Xu Xing withdrew his gaze and looked at the jade slip in his hand.
"Yuan..."
Compared with the book in the Mystic Sword City library, the Sword Sect's records on Yuan were far more detailed.
According to the Sword Sect's records, Yuan first appeared more than fifteen hundred years ago, in a mortal town within the Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect's territory.
Back then, the number of cultivators was nowhere near what it was now. The only one stationed in that mortal town was a Golden Core body cultivator.
But that Golden Core body cultivator was no upright practitioner. In secret, he practiced an extremely cruel body-tempering method.
To hide his actions from the sect and gather enough pure blood essence, he deliberately caused a famine, then used the local Aristocratic Clan to buy children from poor families.
He had also bribed his Nascent Soul Guardian Envoy superior, who managed to suppress the whole affair.
Yuan eventually stumbled upon what was happening and, like an impulsive hothead, exposed it outright.
But the result was that the Golden Core body cultivator not only escaped punishment.
Instead, thanks to the Nascent Soul Guardian Envoy's machinations, he was hailed as a hero for fighting the Demonic Path, while Yuan was branded a demonic cultivator and hunted down, nearly losing his life.
Fortunately, some disciples from the Spirit Sound Workshop were visiting the Dragon-Elephant Heaven-Supporting Sect at the time. They happened to pass through that town, and the truth finally came to light.
In the end, the Golden Core body cultivator was executed for causing a famine without authorization, while the Nascent Soul Guardian Envoy had his cultivation crippled for deceiving his superiors and concealing the truth.
That was right.
Not for the children who had died, nor for the poor families who had starved to