Nan Shang retreated into a corner, while Lin Ke silently took a few steps back as well.
The bloodshed before them made everyone present choose to protect their own hides.
Heavenly thunder flashed incessantly outside the cavern, its ghastly white light intermittently illuminating the hellish scene within.
Greed drove people mad.
The cultivators who did not want to join the Illusionless Gu Sect were in the minority, and they soon fell under attacks from every direction.
The surviving cultivators instantly formed an alliance and gathered together.
But the screams continued without end. Despite their fierce resistance, some cultivators could never gain the upper hand, and in desperation, they took pills to force out their essence blood.
They actually managed to fight three opponents at once and savagely kill several people.
Among the cultivators who refused to join were also two Nascent Soul Realm experts.
At the center of the crowd, they blocked attacks from all directions while, deliberately or otherwise, protecting the other cultivators as they fought their way out.
The black-robed elder and the giant of a man at the entrance seemed accustomed to such sights and merely watched quietly.
Neither made the slightest move.
The giant even stepped aside to clear the exit.
He left those cultivators who wanted to leave with a glimmer of hope.
In an instant, the fighting inside the cavern grew even fiercer.
The heavenly tribulation outside the cavern also grew more violent. The number of lightning bolts reached its peak, bathing the entire gorge in a piercing, ghastly white radiance.
A short while later, the outcome was decided.
Blood flowed from the cavern entrance in great, gurgling streams, and there was also the man drawing down the heavenly tribulation at the entrance.
Everyone in the market stayed far away, afraid of being caught