Lin Hanzhi raised the long saber, almost as tall as he was, and brought it down without hesitation, severing Lin Yan's left arm. No blood spattered; only blood-red ice chips fell onto the silver-white metal bed frame.
His corpse had long since frozen solid.
Yue Yuan and Miao Jianye were horrified and cried out together, "What are you doing?!"
After shouting, Yue Yuan suddenly remembered the family secret method Ning Xiao had once given him-the Ning family's methods were deeply sinister, relying on refining the bones and blood of relatives into ritual implements for cultivation. The implement Ning Xiao wielded most adeptly was the Bone Flute, made from a section of leg bone her mother had left her after her death.
The first time Ning Xiao told him about it, Yue Yuan had been profoundly shocked. He had truly never imagined that someone as bright and sunny as Ning Xiao was holding her own mother's leg bone.
The Ning family was exceptionally powerful, but its bloodline was sparse and its members few. Ning Xiao had been the last family head of her generation. After her death, the next generation had no female heir, and fellow disciples and distant branches struggled over and divided up the Ning family.
Though Yue Yuan held a position in the Anomalous Affairs Bureau and had the Yue family's support, he could not, in the end, keep two great families in check at once. He could temporarily hold the Lin family for Lin Hanzhi, but he could not take on the Ning family as well.
While Yue Yuan was lost in recollection, Lin Hanzhi's small frame was already dragging the Miao Dao along, its tip scoring a long trail across the floor as he chopped off one arm after another.
Even as horror filled him, he