I didn't expect that I was the heartthrob.

Shanling was surprised that no one knew about it.

Seeing everyone's confused expressions, she suddenly became unusually serious.

Now I can only answer your questions and resolve your confusion.

As to whether one really encountered evil cultivators.

Not necessarily.

Everything is speculation.

Thinking of this, Shanling explained.

"The path to becoming an immortal is harder than ascending to heaven. Some cultivators use crooked methods to take shortcuts. I once heard from my master that some cultivators would lure mermaids ashore, capture them, and eat their flesh. But how can you eat mermaid flesh casually? Any cultivator who has eaten mermaid flesh will be cursed."

When Gu Lan heard this, he was suddenly shocked.

Mermaid meat?!

Mirror retraction!

A bloody scene suddenly popped into Gu Lan's mind.

Isn't Jing Lian just having his flesh and blood dug out?

Did someone really eat Jing Lian's flesh and blood?

For the purpose of cultivating immortality?

When they rescued Jing Lian, they were in a cave. Gu Lan was so eager to save people that he had never explored where the cave was, nor did he ask Jing Lian at that time.

I guess Jing Lian doesn’t know either.

Now that he had arrived at Xuantian Sword Sect and encountered such a thing again, Gu Lan couldn't help but begin to doubt.

Could it be that she had come to the territory of Xuantian Sword Sect?

Could it be that someone from the Xuantian Sword Sect ate Jing Lian’s flesh and blood?

But the Xuantian Sword Sect is a famous and legitimate sect, how could there be such an evil person?

Gu Lan's heart was in turmoil, but he didn't show it on his face.

Therefore, no one paid special attention to Gu Lan, and everyone listened attentively to what Shan Ling said next.

He didn't even know that Chiji had left the team and gone away on his own.

"The curse of the mermaids cannot be underestimated. No one in the world can resist the curse from the mermaids."

"What is the curse?"

"hunger!"

"Hunger?" Everyone had question marks on their faces. Is this also considered a curse?

Seeing the look of disbelief on everyone’s faces, Shan Ling continued.

"After fasting, cultivators will hardly feel hungry, but after eating the flesh and blood of mermaids, their hunger will be awakened. If they just eat some ordinary food, they won't be afraid, as long as they have enough spirit stones, they can eat as much as they want, but they will feel a little full. But the hunger after being cursed by the mermaids is unusual, and ordinary food is simply inedible. They can only eat people, and they are not ordinary people, they can only eat cultivators. In this way, they will degenerate into evil cultivators."

Everyone's mouth opened into an O shape.

There are actually things more perverted than the devil.

From this perspective, it is already very cute that the demon cultivators only train various beasts.

Everyone thought of the disciple of Xuantian Sword Sect named Zhu Yi, and they thought he must have been eaten.

"This... this is simply shocking!" Xue Hao shook his head, "Such a thing is really unheard of."

"That's true. Master saw that I couldn't stay still, so he told me. When I was little, I thought it was just a scare, but now it seems that it might be true."

"But these are just speculations." Ji Yanli said.

"To become an evil cultivator, you have to eat mermaids first. Now the mermaids have long disappeared. No one knows where they are. Maybe they have already become extinct. Even if we find them, the mermaids hate humans to the core and will never be easily tricked into coming ashore. Even if they are tricked into coming ashore, will they surrender?"

What Ji Yanli said sounded very reasonable.

However, if Gu Lan had not seen Jing Lian, she might have agreed with Ji Yanli's words, but she had seen Jing Lian, and not only had she seen Jing Lian, she had also seen his flesh and blood being dug out.

Therefore, Gu Lan believed Shan Ling's words 100%.

However, in order not to increase everyone's fear, Gu Lan did not intend to say it.

"What you said makes some sense. We don't know where the mermaid has gone to now. We haven't seen her for many years, so she may not be an evil cultivator. Moreover, the appearance of an evil cultivator will definitely cause a disturbance, let alone in the Xuantian Sword Sect?" Shan Ling also felt that what Ji Yanli said made sense, and she couldn't help but overturn her own guess.

"I feel relieved when you say that." When Xu Fengxi heard them both say that, he immediately felt relieved.

He patted his chest and said with more confidence: "It's definitely not. Besides, don't you see where we are now? This is Xuantian Sword Sect. Even if there is, can't Xuantian Sword Sect deal with an evil cultivator? How can we let him run rampant? Won't we destroy him in a minute?"

Seeing his junior fellow apprentice talking like this, Gu Lan felt very upset.

This silly junior brother.

My mind is indeed a little simple.

Gu Lan pondered for a moment, thinking that the current situation was unclear, it would be better to be careful.

"Having said that, we'd better be careful. After all, that disciple only has one piece of clothing, and he's missing. Maybe he was eaten by something else." Gu Lan said dimly.

In fact, Gu Lan was already 100% certain that they had reached the evil cultivator's cave, but he didn't know why there were only monsters here and no evil cultivators.

Shan Ling nodded and added, "Gu Lan is right." After that, she seemed to remember something and turned to look at Xu Fengxi.

"Brother Xu, you can't be too sure. In fact, evil cultivators are no different from ordinary cultivators and are not easy to identify. They only become different when they go crazy. As for what they look like, I don't know. In short, evil cultivators are good at disguising themselves, so it is possible that Xuantian Sword Sect was not aware of them for a while."

Xu Fengxi let out a cry, and the heart that had been put back in his stomach began to flutter and jump up to his throat.

Ji Yanli glanced at Shan Ling and said nothing.

After saying so much, they had already moved to another corridor and were feeling even colder.

Not knowing where he was going, Gu Lan wanted to find Chiji to ask, but he looked around but couldn't find any trace of Chiji.

"The red chicken is missing." Gu Lan said with a frown.

Ji Yanli was walking at the end. When he heard Gu Lan say this, he shone the light ball behind him, but he didn't see any figure. He said, "He must have slipped away while we were talking just now."

"So what should we do? Go down along it?"

The corridor in front of me led straight down and was pitch black. The light from the light ball was also swallowed up by the darkness, making it look even more eerie.

Everyone felt that it was getting colder and colder as they went down, and they couldn't help but feel scared.

The best thing to do now is to leave this place quickly and report to the master, rather than continue going down.

But Shao Yu was called over by Gu Lan, and she would feel guilty if she didn't continue looking.

What if Shao Yu is here?

What if you encounter danger?

Gu Lan simply couldn't bear to think about how she would explain to the Shenyin Sect if anything happened to Shao Yu.

But it is certainly unrealistic for everyone to go down together.

And this was especially true when Gu Lan had already confirmed that there would be evil cultivators.

But Shao Yu had to find it.

"Shao Yu has to look for it, but we can't go down together either. So, Junior Brother Xu, you take Xue Hao and Meng Xin back to Xuantian Sword Sect and report the situation here. Shan Ling Ji Yanli and I will continue to look for it."

At this time, the three junior brothers are weaker, so it is better to let them go up first.

"Sister, you can just ask Brother Ji to send a flying sword to pass the message. Do we have to go there in person?" Xu Fengxi scratched his head. He didn't want his sister to put herself in danger. "If you want to leave, let's go together."

Xue Hao and Meng Xin also nodded, indicating their willingness to advance and retreat together.

Gu Lan was in a dilemma. It was not a good idea to continue in this stalemate. Suddenly, he remembered something.