Chapter 1467: Brutal and Merciless
The resurrection had failed, and the Devil Ancestor had turned into a soul and slipped away.
Yet Jun Changxiao and Yao Mengying were still seated on the throne, clearly not having fully neutralized the lingering Demonic Energy.
At that moment, a large group of awakened demonic cultivators entered the underground palace. Their eyes locked onto the exquisite box, greed rising within them. Clearly, they intended to seize it while they had the chance.
They had been saved, only to try and steal something afterward. Reality truly was cruel.
But they were demonic cultivators, after all. They had no moral bottom line to speak of.
Besides, even Jun Changxiao had not expected that while saving his disciple, he would incidentally save these people as well.
Because he was distracted refining Demonic Energy, Gousheng had no defenses at all. Any random martial artist could have easily killed him.
It was no big deal.
Li Qingyang, Xiao Ziji, and the others stood nearby, all taking up defensive formations.
Although the powerful Demonic Energy within the palace had completely dispersed, the confrontation between the Eternal Sect disciples and the large group of demonic cultivators made the atmosphere turn murderous once more.
"Phew!"
Gu Zhaoxi rubbed a flame from his fingers, lowered his head to light an electronic cigar, then exhaled a ring of smoke. His gaze gradually turned cold as he said, "If you don't want to die, get the hell out of here."
Wariness surfaced in the eyes of the demonic cultivators.
Li Qingyang and the others did not put much pressure on them, since they were only at the First Turn Core Transformation Realm. But Gu Zhaoxi, at the Eighth Rotation, was somewhat formidable!
Greed could drive people to make irrational decisions, but if the gap in