The Demon Tamers Who Carved Patterns with Children's Blood, Li Xuanfeng Brutally Battered
Five days later, Yun Che followed the directions on the mission map and arrived at one of the Demon Hall's outposts.
Li Muling had not been brought back yet. He saw several Demon Tamers in black robes herding boys and girls of five or six inside.
"The Demon Hall won't even spare these children! Have they really become this depraved just to refine demons?" Hidden in the shadows, Yun Che's eyes flashed coldly.
He carefully observed the Demon Tamers' movements. They gathered the children on the altar at the center of the outpost, holding bone knives covered in strange runes, preparing to carve something into the children's bodies.
The children trembled in terror, their cries heartrending, but the Demon Tamers gagged them with cloth, leaving them able to utter only muffled whimpers.
A thick stench of blood and a nauseating evil aura permeated the area around the altar. The formation patterns carved into the ground glowed faintly dark red. It was clearly some sort of evil sacrificial ritual.
A scar-faced Demon Tamer grinned viciously as he pinned down a boy's arm. The instant his bone knife sliced through the skin, the blood did not drip down. Instead, it flowed along the strange runic patterns, forming a twisted, blood-red mark on the boy's arm.
The boy convulsed in pain, tears mingling with sweat as they rolled down his face, yet he could only whimper in despair.
Yun Che noticed that whenever the runes absorbed a certain amount of blood, the evil aura around the altar grew stronger. Meanwhile, the eyes of the children who had been marked rapidly turned vacant, as though their souls were being drawn out bit by bit.
He knew he could not keep watching. Although acting now might affect his efforts to deal with Li Muling, he