"Your mission? Isn't it to search for ore crystals and fire lotuses?" Wan Lei asked curiously.
"Why waste time looking for such things? It's so meaningless. If you're the richest person in a galaxy, would you still pick up trash on the street every day? Wouldn't it be better to think of ways to make big money with that time? Our mission was assigned by our parents, and our purpose for coming here is different from yours."
Wan Lei was numb. He was one hundred percent sure that the families of these four people were definitely renowned in the Immortal Realm, or at least extremely wealthy. Without money, even with excellent talent, one couldn't break through to the Immortal Realm at fourteen or fifteen years old through resource accumulation alone.
"Then what is your mission?"
"To kill."
"Kill?"
"Yes, we are all flowers grown in a greenhouse. We haven't experienced much hardship and haven't really been out much before reaching the Immortal Realm. Our parents felt that this wouldn't do; it would ruin us and prevent us from becoming qualified cultivators. So, they sent us out for training, and the way to train is by killing people. Each of us four must kill ten thousand people."
"Ten thousand people?" Wan Lei frowned. Although this number was a mere drop in the ocean compared to what he had killed, he did not agree with this practice of using other people's lives to train one's children. Weren't other people's lives also lives?
"Of course, it's not indiscriminate killing. Otherwise, the four of us could just pick a planet and kill a city, right? We have conditions. We can only kill two types of people. One is those who want to kill us; we can kill them. The other is those who are extremely wicked. Those people must deserve death, such as those who slaughter humans or steal secrets of the Immortal Realm, meaning people who would be sentenced to death by law, only then can we kill them. Besides these, we will be punished for indiscriminate killing. Of course, our families will help us deal with any incidents of private executions."
"I see, then that's acceptable."
There was nothing to criticize about these two conditions. If someone wanted to kill you, wouldn't you kill them back? There was no reason to stand there and wait to die in the cultivation world. As for the other condition of killing extremely wicked people, even if Wan Lei encountered them, he would kill them.
"So, this is our first stop. Do you know why?" Wan Lei pondered for a moment and then replied, "This is the Lawless Land."
"Yes, in the outside world, there are legal restrictions and management by the Five Elements Hall. People abide by the law, and their evil thoughts are not too strong. But it's different here. The Lawless Land magnifies people's evil thoughts. Since killing is not illegal here, people will come to kill us, and then we can act. If someone is wantonly killing others, we can also intervene."
"What if the one wantonly killing others is us?" Wan Lei's words made Wan Qianxin falter. He seemed to have realized a logical flaw in his own principles. Yes, if someone provokes us, we kill them. If we kill too many, then wouldn't we be the ones wantonly killing? Would we have to kill ourselves?
"Uh... don't argue. It depends on the situation. We are not easy to provoke. The people here are certainly not enough for us to complete our goal. After things are done here, we will go to the true Lawless Lands in the outside world. Then we will face real villains, and we will kill wantonly then."
"Hmm, makes sense." Wan Lei nodded and said no more. After all, it was their business. Everyone had their own code of conduct; there was no need for him to comment.
"By the way, Brother Wan, we still don't know where you are from. Where are your families located?" Wan Lei looked at Wan Qianxin with a half-smile.
Wan Qianxin smiled slightly. "I'm sorry, our families have instructed us not to disclose any information about our families or our origins to anyone. Just think of us as four exceptionally gifted young people."
"Hahahaha." Wan Lei laughed heartily and didn't ask further, but he already had some guesses in his mind. These four children were definitely not ordinary people. Sixty million shells were fired as if it were child's play. What kind of extravagant wealth could afford such prodigality? The families of these four must be extremely prominent families in the Immortal Realm, with immense power. Moreover, they had said that their families would help them deal with matters of private execution when they killed villains outside. However, let's not forget that the rulers and law enforcers in the entire Immortal Realm were the Five Elements Hall. To be able to settle these matters under the management of the Five Elements Hall, their families were most likely high-ranking officials within the Five Elements Hall. As for why the four of them were not wearing the clothes of disciples of the Five Elements Hall, that was easily understandable. They were secretly carrying out missions and had to kill many people, so they naturally couldn't wear the clothes of the Five Elements Hall and tarnish its reputation. Furthermore, this was a trial assigned by their families, not a mission from the Five Elements Hall, and thus had nothing to do with the Five Elements Hall, so they wouldn't wear the uniform.
Upon thinking this, Wan Lei felt a surge of excitement. Those were high-ranking officials of the Five Elements Hall, holders of extremely high status in the entire Immortal Realm. But soon, Wan Lei suppressed the excitement in his heart. Whether his guesses were true or not, they still needed more evidence to verify. As for why he felt excited, there was a reason. Long before coming here, during the few days he waited, Wan Lei had thought through many things while listening to music in the bar. When he had just ascended to the Immortal Realm, he inexplicably encountered the Heavenly Tribulation, and then Gouzi was abducted. The person who abducted Gouzi, Wan Lei recognized the Wind Blade Evasion technique he used, so he couldn't be mistaken. He was too familiar with the Wind Blade Evasion technique. So, the doubt arose. During the decisive battle at the Liu family, Qiong Ku had mentioned that the Wind Blade Evasion technique could only be cultivated by people of the Five Elements Hall in the Immortal Realm, and those who were qualified to cultivate it were few and far between. Assuming Qiong Ku was not lying, it could now be concluded that people from the Five Elements Hall had abducted Gouzi. Then why didn't the people from the Five Elements Hall capture them and only take Gouzi away? Now, another clue was needed. Their Wind Blade Evasion technique was left in the Thunder Wind Realm by several immortals from the past. They had completed the immortals' mission and passed through all the secret realms to gather it completely and obtain the divine ability. Moreover, from the Ghost Immortal, he learned that those immortals had not died and also possessed the ability to create divine artifacts, meaning they were at least Saints. Now, everything made sense. Those Saints were definitely high-ranking officials of the Five Elements Hall. Since they created the Wind Blade Evasion technique, only disciples of the Five Elements Hall could cultivate it. Moreover, he knew that when he explored secret realms in the past, those immortals... Saints had been watching him all along, but they had not spoken to him until the Ghost Immortal stage.