When Jun Lan finished speaking, Qin Fengming, Wanyuan, and Fairy Ying Yi all furrowed their brows. None of them had expected that even the royal experts among the Vine Demons would not know the true cause of this calamity.
From Jun Lan and Jun Yun's expressions, Qin Fengming was certain that the two were not lying to deceive him.
This Aoteng calamity had come with astonishing suddenness and was entirely out of the ordinary.
Qin Fengming was not an Aoteng cultivator, but from ancient records and the mouths of other cultivators, he already knew that when he had first entered the Aoteng Realm, the Aoteng beasts and Vine Demons had just gathered in the Aoteng Mountain Range.
Logically speaking, once the Aoteng beasts and Vine Demons gathered in the Aoteng Mountain Range, the entire Aoteng Realm should enter a long period of peace.
This was practically an established custom of the Aoteng Realm, and it had never been broken.
Yet this time, when Qin Fengming arrived, the Aoteng beasts and Vine Demons had already gathered in the Aoteng Mountain Range. But only a short while later, they had launched a massive attack on the Seven Great Prefectures, even dispatching large numbers of royal beings. That alone was highly unusual.
And even the royal cultivators at the Profound Tier peak among the Aoteng beasts and Vine Demons did not know the reason.
"Fellow Daoist Jun, are you saying that this Aoteng calamity isn't an unrestrained, all-out assault on the Seven Great Prefectures, but merely an attempt to keep the cultivators of the Seven Great Prefectures from leaving the Seven Prefectures region?"
Hearing Jun Lan's words, Wanyuan's eyes flickered as he suddenly asked.
"Indeed. We truly only received this order. We were merely to drive the beasts forward and threaten the Seven