Hun Lei took out the bronze cauldron that contained refining power, but he did not open it immediately. He glanced at it once, then placed it on the ground.
After that, he sat cross-legged and took out a golden bowl from his Cosmos Sack.
The golden bowl was no ordinary object either. Its surface was covered with intricate runes.
Even Chu Feng could not discern what this treasure was truly meant to do.
Hun Lei sat before the bronze cauldron, holding the runed golden bowl with both hands, yet he did nothing for the moment.
Instead, he fixed his gaze on the scenes of the Immortal Cave and the Demonic Den.
Chu Feng noticed that his eyes were locked on Hun Yong.
Sensing something amiss, Chu Feng also turned his attention to Hun Yong.
He could tell that Hun Yong was waiting for something.
Suddenly, Chu Feng saw Hun Yong move. The motion was subtle; it was mainly the fingers that had previously concealed a treasure in his sleeve forming a peculiar hand seal.
Argh!
In an instant, everyone outside the Immortal Cave and the Demonic Den showed expressions of pain on their faces. Even Song Yun, Song Xue’er, and Holy Light Jin’an were no exception.
However, the pain on the faces of Song Yun, Song Xue’er, and the others was relatively mild, and they immediately fled outward.
The rest were not so fortunate.
Almost everyone outside the two caves clutched their heads and wailed in agony.
The martial cultivators who had been flying through the air lost that ability and crashed to the ground one after another.
They wanted to escape, but they had no strength left.
They could only lie on the ground like a swarm of ants, howling in pain.
“Is this Hun Yong’s doing?”
Chu Feng’s gaze had remained fixed on Hun Yong the whole time.
Although Hun Yong had also fallen to the ground and was clutching his head while screaming in pain like the others,
Chu Feng had already noticed the difference.
Even though he could only see the images, Chu Feng could still distinguish it.
Everyone else was genuinely suffering, but Hun Yong was faking it.
Why was Hun Yong pretending? What exactly was happening in that area?
Chu Feng guessed that everything was Hun Yong’s handiwork. Hun Yong must have used some method to torment the people there.
To avoid exposing himself, he pretended to be suffering the same torment as everyone else.
“This aura?”
Suddenly, Chu Feng noticed that a layer of gas was beginning to condense inside the golden bowl Hun Lei held. The gas swirled within the bowl, growing denser and more colourful, extremely beautiful.
Upon seeing that multicoloured gas, Chu Feng’s expression shifted.
He could feel that the dazzling, alluring gas was bloodline power.
Moreover, that bloodline power carried different auras. It came from many different martial cultivators.
Chu Feng was almost certain it was the bloodline power of everyone outside.
No wonder they were in such pain. Their bloodline power was being forcibly extracted.
“As expected, it is Hun Yong and Hun Lei behind this.”
“So this is the reason they allowed so many others to enter despite already having an agreement with Overlord Star Manor?”
“They wanted these people to come in precisely so they could forcibly extract their bloodline power.”
Seeing this, Chu Feng confirmed that his suspicions were correct.
Hun Yong and Hun Lei must possess identical treasures.
Hun Yong used his treasure to extract everyone’s bloodline power, then transmitted it to Hun Lei here through the connection between the treasures.
“These idiots actually followed us in hoping to profit from the chaos, never realising they were merely tools to help us.”
“It is a pity that a few managed to escape.”
Hun Lei watched the bloodline power accumulate more and more inside the golden bowl and let out a triumphant laugh.
His words further proved that Chu Feng’s guesses were accurate.
They were indeed using everyone. All who had come here had become their puppets.
Hun Lei did not act immediately. Only after the bloodline power had gathered to a sufficient volume did he finally activate a special technique.
Whoosh.
The technique triggered, and the bloodline power rose from the golden bowl, swirling around Hun Lei’s body.
Then the formation core before him began to respond to Hun Lei’s control.
So Hun Lei was using the combined bloodline power of the crowd to seize control of this formation core.
Argh!
Soon Hun Lei also let out a pained roar.
It was clear that even with the gathered bloodline power of so many people, taking control of the formation core still exacted a tremendous toll.
No wonder Overlord Star Manor did not let their own juniors handle this and instead asked Hun Lei for help.
This was the reason.
Even with everyone’s bloodline power as support, controlling the core still required enormous sacrifice. Without sufficient cultivation and a strong enough body, one would surely explode and die.
This was why Overlord Star Manor needed Hun Lei’s assistance.
After all, Hun Lei was an eighth-grade Sovereign martial cultivator.
Although Hun Lei was now in extreme pain, feeling himself gradually gaining control of the formation core, a proud smile lifted the corners of his mouth.
“Two ladies, I have heard you are rare cultivation treasures.”
“Do not disappoint me.”
Hun Lei stared at the image containing Su Rou and Su Mei. His body writhed in agony, yet a sinister smile spread across his face.
Ugh!
Yet the moment those words left his mouth, his expression froze. Immediately afterwards, he spewed a large mouthful of blood.
Looking down, he saw that his dantian had been pierced by a longsword.
“It’s you?”
Turning around, his face changed drastically.
The person holding the sword that had run through his dantian was none other than Chu Feng.
“Who… who exactly are you?”
Hun Lei stared at Chu Feng and asked in a grave voice.
Shock filled his heart.
He was shocked not only because Chu Feng had ambushed him from behind.
On Chu Feng’s forehead blazed the divine lightning mark, and his body was clad in thunder armour.
If it were merely the peak power of a two-level heavenly bloodline, he could still barely accept it.
But wrapped around Chu Feng’s body were also four sacred beasts.
That was the power of Heaven-bestowed divine strength. Hun Lei could not be mistaken; it truly was Heaven-bestowed divine strength.
For a single person at the Sovereign realm to wield the bloodline power of a two-level heavenly bloodline was already rare enough.
Yet he also possessed Heaven-bestowed divine strength. This made Hun Lei realise that Chu Feng’s background was absolutely extraordinary.
However, faced with Hun Lei’s eyes full of shock, Chu Feng did not answer. He merely gave a cold smile, then slowly twisted the longsword in his hand.
Argh!
The next moment, Hun Lei let out a heart-rending scream.
This scream was far more agonising than the one he had emitted earlier while controlling the formation power.
After all, Chu Feng’s sword had pierced his dantian.
What Chu Feng was now destroying was the cultivation he had painstakingly built over many years.
The pain was not only physical; his heart ached even more!!!
“Spare me, I beg you, spare me. What do you want?”
Hun Lei spoke again, but this time his voice carried a sobbing note.
He was terrified because he did not know Chu Feng’s intentions.
Yet he could clearly feel Chu Feng’s killing intent.
He knew that the slightest misstep or disobedience would cost him his life right here!!!
