Even without deliberately revealing their cultivation, the five men's innate aura of power drew many people's gazes upward.
"Who are those people? Their auras are so powerful!"
"With spiritual qi pressure that immense, they must be mighty figures capable of holding an entire region in check!"
"Are you newcomers? You don't even recognize Desolate Heaven's six founding Ancestors?"
"Six founding Ancestors? Aren't there only five here?"
"Uh..."
His eyes darted in their sockets, and he immediately thought of an explanation. "I imagine the remaining Ancestor is at a critical stage of a breakthrough, so he can't appear."
"Five Ancestors will be enough."
Little did they know that the sixth Ancestor had already vanished from the face of the earth, leaving only a bloody mess so thoroughly pulverized that not even a fingernail-sized fragment of bone could be found.
Meanwhile, when news spread that Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng's arrival had brought five of the six founding Ancestors out of seclusion...
The disciples who had originally intended to stay out of the matter, wavering between fleeing and voluntarily submitting...
Began gathering, eager to watch the spectacle and unconcerned with how much worse things might get.
Overwhelm them with numbers and win?
This was hardly their first day cultivating. They knew full well that absolute strength could only be answered with absolute strength.
Even if Chen Mu and Ye Qingcheng numbered only two, while their side had a hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, or three hundred thousand cultivators... if they hadn't reached that level, sending more people would accomplish nothing.
A single thought from those two could leave a million corpses strewn across the ground!
Even a gap of one minor realm made victory as difficult as ascending to heaven, let alone an uncountable number of major realms.
They knew exactly how