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Shen Mu quickly showed why his testimony was worth being spared execution. Tan Lafen's assumption had been right. Shen Mu's crimes were as bad as they could get. Though in terms of bad, while they were irredeemable, they were not to the point of no return like it would have been had he been a blood fiend cultivator.

If evidence had shown that Shen Mu sacrificed people like blood fiend cultivators did, to try and improve his cultivation, then no matter what he offered up, he would still be tortured for a decade for all the information he had, specifically, ties to a blood fiend cult, and then after they had gotten everything they had on him, he would be burned in the chaos yang river of retribution. The river was a saint-grade natural dao treasure that had the purest yang flames Yang Qing had ever seen, even purer than what he produced.