Hearing the knock, Wang Ba felt slightly puzzled.
Because of the sect's mandatory assignment, many cultivators at the Stone Cave Residence had already left the Heavenly Gate Sect to carry out purges outside and hunt down remnants of the Eastern Saint Sect.
Very few cultivators remained at the Stone Cave Residence.
At any rate, from what Wang Ba had observed, most of the surrounding stone houses were empty.
He really could not imagine who would come looking for him at a time like this.
Although he was inside the sect and supposedly in no danger, Wang Ba still warily prepared to release Jia Seven while channeling Law Power throughout his body, then carefully opened the wooden door.
To his surprise, he found several young men and women outside, seemingly no more than eighteen or nineteen.
They dressed like cultivators, but their immaturity was plain to see.
Especially when they saw Wang Ba, despite their efforts to look calm, their faintly trembling bodies still betrayed their nervousness.
"And you are...?"
Seeing this, Wang Ba took the initiative to ask.
"Greetings, senior brother. My name is Zhang Qi. This is Shi Jin, this is Bu Chan, and this is..."
A young male cultivator who seemed to be their leader stepped forward and introduced them to Wang Ba one by one.
His eyes dimmed as he said:
"We're all new disciples who joined the Eastern Saint Sect a little over half a year ago. We never expected to encounter this disaster so soon after joining..."
At this, Wang Ba recalled something.
A few months after he entered the Eastern Saint Sect, the sect had indeed held a recruitment.
If his guess was right, Ye Lingyu should have joined the sect alongside these people.
But one great upheaval had reduced these youngsters to this