"Where did these bugs come from, daring to disturb my enjoyment!" After saying that, the stone platform he was standing on and the surrounding area formed cracks, and spiritual energy leaked out slightly. He rushed to the five people with lightning speed, and his fist was about to hit Si Yu.

Zhai Xishan reacted before Si Yu could react, using the Gu Ge stance to block the opponent's punch. He took two steps back with some difficulty before barely managing to hold on, showing that he was at a disadvantage.

Seeing this, Tian Xiaoyu and Tian Xiaomeng exchanged glances and activated the spirit gu to force the bald man back.

The bald man was forced back onto the stone platform, and he frowned slightly as he looked at the five people, probably feeling that they were a bit troublesome.

"Be careful, he's in the late stage of the Innate Realm," Zhai Xishan said to the four people, feeling a slight numbness in his arm.

"He killed them all!" Tian Xiaoyu, who had been standing behind Zhai Xishan and the other two, hadn't seen the scene at Shitaishan, but now she exclaimed in shock.

"He's an evil cultivator." Ye Yan took out the Soul-Devouring Blade from his storage artifact, his eyes fixed on the bald man with the sharp edge of the blade. "He's only at the late stage of the Innate Realm; he shouldn't be an elder."

Si Yu, who hadn't said much, finally agreed with Ye Yan's statement.

The bald man looked at the corpses at his feet, sighed, and revealed a sinister smile: "It's all because of you that I missed the best opportunity to gather material. To make up for it, you'll take their place!"

'Using the dead for experiments? Their experiments have made further progress!' Ye Yan frowned. This was not a good thing. If living people were kidnapped for experiments, they would still have a glimmer of hope, but now they were using the dead, and they didn't even have a chance to survive.

"Don't look at me like that, or I'll be unable to resist dimming the light in your eyes little by little." As if he had thought of something, an excited look appeared on the bald man's face.

"I'll explain later. Brother Zhai and I will be in charge of the main attack, Brother Si will be in charge of the feint attack, and Tian Xiaoyu and Tian Xiaomeng will use the spirit gu to cooperate with our attack. We need to bury him here." Ye Yan ignored the bald man's words, revealed his half-step breakthrough spiritual power, and assigned tasks to the group.

"Good!" The four were amazed by Ye Yan's decision-making ability and strength. Without thinking too much, they nodded and got into a fighting stance.

A battle is about to begin.

(I'm going back to school tomorrow, and classes start the day after tomorrow. I'm so sad, and my schedule is full of classes X﹏X)