All the Nascent Soul Cultivators resting within the Hong Energy Shield heard Xian Yao's words. She had never intended to avoid the other cultivators and speak with Yunxi alone, so from the moment she sat down on the meditation cushion, every cultivator inside the Hong Energy Shield had pricked up their ears. This concerned their very survival.
Yunxi wanted to sigh after hearing Xian Yao's words. An evil cultivator capable of forcibly contracting the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers had to be at least above the Spirit Transformation realm. Otherwise, how could they have been driven into such straits? And how could that person have evaded the Old Ancestor of the Huaxian Sect?
"Fellow Daoist Xianyao, how did you find out?"
"The moment I was sucked into the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers, I sensed that something was wrong. I wanted to leave, but the Artifact Spirit dragged me into another space. It was the Artifact Spirit that told us the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers had undergone an unexpected change. Only then did we realize something had happened."
Yunxi blinked her almond-shaped eyes and said:
"Since the Scroll of Mountains and Rivers has already been contracted by an evil cultivator, its Artifact Spirit must naturally be controlled by an Evil Soul. How did it go against the evil cultivator's will and pass information to you? Are you certain everything it said was true?"
Xian Yao drew a deep breath and said:
"The Scroll of Mountains and Rivers has always been enshrined within the Huaxian Sect and is most familiar with the sect's cultivators. That was why, after we were sucked inside, it pulled us into the Artifact Spirit's space. Although the Artifact Spirit was being forcibly controlled, it still retained its own consciousness, which was why it informed us