The hundred Hunting Group members who had walked down from the mountain gate, including the team leader and deputy team leader, were completely annihilated in less than half an hour.

Oh, wait, that’s not right.

There was still one survivor!

His name was Ergouzi, and he was currently in great pain.

If he had a phone, he would definitely post on social media for online rescue, because his body had been completely frozen in ice, like a lifelike ice sculpture.

The one who sealed him was Lu Qianqian, and the one who carried him over was Yang Yuhua.

Now, he was placed beside a rock, surrounded by Tiegu Sect disciples pointing and discussing.

“Senior Sister is too fierce—she actually froze a living person in ice!”

“If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I simply wouldn’t believe it!”

“Being sealed inside, it must be cold, right?”

More than just cold!

Ergouzi, wrapped in the ice layer, currently felt as if he’d fallen into an extremely cold hell, enduring indescribable suffering.

If he could choose, he would rather be shot in the head or have his head severed by a sword than suffer such inhuman torment.

What a pity.

No choice.

Because he had to take full responsibility for every sentence he’d said, every word.

“Sect Master.”

Li Luoqiu’s beautiful eyes brimmed with intense killing intent as she said: “This guy’s mouth was full of obscene and filthy words. If I don’t torture him properly, this old lady can’t swallow this anger.”

For Hall Master Li to be so violent, one could imagine Ergouzi had said many unbearably vulgar things when coming down.

Jun Changxiao said: “I’ll leave him to you.”

“Swoosh!”

Li Luoqiu waved her hand, and a gleaming dagger appeared. Then she came before the ice sculpture and sliced toward the arm area.

“Crack!”

Ice chunks fell, flesh caught within them!

“Crack, crack, crack!”

The place on Ergouzi’s arm that had been cut open was exposed to the outside world. Before blood could even spurt out, it was sealed again by the icy cold qi.

Did it hurt?

Extremely painful!

So painful that Ergouzi escaped from the extremely cold hell in an instant, so painful it tore his heart and split his lungs, so painful his complexion…

Well, couldn’t change—it was frozen by the cold ice!

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Li Luoqiu wildly swung her dagger, ice chunks falling off layer by layer.

Lu Qianqian stood beside her seemingly motionless, but continuously circulated cold qi, sealing the exposed skin of that guy with ice layers.

Before these two women, Ergouzi was essentially being subjected to death by a thousand cuts.

“Too brutal!”

The Tiegu Sect disciples who had experienced the trial of killing people, seeing this terrifying scene, all turned their heads away.

“Lingxue.”

Li Luoqiu said: “You come cut a piece too.”

“Ah? Oh…”

Ling Yuanxue took the dagger, closed her eyes and came before the ice sculpture, then turned her small face to the side and swung away.

“Crack, crack!”

Ice layers wrapped in flesh fell piece by piece.

In the end, the guy named Ergouzi was tortured to death by a thousand cuts while still alive.

How painful the entire process was didn’t need to be described in words. In short, just as his companion had said earlier, he really did die at the hands of women.

Mm.

Got his wish.

Dying by a thousand cuts beneath three peony flowers—even as a ghost, he would be tragic and sorrowful.

…

The Tiegu Sect disciples who participated in the slaughter all killed people—some killed more than one.

In this cruel world, experiencing such things was undoubtedly most normal, and also a trial for the spirit.

The one who changed the most was still Li Shangtian.

He lay on the grass, constantly recalling the scene of killing people just now.

Although he was still a bit shaken at first, he gradually realized that actually, it wasn’t such a big deal.

“Today.”

Li Shangtian thought to himself: “Is the day of my, Li Shangtian’s, sublimation!”

Ling Yuanxue had also killed someone.

Though it was done with assistance from her senior brother.

Although she was still very afraid, she had also invisibly enhanced her courage considerably, which would definitely help in the future.

“Sect Master.”

Li Luoqiu said: “What do we do next?”

Jun Changxiao lay on the rock, a dogtail grass stalk dangling from the corner of his mouth, saying: “So many disciples dead—anyone with even a bit of temper definitely won’t be able to resist coming out.”

…

Black Eagle Hall main hall.

“Bang!”

The tea table was directly shattered by one of Lie Heisha’s palms, his entire body pervaded with chilling rage and killing intent.

