Boom!
As lightning shot from Li Chen's hand, a bolt of Nine Heavens Divine Thunder blasted the Wooden Soldiers blocking his way into loose parts, throwing the dungeon entrance wide open as well.
He rushed inside and killed every guard in moments, then enveloped the cells and iron cages in magic power and wrenched at them from a distance, tearing them apart with the strength of a ferocious beast.
"You're free!
"Everyone who can move, get moving! Help the others up and follow me out!"
The people who had been sold like livestock were no fools. Seeing their chance to escape, they hurried to do as he said.
Li Chen led everyone out of the dungeon and found dozens of Black Market thugs and Earthly Sha Sect lackeys already surrounding the place.
But he merely smiled in disdain, lightning lighting up his hand.
Boom!
The men standing at the front fell at the sound.
"Holy shit, run!"
The entire crowd scattered like startled birds and beasts.
Li Chen brazenly led everyone out of the inner courtyard and back through the alley he had taken earlier.
Just then, another group in the city was hurrying toward them.
They were a rather mixed bunch. Some were rough-and-ready cultivators traveling in groups of three or five, clearly Demon Hunters and the like who roamed the Underworld. Others were common folk in coarse clothes with hungry, sallow faces, looking like fishermen or hunters. More still were rogue cultivators who looked like idle bystanders, riding Mechanism Beast puppets over to watch the excitement.
At the sight, many pointed and gestured, discussing it animatedly.
Not long before, word had suddenly spread through the inns and taverns that a passing Foundation Establishment expert was taking on the underground Human Market. Some of these people had lost friends