Su Shi'er shrugged, his tone growing colder. "Beyond that, I will make no other guesses!"
Though Feng Fei had faced danger several times and gained some experience, her experience was still limited, and she knew little about the sect's situation.
Su Shi'er, however, was an old fox. How could something like this escape his notice?
The moment he heard Feng Fei describe what had happened, he knew there was more to this than met the eye. The cultivators of the Illusory Evolution Realm, the true core of the Phantom Star Sect, were the key.
Before, it had merely been his own conjecture.
But now, Feng Fei's reaction and the information she provided undoubtedly confirmed his suspicions.
"Nearly a hundred thousand cultivators from the Three Sects, from Qi Refining to Golden Core... could they really have been... sacrificed just like that?"
"Even if the Illusory Evolution Realm bears the responsibility for the sect inheritance, it shouldn't be preserved this way. How will its people live with themselves when their survival was bought with other people's lives? What exactly was Elder Xu... thinking?"
Li Piaoyu and Sun Huaiyu spoke in succession. However unwilling they were to believe it, once they thought it through, they realized this was almost certainly the truth.
At that possibility, their expressions darkened, and both looked deeply shaken.
Feng Fei stared at Su Shi'er and the three martial elders before her, dumbstruck and speechless, her face filled with shock and disbelief.
After their retreat, she had vaguely sensed that something was wrong, but she had never dared even imagine something like this.
Nearly a hundred thousand cultivators-what an immense force! And they had been sacrificed merely to protect a paltry five hundred cultivators of the so-called Illusory Evolution Realm?
"Nearly a hundred thousand cultivators could never conceal their