The lizard-dragon stared fixedly at Lu Yun with its dark, beady eyes. If it could, it wanted to skin this puny life form alive and strip it of its meridians, then turn it into dried human!

“Of course, if the world of immortals is destroyed and the worlds themselves cease to exist, us beings of this realm will only hear a ‘poof’ and know nothing further.

“We’ll feel no pain or fear. It will be a quiet death, just like a natural one,” Lu Yun explained earnestly. “But senior and senior’s parents, aunts and uncles, grandaunts and granduncles, brothers and sisters, grandpas and grandmas won’t be that lucky.

“There’s a small chance that they’ll be stripped of their skin and meridians and become stuffed lizards displayed in an exhibit somewhere. There’s a much larger chance that they’ll be subject to a lifetime of torment through slow slicing, in which they experience death by a thousand cuts forever…”

“Enough!!” The lizard-dragon suppressed its rage with effort as Lu Yun rambled on and on. It lowered its voice, “So what...