C170 Desperate heaven and earth
The old man was not joking, this was an example that he had personally witnessed before, so he did not want Xiao Feng to walk this path.
In my limited life, I have seen this kind of thing happen before.
The old man was a demon of slaughter. He had been demonized and then trained in the Treasure Refining Pavilion. He once had a name, 'hoarding demons'