"Damn it!"
The appearance of those dozen or so people made Gu An and the others' expressions change drastically on the spot. The Golden Core cultivators watching the battlefield from all around could not help but suck in a cold breath.
The people who had appeared were no ordinary figures. Almost everyone recognized them.
Before disciples of certain sects set out on expeditions, the sect elders would even specifically gather portraits and information related to such people to warn them: if they encountered anyone like this, they were to flee without the slightest hesitation.
They were all demonic cultivators, their methods vicious and exceptionally cruel. Countless cultivators had died by their hands. Every one of them was steeped in blood debt, and the infamous reputations of quite a few had spread beyond their home provinces. Righteous sects throughout all Nine Provinces had placed bounties on their heads.
"That's Baili Yu of the Supreme Yin Palace! Damn it, he clearly wasn't outside earlier!" someone cried out. Baili Yu was a demonic cultivator from Dry Province who had once committed a major atrocity, slaughtering a town of several hundred thousand people.
"Isn't that Lu Zhi from Blood Mountain? That man once massacred a mid-sized sect in Li Province. From Golden Core cultivators down to ordinary people, every last one died. He drained all the blood from their bodies, leaving behind more than ten thousand desiccated corpses, then hung them from that sect's thousand-year spirit tree. Those disciples never appeared again, so someone went up the mountain to investigate—and was frightened out of his mind on the spot."
"That's Tang Du, a demonic cultivator from Unlit Mountain. I heard that he's incredibly savage and enjoys eating human hearts. He eats ten a day, choosing only young people between twenty and twenty-five."
"Wen Xue,