"But I want to know more about how he managed to lock onto each enemy, attack them simultaneously, and control the damage with such precision, ensuring he could kill them without harming the hostages.
This level of control shouldn't be possible for someone of his cultivation."
Wan Qianxin was still pondering this question.
At this moment, the thunderclouds in the sky dispersed, Wan Lei retracted his sea of lightning, returned to his original form, and flew down.
"What about these people below? Should we take them?"
Wan Lei asked directly as he landed.
"Our spaceship can't accommodate so many people. There's no need to bother with them. We can just notify the Five Elements Hall and let them handle it."
Wan Lei nodded upon hearing this. The enemies were all dead. How to resettle these victims and help them return home was best left to the all-capable Five Elements Hall.
"Alas, why doesn't the Five Elements Hall just kill all these bad people? The intelligence we can find, the enemies we can deal with, the Five Elements Hall should be able to find and deal with them too."
Fang Xiaoyu looked at the people below, feeling very distressed.
Some of them were kneeling and begging for mercy, some were giving thanks, and more were trembling, terrified to the extreme.
They had been scared witless by the prolonged torment, accustomed to fear and obedience, their minds numb, and hypersensitive to any form of harm.
Of course, the villains had deliberately driven them to this state; the wails and screams of frightened women could further stimulate their desires.
When they saw powerful figures arrive and kill all their tormentors, their first reaction was that these new arrivals would continue to harm them.
"A world without crime is not the best, and there can never be a world completely free of crime.
If such a world truly existed, believe me, it wouldn't be Eden, but hell, a hell where everyone is a walking corpse!"
Wan Qianxin's words were philosophical, leading Fang Xiaoyu, though she didn't fully understand, to think of a place, as did Wan Lei.
It was the world of desirelessness in the Destiny Scroll within the Water Lily Secret Realm.
The people there had no desires and would not harm others, but they were all like walking corpses, lifeless and dead silent.
Thinking of a perfect society becoming like that sent a shiver down Wan Lei's spine.
Those people in that place were better off dead than alive.
"Alright then, we've dealt with a criminal organization. The remaining resettlement will be handled by the Five Elements Hall.
Let's hurry and slip away. Otherwise, once the people from the Five Elements Hall arrive, our unauthorized use of force will be hard to explain."
Wan Lei chuckled.
"It's fine. As I said, our families behind us will handle any issues with vigilante justice."
Xia Yubing tilted her head proudly.
Wan Qianxin flicked his hand and slapped her.
"What are you so proud of? That's the power of the family, it has nothing to do with you.
Wan Lei is right. If we can avoid trouble, we should. Let's quickly collect the spoils from this place and divide them, after all, we've been fighting for so long, it's not right to work without pay."
"Indeed. It's better to have it fall into our own pockets than to benefit those greedy dogs at the Five Elements Hall. Fighting is for making money, hahaha."
Wan Lei laughed heartily. He was extremely skilled at robbing and killing for profit.
Dada, the honest man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, also showed a憨hearted smile.
The group moved quickly, collecting all the storage bags scattered on the ground. They didn't pick up those of the mortal realm cultivators, leaving them for the pitiful hostages.
As for the treasure vault of the Weeping Desire Sect...
There was no treasure vault left. It had been annihilated in the first round of bombardment. The treasure vault had a protective formation, but their formation clearly couldn't withstand such intense firepower.
The largest and richest spoils should have been the storage bags of the Boundless Realm expert, but unfortunately, that giant hand had crushed them, along with their bodies and souls.
Nothing remained.
The group gathered all the scattered treasures together. It was time to divide the spoils of war.
Wan Qianxin received ten storage bags, each containing tens of millions of mid, high, and premium spirit stones, along with some magical artifacts and weapons.
The value of hundreds of millions of various spirit stones was roughly equivalent to billions of mid-grade spirit stones. Ordinary sects couldn't afford such wealth; only the Weeping Desire Sect, which exploited lives and fed on human flesh and blood, could produce it.
The storage bags given to Dada contained even more. After all, the four little ones didn't lack money. And Wan Lei, that scoundrel, his wife and the three women under him, their belongings were also his. So, they couldn't let that greedy dog get away with too much.
After the division of spoils, Wan Lei, holding three storage bags, was about to look for the Fire Phoenix and the three girls when he suddenly heard Huo Feng's exclamation and Qing Wu's scream from a distance.
Everyone's expression changed, and they immediately flew over.
Upon arriving at the ruins of the cave dwelling, they saw a panicked Fire Phoenix and Yuan Jun, and Qing Wu writhing on the ground in agony.
Qing Wu's body was still burning with pink flames.
"What happened?"
Wan Lei demanded.
"We found a bead left by that Boundless Realm expert here. That bead is used to absorb Heart Fire, and it contains the complete Heart Fire Dao technique recorded by that Boundless Realm expert.
Qing Wu wanted that item, and Yuan Jun fought with her..."
Fire Phoenix was interrupted by Xi Ren Yuan Jun as she spoke.
"That's not the point. Huo Qing Wu, foolish and reckless, insisted on taking that bead. After she got it, the bead automatically entered her Sea of Consciousness, and then she turned into this."
Xi Ren Yuan Jun immediately distanced herself.
"Isn't this foolishness?"
Wan Qianxin strode forward, his brow furrowed.
"How can a mortal realm cultivator bear the complete Dao technique of a Boundless Realm old monster? Without any protection, she directly put the Dao technique into her Sea of Consciousness. Isn't that courting death?"
"Qing Wu said that the Dao technique matches her Heart Fire, and comprehending it could lead to becoming an immortal."
"Or it could lead to annihilation. Fortune lies with danger.
Such a treasure should be sealed, retaining only the Dao technique and not the offensive power, before one can comprehend it. How could she use it so rashly?
Heart Fire, when used well, is a Dao technique; when used poorly, it's self-immolation, burning oneself to ashes.
"What do we do now? Is there any way to save her?"
Wan Lei looked at Qing Wu's agonizing thrashing on the ground, feeling immense distress. After all, she had followed him for so many years, and he had brought her to the Immortal Realm. He didn't want to watch her burn to death by the Heart Fire like this.
Wan Qianxin shook his head.
"If it continues like this, she is doomed to die."