Alm and Bruno smiled mentally. Greedy bastards were the same everywhere. They had asked Corin to suppress his regeneration while Ruri acted. Now the whale and Corin were visibly in bad shape.
To them, the round leader seemed gravely injured, and the terrifying human woman was equally incapacitated. The others must be just servants; they didn’t see the group fighting. So, in cases like this, the group was just mere ants, following and leeching off the sugar-coated whale.
A dry, authoritative human voice sounded: "Release him immediately."
"Oh? Why would I do that?" The whale responded, looking up.
The man who spoke was a human with a large saber on his back. He snorted and glared at him. "Don’t make us use force. We saw your blasphemous acts; we’ll capture and hand you over…"
"Ah, I get it, you’ll take advantage of our moment of weakness to score points with the glorious Shadow God sect." The whale interrupted, uninterested.
Thousands of cultivators around sharpened their gazes and drew their weapons, advancing. Alm smiled, while Bruno, taking control, spoke calmly.
"I gave a warning before, but you chose to come in on your own. I shouldn’t, but I’ll give another warning; look around." Everyone listened, intrigued. Bruno continued, "See the blood and the soul fluctuations of the dead? Could it all have vanished so quickly?"
The cultivators focused on the surroundings and finally noticed the peculiarity. Only the Yin of death and body remnants remained; the blood, which contained the valuable bloodline that was most of the power of weak cultivators, along with their souls, had disappeared.
"Most of you are demons and are well aware of methods to refine something with death. There’s an underground formation that collects everything. You were called to this place to serve as a sacrifice. These disciples of the Shadow God sect didn’t come because of me; it was just a coincidence of the situation." The whale concluded seriously, observing everyone.
No one was naive, and now that they had noticed these anomalies, everything became obvious. They didn’t even believe that the whale and the Yinblood sect would appear in this sealed world; the Shadow God disciples couldn’t have predicted that and didn’t come because of them.
Everyone listened and understood, but it only took a few seconds for them to sigh. Did they care? No. They were safe, and before them was a treasure that could yield many rewards from the powerful sect. Saving this demon, who probably had some status, and capturing the enemy of the God while he was still wounded was what mattered.
"Screw it. I won’t repeat, release him and don’t resist." The human spoke dryly, glaring at the whale.
Bruno snorted heavily, and Alm took control with excitement. "Does everyone agree with this?" The whale spoke, looking around the massive swarm of cultivators.
There was no reaction. The answer was obvious; those who didn’t want to do harm hadn’t entered to begin with. "Very well. In your next reincarnation, remember… well, you won’t have that chance. Finish them all."
The whale nodded, and immediately the power of faith healed both him and Corin. At the same moment, the entire group behind them drew their weapons with fierce looks. The whale had already given a warning before entering; then he offered a chance, and still, they resolved to attack them.
"How dare you ignore the words of salvation? Just die." Nixis spoke dryly and, with a movement, strummed a string on her zither.
*Sing!*
Everyone heard it simultaneously. In that second, millions of cultivators felt all the Qi and laws in their bodies freeze.
"Hehehe." Rivine raised her feathers with an excited smile, finally able to fight head-on and feel the enemy’s blood.
The winds sliced through the space as the Harpy attacked. Everyone behind her sneered mercilessly, attacking together. It wasn’t a fight; it was a massacre. The whale tried everything to avoid it, but if they didn’t, they would be attacked. These people had thrown their lives away and would still be refined by the formation.
Nixis continued playing her zither, like it was the bloodiest and most macabre melody in the world. That was her manifestation and her Dao, something absurdly rare even across multiple universes.
Less than an hour later, it was all over.
Kaiyka didn’t join the battle and focused on reading the demon’s memories. There were many blocks, but since he was alive, the most recent memories were easily accessible, and the blocks could be bypassed to a certain extent. After another hour, Kaiyka felt she had extracted as much as possible, then deliberately triggered the block.
