As though they were slapped by an invisible hand, Tian Long and a few other people besides him were sent flying downward like shooting stars—
— BOOM!
The ground shook, dirt erupted like a volcanic eruption when Tian Long and the others plummeted to the ground, creating craters and fissures.
Cough!
Tian Long coughed up a mouthful of blood while the others could feel the bones in their body shatter from the impact.
The entire place was silent, even the Supreme Elders from the Four Ancient Lands could only silently watch with wide eyes, their bodies frozen from fear.
Cough!
"W-Who dared to attack me, Tian Long?! Come out, you bastard!" he cried out loud with anger, his body experiencing sharp pain with every word he spoke.
However, the moment his voice ended, the pressure on him became stronger, and Tian Long suddenly felt as if the invisible mountain on his back grew in sizes!
"How insolent." The voice returned, sounding nonchalant. "Who do you think you are?"
Tian Long no longer dared to speak, his bloodied lips trembling in horror.
"S-Senior!" One of the Supreme Elders from the Ancient Dragon Sect stepped forward. "Please hold your hands! Let us talk about this! If my disciples had offended senior in any way, this one who is responsible for them will punish them on the behalf of Senior!"
Although he was a prideful one, this Supreme Elder had eyes and was able to tell the difference in their strength just from the pressure in the air alone.
"Hmph!" The voice snorted coldly. "The foulness of their soul alone was enough to make my blood boil with anger!"
"After today, these foul-souled individuals will no longer exist under this Heaven!"
The voice's words were like lightning bolts from a Heavenly Tribulation. However, unlike a real Heavenly Tribulation, none of the people here, the Supreme Elders included, were able to resist the shock!
This voice of god-knows-who had just sentenced Tian Long, the most talented disciple of the Ancient Dragon Sect, along with a few more other disciples to death!
If the Ancient Dragon Sect finds out such news, who knew what kind of reaction they'd show?!
"Please wait, senior! You can kill any one of them except Tian Long! He is our Ancient Dragon Sect's future! The Sect Master had spent countless resource just to nourish him! If you kill him, our Sect Master will be furious!"
Tian Yi, who has been frowning this entire time gritted his teeth at the Supreme Elder's words.
He was already in a bad mood, but for the Supreme Elder to say such words— it had caused his anger to skyrocket!
The Supreme Elder told him that he could kill them all beside Tian Long, the most vicious of them all? What kind of logic was that? Tian Yi couldn't believe his ears at first!
With a single thought, Tian Yi controlled the pressure he had released earlier and targeted the Supreme Elder!
Pa! As though an invisible mountain suddenly appeared on top of him, the Supreme Elder plummeted to the ground the same way Tian Long had just moments ago.
And with another thought, his Divine Sense rippled in the air, creating the genderless voice.
"I will not kill you, but those I have already decided to be punished shall be judged at this moment!"
"Tian Long, the crimes your soul have committed throughout the years have been properly judged—and the result is... 100 years of Soul Torment before Soul Extermination!"
Tian Long's eyes widened with unimaginable terror. Although he has never heard of these terms before, just by the words alone he could tell what would be waiting for him.
"W-Wait! S-Senior! I am sorry! I apologize!" Tian Long nervously begged with tears and snots running down his terrified face like a small river, but alas, it was a futile effort.
Tian Long's body suddenly exploded into a fog of blood, shocking the spectators until their entire body was numb.
"Jiang Cheng, the crimes your soul have committed throughout the years have been properly judged— and the result is… 10 years of Soul Torment!"
The voice continued the sentencing as though Tian Long's death did not even affect him.
"Xiao Chan, the crimes your soul have committed throughout the years have been properly judged— and the result is…"
Tian Yi sentenced every individual there with a foul soul, their body exploding into a fog of blood just like the Night Raiders bandits and Tian Long.
The sentencing did not last long, lasting only a few moments the longest, but to the spectators, these few moments felt like a few eternities!
After he finished, Tian Yi closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
'Although there are a lot more people here with impure souls, they are incomparable to those few I just punished. If I were to punish them too… I'm afraid I'd have to punish everybody with an impure from now on…' he sighed to himself, not wishing to go that route.
Even though punishing those with foul souls was a mandatory job for his family, there was a bare minimum to the foulness of the soul before he could kill them in the name of 'justice'.
If his family killed off anybody with even the slightest of an impure soul, how many people would still exist after the purge? Keeping a decently pure soul in this world was already difficult enough, let alone a completely pure soul.
The entire place was silent, everybody there was speechless.
To think they'd witness an execution with Ancient Dragon Sect's disciples as the criminals…
Once the news spread, the entire world would be shocked!