As Xia Yubing finished her shout, before her words even faded, a massive hand composed of pure energy appeared in the sky.
That hand was filled with vast and majestic Dao rhythm, indescribable and yet inspiring an irresistible urge to submit.
The moment the hand appeared, the middle-aged man in black immediately sobered up, his entire body feeling as if plunged into an ice cave. All lust and inner fire vanished completely. Terrified, his scalp prickling, he immediately turned and fled.
But the hand was faster, it grasped the middle-aged man in black and, with a gentle twist, a "poof" was heard. The middle-aged man in black, his physical body and soul, instantly turned into dust.
The energy hand dissipated.
The scene fell into a terrifying silence.
Apart from the four little ones, Wan Lei and the others were all dumbfounded.
Wan Lei's mouth hung open, his mind unable to process it for a moment.
Did he have a trump card? Yes, he did.
But his trump card was the Wind Blade Escape Technique. He had planned that if he reached a critical juncture, he would, regardless of the risk of exposure, use the Wind Blade Escape Technique to lead everyone away, hoping they might escape.
He also knew that the four little ones definitely had trump cards. After all, as descendants of great clans, they wouldn't venture out without some means of saving their lives.
But what he never expected was that their trump card would be to directly summon a powerful figure to save them?
What kind of trump card was this? With such a trump card, you should be walking sideways in the Immortal Realm, what were you even doing cultivating here?
And that hand just now, it must have been Xia Yubing's father, displaying his power. But what kind of divine ability, without its本体 appearing, could form a hand purely from energy and crush a mighty being in the Boundless Realm like an ant?
That was the Boundless Realm! A master of Dao, who had established his own domain. In the Immortal Realm, he was considered a powerful figure, a mighty being standing at the peak of a mountain!
And he just died?
Died silently, as if he had passed gas and vanished?
Without any dignity!
Was the author not afraid of being cursed to death by readers for designing such a hasty plot?!
Wan Lei quickly stopped his wandering thoughts and began to ponder that earth-shattering move.
Firstly, as a peerless prodigy like himself, he could indeed crush and instantly kill an opponent of a lower level, but that would require his own personal effort.
However, having learned the general concepts of the various realms in the Immortal Realm, he knew that the mark of entering the Boundless Realm was possessing one's own unique Dao. Within one's own Dao, claiming invincibility might be an exaggeration, but one was fundamentally in an unassailable position.
Even a Golden Immortal, who was one realm higher than the Boundless Realm, would find it difficult to instantly kill a Boundless Realm expert. They would typically first erode and destroy the opponent's Dao with their own, and then kill them.
So, the subsequent deduction was not difficult. An expert who could kill a Boundless Realm expert to the point of utter annihilation, without their本体 appearing and without unleashing any divine abilities, merely by condensing energy…
A Saint!
This thought, like the truth, occupied Wan Lei's mind. Wan Lei was a good student and always asked questions when he didn't understand.
"Are your fathers Saints?"
The four little ones were stunned, then all shook their heads.
"No, no."
"How is that possible?"
"How could our fathers possibly be Saints? You think too highly of them."
"Saints in the Immortal Realm are as rare as phoenix feathers. If we were Saintly descendants, we would be walking sideways in the Immortal Realm, not coming out to work and be like grandchildren."
Hmph, I don't believe a word of it!
Wan Lei rolled his eyes. In that instant, he understood many things.
Whether these four little ones were descendants of the higher echelons of the Five Elements Hall was yet to be verified, but they were definitely Saintly descendants. Other beings of different realms couldn't so easily crush a Boundless Realm expert.
Wan Lei recalled the world-ending move just now. He could sense that the energy condensed in that hand was entirely of the Metal element. This meant that the powerful being was likely a Metal-element Saint.
So, who were the Metal-element Saints?
Wan Lei's deduction stopped, because he didn't know.
As of now, the only thing that could be confirmed was that the Hall Master of the Metal Hall in the Five Elements Hall was definitely of the Metal element. As for other Saints, he knew none!
Never mind, he'd check another day.
Wan Lei pondered for a few minutes. The four little ones and Da Da Fang Xiaoyu and others had already gone to slaughter the remaining Immortal Realm cultivators.
Most of those Immortal Realm cultivators did not even know that their sect had a Boundless Realm ancestor. Otherwise, they wouldn't have chosen to flee rather than seek help after their main peak was destroyed and a large number of casualties occurred.
And those who occasionally knew, such as the four Tai Heng Realm cultivators, had already been wiped out in that sudden barrage of explosions.
Wan Lei and the others were like breaking bamboo, moving quickly, continuously pursuing these remnant enemies.
The protective grand formation had long been modified by Wan Lei, preventing these people from leaving. It was unlikely that such advanced technological creations as formation-breaking devices would exist in this small sect. Even if they did, Wan Lei and the others would have killed them before they could break the formation.
Wan Lei and the others had endured immense difficulty when facing the mass attacks of the Five Elements Hall disciples. But that depended on who the enemy was. They were from the Five Elements Hall, all heavenly prodigies. But these people were mere outlaws, rogue cultivators, individuals who had practiced evil arts and were at their wit's end in the outside world. How could they withstand the might of their seven heavenly prodigies?
That's right, seven of them, because the other three had quietly slipped away into the distance.
After the death of the Boundless Realm expert, Qing Wu sensed a strong aura of inner fire at the location where that person had appeared. She wanted to investigate but was worried about encountering danger, so she pulled Hu Feng along with her.
Hu Feng had already broken through to the Immortal Realm. Even if she wasn't a match for other seasoned Immortal Realm experts, she could still hold them off for a moment and call for help.
Since Qing Wu and Hu Feng were going, Yuan Jun naturally couldn't be left behind. She didn't dare to stay alone in mid-air, and she couldn't enter the spaceship without Xia Yubing's authorization.
The three women quietly flew to the front of the collapsed mountain peak, where they found the ruins of a cave dwelling.
Most of the mountain above this cave dwelling had been blown far away by the explosion when the Boundless Realm expert appeared. However, a portion had also directly collapsed, burying the cave dwelling.
The three women used their spiritual energy to move away all the large rocks and began searching among the debris.
Relying on her senses for inner fire, Qing Wu flew deeper and finally found her destination.
She moved aside the stones and broken tables and chairs, revealing the true appearance beneath.
It was a formation carved into the ground. The formation was not large, only about one meter in diameter, and it emitted a hazy pink mist.
In the very center of the formation, there was also a small bead, pink in color, almost invisible if not carefully examined.
"What is this thing?"
Yuan Jun asked curiously.
"Based on my guess, this formation should have been set up by that powerful being to collect the inner fire from this valley. As for that bead, it contains a very potent inner fire. It should have been collected and stored there.
Then, that powerful being would use this bead to cultivate his inner fire."