Seven Star Island True Demon Palace

"If I'm not mistaken, these statues should originally have been Ancient Cultivators and members of the Demon Race. It's just that someone used a great divine ability to petrify them." Lin Xuan's expression was grave as he spoke slowly.

"Petrify them? That can't be!" Yue'er could not help crying out in her delicate voice when she heard it. "Although there are indeed similar petrification secret arts within the Demonic Path, they're extremely difficult and abstruse. Didn't you study them too, Young Master? Not to mention the cultivation requirements are terribly harsh, even if one mastered them, they couldn't be used lightly."

"Exactly!" Lin Xuan nodded. There were similar records in the Mystic Demon True Scripture, and in his spare time he had once carefully studied them as well. Unfortunately, every word was abstruse and difficult. Even with his Nascent Soul Realm cultivation, cultivating them was no easy matter. After weighing the pros and cons, he had no choice but to set them aside for the time being.

"But Yue'er, don't forget—how did so-called Demon Cultivators first come about?" Lin Xuan suddenly said, seeming to be hinting at something.

"Wasn't it because the immortal path was difficult, so the talented people of antiquity wanted to take a shortcut..." Yue'er was stunned and began explaining haltingly.

"Of course not." Lin Xuan shook his head. When he had first stepped into the cultivation world, he had thought the same. However, as his realm rose, his horizons naturally broadened, and he came into contact with more and more ancient texts. Only then did Lin Xuan learn that this saying was nothing more than one falsehood passing into another.

"Similar to demon cultivators, the so-called Demonic Path cultivation methods were fundamentally ancient cultivators imitating the divine abilities of Demon Monsters. It's only that after so