Were these people insane? Who hadn't come up from the Qi Refining Stage? For low-level cultivators, let alone nimbly controlling the spiritual energy within their bodies, whether they could even crawl back onto shore after falling into the sea was unknown—much less after suffering such grievous injuries.
Though no matter how severe external wounds were, they would not be fatal to cultivators, under these circumstances, even Bian Chunchou, who always thought the best of people, instantly guessed the significance of throwing this person into the sea.
—Human bait, bait to lure Sea Beasts.
To wild Sea Beasts, ordinary fish, even mixed with a cultivator's spiritual energy, were merely white rice with a few threads of salt mixed in—edible, but not particularly tempting. But a cultivator's flesh and blood, even that of someone at the Qi Refining Stage, was undoubtedly a delicious extra meal to bloodthirsty Sea Beasts.
He could already imagine the frenzied force with which the Sea Beasts would ram the formation after smelling blood. The most terrifying part was that the Sea Beasts might not be able to break in, but... the owner of the formation would no longer let them continue testing the waters.
Bian Chunchou casually stuffed a Blood-Replenishing Pill into the man's mouth, then turned around to discover that neither Wen Xu nor Chen Zui was aboard the boat. Looking closely, he saw that Chen Zui was already fighting someone, while Wen Xu held a Qi Refining cultivator whose life or death was unknown.
One wasn't enough, so they had to harm a pair?
"You three, what sort of heroes are you trying to play? Mere three Golden Cores, and you dare contend against this True Lord?"
The moment Chen Zui made his move, he knocked three people down. Yet the speaker was clearly a