Gu Yun was quiet, but in his heart, he was truly shocked by the massive roots of the Southern Frontier bandits. Some of the entrances and exits of these mountains had already been discovered by the Lin Yuan Pavilion. Otherwise, even the Black Iron Camp could not manage to block these rats easily halfway through, but there were more that even the Lin Yuan Pavilion did not know of.

Behind him, the Black Iron Camp soldiers quietly left to verify whether these entrances and exits were true and to keep guard of every secret passage opening. Less than the time it took to burn incense as if playing the game of 'pass the flower'*, the bandits had confessed all the underground routes that extended in all directions, down to the littlest ones.

*game in which players sit in a circle passing a flower around while a drum is beaten

In the blink of an eye, this deadly 'flower' had been passed to the one that started it all: leader Jing Xu.

In this life, Jing Xu had violently cut through from a pile of corpses to become the king of the mountain. There was no such thing as great talents, but there was certainly no shortage of courage and ruthless methods. Seeing that the tip of the blade had arrived in front of him and the blood on the ground had flowed into a river, he took a deep breath and straightened his back, converting all the strength he accumulated in this life to support his body, staring at Gu Yun casually walking towards him with both hands behind his back.

Jing Xu said: "I used to hear people say that Marshal Gu's elegance is unparalleled. I did not expect that you were well-versed even in torture methods for interrogation; truly, the more talents, the better."

"There is no need for flattery," Gu Yun said with an amused smile. "The main activity in war is to slay people. I did not lock you in a dark room, did not place you on a nail bed, neither did I ask you to sit on a tiger chair. The words 'torture to interrogate' — I do not dare to accept. If you have nothing to say, you can go accompany them as well."

Jing Xu's eyelids twitched violently: "There are a total of sixty-four entrances and exits here. They have confessed it all at once. The first worthless few had already started to blabber. Pardon my imprudence, I do not understand Marshal Gu's intention?"

"Only for safety, no other intention," Gu Yun said with a smile. "In case there was someone who has not confessed yet, you want to persuade me to stop killing? There is a large number of you, rest assured, I can't afford to slay you all."

Jing Xu: "..."