"Don't think you're safe just because the External Soul Bone has fused with your spine."
"Even if it grew out of your skull, I could still cut it off."
Ye Muyun took a small knife gleaming with a cold light from her Soul Tool and lightly waved it before Tang San's eyes. Her tone was calm, yet it carried a chilling frostiness.
"This is my External Soul Bone! Don't even think about taking it!"
A beastlike growl came from Tang San's throat, his expression utterly savage.
The next second.
"Ah—!"
An incomparably shrill scream suddenly tore through the air!
Ye Muyun had barely made the first cut when Tang San's entire body began convulsing violently from the pain!
It was a piercing agony that reached deep into his bones, as though even his soul were being torn apart, making Tang San want to roar madly.
Tang San's body trembled violently, and his teeth bit his lips until they were bloody.
Despair and fear unlike anything he had ever felt swept over him!
Even when he had been forced to jump off a cliff years ago, he had never broken down like this.
"That was only the first cut."
"There are still seven more. You're already screaming like this? You really can't take pain."
Ye Muyun continued cutting without expression, her voice cold as frost.
Tang San only felt the world spinning around him, his consciousness gradually starting to blur.
Yet he could clearly feel the blade scraping against his spine, leaving wounds painful enough to make him wish he were dead.
"Ah... urgh... sob..."
Painful groans, suppressed howls, and even choked sobs intermittently escaped Tang San's throat!
His incomparably miserable cries echoed through the silent clearing, making everyone present tense up.
Too brutal!
She was literally scraping bone!
"Put it