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

The destruction of the Heavenly Gate mentioned by Ruan Chayan and Luo Hanying involved a demonic cultivator from the Canghai Realm, which was likely the work of this white-robed man.

The fact that the Shiren Sect sealed a ferocious beast a thousand years ago is not exactly a secret, but the younger generation has not heard their elders mention it in the last hundred years, so fewer and fewer people know about it.

Le Shu's latest order is to come to the Shi Ren Sect and investigate whether it is possible to release the ferocious beasts, causing chaos in the Shi Ren Sect where they are slaughtered by the beasts. Then, her sect members will take advantage of the Shi Ren Sect's unpreparedness to attack the sect's gates and sacrifice the sect's disciples.

They even confidently believed that ferocious beasts could become nourishment for the alchemical cauldron.

The people in the Fragrant Secret Realm are not companions of Yue Shu, but they share the same goal.

After hearing about the incident at the Incense Secret Realm, Yue Shu became very cautious. She originally planned to join the Shiren Sect through its recruitment process two years later and proceed gradually.

Unexpectedly, while she was setting up her formation in the town to try and get through the next two years, she heard about the Shiren Sect recruiting new members ahead of schedule.

Le Shu stayed in Yi City to wait for the time to recruit new members. She heard about the good deed of the Shi Ren Sect, which would send the cultivators they rescued in the Yao Xiang Secret Realm to Yi City. So she kept an eye on when the Shi Ren Sect's spirit boat would arrive, hoping to find out about the Yao Xiang Secret Realm from those cultivators.

Ruan Chayan and Luo Hanying were targeted by Le Shu at that time.

Seeing that the two seemed to be rogue cultivators with considerable cultivation levels, and that they mentioned wanting to go to the Shiren Sect to participate in the assessment, Yue Shu decided to travel with them and have them cover for her.

At that time, Ruan Luo and her companion had just offended Yu Laosan, a cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage. Le Shu then devised a plan to force them to the West District, and then staged a humiliating scene to get them to take her with them.

Ruan Chayan and Luo Hanying were furious upon hearing Qi Huixian's words, and the two huddled together and whispered to each other.

Luo Hanying suddenly realized: "I knew Yu Laosan had no backing, so why would anyone bother telling the searchers where we were? It turns out that Le Shu has the cultivation of the Nascent Soul Realm."

So she had her eye on us from the very beginning. That's terrifying.

Ruan Chayan readily agreed, saying, "The system was still around back then, yet it didn't even warn us!"

The blue floral mark between Yue Shu's eyebrows is a secret technique to suppress her cultivation level. She only said it was due to her cultivation method and techniques in order to gain her trust.

While following Ruan Luo and the other person, Le Shu had already taken advantage of their unpreparedness to plant Gu worms on them. It was still unknown whether the Gu worms were unique to her sect or were the work of that white-robed man.

The Gu worms roamed through the cultivator's meridians, evading the detection of divine sense. Therefore, whether it was Qi Huixian or the alchemists of Xinglin Peak, they could only sense something strange about the cultivator's spiritual energy circulation, but they could never find the reason.

Under the guise of gratitude, Le Shu gave the two a cultivation technique that helped the Gu worms control their hosts. The technique appeared to enhance the strength of one's divine sense, and indeed, one's divine sense expanded after cultivation. However, this was actually due to the Gu worms within the cultivators' bodies.

Ruan Chayan had never practiced that technique due to her own reasons, and thus narrowly escaped disaster.

Luo Hanying learned from the people in the Discipline Hall that she had repeatedly gone to Fu Yuanzheng at night to inquire about the Yaoxiang Secret Realm, then dismantled the formation while repairing it at Burong Mountain, and recently approached the patrolling disciples of the Shiren Sect to inquire about their patrol situation.

Luo Hanying gave a self-deprecating laugh: [“Well, after investigating the spy for almost a year, it turns out the spy was myself.”]

Ruan Chayan also did not expect that the mission would end like this. She said with lingering fear, "Fortunately, I was too busy to learn about beast taming and did not have time to cultivate that technique. Otherwise, we would both be controlled. Who can prove our innocence then?"

Fortunately, we know each other well and can communicate in our minds, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to see through your schemes, and no one would have been able to expose Le Shu's machinations.

"I think it's also thanks to the capable sect leader and elders of the Shiren Sect, as well as Daoist Yuchen."

Luo Hanying sighed, "When Daoist Yu Chen brought back the Shi Ren Sect for us, who would have thought it would be three great figures?"

Ruan Chayan: [“Who says otherwise? Who would have thought they were the undercover agent?”]

Luo Hanying asked curiously, "How did you manage to extract so much information in such a short time? Where is Le Shu? Why isn't she here listening to her confession?"

Ruan Chayan's expression was complicated, and she was still shaken: "Le Shu is dead."

Luo Hanying glanced at Ruan Chayan in surprise, momentarily speechless: [“Dead? A living person, how could she die?”]

Despite her fear and nausea, Ruan Chayan managed to speak with difficulty: "I don't know. I just saw Qi Huixian put her hand on Le Shu's head, and then Le Shu's head exploded."

Luo Hanying imagined that scene, and her face turned completely pale.

Qi Huixian was just getting to this point.

Although the Soul Searching Technique is a forbidden art, it shouldn't have caused Le Shu's death to be so gruesome.

He sensed Le Shu's strangeness after seeing the white-robed man in her memories. If it weren't for his high cultivation level, the impact of Le Shu's death might have injured him.

With her cultivation at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul Realm, even after her physical body collapses, her primordial spirit will still be able to struggle for a while, and she won't be caught or escape so quickly.

As long as the primordial spirit is intact, possession or reincarnation is possible. However, Qi Huixian could not sense Le Shu's primordial spirit at the moment Le Shu was in trouble, so she was probably already destroyed in both body and soul.

This should be a restriction placed on the soul, which will be triggered once someone learns of the white-robed man's existence from Yue Shu.

After Le Shu dies, the Gu worms that depend on the Gu master will also die in the host's body. It is currently unknown whether the dead Gu worms will have any effect on the host.

Qi Huixian saw in Le Shu's memories the methods for verifying whether a cultivator's body contained Gu worms and some of the ways to deal with them. That's why she asked the two elders of Xinglin Peak to come and learn from them and examine the disciples' bodies.

Tao Man listened to Qi Huixian's words with fear and said, "In our Canglan Realm, raising Gu worms is something only evil cultivators do. We reject such behavior, so we know very little about Gu worms."

If cultivators from the Canghai Realm were to infiltrate our ranks and cast spells on us again, it would be impossible to defend against.

Li Shuhe nodded and said, "We were able to discover Le Shu's conspiracy because she acted too ostentatiously, and her scheme was first revealed on the Dao Asking Steps."

If she manages to pass the Dao Inquiry stage on her own, we won't be able to see the problem with her in a short time, and it would be very easy for us to be deceived by her Gu worms.

Qi Huixian pondered for a moment and said, "I remember Cangya Zi from the Forbidden Cliff of the Northern Divine Continent. He has studied these things."

Li Shuhe understood what Qi Huixian meant. She said with difficulty, "Putting aside the fact that Nan Yue Shenzhou and Bei Yan Shenzhou are in the south and north respectively, even if we send someone to consult Yan Yuan Xiezun, he may not help us."

Cangya Zi is the most capricious of the great venerable ones. Even the demon lord Qin Fansheng, who is known as a madman, is somewhat inferior to Cangya Zi.