At the beginning, I cleaned the Sutra Library and completed the incomplete skills.

The lush jungle seemed no different from usual.

Always serene, like a painting.

Perhaps because of the purplish-black vines,

no wild beasts ever inhabited this Immortal Trace Valley.

Naturally, there were no chirping insects or singing birds.

Li Lan quietly stopped, and the surroundings instantly became extremely silent.

He was usually quite cautious and excelled at observing details.

At this moment,

before he had gone too far from the cave, he had already noticed something unusual.

Li Lan threw out a spirit bean soldier, letting it slowly walk to a large tree.

Pulling back the thick layer of fallen leaves on top, a pale white face was revealed.

It was a dried corpse.

Judging from the degree of decay of the corpse,

the time of death was not too long ago.

Instinctively, he reached towards the other party's waist,

but the storage bag there was already empty.

Seeing this situation,

Li Lan couldn't help but furrow his brow slightly.

Logically speaking,

finding a corpse in this Immortal Trace Valley was the most normal thing in the world.

After all, this place was still an abandoned spirit vein on the surface.

Many family disciples and rogue cultivators who liked to take shortcuts,

would choose to come here to try their luck.

It was inevitable that some murders for wealth would occur when unfamiliar cultivators bumped into each other.

Therefore.

It was perfectly normal for one or two stripped corpses to suddenly appear here.

But what was not normal was,

there were a few too many corpses suddenly appearing in this place.

Li Lan had been walking along this path,

and in less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea,

he had already seen no less than ten corpses.

This showed that the number of cultivators coming to this place had increased at least several dozen times compared to before.

Something abnormal must be afoot.

Li Lan immediately became more vigilant.

After pondering for a moment.

With a flick of his hand, he scattered twenty or thirty palm-sized spirit bean soldiers.

He ordered these small bean soldiers to act separately,

and begin a carpet search of the nearby area.

Soon.

The spirit bean soldiers encountered even more corpses,

these corpses lay scattered all over the jungle, with varying times of death.

Some had already turned into white bones, while others still had warm blood.

As the spirit bean soldiers gradually scattered further.

Li Lan finally saw living people.

These cultivators wore different clothes, and among those he could recognize,

were the emblems of Guangji Temple, Lingxiao Sect, and the Flying Snow River's four great rogue cultivator families.

Some were traveling alone,

while others gathered in groups of dozens.

They didn't seem to be here to pick spiritual plants either,

all of them were looking around warily,

as if they were avoiding some terrifying thing.

The more Li Lan looked, the more surprised he became.

The behavior of these cultivators was indeed a bit too strange.

With doubts in his heart.

He was not in a hurry to return to Guangji Temple, but hid in the dark to observe for a few days.

With the help of the spirit bean soldiers' five senses,

Li Lan finally figured out what had happened.

The matter had to be traced back to Stone Bamboo Hill.

Zhang Jingyuan, a deacon of the Human Emperor Hall, discovered traces of demonic cultivators,

and was eager to return to Jiuhua County City to report.

However, he was repeatedly ambushed in the Taoyuan Mountains and the Flying Snow River area south of the county.

Finally, at Stone Bamboo Hill, he seemed to have evaporated from the world, completely disappearing without a trace.

The demonic cultivators never gave up investigating this matter.

They then found that the outer disciple token that Li Lan had discarded came from Lingxiao Sect.

Thus, Lingxiao Sect faced a bloody purge.

Outer disciples above the mid-stage of Qi Refining suffered heavy losses.

This directly accelerated the speed at which the demonic cultivators took over the entire sect.

Many disciples who were originally righteous were forced to become demonic cultivators.

Two years later.

Several newly-turned demonic cultivator registered disciples were handling matters for Elder Di,

and because they weren't deep enough in their scheming, and their handling of affairs was still immature, their whereabouts were accidentally exposed.

Out of anger and shame,

they chose to summon fellow demonic cultivators to surround Flying Snow River by force.

They wanted to completely annihilate the four great rogue cultivator families in a very short period of time.

After learning of this, the Human Emperor Hall

dispatched many Foundation Establishment experts, which resolved the crisis at Flying Snow River.

Subsequently.

The Human Emperor Hall, in the name of eliminating demons and defending the righteous path, sent deacons to inspect various sects.

This investigation was crucial, and the Lingxiao Sect, which had already been taken over by demonic cultivators, immediately revealed its flaws.

In a situation where there was no way out,

the Lingxiao Sect decisively assassinated the Human Emperor Hall deacon.

Although this matter was done secretly,

the Human Emperor Hall has stood in the Immortal Cultivation World for so long, and it was naturally not stupid.

Two Foundation Establishment deacons had suddenly disappeared in the Junnan area within ten years.

No matter how you looked at it, this matter was strange.

Thus, the Human Emperor Hall strengthened

its attention to all sects in the Junnan area,

and dispatched more Foundation Establishment deacons to inspect.

Paper could not contain fire after all.

Not only Lingxiao Sect,

but also Guangji Sect, Sanbao Temple, and other major sects were found to have traces of demonic cultivators.

A disaster suddenly descended.

The Human Emperor Hall decisively attacked,

adhering to the principle of rather killing the innocent than letting one go, and began to eliminate evil in the entire Junnan area.

Precisely because of this.

Including Immortal Trace Valley,

these originally unattended desolate mountains and wild ridges suddenly had many cultivators with different identities.

They were all fleeing from disaster, forced to hide here.

Everyone was trembling with fear, as if facing an abyss.

They had to guard against those demonic cultivators, and also pray that they wouldn't encounter the deacons of the Human Emperor Hall.

After Li Lan understood the cause and effect,

his expression couldn't help but become a little strange.

Although these cultivators didn't mention his name in their words,

Li Lan always had the illusion that he was the mastermind behind the scenes.

Who would have thought that

casually throwing away a token would cause such a long chain reaction?

Li Lan shook his head, driving the chaotic thoughts out of his mind.

Now that he knew what was happening outside,

he decisively gave up his plan to return to Guangji Temple now.

After all.

In case he ran into a Human Emperor Hall deacon,

he really didn't know how to prove that he was righteous and not demonic.

Li Lan had a feeling that

if he really encountered one, there would be no need for too much explanation.

Anyway, once the flawed cultivation technique he practiced was exposed, he would most likely be beaten into a demonic cultivator on the spot.

After collecting enough information.

To avoid exposure.

In addition to the spirit bean soldiers that ensured his own safety,

Li Lan took back most of the bean soldiers.

Subsequently.

He summoned the Qi Refining first-level spirit bean soldier separately.

He took out a black robe, which he didn't know when he had seized, from the storage bag and draped it over the other party's body.

He concealed all the features of the bean soldier's body, without revealing a single detail.

Li Lan let it wear the Qi-masking black veil that could conceal divine sense detection.

After doing all this.

Li Lan looked up and down.

At this time.

This spirit bean soldier had completely changed its appearance.

But from the outside, you couldn't tell at all that it was a puppet.

Under the backdrop of the wide black robe and the Qi-masking black veil,

this bean soldier instantly became a mysterious cultivator with an unpredictable aura and an unknown realm.

Li Lan was very satisfied with this.

With a thought.

He drove the spirit bean soldier, unhurriedly, towards a lone cultivator.

It could be clearly seen from the clothing that the other party was a disciple of Guangji Temple.