"Then be extra careful."
Shao Xin nodded. Even Liu Erlong, unusually, did not throw a tantrum. With such tacit understanding, the three of them had avoided countless life-and-death crises.
While the two spoke, Lin Hanye had already spread his Ice Wings. With a beat of those wings, he transformed into a blue speck of light and vanished into the night sky in the blink of an eye.
The village was not large, only a few miles across. From the night sky, Lin Hanye could see a dense cluster of figures in chaos ahead. Releasing his martial soul, he focused with eyes gleaming with blue cold light and saw dozens of wolf bandits chasing villagers. Men and children were killed outright, while women were captured and prepared for rape.
Not far away, another four or five hundred wolf bandits were shouting encouragement, their bloodlust, greed, and lechery entirely undisguised.
Lin Hanye did not attack immediately, instead observing first. He discovered that the strongest Azure Wolf Bandit was equivalent to a human Soul Saint, while the vast majority of the others were only comparable to human Soul Masters at Levels 20 or 30. Only seven or eight had reached the Soul King level.
Lin Hanye stopped concealing himself. With a beat of his Ice Wings, hundreds of ice blades rained down upon the dozens of wolf bandits chasing the villagers. The wolf bandits were riddled with holes one after another.
An instant later, the corpses froze stiff and fell to the ground, shattering into pieces. They were dead beyond doubt.
"What's going on?"
The villagers were better off, since they had been too busy fleeing for their lives to care about anything else. But the wolf bandits were utterly bewildered.
Before they could react, waves of whistling sounds came from overhead. Immediately