This was the first time Qin Fengming and Venerable Jie Mie had encountered living cultivators in the several days since entering the Heavenly Stars Plane.
In the traditional sense, cultivators were humanoid sapient beings. Because the human form was the shape most suited to comprehending Heaven and Earth, any sapient race capable of transformation would choose to assume human form.
Amid the dense mountain forests on the island, Qin Fengming's divine sense sensed familiar humanoid creatures. There were fully several hundred of them, appearing all at once in an extremely abrupt manner.
If Qin Fengming's judgment was correct, there should be a great formation there.
This enormous island covered an extremely vast area. Judging from the numerous cities and towns, the number of cultivators here should have been impossible to count; hundreds of millions would not have been an exaggeration.
Yet nearly all the cultivators had been slaughtered, leaving behind only forests of white bones.
The two of them naturally did not spend long crossing tens of thousands of miles, and soon approached the gathered cultivators.
"What is going on? Those cultivators seem to be being driven along." The two were still tens of thousands of miles away, but their divine senses had already clearly seen those cultivators. They suddenly stopped because they had discovered something unusual. Venerable Jie Mie could hardly believe that those cultivators radiating Profound Tier auras actually seemed to be enslaved.
Profound Tier cultivators were top-tier existences in any realm of the Three Realms, mighty figures capable of protecting a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles.
Yet here, so many Profound Tier cultivators—numbering in the hundreds—were currently being lashed by people wielding long whips that flashed with gloomy light, as though livestock were being driven along.
Anger surged in Qin Fengming's heart. He did not