Blue, Red and White Dark Abyss Cauldron

"If you know what's good for you, stand up and exchange your life for mine. I will make him die swiftly! If I find out, hmph... Jinyang City has many ways to kill people without killing them! Driving bones with iron nails, beheading, piercing with thousands of needles, skinning frogs... I can try them all!" Pang Shisan said slowly, and couldn't help but think of the scene of torturing the raw slaves, looking at their bloody flesh, listening to their screams, and seemed to be intoxicated by the beauty of it.

Supervisor Tong said, "Pang Wutou is right. There are also 'Lighting Sky Lanterns' and 'Oil-soaked Monkeys'... But peeling the frog skin is the most exciting, and the thousand-needle piercing is the most boring, because you can't see anything."

"Iron nails piercing bones" refers to hammering iron nails about a foot long into the prisoner's palms and soles along the arm and leg bones. The prisoner's hands and feet are disabled, causing him unbearable pain but unable to die.

"Beheading" means laying the prisoner horizontally on the ground, and the executioner will chop his waist with a big knife until it breaks in two. The prisoner will not die immediately, but will often suffer severe pain for half a day or a day before being relieved. This cruel punishment is quite popular in Cangmu Country. Other cities such as Xihai City and Baijun City also have this punishment to punish extremely evil prisoners.

"Thousand Needle Stabbing" is a method of casting two halves of a human-shaped mold using copper and iron, leaving a hollow in the middle, and welding hundreds of thousands of two-inch-long sharp iron needles onto it. When carrying out the punishment, the prisoner is locked inside and the two halves of the copper tool are closed. The prisoner is then stabbed all over the body by the iron needles, and the more they are pricked, the more painful it is, until he bleeds to death.

The "frog skinning" is even more horrifying. A human being is used as a frog. After washing, he is hung up high. A cut is made around the neck to cut the skin but not the tendons. Then the skin is cut open on the chest or back. The skin is pulled and cut until the whole skin is removed. Ordinary people often dare not watch it, and the prisoners only want to die. The cruelty is beyond description...

There are many other horrific punishments, too numerous to mention.

Although Jinyang City is the richest among the seven cities of Cangmu Country, it is slightly inferior to Xihai City, which is famous for trade, and Baijun City, which is famous for its prosperous population, in terms of military strength. In order to intimidate the people, the Jindao Sect learned various cruel punishments from other cities, and even used them to kill people for fun to make people with special hobbies laugh.

All the slaves were afraid, but still no one spoke out.

Pang Shisan paced back and forth, and suddenly said in a gentle voice: "I heard that the horse supervisor often liked to whip you before he died. This is against the young master's order. Those who have been beaten by him, why don't you raise your hands so that I can see."

Almost all the slaves had been beaten by Ma Baocheng, but no one knew what Pang Shisan was up to, and most of them remained silent, neither making a sound nor raising their hands.

Only a few honest people raised their hands. Chu Xiaomu, Yu Aqi, Xuan Ying and others did not raise their hands. Hai Wuqing raised his hand and then put it down, somewhat hesitant.

Pang Shisan added, "Ma Baocheng disobeyed the order issued by the young master - unless the slave deliberately caused trouble, he should not be beaten or scolded at will. He did not obey the young master's order, so he deserved to die. Those who have been beaten by him, raise your hands, I want to see how many people there are."

Hai Wuqing and several other slaves who were still hesitant raised their hands.

The muscles on Pang Shisan's face twitched and suddenly he became ferocious. He pointed at two slaves in the crowd and said viciously: "Drag them out to me!" One of the people he was pointing at was Hai Wuqing.

The two were horrified and thought, we were beaten, why are they arresting us?

Tong Hun also shouted: "Drag them both out!"

Pang Shisan glared at him impatiently, but Tong Hun grinned at him.

Two warriors walked into the crowd and dragged Hai Wuqing and another slave out. The two were so frightened that they were paralyzed and dared not resist at all.

Pang Shisan said, "You two look weird, you must have killed Ma Baocheng!"

Hai Wuqing's eyes were much higher than his ears, and his eyeballs were bulging like fish eyes. His mouth was wide and protruding, and his appearance was extremely strange. The other person had a pair of bean-sized eyes that were almost close together, a long hooked nose, and his face was much uglier than that of ordinary people.

Chu Xiaomu knew clearly that although Hai Wuqing was a businessman, he was honest and hardworking, and worked very hard; the other person was timid, cautious and afraid of things, and rarely quarreled with others.

Although the two were often beaten and scolded by Ma Baocheng, they never even glanced at him or cursed him behind his back, let alone had the courage to kill him.

Pang Shisan was a violent and capricious man, so he must have used the two of them as scapegoats, firstly to get his job done, secondly to establish his prestige among the supervisors and soldiers, and thirdly to deter other slaves from committing crimes again.

Chu Xiaomu couldn't help but secretly worry about the two of them.

Pang Shisan pulled out his pointed sword and said, "Chop these two men off and put their heads on poles for ten days!"

The two of them knelt down and begged for mercy. The little-eyed slave cried and screamed, tears streaming down his face, saying that he was wronged. Hai Wuqing was so anxious that he couldn't speak, but just kept grumbling.

Pang Shisan laughed loudly, pointed at Hai Wuqing and said, "Look, the evil spirit has revealed itself!"

All the warriors and overseers started laughing, and the copper overseer said, "It is true. There is an evil spirit in the raw slave. No wonder the horse...horse...horse was killed!"

Several warriors dragged Hai Wuqing and the small-eyed slave to behead them. The two were so scared that they collapsed to the ground, tears and snot all over their faces, crying and begging.

Chu Xiaomu could no longer bear it and shouted, "You have no evidence. How can you say that they killed someone? Every day we are either working in the cave or locked in the slave house. You watch us closely when we eat. Who has the ability to kill him?!"

Yu Aqi also said: "That's right, maybe he died suddenly, or maybe someone outside or an evil spirit killed him. We don't even have the strength to hold a bowl, how can we have the strength to kill someone?"

Chu Xiaomu added: "The young lady has issued a decree that unless a group of people are rebelling, no one is allowed to kill slaves. You are openly defying the young lady's decree!"

Many slaves also responded.

Tong Hun thought for a while and said, "What he said seems to make some sense. Then how did Ma... Ma... Ma die? Tell us the truth!"

Yu Aqi said, "Superintendent Tong, we don't know anything, how can we explain? You have to make the decision for us."

Tong Hun touched his bald head and said, "It seems to make some sense..."

Pang Shisan turned his head, looked Chu Xiaomu up and down, and said with a sneer: "If they didn't kill him, then you killed him! It would be a good thing for you, a slave, to drag him to death!" He made a knife flower with his right hand and approached Chu Xiaomu step by step.