"They're fighting?"
Tao Dian propped himself up on the hillside, peeking out cautiously.
The scene before them was rather peculiar. Due to the distance, they hadn't heard what Huo Qingfeng and Wan Lei, Fang Xiaoyu had said to each other. However, they recognized Huo Qingfeng from the characteristics of his cultivation techniques and attire; he was a Tribulation Crossing expert.
Then, Huo Qingfeng unleashed an attack. The flames ensnared Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu, after which the two figures went still. To an outsider, it appeared as though they were unable to resist and were being consumed by the blazing inferno.
"They are fighting. Even though they've broken through to Mahayana, they're no match for an old monster in Tribulation Crossing, are they? What do we do?"
Qing Feng still wanted to ask Wan Lei about Fang Jingzhe's whereabouts. What if Wan Lei was killed by Huo Qingfeng?
"What can we do? Just wait patiently. Do you really want to go and help Wan Lei? The residual power from a single move by a Tribulation Crossing expert could kill you instantly.
Or, why don't you try to plead for mercy?
You could say, 'Junior Qing Feng pays his respects to Senior Qing Feng, and I ask you to spare Wan Lei for the sake of our shared name, Qing Feng.'"
Hearing his friend's teasing, Qing Feng helplessly curled his lips.
"It would be a great pity if Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu were to die like this. Although their conduct is somewhat questionable, they are still rare peerless prodigies in the Thunder Wind Realm, appearing once in tens of thousands of years. It's said they have a chance to ascend to immortality.
No one has ascended to immortality in our Thunder Wind Realm for fifty thousand years. If these two die, when will we ever have another powerful immortal being?
In any case, I feel their deaths are unjust. I don't wish to see them die.
We, like your brother Jingzhe, are among the very few upright individuals in this world. We cannot simply say someone deserves to die just because their conduct is poor. I heard Wan Lei even saved many people in the Water Immortal Secret Realm."
"What exactly are you trying to say?"
Tao Dian was becoming impatient.
"Let's try to find a way to save them. Even if we don't directly participate, we can spread the news and have the Fang family come to rescue them."
"Alright, it's a small favor."
Tao Dian had no objections.
This area was rather remote, and the Fire Immortal Secret Realm had ended months ago. There were no cultivators around, and the only high-level cultivators were the two of them. Only they could quickly spread the news.
The two were rogue cultivators with a wide circle of friends. With their deliberate efforts, the news quickly spread throughout the Central Domain.
First, Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu emerged from the Fire Immortal Secret Realm, undergoing the Heavenly Tribulation and breaking through to Mahayana.
Second, Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu were ambushed by Huo Qingfeng, an old monster in Tribulation Crossing from the Huo family, and were currently locked in a fierce battle!
Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu, who were supposedly in a "fierce battle," sat on chairs, holding wine cups, drinking fine wine, and admiring the dance of naked women before them.
This method was truly rather low-class.
If it were the past versions of themselves, regardless of cultivation, they would have been cautious and strategic when facing these illusions, perhaps even using array cores to try and break them, lest their defenses be breached and they succumb.
But now, they were completely unfazed.
Firstly, in the Fire Immortal Secret Realm, they had battled with masters of illusions like Bu Zhi Huo Qingwu. At that time, while facing the physical attacks of the Fire Phoenix and Xi Ren Yuan Jun, they also had to guard against Bu Zhi Huo Qingwu's Heart Fire temptation.
Although the author did not explicitly detail their illusory experiences, intelligent readers could still imagine the danger of the heart fire spreading within their minds, luring forth their deepest desires.
Having witnessed such grand spectacles, Huo Qingfeng's simple illusion of sexual temptation seemed rather crude.
These two were not famished wolves, unable to move at the sight of beauties. Moreover, Fang Xiaoyu was a woman herself.
Secondly, they now possessed the Myriad Fire Origin, the Origin Fire, using its core to protect their mental defenses. The scene before them had no alluring effect on them whatsoever.
Everything before them was bland and uninteresting.
The wine in their cups was also fire transformed. Drinking it caused no harm, and it even slightly replenished their energy.
Finally, Wan Lei grew tired.
He threw down his wine cup, and a wisp of heart fire appeared at his fingertip. The moment the heart fire emerged, the heart fire that created the illusion was involuntarily absorbed into Wan Lei's heart fire. The illusion shattered on its own.
The vast pink flames recoiled towards Wan Lei's fingertip. After Wan Lei absorbed the heart fire, the hundreds of naked women suddenly screamed in agony.
The flames within their bodies were also being extracted by Wan Lei. As the flames were drawn out, the women wailed in pain, as if the extracted flames were their very life essence. With the departure of the flames, their aura quickly weakened.
"Stop extracting!"
Fang Xiaoyu immediately said, and Wan Lei ceased.
After Wan Lei stopped, the naked women, screaming, charged towards the two of them.
"These women are not creations of illusion; they are real souls. Damn it, they must be unfortunate women who were captured and tortured to death by Huo Qingfeng.
After their deaths, their souls were extracted by Huo Qingfeng, their bodies condensed by flames, completely controlled, and refined into part of this divine ability. Even in death, they are denied reincarnation into the underworld."
Flames still burned around Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu's bodies. The women formed from those flames, upon reaching them, cried out in pain as they were consumed by the flames, yet under Huo Qingfeng's command, they were forced to attack Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu like moths to a flame.
"This scoundrel!"
Wan Lei gritted his teeth.
"To refine divine abilities using human souls!"
"Heh, isn't that always been the tradition of the Huo family? Didn't you destroy a few families who slaughtered mortals for soul refining in the Yin Yang Sect? That was the Huo family's doing.
This family, so dirty and despicable, dares to call itself a peak power, dares to be one of the leaders of the Thunder Wind Realm!"
"I must kill him. He has to die!"
This perverted depravity had crossed Wan Lei's bottom line. Without his death, Wan Lei could not rest.
"Let's first find a way to save these souls and prevent them from being manipulated by Huo Qingfeng to fight."
"That's easy."
Wan Lei flicked his hand, took out the Fate Controlling Diagram, and tossed it into the sky. The diagram opened, exerting a powerful suction force. The souls of these women were immediately absorbed into the Fate Controlling Diagram.
This was the only treasure Wan Lei possessed that could contain souls. As they were still in combat, he could only store them for now and find a way to liberate these women in the future. Da Feng Novel Network.
Huo Qingfeng looked at the Fate Controlling Diagram in the sky, then down at Wan Lei. His eyes held a mixture of apprehension and caution.
"Heh, I didn't expect my divine ability to be so easily deciphered by you. You actually cultivate Heart Fire.
I am very curious, how do you, a cultivator of lightning attribute and wind attribute respectively, cultivate our fire attribute divine abilities?"