"Has he discovered us?"
"What's going on? Didn't they say this man had lost all his cultivation?"
"Not good! Fall back!"
Beyond the surrounding walls, light and shadow suddenly warped, and figures emerged one after another—cultivators, unmistakably. For some reason, they had been able to conceal themselves within the inner city.
Yet they had not revealed themselves of their own accord. They had been enveloped by those scattered specks of light, which directly tore apart the spell concealing their forms!
At once, every one of those cultivators sensed that something was wrong and turned to flee. But then they felt an invisible force descend upon them, as though countless hands had reached out and pinned them in place!
As a result, the True Essence and Divine Sense they had unleashed were actually rebounded back at them. All of them groaned and fell from the air.
Then a voice came from within the courtyard—
"Since you have come, settle in. Since you have come to the Qiu Residence, why pass the gate without entering? Now that Qiu has opened his doors to welcome guests, you may linger in this residence for a few years, so that I, Qiu Yan, may fulfill my duties as host!"
"Good heavens! Have us linger for years? What guest stays for years? He clearly means to capture us all!" "Exactly! Attack!"
Qiu Yan's words instead changed the thoughts of those cultivators, and they promptly made up their minds. They were still falling and had yet to hit the ground, but each one unleashed True Essence and Divine Sense, casting their divine abilities straight at Qiu Yan!
Boom!
In an instant, the western wall of the Qiu Residence exploded. Several figures charged through, eight in all—four wielding Divine Sense, four controlling True Essence!
*Eight cultivators at the