"Zhu Qing, what kind of question is that? Xiao Yuan wanted to save the Soul Beast, and those people tried to stop him. Of course he had to fight." Before Lu Yuan could answer, Ning Rongrong, who was holding his arm, spoke up.
If he wanted to rescue a Soul Beast from someone else's hands, he had to beat them into submission at the very least. How else could he make them submit without fighting?
"That's not what I meant. I meant that he killed people. Besides that terrifying pressure, there was also a faint murderous aura around him," Zhu Zhuqing said softly.
"He really killed people?" Hu Liena asked with a solemn expression.
Rescuing a Soul Beast from someone else was already hard to justify. If he had killed people on top of that, then Lu Yuan had truly been in the wrong.
No matter how unscrupulous one was, certain rules still had to be followed.
"I killed them. Not a single one was left alive. I crushed them all into pulp, leaving no intact corpses."
Lu Yuan did not hide it and stated it outright.
As soon as he said that, everyone's expressions changed almost at once. That was far too ruthless.
"What exactly happened? Was there something wrong with those people?" Hu Liena could not help asking.
She understood Lu Yuan's character. He would never kill people for no reason, much less slaughter every last one of them and crush them into pulp. Unless there had been something wrong with those people themselves—something seriously wrong.
That was why Lu Yuan had been so merciless.
"Yes. Those people were from the Holy Spirit Cult. Every one of them was an Evil Soul Master, so I showed no mercy. I sent them all to hell."
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