Just as Fang Qianyuan was pondering, several dark figures flickered into view and emerged from the woods dozens of yards away.
This discovery immediately confirmed Fang Qianyuan's earlier suspicions.
Such skill at concealing their auras already rivaled the formation arrays protecting the vital grounds of major sects. An ordinary location would never warrant going to such lengths.
Fang Qianyuan surveyed the verdant mountains and clear waters around him, a landscape brimming with life, and suspected that beneath the surrounding ground lay vast artificial structures, array foundations, and spiritual channels.
But "Guang Hao" should not have known so much, so he kept his mouth shut and merely watched the approaching figures.
Yet that single look made his expression shift slightly.
These were all demonized warriors.
And they were demonized warriors with an extremely high degree of refinement.
In the demon refinement system developed by Wu Lianyi and the others, attaining a dharma lineage was called a state of perfect fusion. This power had penetrated the recipient's very flesh and bones, and could even develop into an inheritable aptitude comparable to the spirit roots of ancient cultivators.
Of course, this remained an exceedingly profound art of creation. Never mind mass production-even Situ Sheng, serving under Wu Lianyi, could not accomplish it easily with his own hands.
The next-best alternative, then, was warriors of various kinds.
Generally speaking, when refining warriors, only the limbs and organs essential to performing certain divine abilities and spells needed to be retained. Most other parts were superfluous.
What they sought was the power of demons, not their physical forms.
Moreover, from the perspective of life's essential nature, humans retaining their humanoid dao bodies also meant preserving the purity of their true spirits and mental wills. This was especially important at higher realms. A trace of contamination now