A dozen or more cultivators came rushing over from the distance. At their head were the two Saintly Venerables, He Gu and Xing Bu, from the True Demon Realm. There were also a dozen or more cultivators dressed in black, their heads wrapped in black veils and their entire bodies shrouded from view.
There was no need to ask to know that these dozen or more cultivators were definitely from the True Ghost Realm.
Not only were these cultivators dressed in black; those currently wantonly imprisoning cultivators inside Pill Emperor City were likewise completely shrouded in black.
The garments worn by these cultivators clearly possessed immense power. Not only could they obstruct divine sense probing, they could also conceal their own auras, making it impossible for anyone to determine who they truly were.
However, judging from the fluctuations they revealed, it was clear that many of them were Mahayana.
By this point, how could the people of Pill Emperor Pavilion fail to understand? The seven cultivators from the True Demon Realm had come to Pill Emperor Pavilion with no intention of challenging anyone in a Pill Dao competition.
Their Pill Dao competition, as well as the subsequent auction of the Heavenly Fragrance Clear Toxin Pill, had all been done to build momentum, gather every cultivator in Pill Emperor Pavilion together, and then spread the poisonous fragrance to capture everyone present.
Faced with nearly twenty cultivators revealing Mahayana auras and closing in around them, the Mahayana Existence from the various halls and major superforces standing atop the stone platform had long since turned terribly grim.
Everyone's faces were filled with fury. Their eyes glared so fiercely that the corners nearly split, their hearts surging with heaven-shaking killing intent.
But they were powerless. Although the energy in their sea of consciousness could