840: Chapter 840 Leave no survivors!

As soon as these words were spoken.

Everyone's expressions changed drastically.

Cold sweat streamed down Bai Honglie's temples.

"Ye... Ye Chen, don't do anything reckless!"

"There are so many of us here, we are all elders, deacons, and core disciples of our respective sects..."

"You might be able to cover it up if you kill one or two, but if you kill all of us, the One Clan, Three Sects, Five Gates will hunt you down with all their might!"

The young man from the Tianyi Sect behind him also hurriedly spoke up.

"That's right! Ye Chen, you've already caused huge trouble by killing Third Elder Bai Hongyuan and Momoda!"

"If you touch us again... there won't be any place left in this world for you to hide!"

The female cultivator from the Hehuan Sect turned deathly pale: "Ye Chen... Big Brother Ye... let's talk this over. We were only lured here by the Bai family. If you want to kill someone, kill Bai Honglie; don't drag us into this..."

Bai Honglie suddenly turned his head and glared at her.

"You fucking bitch..."

"Enough."

Ye Chen interrupted him, then looked down at the little bear on his shoulder. "Listen to them, all speaking so righteously, as if I'd be some heinous demon if I didn't let them go."

The little bear let out a "woo-woo" sound, tilted its head to look at those people, then looked at Ye Chen, and pouted.

It looked like... it was saying they were so noisy.

Ye Chen smiled and looked up at Bai Honglie: "Do you think reasoning with me will work?"

Bai Honglie was stunned.

"Ye Chen, calm down first. My Bai family can pay a price..."

"Whether you want gold, cultivation techniques, or spiritual herbs, I will report it to our family head as soon as I return. We will give you whatever you want!"

"Too late." Ye Chen raised his right hand and casually hooked his index finger toward the crowd.

The next second.

An invisible burst of energy tore through the air, instantly striking the Qianji Sect disciple who had just shot an arrow at him with a crossbow.

"Pfft—"

A bloody hole appeared in the center of the man's forehead, and his body swayed.

Then.

He fell backward onto the snow.

Bai Honglie: "!!!"

The young man from the Tianyi Sect: "!!!"

Everyone else: "!!!"

Dead silence.

A silence like death.

But the next second, the crowd erupted.

"Run!!!"

It was unclear who shouted first, but everyone scattered and fled in all directions like a startled flock of birds.

They madly channeled their True Qi, their legs moving so fast they almost left afterimages, only regretting that their parents hadn't given them two more legs.

Ye Chen watched the figures scurrying everywhere and fished a few Talismans from his pocket.

"I said, whoever runs dies."

As soon as the words fell.

He raised his hand and flicked it. The Talismans whistled out as if they had eyes, crossing over the heads of the crowd at a speed several times faster than those running, and then...

"Snap! Snap! Snap!"

Each Talisman floated in front of everyone, less than three inches from the tip of their noses.

The figures who had been fleeing crazily stopped in their tracks instantly.

No one dared to take another step forward.

Because the surface of every Talisman was glowing faintly, like eyes that had opened, coldly staring at them.

The young man from the Tianyi Sect was instantly terrified: "Ye... Ye Chen, what is this?"

Ye Chen walked slowly toward them with his hands in his pockets.

"I forgot what this thing is actually called, but the effect is about the same as a landmine."

"You can try moving a step to the side and see if it goes off."

"But I don't guarantee how many intact bones you'll have left after it goes off."

The thirty-some people in the area had goosebumps all over, and they even breathed more softly...

No one dared to move.

Bai Honglie stood at the very front, his face as pale as paper: "Ye Chen... what, what exactly do you want?"

Ye Chen walked up to him and stopped.

"It's very simple."

"Take out all the tokens on you and place them on the ground, without missing a single one."

"And then..."

He swept his gaze over all the remaining people and smiled exceptionally brightly.

"Hands on your heads, squat down right where you are."

"You can only get up after I have left."

Bai Honglie: "..."

The young man from the Tianyi Sect: "..."

The female cultivator from the Hehuan Sect: "..."

They wanted to curse, but the Talisman floating in front of them was still glowing eerily, forcing all the profanities back into their throats.

Bai Honglie gritted his teeth, took the lead in untying the cloth bag from his waist, and poured out five tokens.

Then.

He immediately put his hands on his head and squatted down.

Seeing this, the people behind him took out their tokens one after another and threw them on the ground, then followed suit by holding their heads...

Ye Chen looked down and counted; there were twenty-seven in total.

"This will do."

He bent down to pick up the tokens handful by handful and stuffed them into his pockets; when the pockets couldn't hold any more, he tucked a few into his robes.

