Across the major star domains, executions by death sentence were permitted to be watched, recorded, and broadcast.
So long as they registered in advance, any Player could even come to the scene in person to watch.
There was only one purpose:
To warn the world not to worship demon gods, not to willingly fall into depravity.
However, watching on-site was one thing.
Watching from an exceptional vantage point was another.
Led by Austin, Lu Li quickly passed through a short-range teleportation array and arrived at an observation platform with an excellent view.
The execution platform lay diagonally below.
There were still four and a half cosmic hours until the execution began, and the prisoner, Zhu Houcai, had not yet been escorted up.
Yet the execution platform was already bustling with activity.
The executioners were preparing the live white phosphorus fungi that would be used four and a half cosmic hours later.
Using specially made metal rods, they vigorously stirred the microorganisms, which were as thick and viscous as crude oil.
With every movement, devout chants issued from their mouths.
Rather than preparations for an execution, it looked more like a fixed procedure before the start of some sacrificial ritual.
Starlight pierced Haizhuobolia's thin cloud cover, raising the temperature of the execution ground slightly.
The white phosphorus fungi churning endlessly in the barrels grew more active. As they made sticky, squelching sounds, pale yellow gas began to seep into the air.
Seeing this, Lu Li could not help feeling fortunate that he was enclosed within the observation platform's glass walls, completely separated from the outside air.
Otherwise, the smell released by those live white phosphorus fungi would surely have left him with no dignity whatsoever.
After all, some of the spectators around the execution platform were already weeping and streaming with