"The place where the Hermit Cultivators were found had clearly undergone an abnormal great battle." This was currently the biggest point of doubt in the entire matter.
As everyone knew, Hermit Cultivators were people who kept themselves aloof from worldly strife.
Without such a temperament, one would most likely never become a Hermit Cultivator.
Even if they had originally possessed such a disposition, once they comprehended the distinction between existence and nonexistence and saw through the heavenly barrier of life and death, it should have been tempered into them.
Unlike the Ming Clan's commonly irascible nature, Hermit Cultivators were fated to remain calm at all times.
It was difficult to imagine three Hermit Cultivators being surrounded by two Core Formation Cultivators and two Nascent Soul Realm Great Perfection cultivators who self-destructed one after another.
And there had also been that abnormal fluctuation of someone breaking through into the Nascent Soul Realm.
Would anyone go fight the instant they advanced?
At the very instant of advancement, the qualitative transformation of one's cultivation body brought a leap in power, causing a cultivator's control over their strength to temporarily plummet. At the same time, their cultivation body would still be in an extremely malleable state during that period. Normal cultivators would all choose to temper themselves for several days after breaking through, rather than immediately heading out to fight.
Much less take part in such a savage, life-or-death battle where Ming self-destructed.
As for something like breaking through in the midst of battle or advancing before the enemy lines, Lycota had basically not considered it at all.
That was practically a legend among legends, something close to impossible.
Rainbow light flowed around Kosta, indicating his agreement. "This truly is a major problem. What kind of terrifying evil could have made even such Hermit