"Alright, you guys squat here slowly, I'm leaving first."

The little bear lay on his shoulder, turned its head, and let out two "woo-woo" sounds at the group of people.

That look! That demeanor! Those actions! It was as if it was mocking them...

Ye Chen turned around and walked toward the depths of the ice field.

The thirty-some people behind him just stayed like that, hands on their heads, squatting on the ice, not daring to move a muscle.

Someone asked in a low voice: "Did he... did he really leave?"

"Shut up! Don't you see that the Talisman is still glowing!"

"Damn it, let's wait until the Talisman extinguishes itself before we get up!"

"My knees are so frozen they've lost all feeling..."

"Who's to blame? You fucking ran faster than a rabbit earlier, did running help? You're still squatting here, aren't you!"

Many people around were bickering in hushed tones.

But Bai Honglie's face had turned as black as the bottom of a pot.

"Everyone shut the fuck up! Stop arguing!"

The thirty-some people closed their mouths simultaneously.

Bai Honglie took two deep breaths, suppressing the rage in his heart, his eyes fixed tightly on the two corpses already frozen stiff on the snow.

His older brother, Third Elder Bai Hongyuan, was lying not far away like that, while the murderer was keeping them completely suppressed and continuing on his way to remain at large...

Rage! Extreme rage! Bai Honglie's fists clenched, making a rattling sound.

"Ye Chen..."

"If I, Bai Honglie, can leave this ice field alive today, I will definitely fight you to the death later!"

"You killed my older brother; I will exterminate your entire clan!"

His voice was filled with intense venom and hatred.

The people around them heard this, and their expressions changed, but no one dared to respond.

They were also holding back anger in their hearts, but there was more fear.

The scene where Ye Chen's nonchalant palm strike shattered their combined attack was still branded in their minds like a brand.

"Elder Bai is right!"

The young man from the Tianyi Sect gritted his teeth and said, "We must leave here alive and spread the word!"

"Right!"

The female cultivator from the Hehuan Sect also nodded, "We cannot let him remain at large!"

"But we are squatting here right now..." someone asked with a bitter smile, "How do we spread the word?"

Bai Honglie glared at that person, and the person immediately retracted their head.

"Wait!"

Bai Honglie said coldly, "Ye Chen's Talisman will eventually run out of spiritual power; we'll get up then."

The people around looked at each other and then stopped speaking.

Because.

They needed to conserve their strength...

Time passed minute by minute; it was unknown how much time had passed.

Those glowing Talismans suddenly dimmed for a moment.

Everyone's eyes landed on the Talismans simultaneously, and they even held their breath.

Immediately after.

The light of the Talismans dimmed by another fraction.

Then, dimmed another fraction.

After a few breaths...

The last trace of luster on the surface of the Talismans completely extinguished, and they floated down from mid-air.

"It's out!"

Someone was the first to shout out.

"Quick, get up! The Talisman is out!"

"Damn... my legs have been squatted to uselessness!"

A group of people sprang up from the snow almost simultaneously.

On every one of their faces was written the relief of surviving a disaster.

Damn it! They had just thought... they were about to die!

But now.

They had survived!

And the first thought after surviving was... leave here! Expose all the crimes Ye Chen had committed!

By then... all the forces would have a reason to unite and besiege that bastard!

Bai Honglie also stood up and stretched his frozen knees, his gaze landing on the Talisman, the expression on his face changing from gloomy to cold.

"Ye Chen..."

Just as he was about to say a few harsh words, the Talisman at his feet suddenly lit up.

And.

It was brighter than before.

It was as bright as a small sun, blinding people on the ice field.

Bai Honglie's expression changed drastically, and a chill shot straight from his tailbone to his crown.

"Not good..."

His voice had just escaped his lips when the Talisman exploded with a roar!

No warning.

No delay.

The firelight instantly swallowed everything within a radius of ten zhang.

"Boom!!!"

The ice surface shattered from the center.

Broken ice! Packed snow! Blood spray! Flesh chunks! All mixed together and splashed out in all directions.

The air wave, wrapped in the explosion's shockwave, swept across the ice field, causing cracks to appear even in the ice rocks more than ten zhang away.

Those people who had just been smiling about surviving were now torn to pieces in the explosion before they could even let out a groan.

At the moment everyone's consciousness faded, there was only one thought... It was a lie! It was all fucking lies!

Ye Chen never thought about letting them leave here alive!

Therefore.

After a period of teasing, he ruthlessly detonated the Talisman...

That bastard is simply an animal!