Cao Yi's purpose was simple. Since Yunxi had already sent a warning, the cultivators of the Five Regions could not slaughter one another. They also had to root out the Evil Cultivators who had infiltrated the Secret Realm as soon as possible; otherwise, whether they could leave the Secret Realm safely at all was hard to say.
Wei Chenyin and the other two naturally agreed with Cao Yi's proposal. They then turned their gazes toward the two female cultivators from the Huaxian Sect, who exchanged a look, clearly somewhat hesitant.
Liu Haotian, standing nearby, understood their concerns and spoke up.
"The fellow Daoist from the Haoran Sect is right. Given the unusual circumstances, it is best not to make meaningless sacrifices. If we continue suspecting one another, we will fall right into the Evil Cultivators' trap. By then, they will not even need to act—we will die in the conflicts born of our mutual suspicion.
"But there is one thing you must understand: the cultivators of our Western Region are the ones who least want anything to go wrong during this trip into the Secret Realm!"
Liu Haotian's words finally persuaded the two female cultivators from the Huaxian Sect. The two nodded, expressing their willingness to speak with the Buddhist cultivators of Yunmen Temple.
Cao Yi then swept his sleeve and opened the Isolation Formation, but did not remove the trapping formation.
The eight Buddhist cultivators from Yunmen Temple also saw the female cultivators from the Huaxian Sect and immediately called out, "Amitabha! Fellow Daoists of the Huaxian Sect, be careful of these cultivators from the Western Regions. This exploration of the Secret Realm was their trap from the very beginning, aimed at the other Four Regions."
Before they could finish, Zhang Lingrui cut them off.
"Shut up! You fell