Dan Feng remained silent. His gaze slowly shifted away from the pitiful girl on the ground, then fixed on the pile of wriggling burlap sacks.
Something seemed to be struggling inside the sacks, causing the anger in Dan Feng's heart to surge uncontrollably. There were definitely other children in there.
The word "human traffickers" flashed rapidly through Dan Feng's mind.
In his previous life, he had always harbored deep hatred toward human traffickers, believing they deserved the death penalty.
And now, at this very moment, these two human traffickers stood right in front of him. He would absolutely show them no mercy.
Without hesitation, Dan Feng retrieved Cloud-Piercer from his system space. The profound cyan long spear in his hand emitted a chilling cold light, much like the icy expression on his face at that moment.
In an instant, he appeared before Rotkeber. With a speed barely perceptible to the naked eye, he swung Cloud-Piercer and thrust it toward Rotkeber not far away.
Rotkeber had completely failed to anticipate Dan Feng's sudden attack. Under normal circumstances, one should announce their name first—he didn't even have time to react before feeling an overwhelming force pierce straight through his heart.
"Ugh..." He let out a muffled groan. Blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth, his pupils began to dilate, and the breath of life slowly drained from his body.
Dan Feng withdrew Cloud-Piercer expressionlessly. Rotkeber's body collapsed to the ground like a sack without support, lifeless.
This undoubtedly proved he was thoroughly dead.
The fat man nearby witnessed the entire scene. His face turned deathly pale, filled with terror.
He stared wide-eyed at the horned Dan Feng before him, as if witnessing the rumored Demon Lord descending upon the world.
The fat man was no fighter. Faced with such a horrifying sight, his first instinct was to flee.
However, just as he turned to run, a streak of cold light shot out from the distant grass, striking precisely at the foot he was about to use to flee.
In an instant, his feet were frozen solid by an extreme chill—this was Roxy's Ice Strike.
Due to inertia, his body pitched forward uncontrollably and slammed hard into the ground.
Because his feet were frozen in place, the impact caused his ankle joints to emit a crisp crack.
The sound rang out especially harshly in the quiet surroundings. Just hearing it was enough to feel intense pain—it had surely fractured.
"Don't kill me! Please!" The fat man screamed in terror. His survival instinct made him forget the burning agony in his foot.
His mind held only one thought: to beg Dan Feng and the others to spare him.
However, his pleas received no response.
Dan Feng looked coldly at his back, his eyes revealing nothing but indifference.
To Dan Feng, since this fat man had already become a human trafficker, he no longer had any right to continue living in this world.
Dan Feng slowly advanced, each step heavy and deliberate. He walked step by step to the fallen fat man, looking down at him with cyan eyes that locked coldly onto his heart.
"You who kidnap children—what right do you have to live in this world?" Dan Feng's voice was utterly frigid.
These words struck the fat man's heart like a heavy hammer, plunging him into complete despair.
He knew he wouldn't live to eat dinner tonight.
Immediately after, Dan Feng raised Cloud-Piercer without hesitation. A surge of powerful earth energy gathered like raging waves at the spear's tip.
His movement held no trace of delay. Cloud-Piercer swiftly pierced through the fat man's heart.
When Dan Feng withdrew the spear, a fountain of scarlet blood gushed from the wound, splashing across the surrounding ground and forming a pool like a puddle.
The thick stench of blood filled the air, terrifying the nearby small girl even more.
Then, with a wave of his hand, Dan Feng summoned a vast torrent of water. Under his control, it completely pulverized the two corpses and their blood into dust.
They didn't even deserve cremation.
After Dan Feng effortlessly dealt with the two men, Roxy slowly approached from a distance.
Her role had mainly been to provide support from afar. She worried that if it came to close combat, the opponents might be skilled swordsmen, which could pose a slight threat to her—of course, only a very minor one.
Roxy hurried to the small girl's side and carefully examined her injuries.
However, the small girl remained wary of her, her body trembling nonstop—she was clearly terrified.
Seeing this, Roxy quickly comforted her in a gentle voice: "Don't be afraid. Neither I nor that big brother are bad people. The bad guys have already been defeated by us."
To help the small girl relax, Roxy swiftly opened the scroll she carried with her and took out some candy she had specially bought during their travels.
These candies were quite rare and hard to find in ordinary towns.
Roxy gently placed a piece of candy into the small girl's mouth and smiled as she said, "Try it—it's very sweet candy."
The small girl hesitated for a moment, but ultimately opened her mouth, letting the candy slide inside.
The sweetness spread across her tongue. Her eyes lit up instantly.
This delicious candy felt incredibly novel to her and completely dispelled her wariness toward Roxy.
In her mind, someone as gentle as Roxy could never be a bad person like those two villains!
Roxy spoke a few more words with the small girl, which finally made her fully trust Roxy—especially after Roxy promised to take her back to her parents.
Then, Roxy lifted the small girl's clothes. Her fair skin bore several obvious bruises—clearly inflicted by those two men just moments ago.
"These child kidnappers are truly detestable." Roxy said angrily upon seeing the girl's injuries, then began treating them.
After Dan Feng had reduced the two men to ashes, he immediately walked over to the pile of burlap sacks and began rescuing the children one by one.
Without exception, they were all small girls—which made Dan Feng suspect they were indeed being delivered to Darius. After all, just a few hours earlier, Paul had mentioned Darius's suspected involvement in kidnapping young girls.
However, this group of small girls looked at Dan Feng—with his unusual appearance, horns, and tail—with fearful eyes.
Dan Feng naturally understood that these small girls had endured inhuman torment and were instinctively terrified of strangers.
So he simply gave them a faint smile. Suddenly, a blooming white lotus flower appeared in his hand.
The many small girls looked curiously at the white lotus in Dan Feng's hand. Then, Dan Feng slowly tossed it outward.
The lotus began to fly on its own, circling around the group of small girls and emitting pure, immaculate white light.
The light fell upon them, beginning to heal the injuries they had suffered at the hands of those two human traffickers. Even the girl who had been beaten to the brink of death slowly recovered.
She awakened from her faint and looked around in confusion.
The group of small girls realized Dan Feng was healing them. They gradually lowered their guard toward this big brother—who, despite his horns and tail, had an extremely handsome face.