*CRACK!*
The demon completely exploded in response to the block, to prevent his secret memories from being read. However, Kaiyka managed to extract important fragments with that last move.
When she opened her eyes, she saw the whale sitting, stroking the heads of Kisala and Ambry beside him. Nearby, Idris was receiving the same treatment from Calirer.
"Don’t let these idiots cloud your minds. There are good and bad people. Forget them and focus only on the good people," the whale said calmly. "Life is like that; the bad moments may even be greater, but the good ones make up for it. Whenever the image of people like this comes up, replace it with those you love, and fight to protect them. Or life will become bitter."
The three listened and nodded calmly. They were very young and still developing. Having to go through this now could negatively mark them forever. Alm only commented mentally that they would become stronger, but Bruno didn’t want to risk traumatizing them.
Kaiyka smiled slightly, and the whale noticed she was done. She approached and transferred everything she had discovered directly into their minds; it was a lot of information, and things she didn’t even fully understand. It was better for them to analyze it.
The whale closed his eyes while Rivine and Nixis were further back, watching with envious eyes at the two young Feys.
They were lucky, or maybe Heaven’s Will acted again. This demon was the son of an elder from the Shadow God sect. He didn’t have enough talent and was far from being chosen as a heroic disciple. As for the internal information of the Shadow God sect, it was impossible to extract, but he had great knowledge about the sealed world.
As Mistie had explained, the Desolate Battlefield was divided into seven red sealed worlds. The Yinblood sect took the south, the Phoenix Cry Sect the north, and the Shadow God sect the other five worlds.
Probably not even Mistie knew this. But the outer region of the Desolate Battlefield is made up of four sealed worlds; the two that the smaller sects possessed were the outermost and without great resources.
Two sealed worlds are in the inner part, and one in the central part. The Shadow God sect dominates all the best parts, leaving only scraps for the two smaller sects. Were they kind to leave something? Of course not, it was all to be able to use them.
This demon didn’t know the details, but the blood plant race that Mistie mentioned is called Blood Seeker Tree. They all live in the inner and central regions, and all that the other two sects found and hunted in the outer part were manipulated and brought here by the powerful sect.
The orders of this demon and his group were simple: they should go to the southern and northern sealed worlds and kill everyone inside. However, this idiot seemed to have his fate written and chose to go south first.
A scheme had been made over the years. The Blood Seeker Trees were being used to slowly attract and kill the two sects, refining their lives into a demonic metal.
This metal was something classic, that Alm and Bruno had encountered before and would probably continue to encounter in the future. But it couldn’t be avoided. It was easy to produce and had a power determined by the quantity and quality of lives. Counting on the luck of finding a powerful metal in nature? Better to create one, they’re just the lives of weak people. This was the standard thought of many cultivators; despite the name being demonic metal, it wasn’t limited to demons.
And the most interesting part? This metal was planned to create something for the most outstanding disciple of the sect. Now that the heroic disciples were created, they decided to speed up the process.
In the south, the cultivators of the small sects were summoned en masse, a much larger number than the Yinblood sect usually sent. In the north, the Shadow God sect sent a notification to the alchemists of the Phoenix Cry Sect. They guaranteed that many more Blood Seeker Trees would appear in this new entry. Thus, they sent a very large number of alchemist disciples.
Everything indicated that the metal was almost ready, and with this massive amount of offerings, it should be enough. Fortunately, the demons attacked the southern region first, allowing the whale to stop them and prevent the alchemists of Almin’s sect, and even himself, from being in danger.
’Great, I was already feeling that Vorion’s material was falling behind. Demons never disappoint,’ Alm commented excitedly.
But Bruno reflected on something else. ’These Blood Seeker Trees… we should investigate. But the main thing is really the metal. It was almost ready, so why not help?’
The whale got up after an hour. By that time, Ruri was already awake and talking to the young ones.
"Let’s go, we now have six days. It’s going to be rushed, but we have many gains waiting for us," the whale said. Then, he took out the golden tablet that demon was using, leaving everyone excited.
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