Under Huangfu Feng's lead, over a dozen Platinum masters quickly entered the spatial secret realm.
Only Elder Li remained. Just as he was about to turn and find a hidden spot to conceal himself, he suddenly felt dizzy, and found himself beside everyone.
Huangfu Feng said with a stern face, "Elder Li, weren't you told to stay outside? How did you get in?"
Elder Li replied with an innocent look, "I don't know what happened. I just suddenly came in."
"Sect Master, the exit is closed!" someone suddenly shouted in panic.
Everyone's expressions changed. Just as they were about to take out array disks to reopen the exit, they suddenly saw two familiar figures emerge from behind a large tree.
"It's you?"
Huangfu Feng looked at Qin Shilei with surprise.
Then he pointed at Elder Hu and questioned coldly, "Elder Hu, did you let Qin Anwang in? Are you betraying the Demonic Sect?"
Elder Hu remained silent, standing beside Qin Shilei with his head bowed as if he were a servant.
Qin Shilei smiled faintly, "Sect Master Huangfu, why are you so foolish as to have people impersonate members of the Righteous Alliance to provoke me?"
Huangfu Feng's expression flickered, and he exchanged glances with Shi Yongzhen beside him.
Frowning, he said, "This was our Demonic Sect's mistake. King Qin An, what compensation do you want to let this matter go?"
"I want your Demonic Sect to be forever loyal to me!"
Qin Shilei said word by word with a serious expression.
All their faces changed drastically. If not for their fear of Qin Shilei's strength, some might have already started cursing.
Huangfu said coldly, "King Qin An, your ambition is far too great. We were indeed in the wrong last time, but you suffered no real loss. Why must you be so unreasonable?"
Qin Shilei said expressionlessly, "Submit or die?"
"By forcing us like this, aren't you afraid of us retaliating against your loved ones?" someone couldn't help but threaten.
Qin Shilei sneered, "The main force of your Demonic Sect is almost all here. If I kill all of you, who else in your Demonic Sect will be able to threaten my friends and family?"
Huangfu Feng and the others immediately realized that the vast majority of the Demonic Sect's Platinum masters were indeed present. Only three Platinum level two or three masters were guarding Changzhou City and the Land of Radiant Light outside.
If they all died here, even those three outside would likely not escape Qin Shilei's pursuit.
Once the Platinum masters were wiped out, even if other members of the Demonic Sect wanted revenge, they would be powerless.
After exchanging glances with Shi Yongzhen again, Huangfu Feng spoke, "We can submit, as long as King Qin An can agree to a few of our conditions."
Qin Shilei said coldly, "Each of you hand over a wisp of your soul, or die!"
The faces of the many Demonic Sect experts changed drastically.
They all thought of the soul control technique that Elder Hu had learned.
Originally, they had planned to pretend to agree to Qin Shilei, then flee far away after leaving. Or perhaps find an opportunity to capture his wife, thereby finding a chance to escape Qin Shilei's control.
"If we truly hand over our souls, we'll be driven like slaves by him. Sect Master, let's fight him! We'd rather die than live in such humiliation," someone said indignantly.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, a phantom figure suddenly teleported to his side.
A flash of cold light, and that person was beheaded in less than three moves.
Watching their companion split in two on the ground, the remaining people looked warily at Qin Shilei and the phantom.
Seeing that Huangfu Feng and the others were slow to make a decision, Qin Shilei's patience began to wear thin.
With a thought, he and the phantom simultaneously activated their "Manifestation of Heaven and Earth" attribute, preparing to kill them all.
Huangfu Feng looked at Qin Shilei, who was radiating killing intent, and finally couldn't resist saying, "King Qin An, we are willing to submit!"
Qin Shilei scanned the rest of them.
Under his gaze, they all spoke, "King Qin An, I am willing to submit!"
Even Shi Yongzhen bowed his head in submission.
Then, as Qin Shilei demanded, they opened their minds, allowing Elder Hu to extract a wisp of soul from each of them.
Qin Shilei made a hand seal and collected the wisps of soul from Huangfu Feng and Shi Yongzhen.
Then he instructed Elder Hu, "You collect their souls. If they try to rebel, kill them immediately. If anything happens to you, you will be buried with them."
Elder Hu, with a bitter expression, collected all their souls into his spiritual sea.
In this way, all fifteen Demonic Sect experts here were directly or indirectly controlled by Qin Shilei.
Qin Shilei then issued his first command, "Huangfu Feng, bring out all the Demonic Sect's secret manuals and treasures. If I find any hidden, you will all die, and I will search for them slowly."
With their lives now completely in the other's hands, Huangfu Feng, despite his immense reluctance, had no choice but to hand over all the treasures and secret manuals.
Most of these treasures and manuals were stored in the spatial rings of Huangfu Feng and Shi Yongzhen, with a small portion kept in the Demonic Sect's storeroom.
There were hundreds of secret manuals, with over a hundred being of Red grade or higher, and only eight of Purple grade.
Six were cultivation techniques, some of which also included sword or saber skills.
Qin Shilei and the others could study these techniques to improve their martial arts cultivation.
Two were functional secret manuals.
Heavenly Demonic Dismemberment (Purple): Reverses yin and yang, causing internal vital energy and spiritual power to erupt instantaneously, dealing immense damage to enemies through self-destruction.
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Lock-On (Red): Can lock onto a target during self-destruction.
Skill Transformation (Purple): The secret manual will transform into a skill book, allowing for instant learning.
Power Doubling (Purple): Internal vital energy and spiritual power erupt more thoroughly, doubling the power of the self-destruction.
Qin Shilei silently fixed the "Power Doubling" attribute.
He didn't know which genius came up with this strategy of harming the enemy by eight hundred and oneself by one thousand.
However, Qin Shilei felt that this move might be very suitable for his phantom and Zhang Xiaoli's wood clone.
The specific practicality would only be known through experimentation after learning it in the future.
Self-Sacrifice Art (Purple): Stimulates specific acupoints through vital energy, temporarily increasing cultivation, followed by a three-day period of weakness.
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Time Doubling (Red): Doubles the duration of the increased cultivation.
Side Effect Reduction (Purple): After using the Self-Sacrifice Art, the weakness period is reduced to one day, and the effect of the weakness is reduced by fifty percent.
Life or Death (Purple): The power increase from the Self-Sacrifice Art is doubled, and the side effects are also slightly increased.
Qin Shilei's gaze swept across the last two Purple attributes.
He wasn't sure if the phantom had any acupoints within its body that could utilize this Self-Sacrifice Art.
If the phantom couldn't use the Self-Sacrifice Art, then choosing the "Side Effect Reduction" attribute would be quite good.
Qin Shilei pondered for a moment, and finally chose the "Life or Death" attribute.
If he truly had to use the ultimate move of the Self-Sacrifice Art, then he might as well go all out and fight the enemy to the death, with no energy left to escape.