Wan Lei’s frenzied tone and bloodshot eyes instilled fear in everyone below.
Today, perhaps, no one would escape.
Huo Xuanqi knew that no matter what, Wan Lei would not let him off.
Watching the internal strife of the Huo family from the sky, his sealing of the array, his declaration that only one person would survive, were all to satisfy his vengeful pleasure.
The more miserable the enemy, the happier he would be.
“Wan Lei, you’re mad. I admit you’re strong, but don’t you think you can wipe out all of us in the Huo family by yourself?
This is the Huo family, not some small family or minor force. My Huo family has been passed down for over fifty thousand years. If a single Tribulation Transcending cultivator could destroy us, we would have been wiped out ten thousand times over.
Though we are weak individually, united as one, you still can’t kill us all!”
“Is that so? If it were any other family or force, wiping out tens of millions at once would indeed be difficult for me. But you are the Huo family.
Your Huo family knows nothing about flames.”
Indeed, if it were any other family, relying on various defensive structures, magical treasures, and profound techniques, even with Wan Lei’s strength, he couldn’t fight millions alone; he wasn't an immortal.
But this was the Huo family, and he felt much more confident dealing with them.
“Since Alliance Leader Wan has no intention of letting us live, we will show Alliance Leader Wan that we, the Huo family, are not weaklings who will stand idly by.
We wanted to surrender, we wanted to serve you, but since you’re forcing us to death, don’t blame us for being impolite!”
Huo Xuanqi’s voice turned fierce as he turned to face all the Huo family members behind him.
“You’ve all heard him. Wan Lei doesn’t plan to spare anyone; he won’t even spare mortals. What are you waiting for? For them to come and chop off your heads?
Everyone, take out your weapons and prepare yourselves at the defensive positions. Today, we will fight Alliance Leader Wan in a battle of attrition!”
Huo Xuanqi’s words startled everyone. They immediately scattered. The great array was sealed by Wan Lei, and none of them could escape. All they could do was resist.
Huo Xuanqi produced a glazed bottle. The bottle was jade green all over, yet it emanated a chilling aura.
Without hesitation, he opened the glazed bottle. The flames within surged out like flowing clouds, enveloping the entire internal area.
The temperature of the flames was extremely high. Even standing in the sky, Wan Lei could clearly feel the terrifying heat.
The Huo family disciples within, bathed in this sea of flames, felt their auras subtly strengthen. This sea of fire seemed to have an augmenting effect on them.
“Wan Lei, let this old man see how powerful your lightning is. Can it cleave through my fire cloud domain?”
“Lightning? Who said I would use lightning?”
Wan Lei’s words caused everyone to pause.
Everyone knew that Wan Lei was a lightning-attribute cultivator, wielding various forms of lightning with unparalleled skill.
The strongest lightning user in the Lei Feng Realm, facing millions, was not going to use lightning?
Then what would he use?
“I will use fire.”
Wan Lei’s expression turned solemn. With a flip of his hand, a wisp of Origin Fire appeared in his palm.
The moment this flame appeared, the fire clouds below, as well as the cultivation flames on each cultivator, seemed to uncontrollably bow towards this wisp of Origin Fire.
“You… what is this?”
Huo Xuanqi was stunned. He seemed to understand the reliance Wan Lei had for his confidence in destroying the Huo family this time.
“I told you, you know nothing about flames.”
In an instant, boundless flames ignited around Wan Lei.
“Wind.”
Wan Lei requested wind from Fang Xiaoyu.
Fang Xiaoyu frowned with concern, looking at Wan Lei.
“This is not good. There are still many mortals below. If you kill them all, the sin will be too great.”
“Did they show any mercy to the mortals of our Lei Feng Realm? In the Liu family’s territory, how many people died from the Wu, Zhou, and Dun families?
You leave. Go to the Kai Tian Sword Sect. I will bear the sin of this place alone.”
Fang Xiaoyu shook her head.
“I will not leave. I said long ago, no matter what you do, I will accompany you. If you are wrong, I will be wrong with you.
This sin, I will bear it with you.”
Fang Xiaoyu stopped looking at Wan Lei, raised both her arms high, and a storm composed of flames formed in the central area of the Huo family.
The storm began as a single point, a pillar of flame spinning towards the heavens.
But as Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu continuously fed flames into it, the fire storm grew.
The storm mercilessly crushed all enemies it encountered; no one could withstand it for long. The moment they were engulfed by the storm, they turned to ash, their spiritual energy becoming nourishment for the flames.
Huo Xuanqi was crushed to death the moment the fire storm appeared.
The entire Huo family was mobilized. They used their weapons, their divine abilities, and the defensive structures on the various peaks of the Huo family to attack the fire storm.
However, most of the Huo family’s attacks were fire-related. The moment these flames appeared, they were involuntarily absorbed by the fire storm.
The ancestors of the Huo family never imagined that one day, an enemy would use flames against them.
The fire storm, though seemingly slow, was incredibly swift in its spread.
It continued to grow, expanding outwards, crushing everything in its path.
Those sucked in wailed, while those trying to escape cursed, but it was all in vain.
No matter how much they cursed or pleaded, they couldn’t move the stone-hearted Wan Lei in the slightest.
The internal area of the Huo family turned to ash and was razed to the ground.
The external area was also being continuously devoured.
The cultivators rushed to the edge of the great array, but the array that had once protected them now became their prison.
The fire storm lasted for over an hour before it disappeared.
Within the great array, the scene was one of devastation, with smoke everywhere. Apart from the two of them, there was no other living soul.
The Huo family, one of the nine great powers that had stood in the Lei Feng Realm for over fifty thousand years,
vanished into thin air.
Fang Xiaoyu looked at the surrounding smoke and smelled the acrid scent of charred remains. Before she could say anything, dense tribulation clouds suddenly gathered in the sky.
“Heavenly Tribulation?”
Fang Xiaoyu frowned. Hadn’t they already passed their tribulation for breakthrough?
“No.”
Wan Lei shook his head.
This phenomenon, which Fang Xiaoyu had never seen, he was all too familiar with.
Wan Lei raised his head and shouted angrily,
“Heavenly Punishment! I know you are the embodiment of the Heavenly Dao’s will, the manifestation of the universe’s heart, the symbol of heavenly might.
I have killed too many people, and you wish to strike me down, is that it?
But do you know who I am? I am the leader of the greatest alliance in the Lei Feng Realm, the savior of this era. If I die, you will only be modified by the demonic race and become their slave. This universe will become the territory of the demonic race. Without me, no one can save you.
At that time, will you still be you?
Now, I want to ask you,
Do you wish to die?”