Lin Feng’s body felt a tingling sensation as a sweet melody entered his ears, he felt that his body was becoming lethargic.
Instead of panic, he smiled... he was correct in his assumptions, this melody was attempting to control his mind, it was already purified by his physique, but he still felt slight dizziness as his physique was only at the early stage of Grade 2.
He could have used his qi to forcefully suppress the effect of this melody, but he wanted to see how potent it was, and as expected, it was meant for cultivators weaker than Core Formation realm.
Lin Feng looked at the women sitting in front of him and sighed, all of them were already affected and went completely still. They were still looking at their children, but their eyes had no emotions left, as if they were dead yet somehow alive.
He stood up and waited for them to make a move, it was a mind control attack, so no doubt, there was a specific command given to everyone who had become affected by it.
As expected, one by one, the women stood up while taking the children in their arms and started moving out of the house. They looked like lifeless puppets right now. The children also woke up, but they were under mind control too.
Lin Feng followed them and came out of the house, the men were standing like guards, but their eyes were similarly lifeless. The women put their children down one by one, and the children began walking toward the entrance of the village.
The women started going back to the house, while two men followed the children. Lin Feng did the same. He was certain that the devil cultivator was waiting for the children outside the entrance.
The potency of sound-based attacks would wane as the distance increased, so he was certain he would see the devil cultivator just outside the entrance or on the path of the mountain.
It was certain that the devil cultivator would be able to figure out that Lin Feng wasn’t under his control, but Lin Feng wasn’t worried about the devil cultivator fleeing from him once he saw him.
He can easily chase him once the devil entered in the range of his vision, even of he hadn’t worn his boots it would have been easy task.
Of course, he would still let him run a little far away from the village so as not to drag anyone else into their fight, not to mention he had a feeling that the devil cultivator wasn’t alone, so he would definitely run to where his or her partner was.
Finishing both was important, if not, then the remaining one would definitely start slaughtering villagers for revenge once he left.
Although he didn’t like helping others out of sympathy, he wouldn’t put someone in peril due to his negligence either, if he could avoid it, that is. If it was unavoidable, then he wouldn’t care about it.
While moving toward the gate, Lin Feng started gathering pure yang qi in his palm, he was certain it would come in handy. At Foundation Establishment realm, cultivators are able to release spirit qi out of their bodies, but their control over it is even below basic level.
A small white orb formed between his palms, he closed his fist slightly to conceal its shine from being released.
After walking for a few breaths, they came to the entrance, the two men went forward and started to open the heavy gates after removing the wooden log used to seal it.
Slowly, the gates opened, and as expected, Lin Feng’s eyes fell on a cultivator who was faintly visible in the moonlight.
The devil cultivator hadn’t even worn any mask to conceal his features, which was uncommon among them, it seemed he was completely confident that nothing would go wrong.
The moment the devil cultivator saw three men instead of two, he was stunned, as the instructions were definitely for the two strongest men to follow the children.
His eyes went to Lin Feng, who was standing calmly at the back of the group and was smiling at him, there was no doubt who the anomaly was.
He didn’t know how strong or weak Lin Feng was, he decided to flee. Being unaffected by his flute meant he definitely was stronger than him.
Immediately, he used his connection to the flute and made the others attack Lin Feng while he dashed toward the mountain, he just hoped that Lin Feng would slow down so that the children wouldn’t get hurt.
Lin Feng looked at everyone turning to him like some puppet and dashing toward him. He smiled, as he had already expected this outcome, he immediately opened his palm and let the small condensed yang qi orb explode, a bright light followed by a wave of warm pure yang qi washed over everyone.
This was enough to dispel the effect of mind control, as the melody had stopped long ago after taking control of all the villagers.
The children became disoriented and fell to the ground, while the two men steadied themselves from falling, Lin Feng didn’t have time to explain anything to them, "Take the children inside, your village is safe from now on," he spoke hurriedly and left.
Lin Feng’s eyes were fixed on the devil cultivator, he was in the Late Stage Foundation Establishment realm, Lin Feng could easily catch him, but he maintained some distance.
The devil cultivator could see Lin Feng following, he was stunned looking at the radiant attack Lin Feng had unleashed. He wasn’t able to understand what it was, but the qi density was enough to tell him that it wasn’t an ordinary attack.
He increased his speed, if only he could climb half of the mountain...
Lin Feng sensed the increase in the devil cultivator’s pace and increased his speed too, he maintained a proper distance, giving the devil cultivator the illusion of him being equally strong as him.
The devil cultivator looked behind again and saw that Lin Feng was still at the same distance from him, he didn’t get annoyed, instead he sighed in relief. It meant Lin Feng wouldn’t be able to catch him unless he deliberately stopped or slowed down.
He kept climbing higher and higher, only a few hundred meters were left, one of his companions might already have seen them.
He wasn’t wrong, Lin Feng finally felt a gaze on him from above, he acted nonchalant and increased his speed a little.
When the devil cultivator saw this, he gritted his teeth and used even more qi to facilitate his speed.