"But it's only a part, and Shi Mu doesn't know everything."

Shen Sanruo wanted to say something, but then she saw several pairs of eyes staring at her.

"Put this matter aside for now and resolve your soul problem first," the Taoist Master Wuwei said.

Although Shen Sanruo's soul is very powerful, Ya Lan is also a master of the soul, and his cultivation is even deeper.

They were worried that those insidious spells would cause serious damage to her soul.

"Tell us first what happened just now, how badly your soul was injured. That old scoundrel Ya Lan is extremely vicious, we can't be careless." Immortal Lord Changli's words carried an undeniable force.

He's usually playful and carefree, but at times like this, he inevitably becomes serious and earnest.

Ye Huai turned around and flew away on his sword. His usually calm voice was now tinged with tension. "I'll go find you a magical artifact to repair your soul."

In this situation, if she doesn't confess honestly, they probably won't let her off the hook.

He then explained in detail: "That soul-searching spell was modified by Ya Lan. When combined with the spell in Shi Mu's soul, they resonated with each other and attracted an attack."

"The little koi helped me dodge most of the attacks, and I can recover the rest on my own. I have Xiao Hei, and Ya Lan's attacks can't affect my soul, so everyone doesn't need to worry."

Fearing they wouldn't believe her, she added, "Really, I know what I'm doing."

The crowd's expressions then softened.

"That scared me to death." Qi Yan breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the person who was supposed to clear his demonic influence was about to be gone.

The Taoist Master Wuwei sighed, "You silly girl, next time you have to tell us everything."

If you think about it carefully, you can understand why Shen Sangri did this.

Even if she said it, she was determined to do it for the sake of the entire cultivation world.

It's better not to say anything, so as not to worry them.

"Understood, Sect Master," she replied with a smile, though her face was somewhat pale.

The conversation then returned to normal, and the Taoist Wuwei said, "You're saying that the evil cultivators' conspiracy is only part of the story?"

"Yes." She recounted the relevant memories she had searched for in detail.

"Shi Mu did not have any special reaction, which means that the evil cultivator's plan is still in progress and the spiritual energy in the cultivation world is gradually decreasing."

She didn't feel much about the decrease in spiritual energy.

For cultivators with lower cultivation levels, cultivation consumes less spiritual energy, and their sensitivity to spiritual energy is relatively less.

Upon reaching the Nascent Soul stage, the spiritual energy required for cultivation increases dramatically, making it easier to perceive the density of spiritual energy.

The others, like her, showed no sign of noticing the decrease in spiritual energy.

At this moment, Immortal Lord Changli seemed to realize something, "It has indeed decreased."

"I sensed it when I broke through to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, but I thought it was just my imagination and didn't think much of it."

Their long slumber, coupled with various "difficult-to-treat illnesses," inevitably led to a blurred perception of spiritual energy.

Otherwise, they would have sensed the moment they emerged from the seal that the spiritual energy in the cultivation world was much lower than it was ten thousand years ago.

The spiritual energy was decreasing very slowly, and Immortal Lord Changli only noticed it when he broke through to the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

Even at the slowest rate of reduction, it has been decreasing for tens of thousands of years now, so the amount of reduction is unimaginable.

Upon closer reflection, it becomes clear that in the past thousand years, there have been quite a few cultivators in the cultivation world who have reached the Nascent Soul stage, not much fewer than ten thousand years ago.

However, there was no transitional realm ten thousand years ago; cultivators at the Refinement of Emptiness, Integration of Body, and Mahayana stages all existed in the cultivation world.

Without those vortexes that absorb spiritual energy, the number of Nascent Soul stage cultivators in the cultivation world is actually less than it was ten thousand years ago.

In the past thousand years, only Master Lingxiao has been able to break through the Void Refinement stage, although he has now been reduced back to the late Nascent Soul stage.

This comparison makes it clear how much spiritual energy has been lost in the cultivation world.

Having not considered these issues before, Changli Immortal Lord and the others simply ignored those anomalies because of the existence of the Transitional Realm.

Because of her clan's affairs, Qingluan Fairy had little interest in cultivation and therefore did not pay attention to the changes in spiritual energy.

Immortal Lord Changli transmitted this information to Shen Sangruo.

After a moment's thought, a conjecture arose in her mind.

Is the existence of the Transitional Realm a response taken by the Heavenly Dao in response to the reduction of spiritual energy?

Looking up at the sky, there was not a cloud in the sky, everything was normal, and the heavens still did not react.

Her expression turned somewhat serious.

The evil cultivators' conspiracy is related to the spiritual energy of the cultivation world; they covet the spiritual energy of the entire cultivation world.

What methods did they use to absorb the spiritual energy of the entire cultivation world? How much spiritual energy did they absorb? Was their goal to drain the spiritual energy of the entire cultivation world?

Leaving those aside for now, the spiritual energy that could nourish all living beings in the cultivation world has been monopolized by those evil cultivators. How many powerful beings could they cultivate?

This alone is enough to cause considerable trouble for the cultivation world.

On second thought, there is a transitional realm. After three months of reaching the Void Refinement stage, one will be forcibly promoted to the transitional realm.

In other words, the cultivation level of that group of evil cultivators could only be at the early stage of the Void Refinement realm at most.

Such restrictions effectively narrowed the power gap between the two sides.

Shen Sanruo increasingly felt that the emergence of the transitional realm was not accidental.

"Those evil cultivators have such big appetites. They want all the spiritual energy in the cultivation world, without even considering whether they can handle it." Qi Yan clenched his fist. "Do they really think that I and the other five divine beasts don't exist?"

Although the information we have is incomplete, at least we have a direction and know what the other party wants to do.

"Next, we need to figure out how to stop the decrease of spiritual energy and find the lair of the evil cultivators," Chen Sangruo said.

She will write down the information later and send it to the Hall of All Souls, so that the Hall of All Souls will know how to respond.

Also sent was the glass bottle containing the liquid from the blood pool; Qingluan Fairy kept a portion to offer as a sacrifice to her people.

She had originally planned to explore the system in the Hall of Ten Thousand Spirits after breaking through to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, but now that she had used a large amount of her divine soul power to search for souls and her divine soul was injured, she had no choice but to give up.

Let me recover for a while before going.

Just as they were preparing to devise a method to prevent the spiritual energy from diminishing, a disciple came to report.

"An unusual phenomenon has appeared in Xingchen Plain. Elder Yuan and the others are unable to cope with it. We request that the sect leader send more people."

The demonic energy in Xingchen Plain was cleared away by several sects in turn, and it just so happened that it was Ninghua Sect's turn this time.

“I’ll go,” Chen Sangruo stepped forward and volunteered.

That was where Ya Lan fell, and for some reason, she always felt that she would make new discoveries in Xingchenyuan.

She wasn't going to stay idle, so she decided to go and take a look.

“And us too.” Four senior brothers and sisters stepped forward.

"We are a small team from the Ninghua Sect," Fang Yu and the other two said.

One person is in the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, four people are in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and three people are about to reach the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm.

These eight individuals are considered the most outstanding disciples among the younger generation of Ninghua Sect, representing the future of the sect.