Qin Ze hurriedly stood up, first dousing the fire with water, then grabbed the iron skewer and sprinted toward the village.
Maple Leaf Village was about two kilometers from the stream. Qin Ze had only just left the water behind, yet Du Busi was nowhere to be seen. Clearly, he had teleported away long ago.
"Damn it, Du Busi isn't thinking of..." Running along the winding, rugged path, Qin Ze's face went pale. A Super Douluo's expression had turned cold and sinister, and the direction he had left in was the village where Qin Ze lived. That was inevitably terrifying.
Meanwhile, inside Maple Leaf Village.
The once beautiful, harmonious village was now shrouded in deathly stillness.
The stream used for washing clothes was filled with bright-red blood, as well as scattered severed limbs.
On the ground, dozens—nearly a hundred—corpses lay strewn from the village entrance all the way to the square. Their deaths were beyond miserable. All the blood in their bodies had been bizarrely drained away, turning them into mummified husks. Even more horrific, several people's hearts had been dug out while they were still alive.
In the square, four Mysterious Persons in gray robes had appeared there at some unknown time.
One of them was even holding a chunk of crimson flesh. It was still pulsing strangely, and he was feasting on it.
The sight made one's soul tremble.
"Who exactly are you!" On the other side of the square, a group of Maple Leaf Village villagers clutching weapons huddled together in terror. The one speaking was Zheng Long. His eyes were blood-red, like a vicious beast's. Just now, his father had been killed by these four people.
Among the dead were children, women, and the elderly. Not long ago, they had all been living, breathing lives.
"Earthworm, you found a pretty good village. The people from the Body Sect never discovered this place." The Mysterious Persons did not answer Zheng Long. Instead, they chatted and laughed among themselves.
The man called Earthworm raised his head, revealing a mouth covered in blood, and a maw full of sharp spikes.
"I observed this village for a long time. Those Body Sect people never once showed up around here." Earthworm flicked his arm, and the ruined heart in his palm was casually tossed aside like trash.
"The flesh and blood of ordinary people is too poor for healing wounds. But fortunately, I've more or less recovered."
Thud!
The heart hit the ground with a soft sound.
Everyone in Maple Leaf Village's guard team had their breathing catch, and an indescribable rage surged into their hearts. They could already guess these people's identities.
Evil Soul Masters!
That was right. Only Evil Soul Masters would be so murderous, so utterly brutal.
"Damned Evil Soul Masters!" Zheng Long roared. He immediately took out his bow, drew the string, and shot an arrow.
Whoosh!
The arrow, its tip forged from refined iron, sliced swiftly through the air with a sharp whistle, aimed straight at the Evil Soul Master called Earthworm.
"Hmph!" Earthworm snorted. An eerie earthy-yellow light instantly radiated from his body. As the light flashed, his right arm directly transformed into an extremely sticky tentacle.
The arrow struck Earthworm in an instant. However, Zheng Long and the rest of the guard team were all violently startled. After that arrow hit, the scene they had imagined—of it piercing through the other party—did not appear. Instead, it was swallowed by that sticky tentacle, then finally snapped apart.
"You've got quite some nerve, but unfortunately, you're too weak." Earthworm smiled disdainfully. He gently flicked his arm, and a broken refined-iron spike suddenly fell from it.
Clang!
The arrowhead forged from refined iron smashed onto the ground, like a heavy hammer blow to everyone's heart.
"Enough. End this quickly. Finish them off early and leave. Who knows if those mad dogs from the Body Sect will follow the Soul Power Fluctuation and find this place." The tall, thin middle-aged man spoke with some caution.
Hearing his words, Earthworm's brows furrowed, and a surge of resentment instantly appeared in his heart. "True!"
The next second, all four Evil Soul Masters shifted their gazes straight to Zheng Long and the others.
The four of them activated their soul power at the same time. In an instant, a suffocating pressure descended from the sky and enveloped everyone.
Thud!
Because none of the people present were Soul Masters, they obviously could not withstand the pressure of Soul Emperor-level aura. Many of those with weaker physiques fainted almost instantly, and the sounds of bodies collapsing to the ground rang out one after another. In less than ten seconds, among the guard team's roughly fifty people, only a sparse few were still standing where they were. Everyone else had fallen unconscious, blood even seeping from their mouths and noses.
Even those still standing were not having an easy time. Their entire bodies felt as if they were about to be crushed into meat paste, and their knees were bent badly, on the verge of kneeling.
The gap between ordinary people and Soul Masters was just that enormous. If these people's Soul Power Levels had been lower, it might not have been so bad, but they were all at the Soul Emperor level, already close to the cultivation of Soul Saints.
"It's over!" Zheng Long spat blood and dropped to one knee. His gaze was somewhat blurred as he looked at the four Evil Soul Masters. He could already foresee that the women and children in the village would likely fail to escape this calamity.
If Evil Soul Masters did not kill, that was one thing. But once they started killing, they would definitely leave no survivors.
This was also why the people of the continent feared Evil Soul Masters so much.
There was not the slightest expression on the four Evil Soul Masters' faces, as though killing people was no different from slaughtering chickens.
"Dad!"
"Husband!"
"Son!"
Just then, countless shouts suddenly came from all directions of the village. The four Evil Soul Masters turned to look, and at once revealed slightly surprised expressions.
All across the village, countless figures walked out. Many of them were holding weapons: wooden planks, kitchen knives, and even pig-slaughtering knives. Clearly, these were the villagers who had hidden themselves earlier.
Seeing their loved ones fall unconscious, they no longer felt fear. Very quickly, at least five hundred people gathered beside the square.
The Evil Soul Masters had not expected so many people to come either, and they frowned. It was not that they were afraid. It was just that with more people, killing them would take more time.
After all, their Soul Power Fluctuations had already been memorized by the people of the Body Sect. Once they were sensed, what awaited them would inevitably be a storm-like manhunt.
If they wanted to escape again then, it would probably be difficult. Besides, their bodies had more or less recovered now. There was no need to waste time here.
"What do we do! I can't guarantee whether the Body Sect has appeared nearby or not." The Evil Soul Master with the Nightmare Martial Soul frowned as he spoke.
"Damn it, they're actually pretty united. Forget it, we're leaving first, so those mad dogs from the Body Sect don't discover us." The tall, thin middle-aged man cursed, then gave the order to retreat.
"We'll come back next time!" Earthworm licked his blood-soaked lips. He was still somewhat dissatisfied at not killing everyone.
As soon as the words fell, the four of them activated their soul power and prepared to leave.
However, before they could get even ten meters away, a low voice brimming with killing intent suddenly exploded beside their ears.
"Who are you calling a mad dog?"
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