The "them" Pei Yan referred to were the initial first batch of Daoist Plane cultivators and those strange individuals who passed through the dimensional rift. Surprisingly, the three remaining cultivators managed to catch their breath and cling to life by hiding afar when the investigation bureau was too preoccupied with the battle against Li Songtao to bother with them.
As for those strange individuals, even after being blown away by their original master's indiscriminate attacks, eight of them survived. However, these eight seemed to truly become zombies with no one to command them, incessantly banging their heads and bodies against the surrounding protective formations as if trying to escape from that place.
