Only after speaking with Xiao Yifei did Lin Fei understand what her "trouble" was.
"You suspect the Xiao family's Void Insight Realm patriarch intends to sacrifice you?"
"Yes."
Xiao Yifei nodded repeatedly, her pretty face filled with gravity.
She had only come to this conclusion after making an accidental discovery.
"Ever since we parted last time, I returned to Jade Capital City. A few years later, the imperial family suddenly intensified its efforts to nurture a group of us Nascent Soul Realm Cultivators."
"Pills, spirit stones, and cultivation techniques were all made available to us. As a result, quite a few people broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm. At the time, I noticed nothing unusual, and the patriarch even guided me several times afterward."
"About fifty years ago, I happened upon a fragment of a special demonic-path cultivation art among the imperial family's collection of secret manuals. It was called the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art."
Hearing the name, Lin Fei found it somewhat familiar.
The Blood Demon Sect inheritance he had obtained had mentioned the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art. It was a top-tier secret art of the Holy Demon Sect.
Some of the Blood Demon Sect's cultivation arts and secret techniques had been derived from this demonic art.
This demonic art could directly devour others' cultivation, essence blood, and use them to raise one's own cultivation.
For Cultivators of the same clan and bloodline, there was even a specialized sacrificial method that could maximize the devouring effect and help one break through cultivation bottlenecks.
"A fragment of a demonic cultivation art alone can't prove anything, can it?"
"Aren't you being a little too sensitive?"
Xiao Yifei shook her head.
She was not the sort to panic at every rustle of grass and whisper of wind.
On the contrary, for