Chapter 1 The Beginning

They thought Wan Lei would use the teleportation array to return to the Thunder Wind Continent.
But Wan Lei didn't; he flew back directly across the star river.
Revenge,
begins!
His first stop was the Fang family.
This was his revenge battle, and she should be with him…
to witness.
"Wan Lei, it's Wan Lei!"
"Alert, report to the elders, report to the patriarch!"
Wan Lei returned powerfully, shattering the Fang family's protective array with a single kick.
In a tall tower, a girl ran excitedly to the window and shouted,
"Husband, I'm here!"
The tower had a seal, but to Wan Lei, it was nothing.
He punched through the tower and picked up his wife.
"Wife, tell me, what should we do with the Fang family?"
Wan Lei looked at Fang Xiaoyu, his eyes devoid of love, only the flames of hatred.
"I've heard everything that's happened over the years. You know me, in my eyes, everyone in the world except you is just a common chicken or dog.
It's fine if this Fang family isn't kept."
"Good, Xiaoyu, then I will… kill your entire family!"
Wan Lei embraced Fang Xiaoyu with his left arm and held the Thunder God's Hammer in his right, beginning his slaughter.
"You brat! You useless fool, what are you doing?!"
Fang Huifeng roared, his gaze sweeping over the ruins, the corpses strewn everywhere, the cries of agony unending.
"Old dog, did you ever think of today when you were hunting me down?"
Wan Lei laughed to the sky and swung the hammer towards Fang Huifeng.
Boom!!!
An old man suddenly appeared, blocking Fang Huifeng, and caught Wan Lei's hammer.
He caught it,
but he didn't quite catch it,
and he was sent flying backward.
"Ancestor!"
Fang Huifeng's eyes were about to burst, filled with horror.
"Tribulation Crossing Stage peak!"
"What? This... this brat, this useless fellow from a small family, is actually a peak Tribulation Crossing Stage expert?"
Fang Huifeng stared dumbfounded, unable to process it.
"Go quickly, Huifeng, immediately evacuate all clan members, save as many as you can, I will hold him off!"
The old man pushed Fang Huifeng away.
"You can't hold me, and you can't escape!
Primordial Chaos Infinite Array, descend!"
Wan Lei chuckled as a great array enveloped the Fang family, a territory comparable to a province.
"Kill!"
The Primordial Chaos Infinite Array unleashed countless beams of light, each carrying away one or several lives.
Wan Lei summoned thunderclouds and cleansed the land with lightning.
"Wan Lei, you slaughter mortals, you will die a terrible death!"
"Heaven's punishment will descend upon you, you demon!"
"Fang Xiaoyu, you traitor, you beast, you've caused the deaths of the entire Fang family!"
"Did the Fang family ever wrong you? Why are you doing this to them?"
The curses and wails were so pleasing, so beautiful.
"Do you care?"
"I don't care."
Fang Xiaoyu smiled mockingly, looking down at the countless people already dead or dying,
as if they weren't her kin, but mere… chickens and dogs.
The Fang family,
was annihilated,
not a single soul left!
Next stop, the Liu family.
If there was anyone Wan Lei hated most, besides the Fang family who had forcibly separated him and Xiaoyu and then hunted him, it was the Liu family.
The Liu family was the instigator of everything.
They had organized various factions to join forces, they had forced the Yin Yang Sect, and they had sent the most people to kill Wan Lei.
Everything, all stemmed from them.
Wan Lei wasn't like Wan Qingyi, saving the Evil Moon Sect for last.
If he were fighting an opponent, he would leave the strongest for last.
But this was a clan extermination, and he wanted to kill, so he would kill those he hated most first.
Let other families have a few survivors,
but the Liu family must die!!!
The Fang family was in the north of the Central Region,
the Liu family was in the south of the Central Region.
Passing through the Four Great Heavenly Pavilions on the way, Wan Lei casually set up several arrays, sealing them off.
He was confident that his arrays were so powerful that even the Heavenly Array Pavilion couldn't break them.
Wan Lei was now a peak Tribulation Crossing Stage elder, his speed was already extremely fast, coupled with the Wind Thunder Wings and his Lightning Escape, he quickly arrived at the Liu family in the southern Central Region.
The Liu family was still reeling from the news of the Fang family's destruction when the demonic figure descended.
As usual, an array was cast overhead.
Wan Lei was incredibly grateful for learning formations; otherwise, how could he, alone, ensure that millions of people wouldn't escape?
"Wan Lei,
No,
Lei Di.
Lei Di, please spare me, spare the Liu family. It was my foolishness back then that led me to hunt you. In view of your great kindness, and the fact that I saved you once on the Myriad Prodigies Ranking, please spare us a path to survival."
The array had already begun its slaughter, the massive Yin Yang millstone ruthlessly crushing all life within.
Wan Lei looked at the Liu family patriarch, who was kneeling and kowtowing at his feet, and burst into laughter.
The darkness in his heart grew, and the thrill of revenge burned his sanity.
The Liu family,
was gone.
With the successive annihilation of the Fang and Liu families, the other factions finally reacted.
The Heaven-Opening Sword Sect was the strongest; they united all the major factions and gathered at the Heaven-Opening Sword Sect, preparing to resist Wan Lei.
Tens of millions of people, resisting the attack of one person.
Wan Lei received this news and ceased his actions.
He was giving them time to gather; he was too lazy to exterminate them one by one.
Three days later, Wan Lei, carrying Fang Xiaoyu, set off for the Heaven-Opening Sword Sect.
The Heaven-Opening Sword Sect had tens of thousands of peaks. Wan Lei spent a considerable amount of time setting up the arrays to trap them all.
Tens of millions of people, surrounded by one person.
The great array unleashed violent winds, fires, thunder, and lightning, ruthlessly shredding the lives within.
Wan Lei went mad; no one could withstand a single blow from him, all were reduced to dust under his lightning.
"Wan Lei, stop killing…"
Fang Xiaoyu wanted to persuade Wan Lei to stop, but Wan Lei glared at her, his eyes filled with such madness and bloodlust that her soul trembled.
Unsurprisingly, even this alliance of forces was completely annihilated by Wan Lei's hands.
It merely took him a little longer, allowing him to kill more heartily.
Wan Lei left, the corpses at the Heaven-Opening Sword Sect piled higher than the mountains.
Next stop, Yin Yang Sect!
Of the nine major factions, only this one remained.
Earlier, when the Heaven-Opening Sword Sect was rallying support, the Yin Yang Sect, relying on being Wan Lei's mother sect and not having participated in the pursuit of Wan Lei, believed that Wan Lei would spare them, just as Lei Di had in the past.
If they had gone to resist, it would have been their own demise.
But they forgot that they had betrayed Wan Lei.
The Yin Yang Sect,
was destroyed.
Qian Duoduo, Ba Ernu, He Shibazhong, and the others all died.
Wan Lei found the Heaven's Condemnation organization and killed all those hidden rats, tearing the corpses of Wan Liuchuan and Qi Manyao into pieces.
He went to the Four Great Heavenly Pavilions, crippled Tian Suanzi and Sui Xiaohang, broke all their bones, and hung them on a cliff to be eaten alive by vultures.
Dead, all dead. The nine major factions, the Four Great Heavenly Pavilions, vanished into thin air.
On this day, it was Lei Di's wedding day, and countless cultivators came to Qishan County to congratulate Lei Di.
Wan Lei looked at the sea of people below; there wasn't a single person he recognized among them.
Loneliness, like a maggot gnawing at his flesh, eroded him.
"Xiaoyu."
"Hmm."
"I only have you."
"Me too."
"So… don't betray me, okay?"