The six Demon Cultivators who came rushing over all possessed mid-stage Ghost Master cultivation. Yet as they sped toward them, their escaping figures fluctuated with light, and within that motion was a powerful energy fluctuation faintly surpassing that of mid-stage Ghost Masters.
The fluctuations shot outward. After several flashes, they stopped just before the island, standing where the Kong family and Meng He's group had halted.
The six Demon Cultivators who could make Kong Changcheng's expression change at once and flee with such haste clearly had extraordinary origins.
These six cultivators were indeed no ordinary figures. The surrounding cultivators of Nine Ruins Mountain secretly called them the Six Fiends of the Black Lake.
Their true self-proclaimed title was the Six Kings of the Black Lake.
The six men had bodies similar to cultivators, but their faces bore no resemblance to those of cultivators. That was because they were not cultivators at all, but shapeshifted sea beasts.
Dragon Eels were a type of demonic sea beast. They had long, slender bodies covered in dragon scales, four legs tipped with sharp claws, narrow, pointed heads, and razor-sharp mouths. They were naturally aggressive.
Dragon Eels possessed extremely high intelligence. Although their numbers could not compare with those of fish, shrimp, and other sea demons, the proportion of their clan that fully awakened its intelligence was exceptionally high. In the waters of the Black Lake, one could say that the Dragon Eel sea beasts ruled supreme. The Six Kings of the Black Lake were precisely six shapeshifted Dragon Eel sea beasts.
Although the name Black Lake contained the word "lake," its actual area was vast beyond measure, stretching hundreds of millions of miles in every direction.
The Black Lake was exceedingly deep. Looking down from above, it resembled a vast, pitch-black abyss. Thus, the