Laughing King Kong, Lou Dahuang.
Blood-Robed Buddha, Yang Kaitian.
The Maitreya Sect's doctrine fervently advocated "murder and rebellion," holding that someone who killed one person became a First Abode Bodhisattva, someone who killed ten became a Tenth Abode Bodhisattva, and so on.
The more people one killed, the more exalted one's standing in the sect.
The sect possessed a secret drug that greatly increased one's power, but left those who took it "unable to recognize father, son, or brother, intent only on killing." Their dispositions changed completely, and they became crazed with bloodlust.
Thus, without exception, the Maitreya Sect's upper ranks were vicious fiends!
That included the seemingly more normal Spirit Child.
Laughing King Kong and Blood-Robed Buddha had each killed over a thousand people. Blood-Robed Buddha in particular had left corpses strewn across the land, draining countless righteous experts dry with the Mahayana Rebirth Sutra over the decades.
Living people became white bones, and those bones piled into mountains!
They owed countless debts of blood!
Although they were all at Tongyou Peak, savage killers like these were undoubtedly more formidable than Wei Yunqing, a healer from Medicine King Valley, or the three compassionate masters from Shaolin Temple.
Fortunately, the righteous side had the advantage in numbers. As long as they held those two off long enough to obtain the three treasures, even those two would be unable to seize them through the combined protection of four Tongyou Peak experts.
Battle was about to erupt!
At the same time.
Righteous martial artists from the great sects throughout the Jianghu were doing everything they could to reach Mount Hua. Some sought Patriarch Lü's legacy, while others wanted to kill the Demon Cult's leaders and make their names.
The Demon Cult's people were doing the same.
Patriarch Lü's treasures were