Kill them all without mercy?!
Those four words had barely left Chu Feng's lips before everyone present — Lady Yuwei included — felt a jolt of shock run through them.
They were their own people, weren't they?
Chu Feng was going to kill every last one of them as well?
Swish—!
But before any of them could even process the thought, let alone react, the Asura army had already moved.
By the time they came to their senses, countless bodies had already been sliced clean in half.
Torn limbs and shattered corpse fragments, mixed with vast sheets of fresh blood, rained down from the sky like a torrential downpour.
The scene was beyond ghastly.
Every person present was a martial cultivator — battle-hardened and no stranger to killing — yet this sight still drained the color from their faces.
Some vomited on the spot. Others simply collapsed unconscious.
The guards may have looked fearsome, but they were cultivators all the same — living, breathing lives.
Yet in the blink of an eye, tens of millions of lives had been extinguished. This method was nothing short of brutality.
What made it even worse was that nearly a million of those lives had been their own compatriots — people they had lived and worked alongside day after day.
But it was already far too late. The Asura army had struck with terrifying speed, wiping out every last life in an instant.
The sheer dreadfulness of the Asura army had been put on full, merciless display.
Yet what frightened people the most at this moment was not the Asura army, nor the Asura King — but the young human figure standing amid the crowd.
That person, of course, was Chu Feng.
Though Chu Feng was a true human and his appearance was anything but fierce, everyone knew that he was the one who had given the order for the Asura army to slaughter them all.
He was the commander of this army.
And the fact that Chu Feng, having just issued the kill order, could witness such a horrific scene without so much as a change in expression — that didn't show people his extraordinary mental fortitude. It showed them how terrifying he truly was.
In that moment, everyone was too frightened to speak. Even Lord Bai and Lady Yuwei, who were on relatively good terms with Chu Feng, didn't dare utter a single word.
The atmosphere across the entire heavens had grown eerily tense.
But Chu Feng couldn't have cared less. Reactions like these were something he had long grown accustomed to.
"I recall that the people who just insulted Senior Yuwei weren't limited to these few, were they?"
As he spoke, Chu Feng's gaze swept over the crowd.
Though the number of those who had insulted Lady Yuwei was enormous, every last one of them had been burned clearly into Chu Feng's memory.
"My Lord, should we kill the rest as well?"
The Asura King posed this question to Chu Feng while holding a severed head in his hand.
It was the head of the guard commander.
Just moments ago, amid the Asura army's assault, the Asura King had casually finished off the guard commander for good.
Clang—!
The moment the Asura King's question left his mouth, the Asura warriors behind him unsheathed their weapons once more.
They were fully prepared.
The second wave of slaughter would begin the instant Chu Feng gave the word.
"My Lord, spare us! Please spare us!"
"We were wrong! We truly were wrong! We were forced into it — those words didn't come from our hearts!"
At that moment, not only did those who had previously insulted Lady Yuwei drop to their knees in midair and kowtow in desperation, but even those who hadn't insulted her — yet had declared they would no longer follow her leadership — were so terrified that they immediately fell to their knees before Chu Feng, begging for mercy.
After they knelt, a sparse drizzle began falling from the sky. But it was no rain — it was urine.
A great number of them had literally been scared out of their wits.
Though really, one couldn't entirely blame them. After having just witnessed Chu Feng's ruthless methods firsthand, they were terrified beyond reason.
None of them wanted to meet such a miserable end.
"The person you should be kneeling to isn't me," Chu Feng said.
Upon hearing those words, the crowd immediately understood what Chu Feng meant and hurriedly turned their efforts toward begging Lady Yuwei for mercy.
"Think a few words of apology is enough?"
"Slap yourselves. If you don't beat your own faces to a pulp, I'll take your wretched lives," Chu Feng said.