My best friend asked me if I was still doing system tasks.

Qin Fansheng looked down at the two battered cultivators on the ground: "Chat? What do I have to talk to you about?"

Luo Hanying was so emotional that she coughed and couldn't speak. Ruan Chayan stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Your Excellency, this junior would like to ask you about that female demon cultivator, as well as that formation and the pill cauldron."

This junior wishes to know why I, who opened the Heavenly Gate, have encountered such a calamity.

"can."

After Qin Fan caught up with Zhou Lihong, she couldn't get anything out of her, so she made no further arrangements.

When Luo Hanying and Ruan Chayan asked about their deep-seated blood feud, he readily agreed.

Qin Fansheng took out three futons from his storage space. After the three of them sat down, he began to recount the whole story.

Half a year ago, Qin Fansheng disguised himself as a mortal and traveled around Zhonghan Shenzhou. He heard that in a city very close to the border of Zhonghan Shenzhou, Ximan Shenzhou and Beiyan Shenzhou, demons were massacring humans.

The area bordering the three states is poor in resources, has no major cultivation families, and is frequented by evil cultivators and demonic beasts. It is a notorious no-man's-land, and even when such a thing happens, no one steps forward to take care of it, causing widespread panic.

Qin Fansheng possesses the bloodline of a demon noble, and her mother is a princess of the demon race, so she has a certain sense of responsibility towards both the demon race and the demon race.

He received education from human cultivators when he was growing up in the demon race, and there were many human spouses among the demon nobles. Therefore, he had a good impression of the three races of humans, demons, and monsters.

He went to investigate, wanting to see if this was just a rumor spread by human cultivators, or if there really were demons so blind as to kill humans.

Demons and demon cultivators are different. Demons have an old demon king who is nearing the end of his lifespan above them and twelve city lords governing them below. The twelve cities are headed by Demon Lord Huaiwei.

It is true that the demon race has been irreconcilably opposed to the human and demon races throughout history, but this Demon King is not one to cause trouble, and Qin Fansheng has such a status. For thousands of years, the demon race has lived in peace with the human and demon races. It's just that the demon cultivators in the Demon Realm are unwilling to let go of their own kind.

When Qin Fansheng arrived in that area, three massacres had already occurred. The first one was in two small towns near Beiyan Shenzhou, which were close to each other. Overnight, blood flowed like a river, and no one was spared.

The second incident occurred in a small town, where everyone was wiped out overnight.

The third incident occurred in a gathering place of rogue cultivators in the Western Barbarian Divine Continent. When Qin Fansheng arrived, she stumbled upon Zhou Lihong, who was slaughtering low-level cultivators.

Zhou Lihong's cultivation has reached the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul Realm, and she has a mid-Nascent Soul Realm demonic beast as her accomplice. Ordinary cultivators simply cannot escape from her clutches.

Qin Fansheng only briefly met Zhou Lihong. Seeing his high level of cultivation, Zhou Lihong used a feint to escape.

He only had time to sprinkle some scented powder on Zhou Lihong so that he could track her down later.

Qin Fansheng inspected these three places and found that they were all set up with soundproof formations and illusion arrays. Outsiders would not be able to see anything wrong when passing by, and once they stepped in, it would only add another life to Zhou Lihong's men.

What these three places have in common is the strange cauldron. All the people Zhou Lihong killed were thrown into the cauldron, seemingly to complete some kind of sacrifice.

Qin Fansheng indicated that he had no expertise in array formations and could only use the Candle Shadow Whip to destroy those things in order to prevent future troubles.

Qin Fansheng didn't know where Zhou Lihong's Sky-Splitting Talisman had sent her, so he used the privileges of the demon race to get them to investigate for him, and he himself searched along the way based on the clues provided by his subordinates.

It took nearly two months to find this area.

Zhou Lihong's exposure was due to her flamboyant array formation and her signature pitch-black alchemy cauldron.

Before Qin Fansheng arrived at the Heavenly Gate, he had just gotten into a fight with some confused humans in a gathering place for rogue cultivators to the east.

According to several confused elders in that gathering place, Zhou Lihong promised that as long as the elders could trick the cultivators into entering the illusion array and filling the alchemy cauldron with their flesh and blood, Zhou Lihong would give them a bottle of Spirit Dew as long as a finger.

She also directed and acted in this whole drama of opening the Heavenly Gate.

【"bite--

Congratulations to both hosts for completing the first stage of the main storyline.

The 300 task reward points have been credited to your account. The system shop will be unlocked once you have accumulated 1000 points.

Please keep up the good work, both hosts!

The two breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing the system notification, and their bodies, which had been tormented by cramps, felt a little better.

Qin Fansheng summarized: "Zhou Lihong is a demonic cultivator from the Canghai Realm. She came to our Canglan Realm about thirty years ago."

Although I cannot decipher the array engraved on the alchemy cauldron, her motives for slaughtering humans are nothing more than cultivating evil and heretical methods.

He looked at the two men, who were listless and covered in blood, and added, "Before she died, I asked her what her purpose was, but she refused to say. She even detonated her dantian, probably thinking she could seriously injure me in this way."

She died a rather tragic death; I devoured her very soul. You two shouldn't dwell on it too much, lest it affect your future cultivation.

Even if you're still thinking about revenge, you should go to the Canghai Realm and find those demonic cultivators.

Ruan Chayan clutched her aching chest and gave a miserable smile: "Thank you for telling us, Your Excellency. We understand what Your Excellency means... Ah!"

Ruan Chayan spoke slowly, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw Luo Hanying fall to the ground. She tried to help Luo Hanying up, but the movement aggravated her injuries, and she turned her head and spat out small pieces of blood.

"Hiss—" Qin Fan couldn't bear to look at him. "It was my oversight. It's already quite remarkable that you two, with your cultivation levels, can remain sober."

I should have let you treat your injuries first.

As he spoke, he got up to settle the two of them, and then took out a bottle of pills and handed it to Ruan Chayan: "This is a Seven-Turn Rejuvenation Pill. Take one to stabilize your injuries and meditate to refine it."

Ruan Chayan looked anxiously at Luo Hanying: "Xiaoxue, my sister..."

She covered her mouth and coughed, accompanied by a few dry heaves.

Qin Fan said helplessly, "Take care of yourself first, I'll take a look at her."

He tore open the talisman sealing the jade bottle and stuffed a pill into each of their mouths, muttering, "Eat quickly, eat quickly, don't die in front of me."

"I've worked tirelessly for half a year to save a few humans. If they die at the last minute, I won't have peace for decades."

Ruan Chayan didn't even have time to thank him. Urged by Xian Ge, she sat cross-legged and focused her energy.

Qin Fansheng placed one hand above Luo Hanying's dantian, while using the other hand to perform a hand seal to help him refine the elixir.