Yunxi said calmly:
"This Blue Hat Illusion Fungus was sent here by an Evil Immortal, but the one who carried out the task was an array master controlled by that Evil Immortal. Although the array master followed the Evil Immortal's instructions and delivered the Blue Hat Illusion Fungus here, even helping it safely evade the joint extermination of the Five Immortal Emperors,
and even set up a Teleportation Formation so the Blue Hat Illusion Fungus could leave after maturing, he had not ultimately become the Evil Immortal's complete puppet. So, he tampered with the formation.
The formation we saw in the cave could only be used by cultivators. The moment the Blue Hat Illusion Fungus stepped into it, it would be teleported into a spacetime rift, making it utterly impossible to leave this place alive. That was why the Blue Hat Illusion Fungus wanted to make a deal with us—its purpose was simply to use our hands to leave this place.
If I'm not mistaken, the products of the Blue Hat Illusion Fungus combining with human cultivators were its test subjects for trying to leave this place. But they most likely all ended in failure and instead became its own reserve nourishment.
And as fewer and fewer cultivators were teleported here, the Blue Hat Illusion Fungus eventually no longer had any cultivators who could take it away—until we appeared."
Menglan Jun listened carefully to her analysis before asking:
"Ranxi, according to what you said, that array master must have obeyed in appearance while defying in secret. Even though he followed the Evil Immortal's orders and set up a one-way Teleportation Formation, allowing cultivators accidentally sent here to become nourishment for the Blue Hat Illusion Fungus and even bring it news from the outside world,
those formations should ultimately have been