There was a silence that was so quiet that one could even hear the sound of a pin dropping to the ground.
But that silence only lasted a second before all of the Beast Race experts turned to run.
It was just too bad that they didn't get that chance.
While Lin Fan had been distracting everyone with his slow walk forward, he had already sent his pets around to the back to completely surround the Beast Race experts.
The moment that they turned to run, they were met with Lin Fan's pets that attacked them.
While Lin Fan's pets weren't as strong as the Beast Race experts, their numbers more than made up for it. They got into the formations that Lin Fan taught them and they were able to easily stop the Beast Race experts from running away.
Seeing that they were trapped, the Beast Race experts immediately turned to the gods that were just standing there watching.
They understood that it didn't seem like the gods were going to help them, but they didn't want to give up either. After all, if they gave up now, it was clear that they would die since Lin Fan had worked hard to prepare this trap for them.
None of them wanted to die!
"Beast God, please save us. We are your loyal followers!"
"Gods, we're willing to fight for the universe, you can't abandon us like this!"
"Demon Lord, do you know what the consequences of doing this are? You won't survive this if you really go through with this! We can end it here if you're willing to back down now and apologize!"
They screamed out whatever they thought would save them, but all of their words fell onto deaf ears.
Lin Fan just watched them with an amused look before he started moving forward again.
As he moved forward, he asked the crow on his shoulder, "Which ones do you want?"
The crow looked over this group and pointed out a few of the experts while saying, "Give me those ones. They were the ones that forced me into hiding in the first place."
This crow was the black ball of light that had fallen into the mortal world that Lin Fan was on.
During the hundred years he had been cultivating, he had also fulfilled his promise to the black ball of light by finding a suitable body for it to occupy. The black ball of light had been a crow beast to begin with, so it wasn't hard for it to possess the crow body that Lin Fan had found for it.
After that, it had formed a contract and became Lin Fan's tamed pet because it had seen the potential that Lin Fan had. It knew that if it wanted to take its revenge against the Beast Race that had betrayed it and forced it into leaving behind only a sliver of its soul, its best chances were if it worked with Lin Fan.
And now, it was reaping the benefits of that gamble.
After picking out the ones that it wanted, the black crow flew off Lin Fan's shoulder and dived at them.
Lin Fan had already helped it recover its cultivation, so the crow beast was one of the strongest pets that Lin Fan had. After all, before it had been betrayed by the Beast Race, the crow was already one of their top experts.
Lin Fan let the crow have its fun as he turned to the rest.
Lin Fan hadn't targeted every member of the Beast Race since there were those that he wasn't involved with. With his level of cultivation, he had to treat karma seriously, so he couldn't just slaughter at will.
The ones that were currently trapped by him were the ones that had been involved with sending the army to the mortal planet that he had been from, or they were Beast Race experts that were involved in later incidents involving him.
Since they were all trapped, Lin Fan saw no reason to delay this any longer, so he raised his sword. However, before he could slash down with that sword, there was a voice that stopped him.
"If you do this, you will endanger the very existence of our universe. Do you understand what that means?" The golden man said in a low voice that froze the air around them.
Lin Fan's feet stopped moving and he narrowed his eyes to look at the golden man. After a moment of silence, he asked, "How is that related to me?"
The golden man knitted his brows the moment he heard this and he asked back, "Do you not consider yourself a part of this universe?"
Lin Fan just calmly said, "Is there anything for me in this universe?"
The golden man didn't say anything else in response to this, he just gave a sigh the moment that he heard Lin Fan say this.
Lin Fan knew that the conversation was over, so he turned back to the Beast Race experts who revealed looks of panic again.
They tried shouting out all kinds of things, but not a single person moved to help them.
In the end, Lin Fan brought his sword of crow feathers down on every single one of them and there wasn't a single Beast Race expert that was left standing.
There was only silence that filled the air after Lin Fan finished off the Beast Race experts as they all stared at him in shock.
None of them had expected Lin Fan to suddenly attack the Beast Race experts and none of them believed that he had actually finished them off. They were all certain that the gods would interfere before this because these Beast Race experts were needed to repel the Outers. It didn't make sense that they would just let them die like this.
But this was a calculated gamble on Lin Fan's part.
He had guessed that the gods wouldn't be able to make a move since he had met them yesterday and it turned out that he was right.
It wasn't that the gods didn't want to make a move, but rather they weren't able to make a move.
Once one became a god, it meant being limited by many restrictions.
Becoming a god meant becoming the very embodiment of the law that one trained to the peak, so they would be limited by those very laws.
The first and most important restriction was that they wouldn't be able to do what they wanted against mortals.
Mortals were what embodied the laws, so by attacking the mortals, they would be attacking their own laws. So every time they made a move against the mortals, it would weaken their own laws, which was why they weren't willing to make a move to stop Lin Fan.
After the slaughter was over, Lin Fan turned to the gods and watched them, waiting to see what they would do.
They had tried all they could to convince Lin Fan not to do this, which meant that they at least cared that much, so they wouldn't let this end like this. At the very least, they would try to get some kind of revenge on Lin Fan for doing all of this.
That was what Lin Fan could tell from the look of suppressed rage on the face of the Beast God, the god that the beasts worshiped.
After a long silence, the golden man gave another sigh before saying, "What's done is done, we can't change this. However, this is a serious blow to our defenses against the Outers…We can't let things stay like this…"
All the gods knitted their brows when they heard the golden man's words.
That was right, with Lin Fan killing all these Beast Race experts, their defenses had crumbled and it would be very hard for them to defeat the Outers. If the Outers did invade, even them as gods would suffer since the Outers would target the laws they embodied as well.
The golden man was silent as he looked at Lin Fan for a bit before suddenly saying, "Since it is this human's fault, he shall be the one to make up for it."
Everyone was surprised by the golden man's words, but they were also confused by what he meant.
The golden man was silent for a bit longer before saying, "This human and his pets will be sent into the battlefield without a guard talisman. If he wins, he shall live, if he dies, then he will take out as many as he can with him."
The gods were all once again surprised by this, but most of them could accept this since they felt that it was a suitable punishment.
Of course, there were some gods that didn't believe that this was the right decision and wanted a harsher punishment for Lin Fan. Such as the Beast God.
But before he could even say anything, the golden man's gaze fell onto him and he immediately swallowed his words.
It was clear that the golden man had the final say here.
After that, the golden man turned to Lin Fan and asked, "Are you ready?"
Lin Fan just looked at him and asked, "What about my other pets?"
The golden man was surprised by how calm Lin Fan looked, but he still said, "They will be brought onto the battlefield for you."
Lin Fan nodded and then said, "Alright, then send me there."
He already knew that this was a light punishment, but it was very likely that he wouldn't survive this. But that didn't matter to him since he also knew that he was already at the end.
Since that was the case, he would go out with a bang.
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