Gu Qingfeng had left, and Fei He had vanished along with him.
No one knew where they had gone.
And at this moment, no one dared to even think about that question.
Inside the pavilion.
Chen Yue held Xia Pan tightly in her embrace. She had been standing here all along, not daring to move, not daring to speak, not daring to do anything, not even daring to lift her head and look. Her heart was filled with countless fears, and her soul trembled uncontrollably.
She didn't know how much time had passed before she gradually opened her eyes and looked at the more than two hundred people in the arena.
The Elders of the Wind-Cloud and Fire Cloud Branch Halls—some were dead, those not dead were only clinging to their last breath. The Elders from the Ten Great Sects and the Three Caves and Five Mountains of the Liuli Great Region were also either dead or wounded...
Paralyzed, trembling, and convulsing in pools of blood, the Heir Apparent Disciples and Successor Disciples were all so terrified they had lost control of their bowels.
Were these still the renowned, esteemed senior experts of the Liuli Great Region?
Were these still the arrogant, proud geniuses of the Liuli Great Region?
She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, but still couldn't suppress the fear in her heart.
The scene that had just transpired kept replaying in her mind.
When he was leisurely and carefree, he was talkative and lively, like a frivolous young master of a wealthy family.
When he was cold and ruthless, he was aloof and domineering, like an unrivaled, tyrannical God of War.
These people called him an Evil Cultivator.
Not only was he unafraid and fearless, he didn't even bother to explain. Since you said he was an Evil Cultivator, he would simply become one for you to see!
What of the Ten Great Sects? What of the Three Caves and Five Mountains?
Even the two Crimson-Letter Branch Halls of Wind-Cloud and Fire Cloud—so what?
When it was time to fight, he absolutely showed no mercy.
When it was time to kill, he absolutely showed no leniency.
After beating people, after killing people, he had actually taken the initiative to activate the Message Talismans himself, declaring he would kill every single one who came.
Chen Yue truly couldn't imagine what kind of person, what kind of courage, what kind of strength would dare to be so lawless, so unrestrained, so unrivaled, so arrogant and overbearing!
She didn't know.
Chen Yue couldn't imagine it either.
She was like this.
Not far away, Shui Yunruo and Lan Feier were even more dazed and stupefied, standing there in a state of utter dejection. Their faces were deathly pale, their minds trembling, their souls filled with terror.
They were both heaven's favored daughters. Although their years of cultivation weren't long, they had experienced all sorts of scenes over the years—bloody, dangerous, terrifying, mysterious, bizarre. But neither of them had ever experienced anything as bloody, terrifying, mysterious, and bizarre as what had happened today.
They were scared silly, utterly scared silly.
Scared until their minds were completely blank.
"E-Elder, quick...
Quickly activate the Message Talisman, activate the Message Talisman to inform the Sect Head and the Ancestral Patriarchs...
Hurry!"
Jin Can, the Heir Apparent Disciple of the Fenghui Sect, disregarding the filth covering him and the fear in his heart, tried to get up from the ground and stand. But his legs simply wouldn't obey, unable to stand steadily. Seeing the Message Talisman clenched in Elder Jin Yu's hand, he immediately shouted.
Elder Jin Yu raised his trembling arm, opened his five fingers. Inside was a Message Talisman.
Seeing Elder Jin Yu hesitating to activate the talisman, Jin Can shouted again, "Elder Jin Yu, you... you can't possibly... really give up, can you? Are we, the Fenghui Sect, just going to let this go?"
"Let it go?
I was just stalling for time earlier."
Elder Jin Yu looked at the corpses of Bai Hong and the others, gritted his teeth, a flash of ferocity in his eyes as he said viciously, "This Evil Demon has killed so many of our Fenghui Sect Elders. I, this old man, share an irreconcilable hatred with him! How could I possibly let it go!"
Elder Jin Yu tried to activate the Message Talisman, but his mind was severely traumatized, his spiritual power exhausted. For the time being, he simply couldn't activate it.
The Elders from the other sects and the Three Caves and Five Mountains also had the intention to activate their Message Talismans. But like Elder Jin Yu, their minds were severely traumatized, their spirits unable to focus, their spiritual power depleted. For now, none of them could activate their talismans.
At that moment, a numb voice came: "I advise you all...
