Elsewhere.
When the Five Howling Ghost Sect learned of the situation in the Five Metals Minor Secret Realm, they were overjoyed.
Yet they acted with great caution, first sending ghost cultivators skilled in reconnaissance to investigate.
Only after confirming that everything was true and that no other powerful cultivators were hiding around the Five Metals Minor Secret Realm did they finally relax.
Besides, Ling Pengyun and his companions were fairly powerful. Killing them would require at least four or five Void Refinement early-stage cultivators, or even a Void Refinement mid-stage cultivator overseeing the operation, to be reasonably safe.
Thus, the Five Howling Ghost Sect took the matter extremely seriously. They even mobilized their entire sect, swiftly reaching the Five Metals Minor Secret Realm through a Teleportation Array.
In an instant.
Hundreds of millions of ghost cultivators appeared inside the Five Metals Minor Secret Realm.
Moreover, all of them had reached at least the second or third layer of Qi Refining.
With the Golden-White Ghost Monarch stationed in the minor secret realm included.
There were no fewer than three Void Refinement early-stage Ghost Monarchs within, as well as one Void Refinement fourth-layer Ghost Monarch.
That fourth-layer Ghost Monarch was also the sect master of the Five Howling Ghost Sect. His Daoist title was "Five Howling Ghost Monarch."
He had a cultivator's form and looked no different from one, but his eyes were chillingly cold, like those of a venomous snake, making anyone who saw them shudder.
At that moment.
Inside the secret realm.
"I was just worrying that I hadn't found any suitable Righteous Path cultivators to target during this upheaval. Who would have thought that these cultivators, unafraid of death, would deliver an opportunity right to me?"
"Heaven truly lends me its aid."
"Perhaps, once I've slaughtered that entire group