Seventh Floor: I want to write a book, and I've already thought of the title, "Starting by Slaughtering Five Element Hall Disciples, I'm Actually the Prodigy Killer Wan Lei." What do you all think, esteemed readers? Any rewards? Monthly passes, recommendation tickets, and rewards are welcome!
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Looking further down, there were all sorts of comments with little substance, mostly disparaging the Five Element Hall disciples and hyping up Wan Lei.
But soon, a comment caught Wan Lei's attention.
Floor 234: Fellow Daoist Wan Lei, please take note. I am a rogue cultivator from the Lava Death Zone. I saw all the Five Element Hall disciples gathered, over ninety of them, preparing to kill you. Hurry and hide. (A rogue cultivator you saved, who wishes to remain anonymous.)
Comments on this floor:
The original poster is a good person, may they have a peaceful life. Wan Lei, keep going! Show those arrogant Five Element Hall disciples who's boss.
This Wan Lei is a scoundrel who kills Five Element Hall disciples. You all are cheering him on. Do you disrespect the Five Element Hall?
The person upstairs is talking nonsense. Respecting the Five Element Hall is irrelevant. We simply want to see prodigies get beaten, it's exhilarating!
I agree. The person above the person upstairs will have a son with no balls. You sanctimonious hypocrites. Don't associate everything with the Five Element Hall. The Five Element Hall is the Five Element Hall, and its disciples are its disciples. We naturally respect the Five Element Hall, but its disciples are not all the same. I was beaten up last time.
Stop talking, is Wan Lei here? Reply.
Can someone find Wan Lei's information and do a background check? Good people have peaceful lives, and have 108 babies in one go.
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Wan Lei automatically ignored the comments from the regulars, his gaze focusing on the one about the Five Element Hall disciples gathering.
"The enemy has assembled. We can't hunt them down one by one anymore. What should we do?"
Wan Lei's eyes swept over Wan Qianxin and Fang Xiaoyu. These two strategists should speak up now.
"Either run or fight. What else can we do?"
Wan Qianxin said calmly.
"Running is out of the question. Look at all the good friends cheering me on. I have to suppress the arrogant aura of the Five Element Hall for them."
"...Are you serious? Over ninety Five Element Hall disciples! One punch from each of them would be enough to blow us apart. Even with our technological weapons, we can't defeat them, as they have those too.
Unless we can find some powerful external force to help, there's no way we can win. They are Five Element Hall disciples. You have to calculate their combat power as early stage Tai Heng Realm when they are in Tai Xu Realm."
Wan Qianxin looked at him as if he were an idiot.
"External force..."
Wan Lei began to ponder. He mainly thought about how he had defeated powerful enemies again and again when he was still weak.
When he was building his foundation and forming his core, he must have relied on external forces to fight powerful enemies; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to win. Later, in his repeated battles against opponents of higher realms, and then when he, a mortal, fought immortals with Liu Naiweng, how did he win...
Suddenly, Wan Lei's eyes lit up. He remembered a most frequently used external force.
"Heavenly Tribulation!"
"You want to borrow the Heavenly Tribulation? But there's no Heavenly Tribulation in the Immortal Realm."
For this ancient term, Wan Qianxin and the others had only heard of it.
"But there is Immortal Tribulation in the Immortal Realm. As long as we can help Fire Phoenix ascend, and lure the enemies over before her ascension, we can use the Immortal Tribulation to kill them."
"But the Immortal Tribulation doesn't distinguish between friend and foe. It counts everyone equally, treating all beings equally."
"It's different. I can control the lightning tribulation, and Xiaoyu can control the wind tribulation. Then, we can use the heavenly tribulation to deal with the enemies.
Oh, right, the Immortal Tribulation seems to count each person individually, not adding them up. Before, when Xiaoyu and I underwent the Heavenly Tribulation, we were counted separately, with each person counting as two. We had to endure the Heavenly Tribulation of four people...
Hmm? How did that calculation go again?
Ah, it doesn't matter. The more enemies there are, the stronger the Immortal Tribulation will be."
Wan Lei's words left the four little ones and Da Da five bewildered.
"You! Can! Control! Heavenly! Tribulation?!"
Xia Yu Bing's eyes were wide open, and she spoke word by word, incredulous.
"Isn't it only those who possess the authority of the plane's will that can control Heavenly Tribulation? Like..."
Han Xiao Yun paused here, then continued, her big eyes rolling,
"Like gods."
Hmph, lying.
Wan Lei saw her reaction just now. He was sure these few youngsters knew someone who could control Heavenly Tribulation.
And he, right after ascending to the Immortal Realm, had been struck by a strange Heavenly Tribulation.
This indicated that they knew the person who struck him, but they obviously didn't want to reveal themselves. However, judging by their reaction upon seeing him, they likely hadn't heard of him before.
This was a major point of doubt.
"Because we are gods. In our home plane, I am the God of Thunder, and Xiaoyu is the Goddess of Wind."
"You're bragging~~"
Bao Bao stared with wide eyes, his innocent face full of disbelief.
"Then we shall see."
After listening to their conversation, Wan Qianxin directly took out a Dao Talisman and said,
"We should be in a place that can help Fire Phoenix ascend quickly and is suitable as an ambush location."
The Dao Talisman burned, and immediately a majestic power appeared. The scene before Wan Lei and the others rapidly changed, and in the blink of an eye, they arrived in an unfamiliar place.
It was a continuous mountain range, bare and dark. In the distance, the coast of a lava sea could be seen.
Wan Lei noticed that Wan Qianxin's complexion was somewhat pale and displeased.
"What kind of awesome treasure is this, that can take us wherever it wants?"
"Daoist True Word Talisman. Whatever is spoken comes to pass, it can control the rules of heaven and earth and fulfill any of your wishes."
Wan Qianxin explained as he regulated his breathing.
"This is amazing! It can fulfill anything? Then take a Dao Talisman and say that all the Five Element Hall disciples here are dead, and we won't have to do anything, we'll win directly."
Wan Lei's eyes were very excited.
"Believe me, if I did that, I'd be dead before the Five Element Hall disciples."
Wan Qianxin rolled his eyes.
"All cultivation and means are inseparable from the principle of equivalent exchange. The stronger the attack you want to unleash, the more energy you need to consume.
Similarly, this talisman has a backlash, which the caster must bear. If I dared to say we are on the Immortal Realm continent right now, the backlash would be enough to annihilate my soul, let alone kill all the Five Element Hall disciples.
The energy required to kill so many people would be enough to turn me into a dried corpse in an instant, and I'd basically be ready for the funeral banquet."
"This is why your face is so pale, right? The energy needed to transport us from there to here had to be paid by you."
Wan Qianxin nodded silently.
"But why is this a suitable place for Fire Phoenix to ascend? Is there anything special about it?"
Wan Lei scratched his head, not understanding, and took out the Fate Controlling Diagram to release Fire Phoenix.