Help and Reward

"I have a way to bring them back!"

Liu Zhi's shout came too late. Before he could even get the words out, at least a thousand humans had been dismembered by the bearded man.

At Liu Zhi's words, the bearded man merely said, "Oh," as if nothing had happened, then went back to killing the fleshy masses and destroying the bubbles.

As for the humans who had died at his hands, Liu Zhi guessed the bearded man simply thought they'd been unlucky.

Not wanting the bearded man to kill a large number of people again, Liu Zhi hurried into action. He treated everyone still asleep here as an enemy and used his Soul Extraction ability on them.

This time, however, Liu Zhi didn't extract all their souls. He merely touched their souls, pretended to draw them out, then sent them back.

Naturally, when he returned the souls to their bodies, Liu Zhi tampered with them a little.

Rather than giving them a lecture, Liu Zhi placed a temporary mark on their souls.

The mark would jolt their souls and wake them from their slumber.

This ability was originally meant to briefly rouse those on the verge of death.

It would cause some damage to their souls, but Liu Zhi thought that compared with life and death, such slight spiritual damage was nothing.

With his current strength, amplified by the magic room aboard the Yadaliate, he could handle hundreds or even thousands of souls at once.

Even so, it took him four or five rounds of Soul Extraction to finish working on everyone's souls.

Once he'd finished, Liu Zhi snapped his fingers.

A thunderclap rang through the space. With a deafening boom, everyone bearing the temporary mark jolted awake.

Some of them were powerful beings, like the bearded man from before,