He had just ordered the Hunting Group to take action, and as a result, once they left the mountain gate, they all died at the mountain’s base—of course this was hard to accept!

If ordinary disciples had died, it wouldn’t matter.

But the Hunting Group members were all ones he had spent considerable resources and effort cultivating!

“Hall Master.”

Yang Zhi frowned and said: “That group ambushing at the mountain’s base came with ill intent!”

To be able to annihilate all Hunting Group members in such a short time, with even the team leader dying before the mountain gate—this was definitely not something ordinary martial cultivators could do.

“Mister Yang.”

Lie Heisha suppressed his rage, saying: “Who dares to provoke at my Black Eagle Hall’s mountain base!”

“Hard to say.”

Yang Zhi had been pondering the identity of whoever came.

But after thinking for a long time, he still couldn’t figure out exactly who these sacred beings were.

The deputy hall master said: “Some time ago, we intercepted Thunderclap Hall’s goods. Could it be them?”

“Impossible.”

Yang Zhi didn’t even speak before Lie Heisha denied it first: “Although Thunderclap Hall is a seventh-rate sect like my Black Eagle Hall, they don’t have this capability.”

“Could it be…”

The deputy hall master’s expression became grave: “Done by a sixth-rate sect?”

Yang Zhi shook his head: “Over these years, every operation has targeted eighth and ninth-rate sects. We haven’t provoked sixth-rate sects.”

Lie Heisha said angrily: “No matter who did it, killing my Black Eagle Hall’s people means they must pay a painful price!”

“Mister Yi.”

“Do you have any good strategies to strike back at these bastards!”

Yang Zhi said: “According to what the disciples saw from the mountain gate, the enemy numbers are at least around seventy to eighty.”

“The enemy is hidden while we’re exposed, and they have powerful hidden weapons. A frontal assault would be very passive.”

“Why not wait until nightfall, quietly circle down from the back mountain’s cliff face, confirm the other party hasn’t left, then attack from above and below to annihilate them in one fell swoop!”

“Makes sense.”

Lie Heisha looked at the deputy hall master, saying: “Sanzi, tonight take several helm masters and disciples with agile movement techniques, circle down from the back mountain, find those who ambushed us, and transmit a signal.”

“Yes.”

The deputy hall master hurriedly left.

…

Below Black Eagle Mountain.

Xiao Ziji constantly held the Type 88 sniper rifle, using the eight-times scope to carefully watch the Black Eagle Hall mountain gate.

Li Qingyang and the others spread out in all directions, constantly alert to surrounding movements.

Jun Changxiao sat cross-legged on a rock, saying: “Not coming out for so long doesn’t seem like an evil sect’s style.”

Li Luoqiu said: “Our Divine Power Fire Blunderbusses kill people invisibly. They’re not idiots—of course they won’t dare come out directly.”

“Makes sense.”

Jun Changxiao continued observing the map, then pointed at the outlined cliff face, saying: “What do you think—at night, will they come down from here and circle around to our rear?”

“Probably not.”

Li Luoqiu said: “The cliff wall is as smooth as if cut by a blade, at least several hundred zhang high. One careless slip and even a Wushi would be severely injured.”

Jun Changxiao shook his head: “For a sect headquarters, if there’s only one road, that’s definitely abnormal. This seemingly most dangerous place might just be their back route.”

Yang Zhi was thinking of coming down from the back mountain, and he was thinking the same—the two were truly in perfect mental harmony!

“You guard this place.”

Jun Changxiao said: “This seat will take people to watch the back mountain.”

With those words, he led Xiao Ziji and others in a wide circle, arriving at the back of a cliff about a thousand meters high. Below, torrential rapids rushed—if someone fell from above, even if they didn’t die from the fall, they’d be washed away to the ends of the earth by the water.

Nightfall came.

“Sect Master!”

Xiao Ziji, who had been constantly observing above, said in a low voice: “Someone’s coming down.”

Jun Changxiao leaned over, took the gun from him, and aimed the eight-times scope upward. Through the dim moonlight, he could vaguely see Black Eagle Hall disciples gathering at the mountain cliff.

Then.

Dozens of people jumped down at the same time.

“Holy crap!”

Watching those black shadows fall, Jun Changxiao’s mouth twitched as he said: “Even for bungee jumping, you should at least tie a rope to your legs.”