Feng Qi made it sound easy, but what had actually happened was anything but.
Among those villains, there were always one or two who were extremely good at posing as the old, weak, sick, or disabled. Though the Enforcement Hall had little sympathy to spare, its disciples generally would not attack such people lightly.
Perhaps it was precisely that moment of softheartedness that had caused the Enforcement Hall disciples to suffer a second round of harm.
Of course, that second attack had also thoroughly enraged them.
They had slaughtered all those people, bound any Dao Cultivators who came down afterward, and killed any Demonic Cultivators or Demonic Beasts on sight.
"Where are the people you bound?"
Feng Qi pointed toward a dark corner nearby. "They're all over there."
Su Jiu walked toward that corner with Feng Qi and Eleventh, and a motley assortment of cultivators came into view, lying there in a sprawling heap.
There were Dao Cultivators and Sword Cultivators, sect cultivators and rogue cultivators...
But to Su Jiu, they were all unfamiliar faces.
Among them, the weakest were actually only at the golden core stage.
Golden core cultivators could make it beneath the Life-and-Death Tree? That was the first question that arose in Su Jiu's mind.
Everyone knew the Demon-Subduing Land was fraught with danger. Even spirit severing stage cultivators could perish there with a single careless step, let alone those with lower cultivation levels.
So how exactly had these people overcome all those obstacles to reach the Life-and-Death Tree?
Did they possess some special talent, or did they have a way to deal with the Demonic Plants and Demonic Beasts in the Demon-Subduing Land?
Before Su Jiu could ask for answers, however, a Dao Cultivator among the crowd suddenly spoke.
"Isn't your Enforcement Hall being far too