Screams filled every corner of Linhai City, yet the place where the experts of He Zong stayed was eerily silent, not a sound to be heard.
When one of them pierced through the mist, everyone fell silent, not uttering a word.
They knew, and they understood.
They understood why Li Xiaotian had to kill those innocent people, and why he had spared them.
"But his actions were still too cruel; he could have explained things clearly."
Someone’s expression was complicated as they sighed.
"Even if he had explained, would anyone have believed him? So many innocent people, how should they be dealt with? Who would deal with them?"
Someone beside him spoke, their expression showing a hint of reluctance. During the ancient blood chaos, many ancient people might not have experienced it, but those who did often shivered at the memory.
During that time, even Heavenly Realm experts had fallen. As for martial artists below the Heavenly Realm and ordinary people, countless more had died.
And that disaster could have been nipped in the bud, but because the human powerhouses were unwilling to act decisively, it led to a catastrophe that almost destroyed the ancient world.
"Blood slaves!!! We have been too negligent. When the blood children awakened this time, all parties should have gathered their forces to eliminate them."
Someone gritted their teeth and said, but then forced a wry smile. Everyone knew how dangerous blood children were, yet when Li Xiaotian informed the world of their existence, not many forces took action.
The reason for this, everyone knew clearly.
At that time, these ancient people considered themselves superior and looked down upon the Great Qin that had risen in later generations.
As for Li Xiaotian, he was targeted from multiple sides. During the war between Great Qin and the demon race, very few forces participated. At that time, everyone's focus was on Li Xiaotian and Great Qin.
Regarding the blood children of the Blood Sea, apart from a few young powerhouses who cared, very few of them, the older generation of powerhouses, paid any attention.
"Alas!"
Someone let out a low sigh and remained silent, but everyone revealed a deep sense of regret and self-reproach.
At this moment, looking at the Dragon King Hall members killing people all over the city, they felt no anger, only a complex understanding.
However, even so, none of them stepped forward to help the Dragon King Hall members; they couldn't bring themselves to do it!
Above Linhai City, the blood drop in Li Xiaotian's hand grew larger, emitting a pungent bloody smell.
As the bloody smell became more intense, the entire Linhai City slowly began to change. Those with blood seeds in their bodies began to transform into blood slaves, no longer fleeing, but resisting.
"Roar!!!"
Roars echoed, and more and more people in the city turned into blood slaves. They began to attack everyone they could see.
Screams followed one after another. At this moment, the entire city was in chaos. The ordinary people who had been evading the Dragon King Hall members were now faced with countless half-human, half-monster creatures.
Those monsters pounced on them, biting like beasts.
"Ah!!! Zhiqiang! It's me! What's wrong with you? Don't come near! Don't come near!!!"
"Brother, wake up, what's wrong with you? Don't bite me, it hurts! Brother!!!"
"Son, don't you recognize me? I'm your mother!"
The city was filled with screams and cries. Relatives killing each other, brothers fighting, like a living hell.
Although the Dragon King Hall members were already spread throughout the city, there were too many infected ordinary people. The people they had killed earlier were less than half the number of infected people.
Moreover, everyone bitten by a blood slave would be infected and turn into a blood slave in moments.
Therefore, the number of blood slaves in the city was rapidly increasing.
"This!!!"
The experts from various sects, including the survivors of the Luan Hai Sect, were all stunned and filled with shock at this scene.
Who would have thought that ordinary people who were just fleeing moments ago would suddenly turn into ferocious blood slaves like beasts, some of them even attacking them.
"What are you standing around for? Waiting for everyone in the city to turn into lunatics? Do you ancient powerhouses only know how to attack your own people?"
A general from the Dragon King Hall passed by, killed a blood slave with a single saber stroke, and said coldly to the crowd before rejoining the fray.
A flicker of embarrassment crossed the faces of the crowd. They had misunderstood Li Xiaotian because they were unaware of the truth earlier.
"Fine, everyone, let's act!"
An expert spoke, then strode forward. Although they were injured, they could still easily deal with these blood slaves, who were transformed ordinary people.
At the same time, after the appearance of the blood slaves in Linhai City, the live broadcast on the internet was abruptly cut off, and all news about Linhai City was interrupted.
The outside world was thrown into an uproar, with people cursing and denouncing, their targets all being Li Xiaotian.
This was because they believed that Li Xiaotian had discovered someone transmitting information about Linhai City, and thus had interrupted the news.
As a result, the events unfolding in Linhai City were unknown to the outside world, and they could not be ascertained.
The misunderstanding of Li Xiaotian by the outside world could not be dispelled, and in the eyes of the world, Li Xiaotian remained a devil, a butcher who wantonly killed the innocent.
In Linhai City, Li Xiaotian, whose divine sense enveloped the entire city, suddenly opened his eyes. An earth-shattering aura erupted from him, and then, he swung his saber towards a patch of ground.
"Boom!!!"
Just as the saber was about to strike the ground, a figure suddenly burst out from the ground, and a thick scent of blood enveloped the entire Linhai City.
"Bang!"
Li Wenbo, dressed in red, punched Li Xiaotian's saber flying and then clapped his hands leisurely.
"Not bad, not bad, you found me so quickly. I thought you would kill everyone in the city before finding me."
At this moment, Li Wenbo's face was pale, his lips dark red, and he looked incredibly alluring. Simultaneously, his aura was also terrifying.
He had broken through to the Overlord realm!
"Li Xiaotian, you have quite the nerve. Coming to Linhai City to find me with just one Overlord."
Li Wenbo spoke with arrogance in his tone. It wasn't that he was bragging, but that he now had the strength and confidence to do so!
"To kill you, I alone am enough! You are just a rat that only knows how to hide. Do you deserve multiple Overlords to come and eliminate you?!"
Li Xiaotian said coldly, his eyes filled with killing intent. He regretted it, regretting not having his men search thoroughly for Li Wenbo when he annihilated the Li family.
Otherwise, the world would not have become this way, and those people in Linhai City would not have died in vain.
"Li Xiaotian!!!"
Hearing Li Xiaotian's disdainful tone, Li Wenbo's face instantly turned red with anger, and all the hatred in his heart surged forth.
To avenge himself, he was willing to become a servant of the Blood Sea. To avenge himself, he transformed into a devil, slaughtering the innocent, even killing his former good friends without mercy.
Linhai City was the hometown of one of his university roommates, and it was for this reason that he chose to hide in Linhai City.
Because it was remote enough, and the villages in the nearby mountains were numerous, it was the best place for him to break through to the Overlord realm!