Meanwhile, in the dark of the night, Sima Ye and his men from the Sima Family got busy.

Sima Ye stood at a distance not too far away from a building while his men slowly approached it in the cover of the night.

When all of them were in place, they glanced over at Sima Ye.

Sima Ye gave them a nod and they went into action.

Thud.

All of them barged through the doors and windows of the building in an instant.

"Who are you!" A rogue cultivator who was inside the building stood up, picked up his sword and shouted at them.

The other rogue cultivators who were with him also did the same and pointed their weapons at Sima Ye’s men.

Sima Ye’s men didn’t bother to say anything.

They lunged at the men and women at the same time.

Slice.

Slicing waves were unleashed from the weapons of the rogue cultivators.

But when the slicing waves got near to Sima Ye’s men, their bodies gave out a golden glow and they were engulfed in it.

Dang!

A loud metallic sound erupted when the slicing waves hit the golden glow.

"Sima Family Golden Armor!" One of the rogue cultivators recognized what the golden glow was and he cursed out loud.

"Let me handle it." Another rogue cultivator stepped forward and she raised her hands with long scrawny fingers.

Her fingers started to give out a crimson glow and she lunged at Sima Ye’s men.

With her long scrawny fingers she tried to scratch the face of the man in front of her.

Scratch.

Miraculously, her fingers were able to plunge through the golden glow and the man quickly took a step back.

She wanted to give chase but the other men by the sides came at her with their swords.

Splatter.

Their swords gave out a white glow and the shiny blades stabbed into her body.

"Argh!" She gave out a cry in pain and swung her hands at the men who had taken a step closer to her to make the swords go deeper into her wounds.

Her fingers scratched the golden glow on Sima Ye’s men but it wasn’t enough.

Plop.

She knelt to the ground and blood started to pool beneath her.

Sima Ye’s men drew out their swords with the blades covered in crimson and they moved on to the next rogue cultivator.

"Don’t come near me..." One of the cultivators said while he tried to get away.

But it was too late for him.

Sima Ye’s men lunged at him with their bodies covered in golden glow.

The rogue cultivator unleashed a torrent of punches at them.

Dang!

There was no cry of pain from Sima Ye’s men and all he could hear was the metallic sound in the air when his punches landed on the golden glow.

What came next for him was the blades of Sima Ye’s men.

Splatter.

They severed his neck and his head was hurled to the side.

Blood splattered into the surroundings from the headless body and the other rogue cultivators panicked.

It was an unfair fight with Sima Ye’s men having the Sima Family Golden Armor.

The Sima Family Golden Armor was an artifact that could allow anyone wearing it to withstand blows from a cultivator at Foundation Establishment Level.

And most of them were only at Qi Concentration Level.

They had no chance of survival unless they could escape.

"Damn it!" One of the few remaining rogue cultivators shouted and flung a handful of talismans into the air.

The talismans started to give out a dark glow and they gave out an explosion next.

Boom!

The explosion rattled the building which was made of wood.

A huge cloud of smoke filled the building and the rogue cultivators quickly made a dash for the windows and exits.

Some were caught by Sima Ye’s men but one of them slipped through and he tried to escape from Sima Ye’s men.

However, he didn’t get too far.

He took a few steps before a dark shadow appeared in front of him.

Sima Ye stood with his arms crossed, staring at him.

"Get out of my way!" The rogue cultivator shouted and he tried to shove Sima Ye to the side.

But it was a wrong move for the rogue cultivator.

He saw a glimpse of the moonlight that was reflected on Sima Ye’s sword.

And the next thing he could see was the ground and Sima Ye’s feet.

His head was sliced off from his neck in one move by Sima Ye.

"Hurry, use the Memory Capturing Formation Array." Sima Ye shouted and his men hurriedly set up a formation array around the rogue cultivator’s head.

They placed Spirit Stones into containers that had scriptures carved on the surface of the containers and in turn, they positioned the containers at strategic locations.

After which, they drew scriptures that connected the containers together.

When everything was set up properly, one of the men clasped his hands together and he started chanting.

The containers began to glow with the Spirit Stones releasing the Spirit Qi they had inside.

A glow covered the area that was within the compounds of the containers and something which was like a water droplet rose from the forehead of the severed head.

Another man stepped forward with a jade bottle and the thing that came out from the forehead was sucked into the jade bottle.

The man quickly closed the jade bottle with a red stopper and he bowed at Sima Ye.

"Well done everyone. Clear up the scene and get back to the mansion as soon as possible." Sima Ye held the bottle up to his eyes and said.

"Yes, Master Sima Ye." His men bowed and said in unison.

They got to work removing the bodies while Sima Ye made his way back to the Sima Family Mansion.

He had killed off the rogue cultivators that Lee Qing had recruited and got what he wanted from them.

Sima Ye gave out a sigh of relief and he kept the jade bottle.

All that was left for him to do was to get ready for the final show to happen.