The difficult path of cultivation for a grassroots female practitioner

After Xiao Han took pictures of the place where the blood food was stored, both in the long and close shots, he was about to burn it down, but after thinking it over, he stopped.

Then, she placed a formation at the exit of the cave to seal it.

When interrogating Monk Tian before, he said that the mortals soaked in the blood pool had actually turned into monsters that were neither dead nor alive.

Although she had already photographed these scenes with the photo stone, Xiao Han still wanted to preserve some physical evidence. Once this matter was completely resolved, she would burn down this evil place.

After the two of them cleaned up the cave, they hid their breath in the woods outside the cave and waited quietly for the elders of the Qixuan Sect to come.

However, until noon the next day, no one came here.

Xiao Han couldn't help but mutter, "Could it be that the other party has discovered something and won't come anymore?"

Yun Que retorted confidently, "That evil Jindan cultivator has fallen victim to my mind-deception technique, so there's absolutely no way he could pull any tricks. What I'm worried about now is that the evil Yuanying cultivator didn't receive the communication talisman for some reason, and I killed the evil Jindan cultivator, leaving him with no one to communicate with again. That would mean the clue is gone."

Xiao Han quickly consoled him, "Don't worry, didn't that guy say that if it's too late, we can wait a day."

The two of them had no other good solution for the time being and could only continue to wait.

It was not until night fell that the two of them finally discovered someone flying towards them, and they were immediately cheered up.

The man flew directly to the entrance of the cave, and then, before he could make the next move, two powerful pressures pressed directly towards him, instantly suppressing him and causing him to fall to the ground in the jungle below.

But it was Xiao Han and Yun Que who attacked at the same time.

This is a middle-aged male cultivator with ordinary appearance. He does not have that uncomfortable evil aura. He looks like a normal Nascent Soul cultivator.

Yunque flew in front of him in a flash and began to use his mind-confusing technique without saying a word.

Xiao Han just wanted to sigh that this technique was really an excellent way to interrogate all criminals.

After the spell was cast, Yunque began the routine interrogation.

"Are you an elder of the Qixuan Sect?"

The middle-aged monk nodded.

"How many elders does your Qixuan Sect have?"

The middle-aged cultivator said, "I don't know. The Qixuan Sect is different from other sects. It doesn't have a fixed sect mountain. As an elder, I am only responsible for the disciples in this branch hall in the south."

Yun Que continued to ask, "Then where did you take the disciples who had advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage?"

Middle-aged monk: "Concentrate on practicing in an underground cave."

Xiao Han suddenly thought that low-level Qi training disciples relied on mortals for training, and disciples after the seventh level of Qi training relied on processed blood food for training, so what did the foundation-building disciples rely on for training?

So she told Yunque her question and asked her to ask.

Yun Que asked, "What do those foundation-building disciples gathered in the underground caves rely on to absorb for cultivation?"

The middle-aged cultivator said, "There is another base that recruits mortal disciples. The Qi training disciples and blood food there are directly provided to the foundation-building disciples for their cultivation."

Xiao Han asked from the side: "Then what do you rely on to practice?"

Seeing that the middle-aged cultivator didn't answer in time, Yun Que hurriedly shouted, "Answer her question!"

The middle-aged cultivator said, "For every Jindan disciple I train and hand over to the Sect Master, the Sect Master will reward me with three Foundation Establishment disciples for cultivation."

Xiao Han finally understood that this evil sect had no legitimate disciples. These so-called disciples were actually just food for the top cultivators.

Those who practiced Qi provided support to those who established their foundation, those who established their foundation provided support to those who advanced to the Golden Core or Nascent Soul stage. As for those who advanced to the Golden Core stage, except for enough people to manage them, the rest became food for the clan leader behind the scenes.

Yun Que asked another core question: "Who is your sect leader? How high is his cultivation?"

The middle-aged cultivator shook his head. "I don't know. Every time the Sect Master sees me, he's wearing a black robe and a veiled hat that blocks my spiritual senses. As for his cultivation level, he probably wears a treasure that conceals it. I've never been able to see through it."

Xiao Han and Yun Que exchanged a glance. They had both been mentally prepared for the possibility that the sect leader might be hiding and unknown to the disciples, and now they had guessed correctly.

Yun Que: "Tell me in detail how you became a Nascent Soul Elder, and the details of each meeting with the Sect Master."

This guy must have practiced for quite some time to become an elder. Maybe we can find some clues from his words.

The middle-aged monk immediately and obediently told his experience.

He was originally just an ordinary mortal. When he was about sixteen years old, he got into an argument and a fight with someone, accidentally killed the person, and was then thrown into prison.

He originally thought that he would not live for more than a few days and would be executed by the government.

But one night, the sect leader wearing a black robe and a bamboo hat appeared in the cell and asked him if he wanted to live.

Of course he wanted to.

The leader then opened the shackles and the cell door, threw him a knife, and told him to kill the jailer so that he could escape.

He immediately did as he was told and killed a jailer with a single blow without hesitation.

After he escaped, the sect leader let him join the Qixuan Sect and learn the cultivation techniques.

Although the cultivation method of this technique was extremely evil and brutal, he had no choice but to follow it after having already saved two lives. Especially after practicing it, he felt the power of being a cultivator, and he no longer had any resistance to this method of cultivation.

At that time, he still needed to rely on catching mortals to refine blood food for cultivation. After he established his foundation, the sect leader asked him to recruit mortal disciples and began the plan of cultivating blood food.

Just like that, as his cultivation level improved, the sect leader made him an elder of the sect, managing a branch and coming up with an entire food chain plan.

As more and more dens were opened to recruit disciples, his cultivation level also improved by leaps and bounds, his food chain became more and more complete, and he handed over more food, which won the recognition of the sect leader.

Now he is in his seventies or eighties, but he still looks like a middle-aged man, and he has powerful cultivation. He is very satisfied with himself for becoming a master of evil cultivation.

After a lot of long-winded talk, Xiao Han and Yun Que still couldn't get much useful information from it.

Yun Que had no choice but to ask, "How do you hand in the food that your Jindan disciples, the ones you train, give to the Sect Master for their cultivation?"

The middle-aged cultivator said, "The sect master will come to inspect from time to time. If he finds suitable food, he will take people away under the pretext of accepting them as core disciples."

Xiao Han and the others couldn't help but curse inwardly. This sect leader was being too cautious. No wonder this evil sect had existed for hundreds of years without a single word of it leaking out to the outside world.

The two of them had originally planned to follow the clues and wipe out the entire sect in one fell swoop, but they didn't expect that this was just a branch, and the biggest BOSS was hidden very deeply, so they had no idea where to start looking.