Spirit Pearl Divine Cult

It was obvious that Li Qing's idea of handling them properly did not mean letting them off the hook.

Setting aside the fact that he had never intended to spare this group in the first place, they had now voluntarily revealed their connection to the Spirit Pearl Divine Cult. That made it even more impossible for Li Qing to let them go.

The Spirit Pearl Divine Cult sought to gather the Five Elements Spirit Pearls scattered beneath heaven. Li Qing possessed a Fire Spirit Pearl, while Suxin carried a Water Spirit Pearl. The two sides were destined to have an irreconcilable conflict.

Upon hearing Li Qing's words, the cultivators from the great lineages of the Southern Sky Islands all revealed delighted expressions.

"Many thanks, Senior."

Before they could finish speaking, a cold glint flashed through Li Qing's eyes. He directly seized a Core Formation cultivator and dragged him before himself.

Then, golden light rose in his eyes.

A powerful wave of spiritual sense spread outward, forcefully tearing open the man's sea of consciousness without encountering the slightest obstruction.

Before long, vast amounts of memories surged from the other party's sea of consciousness. Li Qing read through them with an icy expression.

He quickly learned that these people came from the Southern Sky Islands, an archipelago located within the Southern Sky Sea. Its cultivation civilization could not be considered flourishing, and most cultivators survived in the form of lineages.

There were not many Core Formation cultivation families among them. Including the lineages of the three Core Formation cultivators before him, seven millennia-old aristocratic families ruled that archipelago in total.

Aside from that, Nascent Soul Realm cultivators occasionally appeared in the Southern Sky Islands as well.

However, the Southern Sky Islands had already been infiltrated by the Spirit Pearl Divine Cult in