In a matter of seconds, blood-red runes glowed in Raoni’s hand, and flames immediately engulfed Rhyon. Raoni let go of his throat, and a miserable scream echoed through the arena.
A chill ran through everyone present. Raoni’s cruelty scared them. He didn’t just defeat his opponent; he made him experience the pain of being incinerated before dying.
The desperate scream hung in the air until Raoni’s flames turned him to ashes. Not even his soul remained, disappearing completely.
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Raoni, covered in dark fire runes, stood indifferent at the top of the stage. A deathly silence hung over the arena, and all eyes were fixed on him, radiating a scarlet light from his eyes.
Calmly, Raoni crossed his hands behind his back and turned, locking his gaze on a specific person in the arena. People focused where he was looking and saw a young man with long hair and an immaculate appearance. Most of the disciples recognized him, and those who knew who he was despised him deeply.
This young man was known for seducing inexperienced female disciples who lacked talent from the inner sect. He manipulated them, taking advantage of their naivety to use them as he pleased. When they tried to escape, strange misfortunes always occurred. However, protected by the conservative faction, no one dared confront him.
Now, everyone could feel Raoni’s icy gaze on that guy. It wasn’t hard to see that a deadly enmity existed.
Raoni’s eyes gleamed. Internally, Alm and Bruno worked their little trick that they had left behind when they were moved by the formation.
*Buzz*
The martial stage trembled, announcing the end of the fight and Raoni’s transport out. Coincidentally, the place where he was sent was less than two hundred meters away from the young man.
"How is this possible?" the guy spat in surprise.
Noticing Raoni’s approach, the young man’s expression changed drastically, and he turned to flee. He knew that if he could get out of the arena, he would be safe under the guards’ protection outside.
But suddenly, someone blocked his path. They collided.
"Get out of the way!"
"What? It’s crowded; I have nowhere to go."
The disciple blocking him was part of the same conservative faction but was clearly preventing him from escaping. The hatred for that young man was widespread, even among those in his own faction.
Panic washed over the guy as he felt an inescapable murderous intent. Suddenly, he felt indescribable pain.
Then everyone saw a hand pierce his back and rip out his still-beating heart.
A cold voice sounded from behind him. "Curious. How does trash like you still have a heart? And the blood... it’s still red?"
Raoni pulled his hand back, and the young man’s body split in half.
"Your guts are small... it doesn’t make sense. After doing so many atrocities, how can you have such tiny guts? Ah, I get it. You only abused the weak, right? You chose only women who didn’t have much talent because they were easy prey. But you had nothing of substance."
"No! Wait, listen to me!" the young man screamed in despair.
Raoni chuckled softly. "People say guts are connected to the liver, right? Let’s take a look at your liver then."
*Pfft!*
"Ah, my bad. Looks like that’s your spleen."
Raoni’s hands were covered in blood, but, curiously, none of the disciples around showed compassion. Many women watched him coldly, as if finally seeing justice served.
"Raoni, stop! Let him go!" A dozen High Elders appeared above, surrounding Raoni from all directions.
The one who spoke was this young man’s father. Seeing his son still alive, a spark of hope ignited in his eyes.
But the nefarious villain had obviously been waiting for this moment.
"Hm?" Raoni murmured, and runes began to glow on his arm. In an instant, the young man’s body started to carbonize, leaving only his head.
"Dad, save me—!"
*Pfft!*
Raoni punched his jaw, cutting him off.
"You’re courting death!"
The High Elder roared. Suddenly, blades of fire appeared in everyone’s hands, and their peak-level cultivation made the atmosphere oppressive. Every disciple around turned pale, unable to move under the immense pressure.
They didn’t attack; after all, Raoni was just a young guy with low cultivation. All they needed to do was seal him completely; that was the safest way to stop him from doing anything.
But... Raoni just let out a villainous laugh.
Everyone witnessed the young man’s soul and life being burned agonizingly. He couldn’t even make a sound. The High Elders widened their eyes in shock. How had he not been contained?
"KILL HIM NOW!"
