"Then what do we do?" Ouyang Hai blanched. Five hundred skeleton miners, gone just like that? Wasn't that a little too brutal?
"Xia, go take a look," Li Yichen instructed casually. "Capture them and bring them to me. Whatever you do, don't kill anyone."
He guessed the intruders were from Kunlun. After all, they were Bai Binger's fellow disciples, so he ought to show them some consideration.
Besides, Xia currently had no sense of right or wrong. Without clear instructions, she might not leave anyone alive.
"Mm." Xia nodded, then rose into the air, turned into a streak of red light, and flew swiftly into the depths of the cavern.
Meanwhile, the Golden Light Demon-Subduing Formation was still advancing rapidly. With only a few dozen meters left, Lu Sheng quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Just then, a streak of red light abruptly appeared and hurtled toward them like a shooting star.
"Watch out!" Lu Sheng cried. His hand seal suddenly changed, and the bronze mirror overhead flipped over, firing a golden beam at the red light.
With a sizzling crackle, the golden beam collided with the red light, revealing Xia's figure.
She floated in midair with her arms crossed before her chest, thick blood mist coiling around them. The golden light hissed as it struck the mist, but Xia seemed not to feel a thing. Her blood-red eyes remained fixed on them.
The corners of Xia's lips curled upward, and then she vanished.
"Teleportation? A Ghost King..." Lu Sheng exclaimed in horror. He bitterly regretted coming. Had he known a Ghost King was stationed here, he would never have come, even under threat of death.
The other team members panicked as well. "Where did she go? How did she disappear?"
"What do we do, Senior Brother Lu?" Qing He