"As expected, it's an evil art," Jin Yu frowned. "This kind of evil art that absorbs flesh and blood looks very much like Blood Dao Sect, which has only emerged in recent years!"
Those who cultivate evil arts are originally of the human race, but they covet the rapid-progress techniques of the Demon Clan. Lured by the Demon Clan, they fall into the path of evil cultivation.
The cultivation methods of Blood Dao Sect originally came from the Blood Demon branch of the Demon Clan.
For the Demon Clan, with their bodies, cultivating such methods poses no problem at all.
But when humans force themselves to cultivate them, they only end up becoming neither human nor demon. Once human cultivators reach deeper stages, they often lose their sanity and become puppets of the Demon Clan.
Everyone knows this.
Yet they still cling to a fluke mentality, thinking that as long as they don't cultivate to the very end, it will be fine.
The only advantage of these evil cultivation techniques is that advancement is extremely fast.
For some rogue cultivators with average aptitude and no hope of further breakthroughs, this may very well be their only chance to grasp power.
Even if their strength is inferior to cultivators who rely on proper cultivation, the increase in lifespan is still there!
With such temptation, many people rush toward evil cultivation.
Even though the Demon-Destroying Alliance has, over the years, continuously publicized its dangers and expended great effort exterminating evil cultivators.
Still.
On the one hand, they must deal with their most important enemy, the Demon Clan, and cannot devote all their energy to fighting evil cultivators.
On the other hand, these evil cultivators are first and foremost human. As long as they do not use evil techniques, it's difficult to detect their identity through simple inspections. Conducting careful checks one by one would take far too long and is simply impossible.
At this moment.
Yu Songnian stared at the piles of white bones in the blood-colored lake, his expression dazed.
He had an extremely ominous premonition.
Among these bones…
Could there be one that was his…
His father's?
Yu Songnian's body trembled slightly as he fixed his gaze on the corpses floating and sinking in the blood lake, desperately trying to discern something.
Yun Jin pressed her lips together and directly looked at Mu Lan, "Drain this lake."
Mu Lan froze for a moment, then flew into a rage, "You're ordering me?"
Yun Jin said coldly, "So what if I am?"
"You—" Mu Lan was about to say something more.
Yun Jin directly looked at Duan Yiwei, "Senior Brother Duan, this person is delaying matters. It seems he doesn't want the secret treasury opened anytime soon."
Duan Yiwei glanced at Mu Lan, "Elder Mu, do it."
Mu Lan's expression turned ugly, but he still responded.
He gritted his teeth.
Fury churned in his heart.
Yun Jin was only using the matter of the secret treasury to borrow authority here.
Once the secret treasury is opened, she would be completely useless!
At that moment, he would see what other leverage she had!
Mu Lan led the people of Yuehua Sect to act together. Very quickly, the blood-colored lake was completely drained.
With its energy source gone, the massive flower immediately became agitated.
Its body writhed violently, and astonishing golden light radiated from its petals.
Golden light…
Yun Jin subconsciously glanced at Third Senior Brother.
Third Senior Brother's father had come here to seek treasure precisely because he had seen the golden light.
Could it be that the golden light was emitted by this very flower?
Yu Songnian's expression grew even more grim.
If this was the golden light his father saw back then.
Then this was no rare treasure at all.
It was clearly a method used to lure people in!
This flower is extremely sinister.
Though it's clearly a flower of evil cultivation, the light it emitted was incomparably pure spiritual power, without the slightest trace of wicked aura.
No wonder so many people had fallen for it back then.
"As expected of Blood Dao Sect," Jin Yu said coldly. "This is their so-called Sacred Flower. The flower's light is holy and its aura pure. The more blood it absorbs, the purer and more sacred its aura becomes. This flower has already reached the brink of maturity. With just a bit more energy, it would detach and become a personal artifact of Blood Dao Sect disciples. Because its aura is pure, it's extremely useful for impersonating orthodox cultivators. In recent years, quite a few people have already fallen victim to this artifact."
As Jin Yu spoke, he directly swung his sword, forming sword qi. A cyan barrier enveloped Yun Jin and Yu Songnian. As for the others, he had no need to worry.
No matter what this Sacred Flower's origins were, with even Mahayana Stage experts present in numbers, there's naturally nothing to fear.
The people of Yuehua Sect acted swiftly. Before long, the so-called Sacred Flower was severed and then annihilated into dust.
With the Sacred Flower gone,
The air inside the cave seemed to become clearer as well.
Yu Lin's gaze flickered, and he said righteously, "So these three brothers truly were evil cultivators! They've been here for many years, I don't know how many cultivators of Lin City they've harmed. Such demonic heretics must not be spared. Why not immediately destroy those two Nascent Souls and avenge these innocent victims?"
Yu Lin's gaze repeatedly landed on the porcelain bottle containing the two Nascent Souls. His righteous indignation made it seem as though he wished to personally destroy them .
Yun Jin looked at Yu Lin expressionlessly, "Patriarch Yu. If you were truly so righteous and intolerant of evil, the matter of Luo Hua Mountain has been known for a long time. As the foremost clan in this area, if the Yu Family had organized manpower to come here, this place would've been flattened long ago. These evil cultivators wouldn't have been able to hide for so many years, let alone nearly raise that Sacred Flower to maturity."
Yu Lin's expression changed slightly. He said with some chagrin, "Ah, it was indeed my dereliction of duty. I failed to take this matter seriously and thought it's merely a series of disappearances. Had I known evil cultivators were involved, my Yu Family would've acted without hesitation to eradicate these evil cultivators long ago."
Yun Jin merely sneered.
This matter had already appeared on the sect mission boards. It's only because Lin City was remote and most sect disciples were too lazy to come.
The Yu Family was right next door, how could they not know?
That Yu Lin was very likely an insider.
Perhaps he was even these three men's protector.
Yu Songnian was silent for a moment, then suddenly walked toward the now-empty blood lake.
After the blood had been drained,
Dense piles of white bones filled the area.
In just ten years, the lives buried here far exceeded what was described in the mission.
Yu Songnian knelt down and, among the dense bones, examined them one by one, searching one by one.
In his heart, he already had a premonition.
Now, he's only making the final confirmation.
Yun Jin's lips pressed tightly together.
Third Senior Brother…
She's really worried about Yu Songnian's emotional state.
But she didn't stop him.
If this matter wasn't completely resolved, a heart demon would remain in Third Senior Brother's heart.
That heart demon might not erupt immediately, but one day in the future, it could suddenly surface and in severe cases, endanger his life.
Yun Jin glanced at Jin Yu and said, "Senior Brother Jin, release the two Nascent Souls. I have questions for them."
Jin Yu nodded in agreement.
Very soon, the two small Nascent Souls floated into the air.
The moment the Nascent Souls were released.
Suddenly.
An attack shot toward them, clearly intending to annihilate the Nascent Souls at the very first instant.