He stood in mid-air, frozen, blood still dripping from Feng Qu's head in his hand.
"Wan Lei, you're back. It's good that Feng Qu is dead. Our mission is complete. The main branch of the Feng family has been wiped out."
Qu Qingyan flew to his side, apparently having waited for quite some time.
Wan Lei looked up, his eyes bloodshot and his expression ferocious.
"What's... wrong with you?"
"Our orders were to exterminate the clan, not to slaughter the city. Are all the people in this city surnamed Feng? Why did you kill everyone in the city?!"
"I..."
Qu Qingyan was startled by Wan Lei's angry tone and was flustered. She forced herself to calm down.
"How was I supposed to know if there were Feng family members mixed in with the common people? What if the direct descendants of the Feng family escaped?
Besides, these people resisted us along with the Feng family, so we had to eliminate them all.
Furthermore, our orders were to exterminate the clan, but this is the Feng family's city. What's the difference between exterminating the clan and slaughtering the city?"
"I hope you can still be so stubborn when the heavenly punishment descends upon you!"
Wan Lei threw Feng Qu's head at Qu Qingyan.
"I..."
Qu Qingyan's face turned pale. She had clearly remembered that slaughtering mortals would incur heavenly retribution.
"The army did it, I didn't personally. The heavenly punishment shouldn't fall on me, right?"
"But you gave the order!"
Wan Lei took a deep breath. The strong smell of blood agitated his nerves, making him restless.
"Have you found the Myriad Souls Night-Dyeing Pill? This is the most important thing. It must not fall into the hands of outsiders. This is also evidence of the Feng family's crimes."
"The army is searching. They should find it soon."
"Okay, I'll go look too."
After speaking, Wan Lei entered the city without looking back.
"What nerve! Hmph!"
Qu Qingyan disdainfully wrapped Feng Qu's head in a cloth and put it into her storage bag.
Wan Lei walked aimlessly through the city streets. He said he was looking for the pill, but he wasn't.
He didn't know what he was going to do.
Or rather, what else could he do at this point...
The city was eerily quiet. There were no screams or wails. The Yin Yang Sect had acted ruthlessly, leaving no survivors.
Wan Lei wished he could hear a single cry for help, so he could save someone.
It wasn't really about saving people, but he just wanted to do something to distract himself from his gloomy mood.
Occasionally, squads of the Yin Yang Sect army passed by him, nodding in greeting, but he remained indifferent.
This city was vast, much larger than any of the Wan family's cities.
The collapsed houses and scattered corpses by the roadside all testified that just an hour ago, this was a bustling and lively city.
The Southern Mansion of the Wan family should also be this lively.
Seeing the tragedy here, Wan Lei couldn't help but imagine what would happen if his innate lightning body were ever exposed. Would the Wan family face the same fate?
Extermination, slaughter, everything turned into scorched earth.
No, he had to think of a way to leave a way out, but...
The Wan family was there. Everyone in the Thunder Wind Realm knew that the direct descendants of the Thunder Emperor lived in Qishan County, Lan Ning Country.
There was no escape.
Therefore, he had to prepare for the worst. If he were truly exposed and the armies of the six families attacked, what would happen to the Wan family?
How could they leave a path of survival?
The Fang family shouldn't attack, right? No, he couldn't completely trust the Fang family. Under the overwhelming trend, the Fang family wouldn't resist the other five families for the sake of the Wan family.
It would be good enough if they didn't attack.
Besides, why wouldn't they attack?
He didn't believe the Wan family had the ability to resist the armies of the six families.
Wasn't the Feng family strong enough?
Two Nascent Soul stage cultivators, dozens of Core Formation stage cultivators, and countless Foundation Establishment stage cultivators below them. In Lan Ning Country, they were on par with the emperor, and even the entire country had to curry favor with them.
Compared to the Wan family, which only had two Nascent Soul stage cultivators and dozens of Core Formation stage cultivators, the Feng family was a behemoth.
Yet, such a family couldn't even last an hour under the attack of a small army and a few Nascent Soul stage cultivators from the Yin Yang Sect, becoming a wasteland.
This family was henceforth removed from the Central Domain.
Then, what would be the fate of the Wan family when they faced these peak powers in the future?
Wan Lei didn't believe that the six families would still care about the Thunder Emperor's Art or the Thunder Emperor's reputation at that time.
At that time, the Wan family would inevitably be destroyed, and he would also face the endless pursuit of the six families.
Even if he offered himself up for execution, and they killed him, the six families would still destroy the Wan family.
Not for any other reason, but because the Wan family had produced two innate lightning bodies, and who could guarantee that a third wouldn't appear?
The bloodline of the Thunder Emperor... who could say for sure.
Wan Lei's heart was filled with confusion. He walked aimlessly through the streets, and in a daze, he seemed to be walking through the streets of the Southern Mansion of the Wan family, surrounded by civilians and cultivators massacred by the six families.
As if seeing a scene from a hallucination, the clan head of the Wan family questioned him, asking why he had attracted the armies of the six families.
"What should we do about the Wan family... I need to think of a way. I can't rely on anyone for this..."
Wan Lei muttered to himself.
Suddenly, a shout came from ahead.
"Found it! The Myriad Souls Night-Dyeing Pill is found!"
Wan Lei suddenly looked up, only to realize that he had walked to the center of the city.
The sound came from a courtyard behind the Feng family's main residence.
Wan Lei flashed over and arrived at this inconspicuous little courtyard.
In the courtyard, the lid of a cellar was open.
Wan Lei entered the cellar. Inside, a group of Yin Yang Sect disciples were curiously looking at an alchemy furnace.
Wan Lei didn't look at the alchemy furnace first but carefully observed his surroundings.
This cellar was much larger than expected.
The strong smell of blood that hit him made Wan Lei's nose twitch.
Behind the alchemy furnace was a huge blood pool.
The blood pool was very large. Wan Lei estimated that the entire underground of the Feng family had been hollowed out to create such a large blood pool.
The blood in the pool had solidified into blocks, with many heads on the frozen blood. Some had terrified eyes, some had their mouths agape, and some had their faces contorted, as if they had suffered immense pain in life.
"Greetings, Senior Brother Lei. Senior Brother Lei, this is where the Feng family refined the Myriad Souls Night-Dyeing Pill. According to our speculation, they must have fixed the souls of mortals in their heads and then subjected them to inhumane torture. When their resentment reached its peak, they would cut off their heads and extract their souls.
There are only heads in this blood pool, which were clearly thrown here after their souls were extracted.
It's truly inhuman."
As the disciple spoke, his face was filled with indignation.
"What's the difference between what you did in the city and what the Feng family did?"
Wan Lei glanced coldly at the disciple, making him break out in a cold sweat.