"Refining Heaven Wish Beads in batches? Th-this is actually a thing!"
A white-browed cultivator cried out in shock. Everyone else stared, eyes wide.
The middle-aged man with yellow hair leading them brightened. He sent a voice transmission: "Now I understand why he offered such a high price to bring us brothers here from the Barren Frontier. Everything happens for a reason."
"Since we're already here, there's no point standing around. Let's finish this quickly and go home. What a perfect opportunity, too. See? He's getting ready to undergo the Ninth Tribulation of Lightning here. I doubt there's anyone more unlucky than him. To run into us brothers on such a crucial day—well, that's another kind of heavenly punishment."
The black-haired old man standing beside the white-browed cultivator chuckled.
"If he's going to undergo the tribulation, why deprive him of even this little bit of good fortune? I say we'd better leave the work of Heaven to the old man himself. A genius like this is best left for Heaven to take. Why get our hands dirty?"
The green-robed youth to the black-haired old man's left cackled. As he spoke, he swept out a great hand, releasing a wave of smoke and water. The defense Xu Yi had set up shattered on the spot. The force continued unabated, and the entire Extreme Yin Extreme Yang Formation was destroyed in an instant.
From the moment those seven appeared, Xu Yi had been cursing his bad luck. He could see clearly that the middle-aged man with yellow hair leading them was at least a demon lord who had condensed four seeds, on the level of a Dao Lord. He might even be a great demon who had reached Peak Transformation Stage. The other six were all at least as strong as cultivators with