Capture and Interrogation!

The same matter would yield different outcomes when viewed from different positions.

That saying could not have been more fitting for the current situation.

Should they preserve these villagers' lives?

Or kill this Demon King here and now?

It was one or the other.

That was the dilemma Wangquan Baye currently faced.

Of course, if every member of the Masked Group had been here, this Demon King would have had no ability to resist at all. The Masked Group had not only Qingmu Yuan, a control-type cultivator capable of reversing spiritual channels, but also Deng Qiyue, whose petrification served as supplementary control, as well as Wangquan Zui, who could hypnotize others. With those three layers of control stacked together, this Southern Kingdom Demon King would not even have had a chance to kill the villagers. Unfortunately, reality had no ifs.

Wangquan Baye was a typical damage-focused cultivator.

His entire build was basically invested in attack power.

Li Qizhuo and Li Zizai were cultivators who balanced support and offense. They possessed some means of dealing with enemies themselves, along with damage-boosting effects, which gave them a rather unique role.

As for Yang Yitan, Zhang Zheng, Mu Shenqi, and the others who had not come, each had their own specialties.

Yang Yitan leaned toward support.

Zhang Zheng specialized in trading blood for damage.

Mu Shenqi, meanwhile, was a classic tank.

In short, the combination of Wangquan Baye, Li Qizhuo, and Li Zizai had more than enough offensive power. So long as they did not run into Fan Yunfei at his peak—the kind who had inherited Long Jiu's power but had not undergone reincarnation renewal, a Great Demon Emperor-level existence—they could leave whenever they wanted.

As for that mutt.

In other words, Fan Yunfei.

That depended on his current state.

The mutt's condition