As if to prove what he had said, the dense fog around the mountain peak ahead began to churn violently. Amid rumbling booms, it split open into a passage several zhang wide. It was not yet the hour of Mao, but this fierce magical battle had clearly alarmed the cultivators inside the restriction.
Lin Xuan narrowed his eyes and fixed his gaze ahead.
Seven or eight streaks of escaping light entered his view, each a different color, and in moments they had already passed through the restriction.
The radiance drew in, revealing five men and two women.
Aside from four Core Condensation Realm cultivators, the three standing in front were actually all Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, and their attire was extremely eye-catching as well.
One was a beautiful woman in black, one was a one-eyed old man, and the one in the middle was actually a child of seven or eight.
The beautiful woman in black looked about twenty-five or twenty-six. Her looks could only barely count as ordinary, yet she clearly cultivated charm arts; every gesture was brimming with seductive allure. Her clothing was bold to the extreme as well, exposing long stretches of smooth thigh and arm, making quite a few low-level cultivators stare in a daze. Yet the Core Condensation Realm cultivators who knew this woman's background all showed fear on their faces and lowered their heads deeply.
Madam Black Python was lustful and lecherous, skilled all her life in harvesting and replenishing. Many young men had been taken away by her, all ending with their souls returning to the underworld. Though her evil name was not as great as Patriarch Kunnan's, she was still a formidable demonic overlord feared by all.
As for the child in the middle, his reputation was even greater, and his cultivation