“Wan Lei, spare me, spare me, I’ll do anything you want, just spare my life!”
On a mountaintop, Huo Qingfeng was caught up by Wan Lei and immediately sent crashing to the ground by a punch.
“Hmph, spare you? We are enemies by nature. If I spare you, will you come back later to kill me?”
Wan Lei smashed another fist into Huo Qingfeng’s face.
“No, I absolutely won’t make a move against you again. I’ll become your subordinate, I’ll serve you, I can give you the resources of the Huo family, and the cultivation techniques of the Huo family. Don’t you cultivate flames? I have many flame divine abilities here.”
“No need. Your pathetic flames are no match for my Myriad Flames Origin. With a single flame in my hand, I can suppress all flames under heaven. What use are your messy divine abilities? They would only distract me.”
“Wan Lei! You’re determined to kill me? Your Huo family ancestor won’t let you go!”
Huo Qingfeng was already battered and bleeding. He could feel that Wan Lei intended to kill him.
“You think I’m afraid of you? I have never provoked your Huo family once, but what about you?
Ever since I arrived in the Central Region, your Huo family has targeted me again and again. I have no enmity with you!
First it was Huo Xingyuan, then Huo Ling’er, followed by the Mahayana stage expert Huo Liuli shamelessly attacking me, and now even a tribulation-transcending old monster has appeared!
What wrong have I, Wan Lei, done to deserve such targeting, such hatred from you? I’ve never provoked you. If you hadn’t attacked me, would you be dead now?
If I didn’t have some strength, I would have been killed long ago. Would you have ever considered sparing my life?!”
Wan Lei pulverized Huo Qingfeng’s body with punch after punch. Fang Xiaoyu watched from the side, making no move to stop him.
Whether it was the blood feud with the Huo family or Huo Qingfeng’s act of extracting the souls of so many women to refine divine abilities, he deserved to die without any room for reprieve.
Huo Qingfeng,
this top-tier young prodigy of the previous generation, a powerful being who stood at the pinnacle of the universe at such a young age,
and possessing a perversion that was unacceptable to the world,
yet displaying strength that overshadowed all his peers.
Such a colossal figure,
had died.
He died under Wan Lei’s brutal, wild fists.
This scene stunned Qing Feng and Tao Dian on another nearby mountaintop.
“Holy crap, what did we just see? We actually saw a tribulation-transcending old monster being chased by Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu? We saw a tribulation-transcending old monster begging for mercy? We actually saw Wan Lei beat a tribulation-transcending old monster to death with his bare hands?!”
“What’s happening to this world? Are things this crazy now?”
“That pool of bloody flesh below, we can’t look, we can’t look, it’s too brutal.”
Qing Feng and Tao Dian exchanged glances.
“What should we do? Should we still go ask?”
“If you want to go, you go. I’m not. That Wan Lei just beat a tribulation-transcending old monster to death. What if he hasn’t had his fill and decides to practice on us? Our frail bodies can’t take a single punch.”
“Let’s just run.”
“Let’s go.”
“Wait a moment.”
Qing Feng suddenly stopped, his face contorted in a grimace, as he looked towards another mountain peak.
Tao Dian followed his gaze and immediately felt his legs go weak with fear.
They saw Wan Lei, covered in blood and looking like a demon, looking at them and beckoning them to come over.
The critical part was, he was smiling.
“This is too terrifying, I want to go home, Mommy, this demon is actually smiling at me, it’s too scary!!!”
Qing Feng and Tao Dian looked at each other.
“What do we do, brother?”
“What can we do? Can we really run? Can we outrun them? It’s better to just go obediently, maybe we can even get a glimmer of hope for survival.”
“Alas, it’s all our fault for being too curious. Really, are we fit to witness this kind of peak-level spectacle?”
“If we manage to survive this time, we brothers swear we won’t be nosy anymore. From now on, if we see powerful people fighting, we’ll immediately take a detour.”
“You’re absolutely right.”
The unlucky pair of brothers, with bitter faces, cast backward glances like they were sacrificing themselves for the nation as they flew towards Wan Lei and the other.
The road wasn’t long, but it felt like an eternity. Even though they were Nascent Soul stage cultivators, their speed was comparable to Early Strength stage cultivators.
Even the longest roads eventually come to an end. Finally, they arrived before these two flesh-devouring demons.
The two demons were still smiling, their smiles bright and beautiful. But in the eyes of the unlucky pair of brothers, it was the gaze of devils appreciating their food before a meal.
Although the two prospective meals were extremely terrified, their instinct for self-preservation made them bow immediately.
“Greetings, Senior Wan, Senior Fang.”
Wan Lei chuckled. “Good heavens, to think that one day I would be called Senior.”
“What are you two so nervous about?”
Wan Lei’s tone was familiar, as he was quite acquainted with the two before him.
“Ahem…”
Fang Xiaoyu coughed twice, reminding him that they were now Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu, not Fang Jingzhe and Qi Qingming.
“Not nervous, not nervous.”
Qing Feng and Tao Dian immediately shook their heads, their attitude exceedingly humble.
The two were upright, but not foolish. Facing powerhouses, especially those notorious for their wickedness and who could easily crush them, bowing was not shameful.
“There’s no need to be nervous. We’re not seniors either, just two young people in their twenties.”
Wan Lei’s words made Qing Feng and Tao Dian feel bitter. To be in their twenties and possess such combat power, capable of crushing tribulation-transcending old monsters. All their hundreds of years had been lived in vain.
“Please, just let us go quickly. Stop boasting.”
“What business do you two have here?”
Qing Feng glanced at Tao Dian, mustered his courage, and decided to explain the reason. After all, they had appeared here, and the others were asking, so there had to be a reasonable explanation.
“We were waiting for you.”
“Waiting for me for what? Do we know each other?”
“It’s like this, we have two very close friends, Fang Jingzhe and his wife. They entered the Huo Immortal Secret Realm with us, but after entering, they disappeared without a trace.
When we emerged, we searched for them tirelessly but in vain. We waited outside the entrance for several months, but they didn’t show up.
We happened to see you two emerge, and we originally wanted to ask if you had seen my friends. But then we saw you… battling that…”
Qing Feng looked at the pile of mangled flesh on the ground and took two steps to the side.
“Fighting that powerhouse, and thus it was delayed until now.”
Upon hearing this, Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu both smiled, their hearts warmed.
These two were indeed loyal and righteous. For their sake, whom they had only met a few times, they were willing to wait here for months and brave the “danger” to inquire about their whereabouts from the “bloodthirsty powerhouses.”
To have such friends, what more could one ask for?
At the same time, Wan Lei felt a pang of guilt. He had previously considered killing them to keep his secrets.
Truly, he had been less than human.