Mountain Sprite noticed nothing amiss. He sprang up and returned to the Blood Lotus seat.
He beckoned, and the twelve corpses slowly floated over to him.
Ye Lianchen had not noticed before that Mountain Sprite had exceptionally long hands and fingers. Mountain Sprite sat motionless on the lotus seat, yet his fingers could reach the corpses.
Now, Mountain Sprite extended only his index finger, and its nail began growing wildly, reaching a foot in length, like a dusky blue-black dagger.
Beneath the fire pit, Ye Lianchen watched as a black gleam emerged from the tip of Mountain Sprite's nail, which then plunged into the eye socket of a baleful corpse!
What followed was a sight too gruesome to watch: Mountain Sprite gouged out all the eyes of the twelve baleful corpses, one after another.
It was not only the scene above the fire pit that turned his stomach; the sight below did too. Only after coming down had he discovered that the giant corpse intended to be refined into a Drought Demon had truly been tortured beyond recognition.
Many long, thin fleshy tendrils had grown from the giant corpse's back, well over a hundred at a glance. Their other ends connected to the underside of the blood-colored lotus seat.
So the lotus seat was rooted in the giant corpse!
After Mountain Sprite gouged out all twenty-four crimson eyeballs one by one, his nail lengthened again. This time, it descended onto the giant corpse's face.
A cruel, bloodthirsty light shone in Mountain Sprite's eyes, and he muttered like a madman,
"With the first gouging, the heavenly eye breaks the Buddha's heart; with the second, the Dharma Eye shatters bodhi.
With the third, the Buddha eye falls into the Uninterrupted Hell; the sea of blood reveals the corpse!"
Mountain Sprite's nail sliced