Chapter 167: Use Their Own Methods Against Them
You were slaughtering freely in the Core Zone. Not a single Return-to-Void cultivator could withstand a single blow from you!
In merely one week, you wiped out five Wilderness Clan patrol squads, over twenty cultivators in total.
Each time, before the Wilderness Clan’s Fusion realm Elders could arrive, you always vanished without a trace.
“Ye Fan! If you do not come out, I will kill five people a day, until every last one of your human cultivators is dead!!!” A deafening voice rang through the clouds, and you, hidden away, naturally heard it clearly.
That very night, you quietly arrived at the deepest part of the Core Zone, and saw the grand formation that the Wilderness Clan cultivators had already shattered.
Over a hundred human cultivators, all penned in by the Wilderness Clan cultivators, trembling in constant fear.
“Princess Anle and Luo Yunshan are not here!” Watching the crowd from afar, you noticed two of the most important people were missing.
“One is a disciple of the Guardian Lineage, the other a Princess of the Immortal Dynasty, suspected of colluding with the Wilderness Clan. Interesting!”
At dawn the next day, you saw Wilderness Boss begin to fulfill his promise.
Five human cultivators were selected, their cultivation sealed, not even a trace of a chance to resist.
“Don’t kill me, I beg you.”
“I have spirit stones, I have lots and lots of spirit stones. As long as you don’t kill me, they’re all yours!”
“Can anyone come save me!”
“We cultivators, what fear have we of death? It’s just that I hate it — no chance to resist at all!”
You saw, in the sky above, the figures of the five projected for all to see. Even from ten thousand li away, the scene here could be seen.
“Ye Fan, watch closely!!!”
You saw the five human cultivators first have their limbs severed, then their hearts and lungs dug out, and finally their heads struck from their bodies!
It didn’t end there. Several Wilderness Clan cultivators picked up the corpses and began devouring them directly.
The scene was utterly bloody. Though you had killed countless people, seeing this scene still made your body produce a trace of discomfort, but you quickly suppressed it.
You knew this was no longer a private battle. This had escalated to hatred between races!
You watched the entire process seriously. There was no rage in your heart — an unexpected calm. And beneath that calm, boundless fury was hidden!
“Continue tomorrow!” Wilderness Boss ordered, then extended his right hand and made a throat-slitting gesture, and this gesture too was projected into the sky.
You knew it was provoking you!
Your figure vanished. The power of your Primordial Spirit began to spread, searching for lone Wilderness Clan cultivators.
A ten-man Wilderness Clan squad appeared within the range of your Primordial Spirit.
A grand formation silently activated, enveloping the ten Wilderness Clan cultivators within.
“Who!”
“The one who takes your life!” You walked out from hell, your longsword stained with blood. Every slash of the sword felled a Wilderness Clan cultivator.
“It’s him! Quick, notify the Elders!” Some Wilderness Clan cultivators tried to contact the Elders outside, but were cut off by the formation you had laid down.
Under your assault, the ten Wilderness Clan cultivators soon died out, leaving only the last one trembling all over, eyes filled with terror.
You put away your longsword and walked up to the last Wilderness cultivator. With a thud, the Wilderness cultivator dropped to his knees.
“Spare me, please spare me!” The kneeling Wilderness cultivator kowtowed and begged. Under the threat of death, dignity was utterly weightless.
“You want me to spare you? Sure. First, bark like a dog so I can hear it!”
The Wilderness cultivator struggled for a moment, but to survive, finally submitted. “Woof woof, woof woof, woof woof woof!”
“What a dog thing!” You kicked him to the ground. The Wilderness cultivator hurriedly scrambled up and knelt before you, making fawning gestures.
You carved a character into the ground and asked the Wilderness cultivator, “Teach me to read your Wilderness Clan’s script, or die!”
“Yes yes yes!”
You took the secret technique you had previously obtained, written in the Wilderness Clan’s script, and broke it down character by character, learning them one by one.
Under the threat of death, the Wilderness cultivator taught quickly, and you learned quickly too.
“You can scram!” The grand formation opened, and you let the Wilderness cultivator live.
“Woof woof, thank you, Senior, woof woof!” The Wilderness cultivator kowtowed, then quickly fled, afraid you might go back on your word.
Watching the Wilderness cultivator’s departing back, you smiled indifferently and said, “I spared your life. Whether they will spare you is another matter!”
An hour later, an image appeared in the sky — the very image of the Wilderness cultivator barking like a dog and begging you for mercy!
This was the image you had specifically recorded with an Image-Retaining Stone, to repay them in their own coin!
You quietly arrived at the depths of the Core Zone to watch Wilderness Boss’s reaction.
“Look, everyone! What’s that?”
“Seems like Ye Fan?”
“What’s he doing?”
“The one who takes your life!” Your voice rang out from the image.
“Please don’t kill me!”
“Woof woof, woof woof, woof woof woof!”
“Haha, good, wonderful! Well killed!” Lan Shang, taken captive, was beside himself with excitement.
“Hahaha, so the Wilderness Clan is nothing special after all. To save his life, he actually barked like a dog!”
“A pack of dog things, come and bow to your masters!”
“Courting death!!!” Wilderness Boss killed the human cultivator who had spoken with a single punch, his face dark as water.
The image suddenly cut off. You knew the Wilderness Clan cultivators had discovered the Image-Retaining Stone you had hidden.
Afterward, you saw the Wilderness Clan cultivator whose life you had spared, dragged before Wilderness Boss.
“Boss, I was wrong, spare me!”
“You disgraced the honor of our Wilderness Clan cultivators. You deserve death!”
“AH!!!”
“Tsk, what a pity. I never imagined you would still die.” You shook your head and sighed.
The next day, you captured another Wilderness Clan cultivator to teach you the script.
An enemy’s words cannot be fully trusted. You cross-verified the characters taught by the two, and indeed found quite a few contradictions.
For three consecutive days, through your unremitting effort, you finally translated the entire secret technique.
“I never imagined this would actually be the secret technique to control that sinister mark!” A glimmer flashed through your eyes.
“It’s just that I don’t know whether I can reverse-engineer it to remove the mark?”
With that thought, you began reverse-engineering and verifying.
Your tracks vanished without a trace. As for Wilderness Boss’s daily torture and killing of human cultivators, you paid it no more mind.
You knew that once the reverse-engineering succeeded, the lives of countless human cultivators would be saved!
What did these current sacrifices amount to?
Ten days later, you emerged from seclusion!
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