"Hmm?"
However, as Song Yun caressed the Nine Eyed Demonic Flame, she furrowed her brow and began carefully scanning the surrounding skies, as if searching for something.
"So it was you."
But at that moment, the New King below fixed Song Yun with a fierce glare and spoke: "No wonder I failed. So it was you who seized control of the Nine Eyed Demonic Flame."
"After the seal on the Nine Eyed Demonic Flame was broken, the reason it attacked people wasn't its own intention. It was being controlled by you," the New King said.
"What?"
Once those words left his mouth, many people's expressions changed drastically.
If that was truly the case, then the nature of the matter was entirely different.
"There must be some misunderstanding," the Patriarch of the Huangfu Heavenly Clan said.
After all, if Song Yun hadn't intervened just now, Jie Mubai would have been completely able to wipe them all out using the humanoid monster behind him.
Why would Song Yun both save them and harm them?
"It was me."
But Song Yun admitted it.
Hearing this, even the Patriarch of the Huangfu Heavenly Clan was left slack-jawed, momentarily unable to figure this Song Yun out.
Meanwhile, a cold light surfaced in Chu Feng's eyes.
Song Yun didn't care about the reactions of others, so she turned her gaze to Chu Feng.
"Brother Chu Feng, what's with that look? Don't tell me you want to kill me?"
"Just because I hurt a few people?"
"Aren't they your friends? Aren't I your friend too?" Song Yun asked in succession, seeming to care deeply about Chu Feng's attitude.
"Why did you do this?" Chu Feng asked.
"No particular reason. I just couldn't stand those people, especially that girl."
Song Yun looked toward Little Fish: "She's clearly not young anymore, yet she keeps calling everyone 'big brother.' It's genuinely disgusting."
Little Fish didn't speak, but a cold light surfaced in her eyes as well.
Of course, it wasn't just Little Fish. An even stronger murderous intent surfaced in Xianhai Shaoyu's eyes.
Little Fish was his biological sister. Joking around was one thing, but if anyone truly hurt his sister, he would risk his life to protect her.
"W-What's wrong with calling him big b-brother?"
"When our F-Fish first met my brother, she was still a tiny l-little baby."
"You don't know a d-damn thing about their bond!"
"Besides, don't you keep calling him brother too?"
"Truth t-told, when Fish calls my brother that, I don't find it disgusting. But when you call him brother, I-I-I'm truly disgusted, because what I, Wang Qiang, hate most is scheming w-women."
Wang Qiang cursed outright.
"You stuttering freak, you can't even speak properly and you dare stick your nose where it doesn't belong?"
"Originally, I only intended to teach you all a lesson, but I've changed my mind. I want your lives."
The moment Song Yun spoke those words, the Nine Eyed Demonic Flame let out a thunderous roar, and its form once again swelled into a colossal being standing ten thousand meters tall.
"Song Yun, what are you planning to do?" Chu Feng asked in a deep voice.
"Brother Chu Feng, you already know, don't you?"
"That sacrificial formation simply cannot be broken. They're all going to die."
"But you and I are different. We… can leave this place."
As Song Yun spoke to this point, she clenched her fist, and within her hand appeared an object resembling a luminous sword. But it wasn't actually a sword — its form was more akin to a key.
Wielding this object, she slashed it forcefully behind her, and the luminous object transformed into a blade of light that shot outward.
The next instant, a great gate appeared in the sky above.
This gate was quite peculiar. It was only a hundred meters wide, but its height reached ten thousand meters.