All beasts submit, and the peerless imperial princess is about to defy the heavens!

He breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Where did you learn this? I don't remember the Tianxuan Sect having a formation technique like yours. Did an elder from the Formation Peak teach you?"

Feng Ning stood up. "No."

"Oh?"

Feng Ning pretended to be stupid, "It was my master in my dream who taught me."

Without waiting for their reply, he continued talking about what had just happened.

"Let's take a look at the formation in my hand first."

Seeing that she had changed the subject, the two elders stopped asking questions and instead stared at the array plate in her hand.

Feng Ning then began to explain, "This is an array I've created over the past few days. As long as you add a certain aura to the array, it will emit light as a warning when it encounters its own kind again."

She handed the array plate to the sect leader, saying, "Sect leader, please choose something to demonstrate."

The sect leader can use this to prevent others from accusing her of tampering with things, and it can also make others more convinced of her abilities.

The sect leader nodded.

He then used his own spiritual root to add a trace of wood-type spiritual power.

Then he looked at everyone and said, "You should also use your own spiritual power."

Finally, everyone gathered a ball of spiritual energy in front of them.

The five elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—shimmered brightly, making the entire hall look quite beautiful.

Feng Ning displayed an ice-type ability, with a white ball in front of her.

The two elders, unaware of the truth, looked on with a puzzled expression.

"What kind of spiritual root do you have?"

Another elder said with some regret, "White? Only those without the talent for cultivation can display white. Yours..."

Feng Ning gently raised her hand, and three or five ice needles appeared in front of her.

"I am an ice-type."

The elder suddenly stood up from his chair, his eyes shining brightly.

"You! You have a mutated talent?"

He looked at the sect leader with disapproval, "How could you hand over such a promising talent to that unreliable Nian Zhao?"

Then, with a look of utter pain and indignation, he glared at Nian Zhao and said, "You damned brat!"

Nian Zhao shrank back. "Elder... I picked this disciple up from outside. How can I hand him over to someone else?"

The elder clutched his chest and sat down without saying a word.

Of course he knew that everyone has their own destiny, but if Feng Ning was really the person they had been waiting for, would it delay the child's development if he just let him cultivate like a child?

When Feng Ning realized the topic had gone off-topic again, she was on the verge of tears.

"Can we get down to business first?"

The sect leader immediately straightened his expression and said, "Alright."

He controlled the array plate to operate. Of course, he didn't need to carry it around one by one. He only used his spiritual power to control it, and he circled it in front of everyone so that everyone could see the result.

As expected, the array plate did not change when encountering other spiritual energy clusters.

However, when encountering other wood-type elements, the array plate lit up repeatedly.

Everyone fell silent once the array plate was returned to the sect leader's hands.

Feng Ning continued, "The array plate in Elder Jing Hui's hand contains the aura of the Xiao Yi. When it encounters its own kind, it will issue a warning. That's how I distinguish them."

Now that everything is so clear, what is there left for everyone to doubt?

She took the array plate back from the sect leader and erased the aura on it in front of everyone.

He then took out a wisp of energy from the small bottle and placed it on the array plate.

He circled around in front of everyone, then circled around the five people again.

Since the result was the same as before, everyone had nothing more to say.

Feng Ning respectfully said, "Sect Master, we captured someone before. That person was also possessed by Xiao Yi. After Xiao Yi was captured, the possessed person's body was rotting. It was obvious that he had been dead for many days."

"And these fragments of the demons in my hands were obtained from him."

The sect leader waved his hand, "No need to explain, you did the right thing."

Feng Ning nodded slightly to him, and then the group began to discuss how to handle the matter.

Later, she also heard about Xiao Yi from the two Supreme Elders.

According to records passed down from the Tianxuan Sect, the creature Xiaoyi existed in ancient times.

What makes this thing so terrifying is that it is ubiquitous and can even possess someone without you noticing.

It can possess not only living people, but also dead people, animals, and plants; in short, it is impossible to guard against.

Because they couldn't distinguish between the demons and monsters, the cultivators at that time suffered a great deal of hardship, making it a tragic incident.

This thing is especially difficult to kill; if it escapes from this body, it can find another body.

Moreover, the Xiao Yi also have levels, divided into beginner, intermediate, advanced, minor leader, leader, etc.

They can devour the cultivation of their hosts, thereby increasing their level.

A rudimentary demon has limited abilities and can only devour Foundation Establishment stage cultivators.

A mid-level Xiao Yi can devour a Golden Core cultivator.

Advanced-level demons can devour Nascent Soul stage cultivators.

According to the book, the highest level of demon that appeared in that great battle was the leader level, which is equivalent to the Void Refinement stage of human cultivators.

That was something legendary; they couldn't even imagine it.

Most of the people who entered the secret realm this time were at least at the Golden Core stage.

The fact that it can possess the body of a Golden Core cultivator indicates that the demonic entity within these individuals is likely of intermediate or higher level.

Most of the disciples who entered the secret realm were among the best of the Golden Core stage disciples.

It's pitiful that even such disciples could fall for the trap and be possessed by the demons, which shows that these disciples' strength is far inferior to theirs.

At this point, everyone's faces turned very grim.

But I didn't know what to say.

The sect leader looked at the five people in the middle, and they trembled with fear.

But now that they've been discovered, there's no point in them refuting it anymore. The key point is that they've been proven wrong, so how can they prove anything?

They had originally planned to end their lives, since they couldn't expose the adults' plans anyway.

Unfortunately, the sect leader immediately subdued them, rendering them completely immobile, let alone capable of suicide.

We could only wait for their decision in pain and despair.

After observing for a while, the sect leader said, "Leave these people to me. At least we need to find out their purpose. Are they planning to make a comeback?"

No one had any objections.

Feng Ning tentatively asked, "Sect Master, after you finish interrogating them and kill them, could you give me the fragments of the demons? No matter what they were like before, they died the moment they were possessed."