Xiao He said helplessly:
"I escaped to the Northern Regions with Haoran Sect's help."
When Yunxi heard the word "escaped," she smiled and asked:
"What? Did the evil cultivators abandon you?"
Xiao He shook his head.
"Huaxian Sect in the Central Domain has gone mad! The evil cultivators who entered the Central Domain this time have all been pursued by Huaxian Sect!
"The disciples of Huaxian Sect's Xianyu Hall capture any evil cultivators they find whenever possible. If they resist, they kill them outright—better to kill the wrong one than let one go. They've begun a large-scale purge of the Central Domain.
"Fallen evil cultivators like me, whose names are on the kill list, definitely won't be spared. To stay alive, I could only flee. The evil cultivators who had contacted me before were either killed or captured. I had no choice but to seek Haoran Sect's help, and that was how I successfully escaped to the Northern Regions."
Yunxi said with a cold laugh:
"The evil cultivators believed their plan to lift the Evil Soul seal during the Grand Competition of the Five Regions was foolproof, which was why they dispatched so many people to the Central Domain. Unfortunately, their plan ultimately failed."
Xiao He glanced up at Ranxi, swallowed, and said:
"Speaking of which, Venerable Ranxi, you were truly decisive. To thwart the evil cultivators' foolproof plan, you even gave up your own Immortal Artifact. If it had been me, I wouldn't have had that kind of resolve."
Those words came entirely from the heart. As long as they were not blind, every cultivator in the Central Domain could see the power of an Immortal Artifact's self-destruction.
Even now, he remembered the Nascent Soul evil cultivator trembling with rage. After the plan failed, the man had prepared to