One person: Starting with the Snow Drinking Blade

"I...I'll talk..." Wu Dengsheng's voice was dry and hoarse, devoid of its previous arrogance and eerie tone, replaced only by the weakness of a dying struggle and the fear of death. "What...what do you want to know? Just don't kill me..."

"Wouldn't it have been better if we had cooperated earlier? It would have saved us all the trouble of doing it ourselves." Wang Ye yawned, seemingly satisfied with Wu Dengsheng's "pragmatism." He raised his chin. "Repeat the two questions I asked earlier, and answer them properly. Don't try anything funny. Although I'm lazy, I can still tell the difference between truth and lies. If I find out you've told a single lie..." He paused, his gaze sweeping over the pile of monster remains burned to ashes by Nie Lingfeng, then looking at the spot where the black-clad assassins, whom Chen Duo had "marked" away, had once stood. The meaning was clear.

Wu Dengsheng shuddered and hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, yes! I wouldn't dare! Absolutely not!" He swallowed hard, struggling to organize his thoughts, and began to confess:

"That 'Lord'... I... I've never seen His true form. It's... through 'sacred objects,' and... some special rituals, that one can vaguely sense His will and receive His... blessings." Wu Dengsheng's voice was filled with awe and fear. "His will... is vast, ancient, and filled with... indescribable knowledge and power, but it is also... extremely chaotic and insane. It requires a large number of sacrifices and pure soul power to maintain stable communication and receive blessings. This altar, and those 'Buddha's children' (he was referring to those monsters), were all prepared to please Him, communicate with Him, and ultimately welcome a portion of His power or incarnation to descend upon us..."

"A sacred object?" Nie Lingfeng's eyes narrowed, and he interjected, "What sacred object? Is it something dark red, like a crystal or a living thing? Or... a fragment of a 'key'?"

Wu Dengsheng abruptly looked up, the golden and silver light in his single eye flashing intensely. He exclaimed in surprise, "You...you also know about the 'Holy Blood Crystal' and the 'Key'?!" He then realized, and smiled wryly, "That's right...you were able to come from the Savage Mountain and destroy the altar there...you must have come into contact with related things. That's right, the 'Holy Blood Crystal' is the essence of the 'Lord's' power condensed in this world, and one of the mediums for communicating with Him. The 'Key'...is something even older and more important, said to be able to open the door to the 'Lord's' dimension, or...initiate some kind of ultimate ritual. But I only have a few small fragments of the 'Holy Blood Crystal' here, bestowed by the 'Envoy,' used to maintain the altar and strengthen the 'Buddhist Kingdom's Citizens.' The real 'Key' fragments...are said to be kept by a higher-ranking 'Envoy' in Kandi, further north. The 'goods' transported from Kandi this time..."

He was halfway through his sentence when he suddenly seemed to remember something extremely terrifying. His face turned even paler, and his eyes were filled with undisguised fear. He even subconsciously glanced at a dark side passage deeper in the mine behind the altar before quickly looking away. His lips trembled, and he dared not continue speaking.

"What happened to the goods? Speak!" Nie Lingfeng stepped forward and shouted in a deep voice, the dark golden flames on his body rising faintly, bringing a powerful sense of oppression.

"That...that batch of 'goods'..." Wu Dengsheng's voice trembled even more violently, "It's not...it's not ordinary 'Holy Blood Crystals' or materials...it's...it's alive!"

"Alive?" Wang Ye raised an eyebrow, seemingly intrigued. "Alive what? A mutated creature? Or... a human?"

"It's...it's a person...but...it's not a person..." Wu Dengsheng stammered, his face almost overflowing with fear. "It's an experimental subject created by the 'messengers' using...using 'Holy Blood Crystals' and people with special bloodlines or physiques gathered from all over the world...forcibly fused and modified! They said...that it was a perfect container or coordinate anchor point...a candidate for the 'Lord's' descent! This time, it was brought to Hpakant, firstly because the geography here is special, suitable for observing the energy dissipation experiments of the 'Holy Blood Crystals,' and secondly because it's close to the border, making it convenient...convenient to capture more...'materials' from China..."

"Living test subjects? Perfect containers? Coordinate anchors?" Nie Lingfeng's face instantly turned extremely ugly! He recalled the "samples" in the Yaoxing Society base that had been contaminated by "holy blood" and forcibly fused, and he remembered the horrific state of Yan Ben before his death! Could it be that the "Council" and that so-called "Master" had been conducting such inhumane human fusion experiments all along? Were they using living people as materials and containers?!

A chilling killing intent, a mixture of the Qilin's rage and the Phoenix's compassion, surged forth from him! Chen Duo, standing beside him, seemed to sense the immense emotional turmoil in Nie Lingfeng and the terrifying information revealed in his words. Her face paled, and she instinctively clutched at Nie Lingfeng's sleeve, her emerald eyes filled with bewilderment and a hint of shared fear. Had she... almost become one of those "experimental subjects" too?

