Before subjecting the Armored Man to a thousand cuts, Li Hai first forcibly reduced his Martial Dao Foundation to the lowest level of Qi Bursting using the Wuxiang Sealing Technique.
Then, he used his powerful magic power to suspend him in mid-air and took out a small short dagger from within the Guiyou Cave Heaven.
"Are you going to cut my skin, slice my flesh, and break my bones?"
The Armored Man, who had long shed all armor and clothing, laughed weakly but coldly, "Then come on, if I make a sound, I'm not a man!"
Swish—
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Hai used the small knife to cut off a piece of bloody flesh from his body, only the size of a fingernail.
"Ah ah ah ah!!"
At that moment, an unimaginably intense pain suddenly erupted from the wound, like thousands of poisonous snakes fiercely tearing at the Armored Man's Soul, making him unable to think, only tremble and scream with all his might.
While screaming, he also shouted, "Why is it so painful?! Ah ah ah ah! This isn't normal! This isn't reasonable!"
Li Hai was too lazy to explain to him, and with another swift lift of the knife, he cut off another piece of his flesh.
So the Armored Man once again screamed miserably, causing the Green-Robed Man lying nearby to shiver uncontrollably.
But this was merely an appetizer.
Then, Li Hai spent half an hour continuously cutting the Armored Man, performing a total of seven thousand two hundred cuts, flaying him alive into a bloody skeleton.
During this time, his screams and pleas for mercy never stopped, and each time they were incredibly tragic.
In the end, Li Hai even had to continuously circulate the "Lotus" scripture and cast spells repeatedly to keep the Armored Man alive.
Unfortunately, after enduring seven thousand two hundred cuts, this fellow finally breathed his last.
But Li Hai felt it wasn't enough, so he cast a spell again to pull this fellow back from death, bringing him back to life with his mutilated body fully restored.
"I, I—didn't I die?"
The revived Armored Man looked around blankly, then at the smiling Li Hai.
When he was flayed to death just now, in his immense pain, he had even felt relieved that he had finally died, finally free from torment.
But now, how did he appear in this cave again, and how did this perverted butcher appear before him again?
"I told you, I would make you regret being born into this world."
Li Hai looked at the terrified Armored Man and said with a grin, "I've learned a technique that can revive people who died within five days, so even if you die—I can still pull you back to the human world for another round."
"No! No no! Don't!"
The Armored Man cried, tears streaming down his face, and pleaded heartbrokenly, "Please kill me, let me die, I can't bear it, I really can't bear it!"
"Oh, that's not right."
Li Hai tilted his head and said, "Weren't you very manly and unyielding just now? How come you're crying and begging for mercy now? You're making me very disappointed. Hurry up, recover yourself."
"I'm not a man, I'm a woman, I have no guts, I have no balls, I'm an animal, I'm a pile of stinking dog shit!"
The Armored Man trembled and cried out, "Father, grandfather, my dear grandfather, please spare me, I surrender, I completely surrender, I can't bear your torment."
"Hey, this is just the beginning."
Li Hai waved his hand and chuckled, "I still have tricks up my sleeve."
As he spoke, he took out a small crossbow from the Guiyou Cave Heaven and asked with a smile:
"Look what this is?"
The Armored Man's pupils constricted sharply, and he stammered, "Re, Reversal Bow!"
"You guessed right, here's an arrow for you,"
Li Hai narrowed his eyes and smiled, raising the small bow and firing an arrow at the Armored Man's pale face.
Whoosh~
In an instant, the Armored Man's hands and feet, ears and nose, mouth and anus, were all swapped.
Then, Li Hai once again reversed the "Lotus" scripture, continuously injecting several poisons into him.
The names of these potent poisons were not important; what was important was that when mixed together, they could slowly melt the Armored Man's liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, intestines, and various other internal organs, which would then gurgle out from his anus.
Immediately, Li Hai, while the poisons were still brewing and had not yet taken full effect, began another round of a thousand cuts on the Armored Man with his dagger.
However, he had underestimated the speed of these poisons, so after only a quarter of an hour of continuous agonizing screams and pleas for mercy, the trembling Armored Man began to violently spray.
The process of the spraying is roughly omitted.
In short, his anal tongue tasted the exquisite flavor of his own mashed internal organs.
The Green-Robed Man, who witnessed all of this and was driven to a state of despair that could not be described by any words, was naturally not spared by Li Hai either.
However, Li Hai's method of dealing with this person was a bit perfunctory.
He merely reversed the "Lotus" scripture and injected all sorts of terrifying, bizarre, disgusting, or painful poisons from the "Zou Clan's Poisonous Arts Compendium" into the Green-Robed Man's body.
Thus, in just a few seconds, this fellow convulsed and screamed, half-melting into a living puddle of flesh paste, continuing to barely cling to life in this impossible state under Li Hai's 'enthusiastic' care.
And after the Armored Man experienced the great internal organ spray, he naturally died in excruciating pain within a short time.
"He's dead again."
Li Hai frowned, looking at the no-longer-human Armored Man suspended in mid-air, muttering, "Should I save him again? Pfft, forget it, forget it, let him die."
His interest having waned, he swept his gaze and instantly shattered the bewildered, foolish Soul of the Armored Man, which was about to escape its shell, into nothingness.
At the same time, he also annihilated the puddle that was the Green-Robed Man, both his Yang God and his physical body.
As for all the martial arts and techniques of these two, although Li Hai didn't think much of them, he had already learned them all the moment he saw them.
After dealing with these two, Li Hai walked out of the blood-scented mountain crevice and leaped.
In an instant, he soared tens of thousands of feet into the sky and flew straight towards the Great Jing border pass.
Deep within the Shilong Mountain Range at the southernmost tip of Great Jing, a majestic city gate stood.
It was tightly enclosed by thousand-zhang sheer cliffs on both sides, like a prehistoric giant beast crouching on the earth and amidst the mountains.
On the forehead of this "giant beast," two rows of ancient characters were engraved:
"Thousand-zhang perilous cliffs embrace the ancient pass, sunlight illuminates the high peaks, marked by the years; the throat of the Dynasty's southern border, the Azure Dragon's horn guards the desolate mountains."
This grand city was the pass connecting the Great Jing Dynasty and the Dragon Mountain region—the Azure Dragon Pass.
Regardless of which side one started from to reach the other, if one wished to take the official route, one had to pass through this gate.
Below this city gate was a wide yet winding main road, covered with wheel tracks and footprints.
This was the essential path for entering and exiting the Great Jing territory, having existed for a thousand years, having endured the vicissitudes of time.
And Li Hai was now slowly walking on this ancient and winding road, full of the marks of time.