Suddenly, the whole sky distorted as spatial laws were used. It was a high-level formation designed for instant transportation.
Everyone looked up in astonishment, then saw the sky covered with High Elders. There were hundreds of them. They appeared abruptly and attacked from above at the same moment.
Zemuo and the others watching from a distance were wide-eyed in surprise. Before, the numbers had been equal, and they were ready to protect Raoni. But the conservative faction must have caught on to the radical faction’s plans and decided to exterminate him without caring about the consequences.
In an instant, hundreds of peak cultivators attacked Raoni simultaneously.
They were alchemists, and with no combat skills, they simply unleashed all their Qi and firepower in their weapons, creating a storm of energy that seemed to engulf the sky and the earth. There was nowhere for Raoni to dodge.
The disciples fell into despair; that attack not only threatened Raoni’s life but also risked hitting them, resulting in thousands of deaths for nothing. They turned to Raoni in the center and were stunned to see his distorted smile.
"Finally, some fun."
A spear appeared in Raoni’s hand, his body pulsing with fire runes. In his eyes, one Yin rune and one Yang rune ignited. Silently, the Wuji was stirred.
With a simple movement, hundreds of fire runes exploded in power around Raoni. The wave of flames surged toward the enemies. The High Elders laughed, but the next second, everyone who attacked felt the shadow of death swallowing them.
Raoni’s flames collided with the clumsy power of the alchemists. Everyone watching realized something was off... the flames of the High Elders seemed to have frozen.
*BOOM!!*
A wave of Qi exploded from the ground around Raoni. All the disciples who were thousands of meters away were hit, thrown far away. The closest ones coughed up blood, but everyone fell far enough to be saved.
"DIE!" Raoni shouted, leaping into the air with his spear.
The entire event after the battle unfolded in mere seconds. Now a young disciple attacked like a demon of flames against hundreds of High Elders. All the runes on his body exploded with apocalyptic force.
The High Elders were engulfed in flames, and inexplicably, none managed to escape. It was as if all their muscles and power were frozen. They could only use their cultivation to block the attack.
Then a hand grabbed one of their necks while a spear pierced his heart.
"NO!"
In an instant, Alm and Bruno tried to read the High Elder’s memories, and the block exploded his soul.
Basically, those idiots used fire laws and raw Qi without any technique. With the tattoos, it seemed like a joke. Everything was dominated, even the Qi in their bodies.
Against normal cultivators, this would have been impossible. But these alchemists, having never fought in their lives, underestimated the young disciple and attacked without thinking or putting up any kind of defense.
Sure, they were at peak cultivation, and this would only work for a second or two. But that was enough time to allow the attack with the power of the beastly fire runes.
All the strength of those runes was pushed to the limit, and if they didn’t defend themselves fully, they’d turn to ashes.
The souls sealed in the runes were beside Liumi in the inventory, and all the power of the runes was at Alm and Bruno’s disposal. There were hundreds, and all the beasts, when alive, had high cultivation. Their laws were high-level, and against idiots who didn’t know how to fight, they became something terrifying.
*BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!*
Every second, the spear pierced a body, and a soul exploded. All the High Elders turned into lambs before the nefarious wolf.
With the flames surrounding them, and them being pathetic in defense, Alm and Bruno attacked with the spear at a weak point. Then it was just a matter of using the divine soul.
Zemuo and the other High Elders were paralyzed, watching the unbelievable scene. They didn’t move to attack because they were few, and it would be suicide to face so many High Elders.
Before, despair took over them, and they even triggered the emergency alarm of the sect. The leader and the most powerful cultivators were urgently summoned, but it would take a few seconds for them to arrive.
Then, a heavy voice sounded from the horizon.
"STOP!"
Everyone turned and saw thousands of disciples and Elders emerging; they were from the Phoenix Feather.
*BOOM!*
The soul of another High Elder exploded, and Raoni barely cared. Until he felt the air become sharp. When he turned, he spotted a spear cutting through the air; it had a rune seal on it.
"Son of a bitch," Alm spat, forcing himself to block. The attacker was a well-known individual named Almin.