"Where are those 'experimental subjects' now? How many are there exactly? What's the situation with the guards? And where is the 'messenger' you mentioned?" Nie Lingfeng suppressed his anger and bombarded Wu Dengsheng with a series of questions.

"In...in the innermost No. 3 main mine shaft...it's been converted into a temporary laboratory and detention area..." Wu Dengsheng dared not conceal anything. "I don't know the exact number...the convoy was brought by the 'Envoy' himself, with six particularly large containers sealed with special alloys and talismans. The guards...besides the eight 'Shadow Guards' brought by the 'Envoy' (who are much stronger than my four useless guards), there are also thirty of my most elite guards, equipped with heavy weapons. The mine shaft is filled with traps and surveillance cameras both inside and out. The 'Envoy' himself...spends most of his time in the laboratory and rarely comes out. He's very mysterious, always wearing a hooded black robe, so you can't see his face, and his voice sounds like it's been synthesized..."

"Six containers? Eight 'Shadow Guards'? A thirty-man elite guard? And that mysterious 'envoy'..." Nie Lingfeng and Wang Ye exchanged a glance, both seeing the seriousness in each other's eyes. This security force was even greater than the "Blood Buddha's" entourage outside! It seemed that the "live cargo" was indeed of paramount importance to the "Council"!

"What are the characteristics of that 'messenger'? How strong is he? What abilities does he use?" Wang Ye pressed.

"His characteristics... I can't really see them. He's very cautious. His strength... is unfathomable!" Wu Dengsheng's face showed lingering fear. "I've only seen him make a move once, when I first arrived. Some ignorant local gang leader tried to test us, leading a dozen men to ram the convoy... The 'messenger' just raised his hand, and those people... without warning, their bodies twisted and melted, turning into bubbling, dark red pulp! They didn't even have time to scream! I couldn't sense any energy fluctuations, it was as if... as if their very existence had been forcibly distorted and degraded by some force! It was extremely... extremely bizarre and terrifying!"

Upon hearing this, a serious look finally flashed in Wang Ye's usually half-closed eyes. "A distorted existence? Interesting..." he muttered to himself.

"One last question," Nie Lingfeng stared into Wu Dengsheng's eyes, "Besides here, in northern Myanmar, especially the Kandy region, what other important strongholds, laboratories, or 'collaborators' like yourself does the 'Parliament'... or rather, your 'Master'? Tell me everything you know!"

By this time, Thein Sein had completely given up resistance and spilled everything he knew, including the approximate locations of several suspected "Parliament" secret bases in the Kandy area, the names of several armed leaders in Kachin and Shan states who had dealings with the "Parliament" in arms, drugs, or human trafficking, and the "Parliament's" main smuggling routes and transit points in Southeast Asia. The information was fragmented, much of it based on hearsay or speculation, but it was still highly valuable for Nie Lingfeng and his team to understand the "Parliament's" layout in northern Myanmar.

After the question was asked, a brief silence fell over the cave. Only the dim, dark red flames on the altar still flickered, reflecting the various expressions on the faces of the group.

"We've asked everything we needed to ask. What should we do with this guy?" Wang Ye looked at Nie Lingfeng and gestured with his eyes to Wu Dengsheng, who was slumped on the ground, his face ashen.

Nie Lingfeng looked at this demon who had committed countless blood feuds, used living people as sacrifices, and aided and abetted evil, without a trace of pity in his eyes. He slowly raised his hand, and dark golden flames began to gather in his palm.

Wu Dengsheng seemed to sense his impending death. He abruptly raised his head, his single eye flashing with a final burst of madness and resentment. He roared hoarsely, "You...you think killing me and destroying this place is enough?! The will of the 'Lord' is everywhere! The 'Messenger' will not let you go! Those 'goods'...those 'containers'...you have no idea what they mean! When the 'Lord' truly descends, you, and this world, will all..."

His shouting stopped abruptly.

Because a condensed, blazing dark golden flame, carrying the determination to purify all evil, shot out from Nie Lingfeng's palm and precisely pierced his brow!

Wu Dengsheng's body stiffened abruptly, and the light in his eerie golden and silver demonic eyes quickly dimmed and dissipated. He opened his mouth, as if wanting to say something, but could only let out a series of hoarse gasps. The next second, dark golden flames erupted from the wound between his eyebrows, instantly spreading throughout his entire body! In just two or three breaths, the infamous "Blood Buddha" Wu Dengsheng was completely reduced to a pile of charred ashes in the pure Qilin True Fire, scattering in the wind. Even the repulsive skull rosary around his neck vanished without a trace.

The dust has settled.

Inside the cave, only the skull altar with its flames even weaker, as if it might be extinguished at any moment, and the traces of battle scattered all over the ground remained.