"I am Liu Xueli. Before the fall, I was a Mortal Grade Heavenly Master of Yening City's Demon Catching Army. These three are my subordinates: the regular army Heavenly Master Zhong Yuanshan, the Auxiliary Army Heavenly Master Qian Muyun, and the supervisory army Heavenly Master Cai Guicheng."
The first of the four to speak introduced himself.
"The four of us came to investigate a case involving a Demoness infiltrating and committing theft. We followed the clues through countless twists and turns and finally tracked down the Demoness's whereabouts. However, at that point, we were betrayed by the humans of Black Mist Village. As Sect Master can see, we were imprisoned here for a full five years."
"If Sect Master hadn't intervened this time, our bones would likely have been buried here."
Hearing this, Zhang Yang couldn't help asking, "Why did Black Mist Village imprison the four of you instead of killing you outright?"
"Well, that matter is connected to the Six Paths of Reincarnation and the netherworld. Could it be that Sect Master doesn't know about it?"
Liu Xueli asked curiously.
"To be honest, I'm a self-proclaimed Sect Master of the Heavenly Sword Gate. I even placed my mountain gate in the Black Earth Plains." Zhang Yang laughed awkwardly to gloss over it. Liu Xueli and the other three immediately understood. So he's an unregistered cultivator.
They had all come from orthodox cultivation regions, so they naturally understood the rules involved.
Apart from remote places like the Black Earth Plains, if anyone casually proclaimed himself a Sect Master and established an Immortal Cultivation Sect elsewhere, the consequences would be extremely serious.
Liu Xueli wisely chose not to discuss the matter further. Instead, he explained, "Actually, in the cultivation world of we humans, a supreme expert long ago refined a divine