Situ Xiao had already prepared his explanation, and he recounted the incident of someone else being within the Array, saying,
"The persons sent by Senior Hentian were torn apart by the Corpse Immortal within the Array, while the Xiao brothers were besieged by Resentful Spirits. As for Tong Ling and Zhao Qian, for some reason, they were killed by a junior dispatched by Senior Kudu while our souls were separated from our bodies... Later, when their souls returned, they clashed with those two, and then..."
Luo Zhaoyang took over, saying,
"...after that, the souls of the four of them—Tong Ling and Zhao Qian—were extinguished, while Pu Yanlan and Gu Shiyi succumbed to their heavy injuries and did not survive..."
These people were merely chess pieces of five High-grade Cultivators; their deaths did not merit pity. Had Old Taoist Pan Luo not asked about them, the others would not even have bothered to inquire. Madam Liuxian looked fervently at the Corpse Immortal, saying,
