This was a vast execution platform.
Below it stood a dense crowd, their faces all different.
Every face was tilted upward, every pair of eyes fixed on him, every mouth opening and closing... shouting something in anger.
What were they shouting?
Jiang Wang didn't know.
At that moment, he was dazed and half-conscious.
His hands and feet were bound by black chains. The chains shackled his Divine Soul, his true essence, his Supernatural Powers, his physical strength... almost everything. They squeezed the breath from him, and pain wracked his entire body.
The chains had a name: Prisoner of Demons.
That was right. Prisoner of "Demons."
He was a man who consorted with devils, a traitor to the Human Race, a spy for the Devil Race.
He had betrayed his friends, his family, his country, even his own race. He was the most shameless, most vicious scum in all of history.
He was a devil.
According to the official account--
Not long ago, the Mirror World Terrace of Jing Kingdom announced the charge of consorting with devils. Jing Kingdom's Prodigy Zhao Xuanyang had captured Jiang Wang in Zhongshan State.
Qi State intended to shield him, while the old monk Kujue of the Hanging Temple had sought to protect him. To challenge Jing Kingdom's standing and advance their own unspeakable ambitions, Mu Kingdom and Chu Kingdom had also voiced their protests in turn.
Jing Kingdom had no desire to make enemies on all sides, so it had not stopped Kujue. It had let a True Person pursue a Divine Presence, allowing them to trade one for the earlier incident when a Divine Presence pursued an Inner Palace cultivator.
The two matters could be considered settled.
To escape Kujue's pursuit, Zhao Xuanyang had been forced to take Jiang Wang into the Ancient Demon