Douluo Continent: Gretchen at the start, empowered by the Star God.

Chapter 79 Slaughtering Through the Gate

Deacon Zhang, looking utterly miserable, was once again slammed into the wall.

"I am guilty, I am guilty. I know I was wrong, I know I was wrong..."

Deacon Zhang still didn't dare to stay on the wall for too long. He scrambled to Lang Lei's feet, kowtowing and apologizing.

"I'll say it again: you don't know you're wrong, you're just scared, scared that you'll die by my hand."

"Please, Your Excellency, spare my life..."

"Spare your life?" Lang Lei sneered. "Have you ever thought about sparing the lives of those innocent children? If you can bring all those children back to life and apologize to each of them, then I will spare your life."

Deacon Zhang collapsed to the ground, filled with despair.

"For my sake..."

"What merit have you made? Did you secretly contribute money to charity, or did you show great care for the children?" Lang Lei's rhetorical question left Deacon Zhang speechless.

He dared not lie to Lang Lei. After all, although it was unbelievable, according to Lang Lei, the other party was one of the children he had previously managed, and it would be easy to expose him.

"Tell me, Sect Leader Ning, how should I deal with this scoundrel?" At this moment, Lang Lei turned to look at Ning Fengzhi.

"Sect Leader Ning, save me! Sect Leader Ning, save me!"

At this point, Steward Zhang placed his hopes on Ning Fengzhi, the sect leader of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School.

Unfortunately, he was destined to be disappointed...

Ning Fengzhi answered without hesitation: "Naturally, kill them on the spot."

Deacon Zhang looked at Ning Fengzhi in disbelief. So, was he being used as a pawn?

"Oh? I see..." Lang Lei nodded. "But letting him die so easily is a bit too lenient on him."

Lang Lei's words made Deacon Zhang's face turn ashen, and his lips trembled incessantly.

Among the dozens of people below, not one pleaded for the other party.

Almost everyone was thinking: if killing Steward Zhang could appease the other party's anger, why not do it?

"Pfft—" Deacon Zhang, overwhelmed by qi and blood stasis, suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted.

"Wake him up," Lang Lei said calmly.

Without the slightest hesitation, the guard used his martial spirit to condense a ball of water and splashed it on the spot.

"Whoosh—"

"Whoosh..."

……

After a few moments, Deacon Zhang slowly regained consciousness, and then looked at Lang Lei in horror, as if he were looking at a demon.

"Sect Leader Ning, do you have a way to prevent this guy from fainting?" Lang Lei asked Ning Fengzhi.

Ning Fengzhi nodded in agreement. The two auxiliary effects of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, when combined, did indeed have a similar effect.

"First Soul Skill, Thousand Transformations Shaping".

Lang Lei summoned his first martial soul, and a majestic dragon aura surrounded him. He should have looked exceptionally holy, but Lang Lei gave off a desolate and lonely feeling.

At this moment, this feeling intensified the fear among everyone in the sect leader's hall.

Amidst the horrified gazes of the crowd, four spirit rings, one black and one red, surrounded Lang Lei, their intense pressure seemingly threatening to engulf them.

Ning Fengzu was alright because he had Sword Douluo protecting him, but apart from the two of them, everyone else was pale-faced, even those whose soul power level was slightly higher than Lang Lei's.

The four stone walls slowly enveloped the group. Some tried to fight to the death, but Lang Lei's chains subdued them. The others waited in despair for their punishment, regretting that they had been blinded by money.

Lang Lei could have easily pulled down the four high walls in an instant, but at this moment, he did it to deepen their fear and let them know what retribution was.

After the three-meter-high stone wall was completed, Lang Lei built a huge stone slab, which covered the scoundrels in the middle with a bang.

"Never again, but you can struggle as much as you want." Lang Lei said something that Deacon Zhang had said when he left in the Star Dou Great Forest.

With a crisp snap of the fingers, flames erupted in the stone cage, mercilessly licking at everyone's skin.

Some of the deacons rushed at Deacon Zhang in a frenzy, seemingly wanting to vent their anger before they died.

Without him, they wouldn't have ended up like this!

……

Lang Lei ignored those scoundrels and pulled out a few tattered clothes from his body; they were more like rags than clothes.

He stared at it for a while, sighed, made an opening in the top of the gabion, and threw it in.

He later found this in the Star Dou Great Forest, which served as a kind of psychological comfort to himself.

Just as the screams from inside the gabion gradually subsided, Lang Lei's soul power level naturally rose to level fifty.

"Hmm? You broke through?" Lang Lei was also somewhat surprised. He originally thought it would take a few more days to break through, so could this be considered breaking free from his obsession?

Sword Douluo Chen Xin and Ning Fengzhi were also quite surprised by the opponent's soul power level...

He's only seven years old, right?!

Before the two could finish their shock, Lang Lei's voice came again.

"Alright, they traded their lives for the ill-gotten gains they made in the past. So, Sect Leader Ning, you knew your subordinates had committed a crime, yet you stood by and did nothing, even subtly supporting them. Are you going to atone for this with your life, or will you agree to some conditions and pay to have them killed?"

Lang Lei didn't believe that those stewards would dare to do such a thing without Ning Fengzhi's secret permission. If Ning Fengzhi had intervened even once in all these years, the corrupt practices below wouldn't have been so rampant.

Of course, Lang Lei was too lazy to defend others. At this moment, he simply disliked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School and wanted to make them bleed a lot.

Sword Douluo frowned slightly. At this moment, he was not confident that he could stop Lang Lei. After exchanging a glance with Ning Fengzhi, Ning Fengzhi made a decisive choice.

"Your Majesty, how much money would it take to save my life? As for the conditions, as long as the foundation of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School is not harmed, I can agree to them."

Since it concerned his own life and the continuation of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, Ning Fengzhi dared not hold back.

"Let's talk about the conditions first."

"Your Majesty, please speak."

"From now on, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School must raise any orphans it takes from orphanages in various places until they are capable of supporting themselves, no matter what. You can decide on this." Lang Lei stated his conditions. "If you don't have the financial means, then let those orphans stay obediently in the orphanages in their respective places. As for the refugee abandoned children..."

"Once we enter the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, we will do the same," Ning Fengzhi quickly added, ignoring what Lang Lei was saying.

Sword Douluo didn't say anything, but there was a hint of support in his eyes.

"Alright, Sect Leader Ning, you can handle it as you see fit. Otherwise, there's no guarantee that another me won't appear." Lang Lei shrugged. "As for Sect Leader Ning's money to buy his life..."

"I don't want much. Considering that you have indeed adopted quite a few orphans, I want half of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's storage."

Ning Fengzhi was about to say, "Why don't you just rob me?" but he didn't dare to utter a word because of his limited strength.

Lang Lei seemed to know what he was going to say, and glanced at him: "How can you rob someone faster than this?"

"Could we... discuss this further?"

(End of this chapter)