The closer Qi Xuansu and Qi Jiaoyao walked toward the great mountain, the more unsettling it felt. There were far too many empty shells of humans that had been drained dry by Wu Zhen.0

This revealed the difference between the Daoist Order and the Wuist Sect. The Daoist elders treated the Daoist Order as a legacy meant to last for countless generations, everything centered on its future. However, the Ancestral Witches regarded the Wuist Sect like an accessory, no different from the magical artifacts they carried but larger in scale. When the critical moment came, they would discard it without hesitation.0

After much effort, they reached the foot of the mountain, where the sight became even more horrifying. Thousands upon thousands of wooden stakes stood before them, one end sharpened and the other rooted in the ground, arranged like unopened yucca blossoms. Each stake impaled a human body, driven upward from the lower orifices until the tip protruded from the mouth, skewering the entire body in an extremely brutal fashion. Not all the dead here were empty husks. Some had already turned into skeletons, while others...0