Either they had been turned into Corpse Puppet Warriors, or they'd been refined into White Bone Warriors.
Watching the endless stream of cultivators heading in this direction, Jiang Chen sighed. "If you used even a fraction of your brains, you'd realize why you're all gathering here. Someone deliberately set this trap to lure you in. You all think there are countless treasures just waiting for you to pick up, waiting for you to claim. The truth is far more cruel."
Jiang Chen hadn't really expected a few words to turn these people back from the brink. He'd done his part. If they were dead set on walking into their own deaths, there was no way he could forcibly stop them.
All he could hope for now was that their minds might cool down just a little.
"Bullshit! This brat clearly already got his haul and doesn't want us going in to get rich. That's why he's spouting this garbage!"
"Kill him! Let's search him and see how many good things he's got on him!"
Because they'd detected that Jiang Chen was not an Emperor-realm powerhouse, these cultivators figured that if they joined forces, they'd still have a chance.
The Six Wolves of Yanshan were among them, hidden within the crowd. If they could whip up these blind, foolish rogue cultivators to go after this fellow, the Six Wolves would have a perfect opportunity to reap the rewards from the sidelines.
"Kill me?"
Jiang Chen let out a cold laugh. The Green Scorpion Spirit Ginseng had already been activated. Waves of green mist sprayed outward, and countless fleshy, tumorous tentacles burst from the ground, snaking toward the cultivators one after another.
Though the Green Scorpion Spirit Ginseng had been thoroughly humbled in Jiang Chen's presence, it still held an overwhelming advantage against ordinary cultivators.
Hundreds of rogue cultivators found their bodies seized by the ginseng's tentacles, and it was as though they'd been clamped by iron bands—completely immobilized. No matter how they struggled, not a single one could budge.
Fortunately, Jiang Chen had no intention of taking their lives. Watching these cultivators dangling in midair, a faint, detached coldness flickered through his eyes. "If I didn't want to keep the demon race from growing unchecked, whether you lived or died wouldn't be my problem in the slightest."
With that, the Green Scorpion Spirit Ginseng's tentacles lashed back and forth, hurling each cultivator several hundred meters away.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
They hit the ground like sandbags, battered and undignified. The impacts weren't lethal, but each of them had taken at least some injuries.
However, not everyone was so fortunate. Six among them did not enjoy such luck.
"Gentlemen. The illustrious Six Wolves of Yanshan—hiding among the crowd like this, just what kind of game are you playing?"
Jiang Chen smiled coldly, fixing his gaze on the six of them with an expression that hovered between amusement and contempt. "Don't tell me you were playing the pig to eat the tiger?"
Fear flickered through the eyes of each of the Six Wolves. Their earlier conflict with Jiang Chen at the valley entrance—the reason they hadn't openly turned on him back then—had been purely out of consideration for the bigger picture.
Otherwise, given the Six Wolves' ruthless reputation, they would never have been so reasonable.
Moreover, from beginning to end, the Six Wolves had never truly taken Jiang Chen seriously. They'd always assumed his arrogance was born of ignorance.
But now, not a trace of that belief remained.
The white-haired elder who led them abandoned all pretense of dignity and blurted in panic, "Friend, everything before was a misunderstanding. We admit defeat."
The Six Wolves of Yanshan were the type who knew when to bend and when to straighten. If they hadn't been, there was no way they could have survived for so long in the rogue cultivator world through sheer intimidation alone.
"Admit defeat?" Jiang Chen's gaze turned frigid. "Do you think this is about winning or losing?"
The white-haired elder hastened to reply, "Friend, last time outside the valley, we of the Six Wolves gave you face. Now, as long as you let us go, the lives of the Six Wolves of Yanshan will be yours to command from this day forward."
Facing death, the Six Wolves naturally made one last desperate bid to save themselves.
The Six Wolves of Yanshan were, in truth, quite powerful. It was just that the Green Scorpion Spirit Ginseng was such a monstrous creature—its sudden ambush and the cloud of green mist it sprayed had trapped them all, drastically slowing their movements.
And Jiang Chen had locked onto the Six Wolves from the very start. Whether deliberately or casually, he'd flashed the
Once bound, it didn't matter how many Divine Abilities they possessed—they had no way of deploying them.
The rogue cultivators who had been flung away earlier, upon learning that these six were truly the Six Wolves of Yanshan, were struck with utter astonishment.
They stared at the Six Wolves, each wearing a look of utter disbelief.
"The Six Wolves of Yanshan?"
"Damn it, are these really those six bastards? Weren't they supposed to have gone in long ago? How did they end up mixed in with us?"
"And weren't they the ones outside the valley, egging everyone on to go in?"
"Could it be… could it be that these six bastards actually defected to the demon race, luring us cultivators in to die?" Not every rogue cultivator was a fool. Putting the pieces together, quite a few of them suddenly woke up to the truth.
Hearing the name of the demon race, their faces drained of color in alarm.
The Six Wolves, hearing this, were seized with panic. "Everyone, please don't misunderstand! We, the Six Wolves of Yanshan, were merely trying to look out for our friends in the rogue cultivator world. There's strength in numbers—there was absolutely no defection to the demon race!"
"Fellow Daoist Huang, please see clearly. The demon race is a plague upon all of creation—how could we, the Six Wolves of Yanshan, ever join them? Besides, we only entered these past few days. Before that, this entire desolate land was sealed. How could we possibly have been in league with the demon race?"