Punishing Some People to Warn the Rest

Yale Sass wiped off the blood on his mouth and provocatively glared at Tang Xiu as he slowly got up from the floor. His unruly and unyielding display generated loud applause from the prisoners around him. It was obvious that they wanted to watch a good show.

The grim-looking Getae sneered, "Granted that you've saved us, you want us to pledge loyalty to you so you can humiliate us, isn't that right?"

"Humiliate you? Do you think you have the competence to be humiliated?" derided Tang Xiu. "Don't forget, I have your life in my hands; a mere thought of mine can make your soul scatter, forever prohibited from reincarnating."