The next morning, the many cultivators from Yellow Maple Valley prepared to leave.
Han Li, however, stayed behind.
He still had to help the Mo Family sisters exact their revenge.
And if Naruto remembered correctly, Han Li would also retrieve "Qu Hun" on this trip.
Then, from a Demonic Cultivator who had taken over Qu Hun's body, he would learn a earth-shattering secret!
Naruto remembered that secret, too. After all, this was the Cultivation World's version of Infernal Affairs!
It was also the direct cause of the defeat and flight of the Yue Kingdom's cultivation sects!
The secret was this: Spirit Beast Mountain, one of the Yue Kingdom's Seven Sects, was a spy for the Demonic Path's Spirit Controlling Sect!
Earlier, when the war between the Demonic Path and the Yue Kingdom's Seven Sects had just begun, Spirit Beast Mountain had openly revealed its past ties to the Spirit Controlling Sect.
It had then pretended to "betray" the Seven Sects, using that ruse to trap the Demonic Path and kill two of its core formation cultivators!
But what had really happened? It was a riveting tale of Mission: Impossible and Infernal Affairs!
In truth, Spirit Beast Mountain had maintained secret contact with the Spirit Controlling Sect ever since its founding.
Its previous feigned betrayal had been a smokescreen deliberately laid by the Six Demonic Sects!
They were waiting specifically for the reinforcements the Yue Kingdom had requested from its two neighboring countries to arrive, so they could wipe out the cultivators of all three nations in one fell swoop!
After that battle, the Six Demonic Sects would be able to dominate several countries.
In fact, the Yue Kingdom's other six sects also knew Spirit Beast Mountain's origins.
Among the Seven Sects, Spirit Beast Mountain was not the only one with