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In the center of the Salt Lake City, there was an ancient city inside the city. The entire city was made of hard white stone. This kind of hard stone was the best material used by Salt Lake City to build a city. If you looked carefully, you would notice that this kind of stone was shining with a little silver light, which made it look exceptionally beautiful.

The inner city of the Salt Lake City was known as the Holy City by the people of the Salt Lake City, and strange hissing sounds would often be heard coming from the nearest Sacred City. The residents of Salt Lake City would hear this kind of crazy voice every night, this sound was like the wild beast's hysterical roar again. But to the residents of the Salt Lake City, they had already gotten used to the various unusualness of the Sacred City. The people living in the Sacred City were the most respected people in their Salt Lake City, and the nobles of the Sacred City had guarded this city that was separated from the sea of yellow sand for generations.

Song Zhong was tied to a chain in the torture chamber; his hands were not cuffed at all. However, he had grabbed the iron chain above his head with the intention of supporting his body that was being hoisted up. To be more precise, Song Zhong's action was to use both of his hands to hoist himself onto the iron chain.

Song Zhong seemed to be very accustomed to this action. He maintained this strange posture the entire time. Ever since he had returned to the Salt Lake City, Song Zhong had come to this room every day to receive his punishment. The one who ordered the punishment on Song Zhong was his father, the Blood Drinking Sovereign of the Salt Lake City, and the one who executed the punishment was Song Zhong's elder brother, Song Yi.

Footsteps thudded in the distance, and the sound of them told him that it must be a big man.

With heavy steps, Song Yi dragged his body that weighed more than two hundred jin into the Xing Yu room. He very naturally picked up the steel whip on the table and played with it in his hand, as though he was admiring an extremely good antique. This whip was different from ordinary whips. A normal steel whip was a type of blunt weapon. Although it was called a steel whip, it was actually mostly made of iron. It had joints, did not have blades, and was divided into two parts.

The steel whip that Song Yi picked up was a nine-section whip. This type of whip was made of metal and steel, formed from a combination of nine sections of diamond. If an ordinary person were to be hit by a whip, they would be killed by an internal injury caused by the steel whip.

Song Zhong's expression was very calm, his eyes seemed to be looking elsewhere and did not see the arrival of his brother at all. Ever since he returned to the Salt Lake City. Song Yi would come here every day to enforce family rules.

Song Zhong, you have already been punished here for so many days. Why was there still no sign of repentance?

Song Yi was Song Zhong's big brother, the eldest son of Blood Drinking Sovereign Song Yan. Song Yi looked like his own mother, but Song Zhong looked more like the Blood Drinking Sovereign himself. Song Zhong was a handsome youth who was full of heroic spirit, but Song Yi had a round body that cultivators should not have. Even though Song Yi had already reached the state of State Grandmaster, he still could not garner much attention from the Blood Drinking Sovereign at home.

He's my friend.

You clearly know that this is against the rules of the clan?

Two steel whips landed on Song Zhong's body, but he did not let out a single scream. In this kind of clan, Song Zhong had long gotten used to all kinds of torture instruments, and his endurance far surpassed that of an ordinary person.

Yes, that's why I'm here now, obediently, to receive my father's punishment. Song Zhong's expression was still very calm, his tone was not respectful at all to his brother.

Song Yi's cultivation was one stage higher than Song Zhong, and at the State Grandmaster level, one stage difference in cultivation could directly crush an opponent. When these two lashes heavily hit Song Zhong's body, Song Zhong only felt the Qi Sea rolling away and many parts of his body getting injured. But Song Zhong knew that Song Yi did not dare to cause irreparable damage to his body, especially to his cultivation level.

No matter how much father favors you, it is a violation of the clan's rules to sell the news of the clan assassinating the Emperor of Great Sheng.

With a few more heavy whip strikes, Song Zhong didn't make a sound from beginning to end. Compared to Song Zhong, Song Yi felt that he had some kind of strange emotion, as if a hundred cats were scratching their hearts. He really wanted to teach this disappointing little brother of his, but Song Zhong didn't seem to care about him at all.

Even if he whipped Song Zhong a few times, Song Yi felt that he still had a lot of energy that he needed to spend on his little brother.

However … He didn't dare …

The Song Family was a family with strict family rules.

After waving his hands and whipping for another thirty to forty times, the panting Song Yi still did not feel released.

Ah … Ah … Ah …

Blood Drinking Sovereign Song Yan who was sitting cross-legged heard his son's beast-like roar from afar. He couldn't help but shake his head: This child really does resemble that woman …

The woman was talking about Song Yi's mother, Blood Drinking Sovereign's Song Yan's wife, Lin Miaoyin. Lin Miaoyin was Song Yi's mother, and also the mother of all the children in Blood Drinking Sovereign. Then, Blood Drinking Sovereign Song Yan did not have the slightest bit of love for Lin Miaoyin. His marriage with Lin Miaoyin was purely because of the clan's rules. Lin Miaoyin had died in childbirth when she was giving birth to Song Wan, so Song Yi looked more like his mother. This might have been the reason why he doted on her second son Song Zhong and his third daughter, Song Wan.

There were only two surnames within Salt Lake City: one was surname Song and the other was surname Lin. For the past few hundred years, there had been a strong rule in the Salt Lake City that the owner of the Salt Lake City had to be surnamed Song, and the patriarch had to marry the daughter of the Lin Family as his wife to ensure the status of the Lin Family within the Salt Lake City. The ancestors of the citizens of the Salt Lake City were mostly powerful cultivators, they were once a group of assassins formed by some strong nation in the Divine Region. After the destruction of this distant nation, the ancestors of the Profound Practitioners had brought them to this place to live, but they still lived according to their previous way of life.

The children of the Salt Lake City would be selected immediately after birth. As long as they had talent for cultivation, they would all be sent to the Sacred City. As long as a child entered the Holy City, they would receive the support of the entire Salt Lake City. The people of the Holy City basically only knew one skill, and that was the killing technique. The children of the Holy City only needed to cultivate and kill for the rest of their lives.

Along with the changes of the times, the dynasties changed, and this area of Salt Lake City that was surrounded by endless Sea of Sands was isolated from the world. They began to be forgotten by the people of this world. They began to live a peaceful life, and the original few hundred people became a nation of tens of thousands.

The Salt Lake City connected to the endless Sea of Sands, and the residents of the ordinary Salt Lake City were unable to walk out of this stretch of yellow sand that filled the sky. However, there would occasionally be Salt Lake City cultivators who would walk out of the endless Sea of Sands s. This was because of their terrifying strength and their red haired, devilish tongued tattoos were called Ghost Clan by the other races in the Divine Continent.