"Ah—! You bunch of jesters!" Xun Country's ruler roared, his body emitting a radiant black light, and from beneath his robe, countless sharp spikes shot out, impaling and blasting away all of the cultivators and suspending them mid-air! The one called Grand Chancellor Autumn suffered the most, his body pierced by over a dozen mercury spikes, torn into several pieces, drenched in blood, and no longer resembling a human form.
Xun Country's ruler's face turned somber as he rose, pulling out the broken swords from his body, then stabbing one into his own chest. From the mercurial body, he extracted a large chunk of blood gleaming with a red light, wrapped it with mercury and discarded it,
"Hmph, I didn't expect you to regain consciousness at the last moment. A death throes counterattack, is it? But now it's too late. Then let's have another..."