It's best not to activate the Message Talismans. Don't activate them. Let it end here..." Everyone looked over. It was Shui Yunruo's voice. She sat paralyzed on the ground, disheveled, blood at the corner of her mouth, her delicate face deathly pale without a trace of color, her eyes also vacant.
"Shui Yunruo, what do you mean? Are you trying to shield that Evil Demon?"
"Shield him?
Heh..." Shui Yunruo shook her head with a bitter laugh. "Do you think calling over your sect's Ancestral Patriarchs and Sect Heads can eradicate him?
It's useless...
It's useless..." "What a joke!
Our Fenghui Sect's Sect Head and Supreme Elders are all Nascent Soul experts! How could they fail to kill a mere little Evil Demon like him!"
"A mere little Evil Demon. Even now you still call him a mere little Evil Demon. Heh..." Shui Yunruo kept laughing bitterly. "Look at you all. Dead, wounded, crippled. So many of you attacked together and couldn't budge him an inch. When he was here, you didn't dare breathe loudly, didn't dare lift your heads. Now that he's gone, you call him a mere little Evil Demon. Heh..." "Shui Yunruo!
What kind of irresponsible talk is that!"
"Shui Yunruo!
You are, after all, a Successor Disciple of Taixing Cave. Although your Taixing Cave Elders didn't come today, you were also injured by that Evil Demon. What do you mean by saying these things now!"
"That's right!
Shui Yunruo, so many of us have died, and you're still making irresponsible remarks!"
"Many of you have indeed died, but who can you blame for that..." Shui Yunruo spoke as if she had lost her soul, her voice distant. "Search your hearts and ask yourselves, is he really an Evil Cultivator, really an Evil Demon?
He doesn't have even a trace of evil aura on him. Just because his cultivation is bizarre, you pinned the label of Evil Cultivator, even Evil Demon, on him."
"He himself admitted he is an Evil Cultivator, and you're still making excuses for him! Shui Yunruo, what exactly is your relationship with that Evil Cultivator!"
"Admitted it himself?
Heh!" Shui Yunruo shook her head, laughing bitterly. "You called him an Evil Demon, and he couldn't even be bothered to explain to you. He simply became an Evil Demon for you to see. Don't you find someone like that terrifying?
What kind of person would dare to publicly admit to being an Evil Demon?
What kind of person would dare to become an Evil Demon?
Haven't any of you thought carefully about that?"
"Today, regardless of whether he is an Evil Demon or not, he must die! Our Fenghui Sect's Sect Head will definitely not let him go!"
"Your Fenghui Sect's Sect Head?
Heh..." Shui Yunruo closed her eyes and said softly, "He killed the Elders of the Fire Cloud and Wind-Cloud Branch Halls. Not only did he kill them, he activated the Demon-Suppression Message Talismans himself. He doesn't even place the Chixiao People of the Wind-Cloud and Fire Cloud Branch Halls in his eyes. Do you think he would place your Fenghui Sect's Sect Head in his eyes?"
"That's because he doesn't know what's good for him!"
"Doesn't know what's good for him?
Heh..." Shui Yunruo continued murmuring, "Elder Jin Yu, do you remember swearing in front of him that your Fenghui Sect would definitely not go looking for trouble with him?"
"That was this old man's ploy to stall for time!"
"Whether it was a stalling tactic or not is completely unimportant. What's important is that after you said those words, he warned you to remember what you said. And he also told you that life is only given once."
Shui Yunruo took a deep breath, as if she were very, very tired, and pursed her dry, cracked lips. "He saw through it long ago. He knew you would definitely activate the Message Talisman. He even knew all of you would definitely activate your Message Talismans."
"So what if he saw through it?
If he dared to kill us, he would have killed us long ago! Hmph! He doesn't dare! He's afraid! He knows that if he kills us from the Ten Great Sects and the Three Caves and Five Mountains, our Ancestral Patriarchs will definitely tear him to pieces!"
"No!
He's not afraid...
He's not afraid...
Believe me, I cultivate the Art of Heart Observation. I can see it. He is not afraid."
"If he's not afraid, why didn't he dare kill us..." She didn't know.
Shui Yunruo didn't know either.
At that moment, an unfamiliar voice suddenly came: "Old scoundrel Jin Yu, let this old man tell you the reason. The reason Young Master Gu didn't kill you all is simply because this is Liuren Mountain. Young Master Gu doesn't want to unleash a great massacre here, that's all. Consider it giving Old Man Shi Tong some face."