As the enemies, high on their assault against Wan Lei and the others, were at their peak, dozens of lightning bolts suddenly struck down from the sky.
One bolt for each person, quite fair.
Instantly, screams erupted everywhere.
Chai Yan's face darkened, and he sneered,
“You lured us here, intending to use the Immortal Tribulation to even the odds? How laughable. We are all Tai Xu realm powerhouses who have already passed our Immortal Tribulations. Even if the tribulation's intensity increases with cultivation, we can withstand it.
Moreover, the Immortal Tribulation strikes indiscriminately; you will be hit as well. Already at a disadvantage, the tribulation will only worsen your situation.
You truly are destroying a thousand of your enemies while sacrificing twelve hundred of your own.”
“You will surely die.”
Wan Qianxin’s face was calm, his tone indifferent.
“Oh? What gives you that confidence?”
“Because you talk too much.”
“Hm?”
Chai Yan was momentarily baffled.
“Villains in novels always die from talking too much. Haven’t you read novels?”
Wan Qianxin’s utterly serious statement made Chai Yan laugh scornfully,
“Hmph, why would I waste my time reading such things? Isn’t it better to cultivate more during that time?”
“You’ll regret not reading more novels.”
Wan Qianxin shook his head and sighed.
The melee resumed.
Not long after, the second wave of Immortal Tribulation descended.
After enduring another round of the tribulation, everyone sustained minor injuries, while Wan Lei and the others, already beaten down, were more severely wounded.
Wan Qianxin transmitted his voice to Wan Lei,
“Didn’t you say you could control the Immortal Tribulation? Why haven’t you acted yet?”
“The time isn’t right yet. The tribulation lightning is still sparse; it’s not enough to kill Chai Yan in one go. By the fourth wave, it will be close. Thousands of tribulation bolts will surely kill him.”
Wan Lei explained.
Wan Qianxin nodded and said no more.
The group continued to feign weakness, only able to resist and endure the enemy’s attacks.
The third wave of tribulation arrived.
In this wave, the disciples of the Five Elements Hall and Wan Lei’s group still endured the attacks head-on, and Wan Lei and the others’ injuries worsened.
The four youngsters had some defensive artifacts, but they could only provide individual protection. Unlike the prismatic shields of the Five Elements Hall disciples, their four members were largely unharmed. Dà Dā, a rough fellow, had an incredibly robust physique. As for Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu, having lost their protective armor in the final battle of the Lei Feng Realm, they could only rely on their physical bodies to resist.
However, with their Innate Thunder Body, Wind Body, and the Haotian Battle Body, they could endure the enemy’s prolonged attacks.
As for the increasingly severe injuries they sustained…
Those who understand, understand.
Seeing Wan Lei and the others’ defensive perimeter shrinking and their injuries worsening, the disciples of the Five Elements Hall grew increasingly excited.
Chai Yan was a person of extremely volatile temper. He had led his team to the Molten Death Domain, and before they could even begin their mission or hunt rogue cultivators, some of his own team members were being hunted.
This was something an arrogant Heavenly Chosen of the Five Elements Hall could not tolerate. However, Wan Lei and the others had disappeared for half a year, and despite his arduous search, he could not find them, which further fueled his rage.
When he finally found these little rogues, and the formation was activated, he realized it was the opponent’s trap.
A trap laid for half a year.
Following this was the melee. Under the group’s weakening effects, the Five Elements Hall disciples were repeatedly rammed by Dà Dā, and the four youngsters seized opportunities to hunt down twenty to thirty of them.
In all the missions undertaken by the Five Elements Hall disciples, apart from battlefields, this was almost the highest casualty ratio in fifty thousand years.
In the past, whenever disciples of the Five Elements Hall went out for training, they would always break through like a storm, showcasing the might of the Five Elements Hall. Why was it different for Chai Yan?
He had a premonition that if he couldn’t return with Wan Lei’s head, the Fire Hall Master would not spare him.
As everyone knew, the Fire Hall Master was the most hot-tempered Saint in the entire Immortal Realm. No one remembered his real name; he had been known as Li Yan since his debut fifty thousand years ago.
The single character ‘Li’ was enough to indicate the man’s temperament.
Influenced by the Fire Hall Master, the disciples of the Fire Hall were the most unruly within the Five Elements Hall, practically bullies, whom ordinary people dared not provoke.
Even the Golden Hall disciples, known for their decisive killing, and the Sword Hall disciples, representing sharp and fierce attacks, were not involved in as many disturbances as the Fire Hall disciples.
At this moment, seeing that the enemy was finally faltering, Chai Yan and the others could finally relax.
Their desire to kill Wan Lei was twofold: firstly, to enhance the prestige of the Five Elements Hall and avenge them; secondly, to avoid the Hall Master’s punishment.
With the enemy’s heads this time, even if there were some repercussions, they wouldn't be too severe and would be bearable.
“Wan Lei, oh Wan Lei, you’re finally failing. I can finally report my success. Do you have any last words?”
Chai Yan’s sinister gaze fixed on Wan Lei, a bloodthirsty smile playing on his lips.
“Yes.”
“Speak.”
“Villains die from talking too much.”
“Hm?”
Chai Yan frowned. He heard this phrase again.
He was clearly a disciple of the Five Elements Hall. Were there any more righteous individuals in the entire prime plane? Why was he inexplicably being labeled a villain?
Wan Lei grinned menacingly, communicating with the Heavenly Dao lightning in the thunderclouds, mustering all his strength to guide the fourth wave of tribulation.
He couldn’t control all the tribulation lightning, but he could direct it towards a general direction.
That direction was Chai Yan.
BOOM!!!
A thunderous roar echoed from the sky, followed by a booming explosion. The hundreds of Immortal Tribulation bolts in the sky all struck towards Chai Yan.
Chai Yan, unaware and bewildered, didn’t look up. He thought it was just the Immortal Tribulation striking as usual.
Suddenly, a premonition of danger surfaced in his mind. He felt a sense of dread, his hairs stood on end, and he immediately tried to retreat, but it was too late.
Hundreds of lightning bolts exploded upon him, with a smaller portion striking his surrounding disciples.
Chai Yan was blown to pieces and died on the spot. His nearby disciples, caught in the explosive impact of the lightning, were also injured or killed.
“I told you long ago to read more novels, but you refused to listen. Now you know villains die from talking too much.”
Wan Qianxin looked at Chai Yan’s dismembered corpse and shook his head.
This attack served as the signal for retaliation. Dà Dā was the first to charge towards the area where the Five Elements Hall disciples were heavily injured or killed. The enemy, still in shock and momentarily stunned, was sent flying by Dà Dā’s preemptive charge.
Xia Yubing, with nimble movements like a ghost, quickly dispatched the disciples heavily wounded by the lightning. The other young ones also went to finish them off, and then, they broke out of the encirclement.
Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu also charged out.
Being attacked from both sides within the encirclement, they created an opening and could now engage the enemy in a mobile battle.
“You can control the Immortal Tribulation?!”
Ling Yin stared at Wan Lei, dumbfounded, her eyes filled with disbelief.