so quickly