Shen Biancheng carefully examined Zhou Xianyang's injuries, trying to find the root cause of his fatal wound. After a long time, he said sorrowfully, "The Golden Core that Senior Brother had formed within him has completely collapsed. Even if several Nascent Soul Stage experts attacked together, it shouldn't be like this, unless it was by someone at or above the Transformation Stage."
Ye Fan was also a bit surprised. Zhuo Junwu had said that once sect practitioners reached the Nascent Soul Stage and above, they rarely fought with others because, in their eyes, cultivation was the top priority. There were no benefits even if they killed others.
Unless they were like Bai He, Independent Practitioners who relied on seizing others' cultivation to advance their own. But destroying the Golden Core is akin to dispersing all the spiritual energy, something Independent Practitioners would certainly find unwise.
Ye Fan asked, "Who would be so cruel and ruthless?"
