"Killing me?" Wei Yan snorted. "You're not even qualified!"
"Hmph! Let us see if your arrogance can save you from our Vermillion Flame Formation! Into your position!"
"Yes, elder!"
The disciples soon unsheathed their swords, pointing them out to the sky and get into specific spots around the pond. As they chanted the mantra, burning wall of energy soon appeared in the sky, descending slowly as to burn Wei Yan alive.
"Hahahahaha!" Wei Yan laughed like a maniac. "You wanna kill me with this lousy formation?! Pathetic!"
Feeling insulted by the poor Formation Array of his enenmy, Wei Yan exerted one and half percent of his Divine Sense capacity, suppressing the Meridian Tempering Realm disciples onto their knees. They screamed to the top of their lungs as the horrifying illusion tore their sanity in every second. The Vermilion Flame Formation was soon crumbled and fall to the ground like broken glass.
Even Wang Wuya who was at Spirit Core Realm couldn't move a muscle, kneeling to the ground on four limbs.
"Urgh! What is this kid's background?! How could he possess such terrifying Divine Sense although he's just a mere Vein Awakening ant!"
By the time Wei Yan closed his hand into a fist, blood dripped out of their ears, nostrils, and eyes. A few of them even coughed thick and dark blood from their mouth due to vein rupture.
"Aaarrrghh! Get away from me! Don't come closer!"
"My head! It hurts!"
"Elder! Help us!"
"Elder Wang Wuya!"
Not enough by just torturing them psychologically which resulted in chaotic Qi state, Wei Yan ramp up his Divine Sense output up to 1.6 percent. Though the increment was very small, the impact on his targets was fatal.
Wei Yan was in complete control of their brains, he made them commit suicide by destroying their meridians. Each of them exploded into flesh and blood confetti.
"No!!! Stop it!" Wang Wuya bellowed as he saw his disciple piercing their own dantian with a sword.
But alas, it was too late to beg for mercy the moment he confronted the Sentient Heavenly Treasure who had been trained by Immortal Sage to show no mercy against those who crossed its path.
"This is absurd! I have lived for two hundred years and I have never been humiliated like this before! Aaaa! Burning Sky Sect will not let you get away with this!"
"Only two hundred years? That's cute. Wang Wuya… The entity before you has lived for a million years. Enough with this farce and go repent your sins in your next life." Wei Yan said coldly. "Little snake, it's your turn."
Hearing those words, the python beast finally opened its eyes, launching its massive head toward Wang Wuya with an open wide mouth. It didn't waste a breath to crush the old man between its jaws.
Wang Wuya tried to escape the jaws of death, but alas, they closed instantly the moment his right hand reached out the jaws, decapitating his arm and crushing his body.
The python beast roared to the sky when the old man's Qi Essence burst violently in its body. By the time it digested the Qi Essence, it underwent a massive body transformation into a Demonic Beast. Its aura was darkened, the once clear and brilliant blue eyes turned reddish while the dark miasma emitted from the skin beneath its scale.
Such was the fate of Spirit Beast who broke the taboo by eating human beings without purifying the soul beforehand. Unlike the Spirit Beasts whose soul was untainted by wordly desire, human's soul had the combination of both righteous and evil nature. The volatility was too great for Spirit Beast to handle, that's also the reason why beast and human rarely get along.
Nevertheless, the python beast still retained its consciousness. It returned to the hot spring pond, coiling around the little beast cub to assist her recovery.
Wei Yan couldn't help but to shake his head. He clearly didn't expect that the beast would tainted its cultivation with human blood. "Little snake, you know very well the demonification can't be reverted. Why did you ate that old man?"
"Don't worry. I am already at the limit of my lifespan after all. Also, my bloodline is very weak, I can't evolve to a Star Rank Beast no matter how hard I tried. However, before I die, I will let those humans taste my wrath for destroying my home!"
Wei Yan shook his hand once again. He felt a tad guilty for dragging the python beast into his mess. But alas, even with a Supreme Rank Divine Sense, Wei Yan have no control of the fate and future.
He silently expressed his sorry by condensing the spilled blood in the vicinity into a Blood Pill. He did it effortlessly by just waving his hand, evaporated the water content and removed the impurities.
"Here, take it." Wei Yan tossed the blood pill into the python beast's mouth. It caught the pill in mid air with its long forked tongue.
"What is this?" The python beast tilted its head.
"Low-grade Blood Pill. It will increase demonic power without sacrificing your sanity. If you are still alive after avenging your kin, come find me, I'll give you more."
"But, how do I find you?"
"You will know." Wei Yan didn't give further explanation, focusing on healing the little beast cub.
In the evening, Wei Yang managed to heal the black tiger's cub. However, it would take a while until she naturally restored her Qi.
While waiting for Xiao Mao to wake up, Wei Yan opted to dismantle the formation arrays and looted the dead bodies. He eventually stumbled on Wang Wuya's right hand which had a Storage Ring on its finger. The soul imprint on the ring was easily broken with his Divine Sense.
Upon focusing his senses and peering into the ring's storage space, Wei Yan smirked from side to side. The ring was filled with, gold coins, sellable items and many martial techniques which he could sell or use without raising suspicions since they were pretty common items.
"Oh, well, don't mind if I do!"