Chai Yan led the disciples and arrived at Wan Lei's location in an instant, surrounding them.
After the encirclement was complete, Chai Yan was about to utter some fierce words to build up the atmosphere, but he was preempted.
"You little bastards from the Five Elements Hall, come out and fight to the death with this lord!"
Xia Yu Bing provocatively brandished his wine gourd.
"This grandma is not afraid of you. You are all mere chickens and dogs."
Han Xiao Yun staggered.
"How dare the insignificant Five Elements Hall be arrogant before this seat? I shall employ a small stratagem and turn you all to ashes!"
Wan Qian Xin shouted with grand pronouncements.
"I... I want to fight ten!"
Bao Bao's face was flushed red. After holding his wine gourd for a long time, he managed to blurt out this single sentence.
"Come on over and let me show you how amazing I am."
"So what if it's the Five Elements Hall? Am I afraid of you? I was born to destroy the Five Elements Hall!"
"Hey, pretty sisters, come and dance for me, and I'll give you a reward."
"Perform some talent, like a backflip, and we'll spare your lives."
...
The four youngsters provocatively taunted them, and Wan Lei's mouth twitched. He mused that once they sobered up and recalled this scene, it would likely be a massive collective moment of social embarrassment.
They would probably be so embarrassed they'd try to dig holes in the ground with their toes.
The four little ones were fully embodying the spirit of "if they're not embarrassed, then it's everyone else who should be."
The disciples of the Five Elements Hall were already mortified to the extreme.
Originally filled with killing intent and powerful momentum, determined to cleave Wan Lei's dog head and avenge the Five Elements Hall, they were now facing an unexpected turn of events. Witnessing four drunken little brats acting so recklessly, their Dao hearts had begun to crumble.
"Are these children... drunk?"
Chai Yan's eyes widened in shock, still filled with disbelief.
"They shouldn't be. Can Immortal Realm experts get drunk?"
"Then how do you explain this scene?"
"Perhaps they're trying to provoke our anger?"
"But what benefit would provoking us bring them?"
The disciples discussed amongst themselves.
Chai Yan calmed himself and decided to ignore the four eye-sore children for the moment, turning his gaze to Wan Lei.
"Are you Wan Lei?"
Wan Lei glanced at the four embarrassingly acting youngsters, covered his face, and replied,
"No, I'm not."
"...Are these four your companions?"
"No, I don't know them."
"...Are you f***ing with me?"
Chai Yan was enraged. Based on the intelligence transmitted by the Five Elements Hall disciples killed by Wan Lei, this group was undoubtedly the culprits.
His questioning was merely routine. After all, confirming the identity before killing and taking photos as evidence was the consistent practice and rule of the Five Elements Hall.
According to custom, when asked if he was Wan Lei, the other party should have replied "Indeed" or "It is your grandfather, me." However, despite the irrefutable evidence, the person before him actually denied it.
Truly shameless.
Chai Yan took a deep breath, forcefully suppressing his anger, and was about to utter some more harsh words, accusing the other party of disrespecting the Five Elements Hall, and declaring that they would protest Wan Lei's slaughter and punish him severely. Just then, the person before him suddenly moved.
He wasn't charging towards them.
Fang Xiao Yu and Da Da each grabbed two of the youngsters. Wan Lei stomped on the ground, and a one-time teleportation array appeared. Their figures vanished in an instant.
"They ran?"
The disciples of the Five Elements Hall were shocked. They immediately turned to look around. To their surprise, they saw Wan Lei and the others in the distance.
"Over there."
"Chase!"
The group surged forward, but a large array, glowing with purple light, erupted from the ground and enveloped them.
An area of a hundred miles was covered by the formation, and they were trapped.
"It's a formation! Someone among them knows formations?!"
A disciple exclaimed.
"We fell into a trap."
Chai Yan glared fiercely at his obviously illogical junior disciple, then looked at the formation.
The formation had begun to emanate an aura of deathly stillness.
"Hmph, this kid wants to take us all down. Isn't his appetite a bit too big?"
Chai Yan looked at his beautiful junior sister.
"Ling Yin, I recall you have a formation-breaking artifact. Take it out. We are all clueless about formations; we'll have to rely on the formation-breaker to break it."
"Hmph, how powerful can a formation set up by a mere Tai Xu realm cultivator be? If you all concentrate your attacks on it for a while, it will be broken.
Formation-breaking artifacts are precious. My father pulled strings and spent a lot of money to get this for me. If it breaks, can you afford to compensate me?"
Ling Yin habitually retorted to Chai Yan.
"You..."
Chai Yan's expression turned extremely unpleasant. However, the formation-breaking artifact belonged to her, so he couldn't forcefully demand it. He immediately ordered,
"Everyone, unleash your full power and break this formation."
Nearly a hundred disciples of the Five Elements Hall immediately attacked, unleashing streams of fire towards the formation.
The formation began to emit countless black energies, and purple rain, capable of destroying all life, descended from the sky.
The flames met the purple rain and were quickly extinguished, while some of the purple rain was vaporized by the flames.
However, the vaporized purple rain did not mean its aura of deathly stillness disappeared. Those energies merged into the black energy, continuing to erode the life force of the Five Elements Hall disciples.
The purple rain poured down, and the flames of the Five Elements Hall disciples could barely reach the formation. From initially holding its own against the purple rain, they were now gradually being suppressed.
The once invincible prodigies of the Five Elements Hall, in an era where formations were in decline, once again witnessed the power of formations.
The purple rain gradually fell upon them, beginning to corrode their life force.
In the sky, Da Da and Fang Xiao Yu were still holding onto the four youngsters who were shouting about fighting the Five Elements Hall disciples to the death. Meanwhile, Wan Lei was above, casting the Rain-Calling Divine Ability.
The purple rain from the formation alone was not enough. Wan Lei also contributed to the erosion of the Five Elements Hall disciples' life force.
Seeing the Five Elements Hall disciples below still resisting, Wan Lei took out the Creation God Disk, suppressed the four youngsters, and then had Fang Xiao Yu cast the Wind-Calling ability to work with him in eroding their enemies.
Fang Xiao Yu freed her hands and circulated her spiritual energy towards the Five Elements Hall disciples within the formation. Instantly, gusts of chilling wind appeared within the formation.
Chilling winds, purple rain, black energy, and lightning.
Multiple different attack methods launched a fierce assault on the arrogant prodigies of the Five Elements Hall.
Chai Yan could never have imagined that dealing with mere rogue cultivators at the Tai Xu realm would be so difficult.
They hadn't even touched the enemy's side before being stunned by this series of attacks.
Shame! This was an immense disgrace!
"Ling Yin, quickly use the formation-breaking artifact! If we continue to stall like this, we won't even be able to fight the enemy and will die here."
Ling Yin was not unreasonable. She had merely been vexed with Chai Yan earlier. Seeing their disadvantage now, she immediately took out the formation-breaking artifact and placed it on the ground.