Song Wen's expression darkened considerably.
Though he had never seen the three people above Corpse Soul Ravine, he knew their identities.
They were three Spirit Transformation cultivators from the Zhu Family of West Wind City.
In this land where spiritual energy was scarce, the Zhu Family stood among the very strongest. Compared with the Chen Family of Lotus Square City, they were not inferior in the slightest.
The elderly man in the lead was the Zhu Family's patriarch—Zhu Tianlei. He was the Zhu Family's first Spirit Transformation cultivator.
It was under his leadership that the Zhu Family had first risen to prominence and established its might across the region.
Thus, his prestige within the Zhu Family was exceedingly high. His word had always been law, and few members of the Zhu Family dared to challenge his decisions.
The remaining man and woman were Zhu Yi and Zhu Zhizhen, respectively. Both had been personally nurtured by Zhu Tianlei.
They had come neither early nor late, but precisely as Song Wen was about to break through. He gnashed his teeth in hatred toward the three, wishing he could devour their flesh and drink their blood.
But for now, he could only force down his fury, focus all his strength on breaking through first, and settle this score with the three afterward!
With a thought from Song Wen, densely packed spirit stones suddenly appeared inside the cave abode—ten thousand in all, every one of them a high-grade spirit stone.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
Amid a series of soft sounds, the spirit stones shattered one after another.
The concentration of spiritual energy within the cave abode soared abruptly, instantly reaching an extraordinarily terrifying level.
The spiritual energy had already materialized, turning into a multicolored mist that surged like the tide, shimmering with flowing radiance.
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