By now, they had lost every last shred of humanity. As long as they could stay alive, they would do anything.
They used to live in fear that someone from a major power might hunt them down. But so much time had passed, and not one of those major powers had so much as farted.
That only made them more brazen. They had gone from cautiously slaughtering a single village to massacring entire cities without a care.
"I'm talking to you. Cat got your tongue? If Lord Evil Demon hadn't ordered us to leave the Giant Hammer Sect alone, I'd have cut you down ages ago."
A flash of sword light streaked past. The black-robed man who had been swaggering just moments earlier now clutched his throat and lay on the ground, eyes wide.
A Long Sword hovered before Ye Lin, spinning rapidly.
"Quick, inform the lord! The rest of you, follow me and kill them!"
At that, the black-robed Foundation Establishment cultivators around them charged at Ye Lin, while the Qi Refining black-robed cultivators fled one after another.
They could kill a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator in a single move. Charging in would be no different from delivering themselves up on a platter.
"A bunch of little nobodies."
Seeing this, Hu Hansan grinned, gripping his Great Hammer as he charged at the Evil Cultivators.
His master had forbidden him from killing Evil Cultivators before, fearing it would provoke them into retaliating.
But now that Ye Lin had taken the lead, he wasn't so afraid anymore.
Whatever happened, Ye Lin would take responsibility. What did he have to fear?
Ye Lin, meanwhile, remained perfectly still. There were only four Foundation Establishment Early Stage Evil Cultivators before him—just right for Hu Hansan to hone himself against.
As for Ye Lin,