"Please quell your anger, Senior. Those mortals willingly offered up their yang energy, and the loss of that yang energy was not enough to kill them."
The old man bowed deeply, defending himself.
"Afterward, I would even bestow talismans, gold, and silver upon them, ensuring they would never lack food or clothing."
"Using petty Daoist tricks to deceive the world, harming others' yang energy to improve your own cultivation—yet in your mouth, it had become a mutually beneficial arrangement."
The claim that mortals would not die after losing yang energy was nothing but absurd nonsense.
After their primal yang was damaged for the first time, a mortal's lifespan would be drastically shortened. After three to five times, they would breathe their last.
Even if they received gold and silver, they would have a life to take it, but no life to spend it.
A chill flashed through Xu Chunniang's eyes. At that moment, she truly hoped this was not her homeland.
If times had changed and evil cultivators now ran rampant across the land, could the Carefree Sect still be well?
The old man's expression shifted repeatedly. Just as he was about to continue arguing, his pupils silently dilated, and he instantly fell silent.
A spark appeared, swallowing his collapsing body whole.
Xu Chunniang swept her divine sense across the Profound Immortal Sect and quickly locked onto an effeminate male cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.
According to what the old man had said earlier, this man was the sect master of the Profound Immortal Sect.
The effeminate male cultivator was swept by a powerful divine sense, and terror seized his heart.
He looked around and said in a trembling voice, "Which Senior is passing through our Profound Immortal Sect? Please reveal yourself. Whatever the Profound Immortal Sect possesses,