The Green Ram Patriarch had been utterly terrified by Shi Feiyang, who remained hidden in the shadows. He even dropped to both knees and begged for his life.
Shi Feiyang merely said, "You may escape death, but not punishment! Cut off one of your own arms, then get lost. You are not to set foot in Shuzhong again for sixty years!"
As he finished speaking, the Green Ram Sword fell to the ground in front of the Green Ram Patriarch.
Clang! The immortal sword struck the ground with a crisp ring.
The Green Ram Patriarch shuddered in fright. He wanted to plead again, but knew there was no hope. Cultivators did not place too much importance on their physical bodies. What frightened him most was Shi Feiyang's earlier threat to cast him into the Animal Realm.
He did not know what methods the other man would use. Sealing his primordial spirit inside some pig, dog, ox, or sheep, or sealing away his Divine Sense and memories and placing him in the womb of a pig or donkey—all of those counted as entering the Animal Realm. He had also heard of an animal-transformation art that could turn a person into a wild beast simply by draping an animal hide over them.
Once he became an animal, if he could not keep his mind clear and succumbed to that state, he would forever lose his chance at cultivating immortality.
Compared to that, losing an arm was nothing.
He picked up the Green Ram Sword he had cultivated for over a hundred years, steeled his heart, and swung it backhanded, severing his left arm at the shoulder.
Blood sprayed wildly. Enduring the searing pain, he said to Shi Feiyang, "Senior, I have done as you commanded and cut off my own arm. Will