Nangong Yi watched him cower with cold eyes and said in a chilling voice, "I must verify your claims before I can believe you. If you make false accusations and frame loyal subjects, not only will I not pardon you, but I will also grant you the waist-cutting punishment!"
The waist-cutting punishment is an extremely cruel penalty, where the victim is cut in half at the waist, intestines and organs spilling out onto the ground, yet dying could take a long and agonizing time, the scene so horrifically unbearable that it makes people shudder with fear merely hearing about the brutality of it, let alone experiencing it.
