Mu Ziping was about to leave when the communication talisman vibrated again.
After activating the talisman and exchanging more words, he looked up at Qin Shilei and asked, "A Golden-tier Wind Wraith has appeared in the spatial rift within Bal territory. Wen Zhiyuan asks if you want us to have the Demonic Sect people kill it?"
"What a coincidence!"
Qin Shilei suddenly became interested. "I'll go and see it myself."
He turned and flew towards the spatial rift hundreds of kilometers away.
As he neared the area, he saw Huangfu Feng and Wen Zhiyuan flying leisurely ahead.
They spotted Qin Shilei and flew towards him, "Greetings, Prince An!"
Qin Shilei waved his hand. "No need for formalities. Where is the Wind Wraith?"
Huangfu Feng pointed towards the dense forest ahead. "It's in the woods below, making a dash towards Bastie."
Wen Zhiyuan chuckled, "I wonder what expression Mellen will have when he learns a Wind Wraith is attacking."
Qin Shilei smiled faintly. "While seeing that city lord in trouble is a welcome sight, you don't need to actively drive the Wind Wraith towards Bastie."
The group quickly responded, "We will obey your teachings, Prince An."
The Wind Wraith's path led directly to Bastie, and it was less than eighty kilometers from the city. They indeed didn't need to act as villains any further.
Soon, the Wind Wraith arrived at Bastie.
A piercing alarm immediately blared.
Chaos erupted within the city.
The Wind Wraith's thousands of subordinates were all flying beasts.
The tall and sturdy city walls were of no use.
Screams, wails, cries for help, and the sounds of impact echoed in the southern part of the city.
Before long, Mellen arrived with a large contingent of his subordinates.
Upon seeing the fastest Wind Wraith, Mellen's heart trembled, and he immediately considered fleeing.
However, the Wind Wraith had already spotted them and, with a gentle flap of its wings, flew towards them.
"Attack! Fleeing will only lead to being picked off one by one, and certain death!"
Mellen quickly stopped two Golden-tier subordinates, hoping they could combine their efforts to deal with the Wind Wraith.
Realizing the Wind Wraith was much faster than them, the other two Golden-tier experts knew escape was impossible and only a desperate fight remained.
Several wind blades swept out from the Wind Wraith's wings. Mellen and the other two struggled to defend against the attack.
They couldn't win!
Mellen instantly understood this.
He immediately thought of the powerful evolutionary experts in Prince An's Mansion.
Only by seeking help from Prince An's Mansion could they possibly survive this ordeal.
With a plan in mind, Mellen dodged the Wind Wraith's attacks and loudly shouted to his subordinates in the distance:
"Quick, go and ask for help from Prince An's Mansion!"
He wished he could go himself, but he was already targeted by the Wind Wraith and couldn't escape.
Over a hundred peak Silver-tier evolutionary experts surged out of the city gate and then split into several directions, speeding away in hopes of encountering any Prince An's Mansion experts still in Bal territory.
More and more Silver-tier evolutionary experts worked together to clear out the Wind Wraith King's thousands of subordinates.
Hearing the screams of his fallen subordinates, the Wind Wraith King became enraged, and its attacks on Mellen and his group intensified.
Mellen and the other two were already weaker than the Wind Wraith King, and they now found themselves struggling, quickly sustaining injuries.
"Is someone calling for me?"
Suddenly, a calm voice echoed in everyone's ears.
Mellen's heart leaped with joy, and he shouted, "Prince An, save us!"
"Oh?" Qin Shilei's lips curved. "Who are you? Why should I save you?"
The Wind Wraith's movements slowed upon Qin Shilei's appearance, and it eyed him with a hint of caution.
Qin Shilei smiled at the Wind Wraith with an innocent demeanor.
At this moment, he was the only one standing out, and he had concealed his aura.
The Wind Wraith glanced at him and, finding no significant threat, refocused its attention on Mellen and the other two.
Hearing Qin Shilei's words, Mellen was filled with regret.
He spoke again, "I implore you, Prince An, to be magnanimous. As fellow humans, please save us."
Qin Shilei sighed. "Alas, there are so many humans on Blue Star, and I am not a saint. I wish to save everyone, but I am powerless."
"Ah!" One of Mellen's subordinates, unable to dodge, was again struck by a wind blade, sustaining a wound thirty to forty centimeters long.
While dodging the Wind Wraith's attacks, Mellen anxiously cried, "Prince An, I know I was wrong. We are willing to become your subordinate force, offering half of our monthly income, at least one hundred thousand crystal cores. Please, save us!"
Qin Shilei crossed his arms and watched coldly, ignoring them.
Mellen continued to beg for mercy.
Meanwhile, his subordinates had already killed most of the Wind Wraiths.
This further enraged the Wind Wraith King, making its attacks even more ferocious.
Under these relentless assaults, Mellen and the other two found themselves in an increasingly precarious situation, with their lives hanging in the balance.
Even as more of his subordinates arrived nearby, Mellen's mood did not improve.
Even if they killed all the Wind Wraith King's subordinates, with the combined efforts of hundreds of thousands of evolutionary experts in the city, they would still have no chance against a high-tier, flying Wind Wraith King.
Prince An could have easily annihilated the Wind Wraith King with a mere flick of his wrist, yet he showed no intention of intervening.
His desperate pleas met with silence, and Mellen descended into despair.
Then, he became incandescent with rage.
He cursed, "Prince An, you are a petty individual with no magnanimity. You will never achieve anything great."
"Prince An, you watch as your own kind are slaughtered by insects and remain unmoved. You are a heartless tyrant, a cold-blooded demon."
One of Mellen's subordinates could no longer stand it and turned to flee into the distance.
"Ah!"
However, before he could fly ten meters, a wind blade sliced him in half.
With one less person to contend with, Mellen's situation became even more perilous.
Perhaps sensing his impending doom, Mellen's resentment towards Qin Shilei grew, and a torrent of venomous words poured out.
"Prince An, you sinister wretch! You must have lured the Wind Wraith King here."
"Is it because my tribute of crystal cores was insufficient that you would stoop so low as to lure the Wind Wraith King to harm me? How wicked!"
"My brothers, you must record this and expose this sinister Prince An."
"Shut up!"
Wen Zhiyuan suddenly flew out from the shadows, shouting, "Do not slander my King!"
As he spoke, he lunged towards Mellen, intending to strike him down with his sword.
Qin Shilei flashed forward and stopped Wen Zhiyuan.
Then, with another flash, he appeared beside the Wind Wraith King, his hand reaching out and firmly gripping its neck.
The rampaging Wind Wraith King became as still as a dead cat.
"Why would I need the Wind Wraith King to kill you? If I wanted you dead, why would I care about what others think!"
Qin Shilei declared, looking down upon the world.
With a wave of his left hand, a lightning bolt as thick as an arm struck Mellen's other Golden-tier subordinate.
With a flash of silver light, the man turned into charcoal and plummeted to the ground.
Under Qin Shilei's indifferent gaze, Mellen felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, chills coursing through his body.
A crackle of electricity flashed in Qin Shilei's right hand, and the Wind Wraith King in his grip instantly perished. The dropped treasure chest and corpse were subsequently collected by his spatial ring.
With a thought, the Juque Sword appeared in his right hand.
He raised the sword and brought it down, unleashing a massive sword aura that descended like lightning.
Before Mellen could react, he was cleaved in two by the sword.
A huge fissure simultaneously appeared in the ground below.
"Hmph, a mere sword strike!"
"For someone like you, I don't need to resort to any schemes or tricks!"