Provoking Public Wrath

"What? The water in this spirit pool has changed? How could that be? Brother Hou, are you certain this pool's water is different from what your sect's records describe?"

Upon suddenly hearing the old man's words, another cultivator beside him immediately trembled and cried out in alarm. After finally finding this spirit pool, everyone had been filled with joy. Now that they heard its water had changed from before, their hearts all shuddered.

"What my senior brother said is correct. This pool's water is indeed vastly different from the condition recorded by our sect. Our sect's records state that the water in this spirit pool is grayish white and extremely viscous. Yet the water here is blue-green, clearly different from what is written in the records."

Before the old man who had spoken could answer, another cultivator beside him, dressed in the same robes, spoke with his brows tightly furrowed.

Upon hearing the two cultivators' words, everyone could not help looking at them. From the markings on their robes, everyone immediately recognized them as cultivators from Wu Mang Mountain.

Although Wu Mang Mountain had not joined the Demonic Path Alliance, its strength was by no means weak. Four Great Cultivators guarded the sect, and it had as many as thirty or forty Nascent Soul cultivators. Occupying its own region, the sect was located in the easternmost part of the Yuanfeng Empire, within Wanghai Prefecture. It was the only first-rate sect there.

Wanghai Prefecture lay in a remote borderland beside the sea, and sea demon beasts had always been active there.

From the moment it was founded, Wu Mang Mountain had been entrusted with a great mission: resisting invasions by sea demon beasts. Over the hundreds of thousands of years spent battling them, the number of Wu Mang Mountain cultivators who