King of Chiyang took a deep breath and waved for his personal guards to withdraw before speaking.
"When I ascended the throne, I once entered the forbidden grounds to see the treasure tied to the nation's fortune. There, I met the first person from the Alien Realm. He said something similar."
The subject piqued Yunxi's interest. She looked at the King and said calmly, "What did he say that you still remember it to this day?"
It seemed as though the image of that man's final moments appeared before the King once more. He said in a low voice, "He said we were fools—that after being deceived, we preserved something useless while using people from the Alien Realm to nourish an Evil Formation. He said that my people and I would become nourishment for evil cultivators and fall into a place of eternal damnation. If I did not wish to end up this way, I should seek help from the next person from the Alien Realm to come here."
Yunxi immediately seized upon the three key phrases: "nourish an Evil Formation," "nourishment," and "seek help." Now, she could be completely certain that an Evil Immortal had come here before, causing them to become targets for the native inhabitants' capture.
Who knew what method that Evil Immortal had used to incite the natives into believing that Immortal Practitioners had come to plunder this place? To prevent their resources from being taken, they had set up an Evil Formation with the natives' assistance, sealing away the so-called coveted treasure. At the same time, it suppressed their Immortal Yuan Force and muddled their memories, eventually reducing them to energy that sustained the Evil Formation's normal operation.
Just thinking about it gave Yunxi a headache. She raised a hand and rubbed her temple before