Xu Yangyi silently measured the five nails with his eyes and eventually said, “I once read a collection of various notes at Heavens Law.”

“Maybe it wasn’t done accurately… but my professor said that the most terrible thing in the cultivator world isn’t to murder, but rather cripple another’s qi sea. But there was a technique even worse than crippling the qi sea.” He sucked in deeply, “And that… was the Heavenly Demon Severing Punishment.”

His gaze contained a sliver of reminiscence. “This might sound quite normal these days, but in the distant Ancient Cultivation era centuries and thousands of years ago, those who heard this word would tremble in fear. A high-level cultivator would be imprisoned for centuries and the heart devils of over ten thousand cultivators would be instilled into these five nails and nailed into the cultivator’s limbs and head. The qi sea was then crippled, leaving the cultivator without any measure of strength to resist. They would have no choice but to be eternally tormented by all kinds of heart devils, day and night, until death…”

Xu Yangyi’s voice was calm, but Li Zongyuan shivered intensely.

Such an execution method… was dreadful beyond words. Only infinite hatred could drive one to do something like this.

“This corpse… there’s more to it than meets the eye.” Xu Yangyi looked at his...