What left everyone aghast was this.
Qu Chao Ci had only just begun sending them a voice transmission when the cultivator standing at the very front of the Five Xu of Ghost Mansion, dressed in a blue-lotus Daoist robe, suddenly flicked his horsetail whisk lightly and said with a smile:
"To think we would be recognized even in a place like this."
Clearly, he had heard Qu Chao Ci's voice transmission.
At his words, Xu Taiping and the others felt a chill in their hearts, and each began driving their qi and blood or magic power to the utmost.
For a moment, the auras around them surged violently.
Just then, a monk among the Five Xu of Ghost Mansion, a Barefoot Stepping-on-the-Radiance Scorpion, suddenly walked up beside the cultivator in the blue-lotus Daoist robe. Pressing his palms together, he smiled at Xu Taiping and the others.
"Benefactors, do not worry. We have come for the spirit fruits and spirit pills within the Yaochi Sacred Land."
As the monk spoke, the sword cultivator among the Five Blights who carried a Blood-Patterned Greatsword on his back also stepped forward. Raising his eyes, he looked at Xu Taiping and the others with a sword-sharp gaze and said:
"Today, we have not come to kill."
Though his voice was quiet, every word was like a sword, making the hearts of Xu Taiping and the others suddenly tremble.
In the end, Xu Taiping turned sideways without expression, resting one hand on the long saber at his waist and gesturing for the five to proceed with the other.
Yet the moment he made that gesture, the burliest of the Five Blights, a martial artist clad in battle armor, suddenly hurled a punch at Xu Taiping without warning, with a boom.
Qu Chao Ci immediately cried out: