Screams echoed through Linhai City, with continuous deaths. On this day, the number of people who died in Linhai City exceeded half, and many did not even know why they died.
This was a catastrophe, the greatest disaster in Yanzhou since the great changes in heaven and earth.
In a single day, the city was almost reduced to ruins!
Even decades later, survivors of this day's disaster could not help but have nightmares when they recalled the scene.
And everything happening in Linhai City at this moment was being live-streamed online. At this moment, almost everyone in the world was watching.
As they watched the scenes on the screen, they couldn't help but break out in cold sweats, their bodies turning ice-cold, and tears involuntarily streaming from their eyes.
They were angry, they were fearful, and they were powerless, only able to watch, hoping someone would step in to stop it.
But no one intervened, and the slaughter continued.
Li Xiaotian, this name once again appeared before the eyes of the world in a different image.
A demon? A butcher? An evil heretic!
Especially the people of Da Qin, their emotions were the most complex.
They always remembered who led Da Qin to rise, who stood up to resist when ancient forces oppressed ordinary people after the great changes in heaven and earth.
It was Li Xiaotian! It was the Dragon King!!!
But now, the hero in their eyes, the idol of many young people, was now slaughtering ordinary people in Linhai City with his subordinates.
They couldn't understand, why would Li Xiaotian do this? Why would he start slaughtering Da Qin's citizens after saving Da Qin?
Why give them hope, only to plunge them into despair!
"Demon! Demon!! Li Xiaotian is unworthy of being human!!! He should die without a burial place!!!"
Online, some people roared and bellowed, venting their anger.
"Why??? Why is Li Xiaotian doing this? Has he gone mad? What benefit does he gain from this?"
"Please, human powerhouses, step forward and quickly execute Li Xiaotian, stop the slaughter, what wrong have the people of Linhai City done? They don't deserve this disaster!"
"What a joke, Dragon King! Coward! Unable to defeat the Arrogant Hall and Divine Sect alliance, yet he acts tough in front of his own people. What sense of accomplishment does slaughtering these ordinary people bring? Have the guts to destroy Arrogant Hall, to destroy Divine Sect!!!"
"Li Xiaotian, bah! Worse than demons! He has betrayed humanity, he is a running dog of the demon race, he is a devil!"
"Who will stop this? Who will stop the devil Li Xiaotian? Who can end this disaster? Stop killing, too many people have died!"
Online, countless people spoke out, filled with anger and sorrow. They cursed Li Xiaotian with all sorts of foul language, wishing for his immediate demise.
However, most of them were ordinary people, powerless. Even some martial artists were unable to help.
This was because Li Xiaotian was too strong, a Hegemon-level expert. Unless a Hegemon-level sect intervened, no one could stop this disaster.
Even so, the sects not far from Linhai City had all their Imperial-level martial artists mobilized, heading towards Linhai City.
Some distant sects were also rushing with all their might.
They wanted to stop Li Xiaotian, even if they knew it meant certain death.
Similarly, outside the mountain gates of Arrogant Hall, Daoist Sect, and Sword Pavilion, countless people jointly requested that the Hegemon-level sects intervene and execute Li Xiaotian.
But strangely, the sects with Hegemon-level experts sitting in them remained silent, like closed mountains, with no activity and no one emerging.
"As a Hegemon-level sect, the Daoist Sect has countless powerful individuals. Now that a devil has appeared and is slaughtering humans, why are the Daoist Sect's powerhouses not acting?! Why???"
Outside the Daoist Sect, after their earnest pleas were met with no results, the people finally began to curse and accuse.
"Sword Pavilion sword cultivators are righteous and upright. Are you just going to stand by and watch the people of Linhai City be slaughtered by Li Xiaotian, this scoundrel?"
The situation was the same for the Sword Pavilion and Arrogant Hall. The crowds pleaded, but all three major sects remained unresponsive.
"Alas! Why bother? How foolish! It is clearly the human race as a whole that should bear all of this, so why do you insist on bearing it alone? Bearing the infamy?"
Inside the Daoist Sect, Dao Xuan looked bitter, his face filled with complexity.
"Li Xiaotian! In the future decisive battle, you will have a place among the leaders of the human race!"
In the Sword Pavilion, Jian Chen's eyes flashed with sharp light. A wisp of sword energy directly lopped off a mountain peak. Li Xiaotian's decision made him, who had lived for tens of thousands of years, unable to help but admire him.
He asked himself, if he were Li Xiaotian, he wouldn't be able to do it!
In Arrogant Hall, Huang Wudi sat on his throne, his brows tightly furrowed. Logically, with Li Xiaotian's image collapsing and his departure from Da Qin, he should have been happy.
But he felt no excitement at all. Although he didn't know why Li Xiaotian was doing this, he believed that Li Xiaotian must have his reasons.
In any case, he felt something was very wrong and wanted to understand what Li Xiaotian was trying to do.
Unlike the Sword Pavilion and the Daoist Sect, Li Xiaotian had informed the two sects of the truth when his actions began. Arrogant Hall, however, knew nothing.
Huang Wudi did not intervene because of his intuition, and perhaps the attitude of the Daoist Sect and Sword Pavilion led him to choose to observe.
Meanwhile, in Linhai City, the slaughter continued.
And the powerful experts from various sects before were all injured by Li Xiaotian and gathered together, waiting for death.
But gradually, they began to notice something unusual, and each of them looked puzzled.
This was because they realized that Li Xiaotian's men were selective in their killings. All those whose bodies emitted a red glow were killed, or rather, they only killed those whose bodies emitted a red glow.
Conversely, some people who were with those whose bodies emitted a red glow were seemingly unseen by Li Xiaotian's men, who did not attack them at all.
Even members of the Loose Sea Sect, half of whom were killed by Li Xiaotian, and a few Imperial-level experts, were spared by Li Xiaotian.
Even when those people madly attacked Li Xiaotian, trying to avenge their fallen comrades, Li Xiaotian would at most severely injure them and then leave them aside, no longer bothering with them.
"What's going on? Could Li Xiaotian be right? Those people whose bodies emit a red glow were all controlled? No longer human?"
A strong man asked, full of doubt. Although they were filled with anger before, after the anger subsided, they began to analyze the current situation.
"Controlled? But why do none of us feel anything? Besides, who could control Qin Shan, the Sect Master of Loose Sea Sect, who is at the peak of the Imperial level?"
"Exactly, Li Xiaotian has gone mad. Linhai City will be wiped out sooner or later. The talk of being controlled or not being human are just excuses made up by Li Xiaotian."
Someone refuted, believing that Linhai City could not escape destruction.
"Something's not right. Have you all noticed that those with red glowing bodies, when they die, a trace of blood essence floats out, and Li Xiaotian is collecting that blood essence."
An elder spoke, his brows tightly knitted, sensing something abnormal, and then continued.
"That blood essence seems strange, not like normal human blood essence. It seems to be..."
"The aura of the Blood Sea!"
Someone whispered, as ancient powerhouses had encountered the Blood Sea and could distinguish it.
"What? The aura of the Blood Sea? Blood Sea Blood Son? Does that mean those people are all...?"
Someone exclaimed in disbelief, then looked at Li Xiaotian with shock, their eyes filled with complexity and confusion.