"Kill without mercy?"
When the Tie Family patriarch heard this, his face abruptly darkened like still water, and his feigned meekness and submission vanished in an instant.
Ritual refinement using human sacrifices was an auxiliary method in the path of the demonized warrior-unnecessary, yet capable of providing tremendous benefits.
This method drew a trace of essence and spiritual potency from the flesh and divine souls of living humans, then incorporated it into the host.
Such ritual refinement greatly helped preserve the host's human foundations, intelligence, and memories. It was an excellent means of resisting demonic essence erosion and improving the quality of demon refinement.
However, ritual refinement using human sacrifices ultimately violated the harmony of heaven and had long since been classified by the Heavenly Dao Alliance as a taboo among taboos.
If mere involvement with demons meant researching unorthodox secret arts and taking the wrong path, then using human sacrifices in the path of the demonized warrior was truly cruel and devoid of morality!
These aristocratic clans, in particular, mostly conducted demon refinement in secret. They were unlikely to select only condemned prisoners and criminals as human sacrifices; more often than not, innocent mortal commoners suffered at their hands.
Under the Prohibition Edict previously issued by the major sects in the name of the Heavenly Dao Alliance, this was indeed an unforgivable evil. Fang Qianyuan's demand that the Tie Family surrender its newly refined demonized warriors for judgment and punishment, with all those who had used human sacrifices to be killed without mercy, was perfectly reasonable. It could be called upright and beyond reproach.
For a moment, everyone who heard this fell silent.
There was nothing they could do. This was an unassailable justification, and no one could refute it.
If the Tie Family truly wished to repent, it