The Ten Great Marvelous Pills

"Wang Hong? How did he know the inside story?"

Han Changming asked doubtfully. When he had first arrived at the Green Toad Archipelago, Wang Hong had been the first cultivator he encountered.

"He is a Golden Core cultivator. Green Wasp Daoist captured his Dao companion and used her to threaten him, sending two Golden Core cultivators to follow him closely. This time, Green Wasp Daoist set up the trap to harm you."

Yang Qingyun briefly explained what had happened. Green Wasp Daoist was an outsider cultivator. To make things easier for himself, he had recruited several Golden Core cultivators, and Wang Hong had been coerced into serving him.

Green Wasp Daoist had Wang Hong and the others fabricate tales about ancient cultivators—seven parts truth, three parts falsehood. Even local cultivators found it difficult to tell what was real and what was fake.

At first, they would offer some small rewards, setting up a few ancient cultivator caves and placing some treasures inside. Then local cultivators like Wang Hong would "accidentally" lead people to discover them. Word spread from one to ten, ten to a hundred, making the story all the more convincing.

Each operation took anywhere from a dozen years to several decades, and they rarely failed.

The deaths of the five Nascent Soul Cultivators last time had in fact been the work of Green Wasp Daoist and his people. They had deliberately released false news, claiming that the five Nascent Soul Cultivators had died at the hands of demon beasts. There were quite a few fourth-rank demon beasts roaming the Green Toad Archipelago, so the story was plausible enough.

Xuan Guang True Lord's cave of demise had also been fabricated by them, including the Heaven-Connecting Spirit Treasure and spirit flames, all chiefly to prepare for this trap. Jade Lotus