"With your master here, I will never let those evil cultivators harm you." Immortal Lord Changli's eyes were sharp and cold. "I am not dead yet. Those evil cultivators want to make a move against my disciple. They have a good plan."

The group returned to the Jiang family and first summarized and recorded the general situation and useful information of the formation in the Crimson Desert, then sent it to the Hall of Ten Thousand Spirits.

Then the topic turned to the possibility that the heretical cultivators might be targeting Shen Sangruo.

The oppressive aura emanating from Immortal Lord Changli was faintly revealed, indicating that he was truly enraged.

He actually set his sights on his apprentice.

Ten thousand years ago, those evil cultivators couldn't get any benefit from him; ten thousand years later, they shouldn't even think about getting past him to harm his disciples.

He is now at the peak of the late Nascent Soul stage, just one step away from breaking through to the Void Refinement stage, and he has not yet fully absorbed the cultivation in his original body.

However, since those above the Refinement stage are forced to enter the Transitional Realm, and the cultivation world is still in crisis, if he, as the number one cultivator in the current cultivation world, were to go to the Transitional Realm, the strength of the cultivation world would be greatly reduced.

Therefore, during this period, he not only did not absorb the cultivation in his original body, but also deliberately suppressed his own cultivation to prevent himself from advancing to the transitional realm.

Those evil cultivators were at most at the early stage of the Void Refinement realm in the cultivation world. He relied on the cultivation in his old body and burned his divine soul. So what if he fought against a hundred people?

He was not afraid to fight them; he would not allow those evil cultivators to harm her in the slightest.

"Do you think that by hiding away for tens of thousands of years you can surpass me, Immortal Lord? Ha, they are not qualified." Immortal Lord Changli curled the corner of his lips.

"Don't worry, Sang girl, we will protect you and won't give those evil cultivators a chance to get close to you." Wuwei Daoist stood beside her.

“Our Jiang family is also willing to send an elder to protect Fellow Daoist Shen,” Jiang Wensheng said. “We will inform the Wanling Palace about this matter, and they will definitely arrange for people to do so as well.”

"I will transfer everyone from the Flying Cloud Sect to your side as soon as I get back. Sang Ruo, don't be afraid, your father is here." Shen Daochen was very worried and wished he could send someone back right now.

“Some people are not worthy of being called masters.” Lingxiao Zhenren spoke coldly from the side, looking at Changli Xianjun with resentment and hostility in his eyes.

"What's the point of talking about protecting her now? If it weren't for your grudge against those evil cultivators, why would they take their anger out on Sang Ruo and put her in such a dangerous situation?"

"You only bring her danger; you're a jinx. How can you be worthy of being her master?"

“Sang Ruo, come back to my side. Don’t worry, I am much more reliable than this kind of person. At least I have not provoked any mortal enemies like evil cultivators.”

Lingxiao Zhenren seized the opportunity to start putting down Changli Xianjun. Of course, he also genuinely felt that Shen Sang was being dragged down by Changli Xianjun.

He thought she would at least be somewhat moved, but to his surprise, Chen Sangruo looked at him coldly and said:

"Did Master Lingxiao really think before he spoke? What do you mean you didn't provoke mortal enemies like evil cultivators?"

"Evil cultivators are the common enemy of everyone in the cultivation world today. Does your statement mean you want to absolve yourself of responsibility and think that the current crisis has nothing to do with you?"

"I'm afraid that when those evil cultivators killed you, they didn't think about whether you were their mortal enemy or anything like that."

Master Lingxiao's eyes widened at her words, and sensing the disdain of the others present, he quickly explained, "Of course, that's not what I meant..."

But Shen Sanruo had already calmly withdrawn her gaze, completely ignoring his explanation.

"I ruined the evil cultivators' grand plan. Even if I'm not Immortal Lord Changli's disciple, do you think those evil cultivators will let me go?"

"The targeting of those evil cultivators is an affirmation of what I have done." She smiled and winked at Immortal Lord Changli and the others. "If they hadn't targeted me, I would have been more upset."

As the saying goes, the enemy's breach of defenses and insults are the highest honor one can receive.

The angrier the enemy is by her actions, the more it shows that her actions have ruined their plans, which is why they are so vulnerable.

From another perspective, isn't this a good thing?

At least what she did was effective.

"As for the evil cultivators targeting us, you don't need to worry." She paused, then continued, "They have gone to great lengths to hide for tens of thousands of years, and they won't expose themselves so easily."

They must have other purposes for hiding themselves like this. For the sake of maintaining this goal for ten thousand years, they would never personally appear to take action against her.

"Even after we destroyed two formations, they only appeared as phantom images. I estimate they won't show themselves for a long time to come."

"Their claim of targeting me means either that they're targeting me when breaking the formation, or that they're sending some scattered evil cultivators from the cultivation world to attack me."

Just like the evil cultivator she encountered in the Illusory Realm, this type of evil cultivator probably doesn't even know where the evil cultivator's lair is, so there is no risk of being exposed.

In any case, it's unlikely that the main force of the evil cultivators would deal with her.

She didn't take those scattered heretical cultivators seriously.

The evil cultivator said he looked forward to meeting her, but that would probably be a long time from now. At least she's safe for now.

When the true evil cultivators appear, she may not necessarily be afraid of them.

"So there's no need to worry too much about this. I'll go and break the formation when it's my turn." She said in a relaxed tone.

The main task now is to break the formation and solve the problem of spiritual energy being extracted.

Those evil cultivators wanted to meet her, and she also wanted to force them out by breaking the formation.

She wanted to see what those evil cultivators were so eager to do, hiding in their lair and refusing to come out easily.

Strangely enough, those evil cultivators extracted so much spiritual energy from the cultivation world and used it all on themselves, so their cultivation level was naturally not low, and should even be much stronger than during the great chaos back then.

However, due to the continuous depletion of spiritual energy, the overall strength of the cultivation world has long been far inferior to what it used to be.

It would be easy for those evil cultivators to run rampant in the cultivation world; they could even try to directly conquer it.

Yet they refused to show themselves to stop the formation that was drawing spiritual energy from being destroyed.

If Shen Sang could think of a reason, it would be that they had a more important purpose, something more important than extracting all the spiritual energy from the cultivation world.

She lowered her eyes and gazed intently, her brow furrowing slightly as she pondered.

I always felt that there was a deeper conspiracy behind that group of evil cultivators, but no matter how they changed, their goal must be the cultivation world.

Even the deepest conspiracy can only be one that wipes out the entire cultivation world.

Even though cultivators in the cultivation world cannot withstand the attacks of evil cultivators, there are still five divine beasts protecting the cultivation world.

Therefore, it is not an easy task for heretical cultivators to take over the cultivation world.

What they are planning now is far from enough.

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