Yunxi's words changed the way True Lord Hanlian looked at her. Her eyes, like icy glass, turned toward Yunxi as she asked:
"Feng Xiyun, how did you see through it?"
She believed that no golden core cultivator could see through her ice-sealing technique.
Yunxi immediately replied respectfully:
"If the souls within these Soul Nourishing Stones belonged to cultivators of the Five Regions, True Lord would naturally not have sealed them in ice."
Buddha Son Yunchen recited a Buddhist title and said:
"Amitabha! Fellow Daoist Hanlian, did you learn from that disciple how the evil cultivators infiltrated the Secret Realm?"
Yun Chen was no fool. He had arrived at another possibility as well.
Hanlian's expression grew even colder as she spoke in a low voice:
"According to Zhao Sinan, his mission was to bring Soul Nourishing Stones containing evil cultivators' souls into the Secret Realm, then find an opportunity to scatter them. Those evil cultivators naturally had methods to seize the bodies of other cultivators."
Buddha Son Yunchen's baby face also grew somewhat solemn.
"Zhao Sinan is a late stage Golden Core cultivator. He was captured by Young Friend Feng and brought here, yet this is a place for Nascent Soul Realm cultivators to gain experience. Can I infer that their body-seizure plan targets Golden Core stage cultivators?"
After thinking for a moment, True Lord Hanlian looked at Yunxi. She knew very clearly that the male cultivator before her only possessed peak late Golden Core stage cultivation and had not yet formed a Nascent Soul. How had he arrived in an area meant for Nascent Soul Cultivators to train?
Yunxi saw through True Lord Hanlian's confusion at a glance and explained the whole sequence of events. She also had a speculation: their current location should be the third floating island surrounding