Under his divine sense, Shu Lan discovered a girl in Tianxiang Pavilion who had been implanted with a demonic seed. At this moment, she was walking towards the back door of Tianxiang Pavilion.
Coincidentally, waiting outside the back door was a demon cultivator, who had also been implanted with a demonic seed.
Shu Lan immediately sensed something amiss, quickly got up, quietly pushed open the door to the private room, and then chanted a concealment incantation, silently following behind the girl.
The girl followed the demon cultivator, turning left and right until they entered a small alley. Seeing that they had both run inside, Shu Lan quietly stood on the walls on either side of the alley, cast an invisibility spell on herself, and then observed the two of them from above.
Seeing that no one was around, the demon cultivator spoke up, "Have you done everything I asked you to do?"
"Don't worry, everything's taken care of!" the girl replied confidently.
"That's good!" At this moment, the demon cultivator took out a bag from his storage pouch. "This is a new demon seed that my master gave me. You need to put these demon seeds into the celebratory wine and make those human cultivators drink them. Do you understand?"
"I understand! I've done it so many times, don't you still not believe me?" The girl snatched the demon seed bag from the demon cultivator's hand, looking reproachful.
Just then, Shu Lan felt a figure fall beside him, but he didn't sense any hostility from it. So, Shu Lan turned his head to look, and it turned out that Qin An had also caught up.
Qin An made a gesture to the girl, and Shu Lan understood that he had probably discovered something as well.
Shu Lan then transmitted her thoughts to Qin An, telling him everything she had just heard.
Then, the master and apprentice squatted on the wall, watching the demon cultivator and the girl being all lovey-dovey, occasionally saying things about the mission.
Finally, the demon cultivator and the girl parted ways.
Shu Lan pointed at the demon cultivator, signaling Qin An to follow him; Qin An also gestured to the girl. So, Shu Lan followed the demon cultivator, while Qin An followed the girl back to Tianxiang Pavilion.
After following the demon cultivator for a while, Shu Lan noticed that no one was around, so she flashed and blocked the demon cultivator's path.
When the demon cultivator saw the human cultivator appear before him, he quickly tried to defend himself, but unfortunately, he was only at the Golden Core stage and was no match for Shu Lan.
He didn't even see Shu Lan's movements clearly before he was subdued in one move.
After subduing the demon cultivator, Shu Lan immediately struck his crown with her palm and activated her soul-searching technique to begin searching his memories.
From the demon cultivator's memories, Shu Lan obtained some information: this demon cultivator worked under He Jing, the branch leader. Above the branch was a main branch, and their main branch leader was working with a person who called himself the Demon Lord, seemingly plotting some earth-shattering conspiracy.
This demon cultivator's status was too low, and little information could be gleaned from his memories. However, one piece of information was extremely important: demon seeds could sense each other, and those who possessed a demon seed were their kind. Only those with a demon seed implanted within them were allowed to enter and leave branch headquarters, or even the main headquarters.
After obtaining the information he desired, Shu Lan withdrew her soul-searching technique. Shu Lan's soul-searching technique differed from those of the cultivation world. The cultivation world's soul-searching techniques destroyed a person's mind, rendering anyone searched even once mentally impaired. Shu Lan's technique, however, was derived from the *Ancestral Spirit Scripture*, a technique transcending this continent. Those searched by it retained their sanity, and their existence remained undetected.
After retracting the Soul Searching Technique, Shu Lan cast a sleeping spell on the demon cultivator and erased his memories of their encounter. She then dragged him to a secluded place, intending to deal with him after meeting up with Qin An and his disciples.
Shu Lan returned the way she came and ran into Qin An, who was on his way.
Qin An held the bag of demonic seeds in his hand. He had already used the Soul Searching Technique on the girl, but only obtained scattered information. The girl was even less informed than the demonic cultivator; she knew even less, only that they had a master who could grant them power, but the price was to help him spread the demonic seeds.
After using the Soul Searching Technique, the girl lost her senses, so Qin An put her in the room and came to meet his master brother.
After meeting with Qin An, Shu Lan exchanged information with him. Shu Lan told Qin An everything she knew, including the secret she had discovered about the ability of demon seeds to sense each other.
After thinking for a moment, Qin An decided to go back and work with Jia Qi and Li Yuan to find a way to locate the branch headquarters and the main headquarters, and then uncover the shocking conspiracy behind it all.
After Shu Lan finished recounting what she had learned, she made her request to Qin An: "Xiao An, could you hand over the demon seed you have? I need the demon seed to report back to my sect."
Qin An felt he had no use for the demon seed, so he handed the demon seed bag to Shu Lan: "The demon seed is useless to me, so Master Brother can take it if you want!"
Shu Lan took the demon seed bag and immediately saw Qin An's hesitant expression.
"Xiao An, what's wrong?"
"Um, Master, how can I contact you in the future?" Qin An thought for a moment and decided to ask his Master.
Shu Lan also wanted to keep in touch with Qin An, so she took out a pair of communication jade tokens from her storage ring and handed one of them to Qin An.
"This is a communication jade tablet. No matter when or where, you can make contact by injecting spiritual or demonic energy into it."
Qin An accepted the communication jade token as if it were a priceless treasure, and then carefully placed it into his storage ring.
"Brother Shizun, I will keep in touch with you! Please take care!"
"Xiao An, you too, please take care!"
After saying goodbye to Shu Lan, Qin An returned to the Demon Realm alone.
Shu Lan took the bag of demon seeds and went to meet up with the other disciples.
After Shu Lan reunited with her disciples, she told them that there was a huge conspiracy behind the Demon Seed incident and urged them to return to the sect immediately and not to participate in any further actions.
The disciples, having already joined forces to kill a cultivator whose demonic seed had manifested, knew that their grandmaster's words were not unfounded. They bid farewell to their grandmaster and quickly returned to the sect.
Shu Lan then took protective measures and handed the bag of demon seeds to Ye Feiyu, asking him to give it to the sect leader.
For reasons unknown, when handing the demon seed to Ye Feiyu, Shu Lan secretly took out a demon seed and stored it in her storage ring.
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