"These ghost creatures cannot be withdrawn. You must ignite the lake here. For you, even with the Silver Spirit Shield and Spirit Devouring Netherflame guarding you, it will still be extremely dangerous. With these Yin souls and ghost creatures blocking some of that terrifying explosive energy, they can definitely withstand part of the explosion's power. This Fang doesn't want you to perish here."
Without the slightest pause, Fang Liang directly rejected Qin Fengming's suggestion.
Just as their exchange ended, a sudden ripple arose several miles away. Five cultivators' figures appeared soundlessly above the surface of the lake.
Sensing the five powerful cultivators who had appeared in the distance, Qin Fengming was also quite astonished.
It was obvious that these five cultivators had not previously attacked Fang Liang with all their strength. Instead, they had merely trailed behind him, leaving him no time to rest at all. This situation seemed extremely strange.
Logically speaking, given the five men's formidable strength, they should have joined forces to capture Fang Liang.
Qin Fengming did not know that the reason these five mighty cultivators had merely pursued Fang Liang was precisely because all five had suffered at the hands of the seemingly dozen-year-old youth cultivator.
Although Fang Liang was only in the early Spirit Severing stage, his control over these Yin souls and ghost creatures had truly earned the five mighty cultivators' profound admiration. Whenever they dared approach, a dozen or twenty ghost creatures would swarm forward and blow their bodies up without the slightest hesitation.
In this land shrouded in Yin mist, the power displayed when the Yin souls and ghost creatures detonated their bodies was so great that even late Spirit Severing and peak-stage cultivators felt their hearts tremble with fear.
What astonished the five cultivators even more was that ever since