After spending so much time together, Xiao Fan and Yun Yun had grown deeply familiar with each other, so he naturally sensed the anger beneath her level tone.
He had also heard about the incident Yun Yun had just asked about.
Decades ago, during the war between the Chu Yun Empire and the Jia Ma Empire, the Chu Yun Empire had sent Poison Masters into the Jia Ma Empire to spread poison, killing countless civilians in several cities and leaving untold numbers homeless.
This was the fundamental reason the Jia Ma Empire and the Chu Yun Empire had become mortal enemies for generations; it was also why the outside world had begun shunning the Poison Masters and Alchemists of the Chu Yun Empire.
Although many cultivators on the Dou Qi Continent thought little of ordinary people's lives, they would not casually poison hundreds of thousands of civilians to death as the Chu Yun Empire had.
Such conduct meant treating people entirely like livestock, caring nothing for whether they lived or died.
Although Ling Lifu sensed something amiss in Yun Yun's words, he still nodded and said, "That's right. I heard that was the sect's elders' first experiment back then, but the final results apparently left them bitterly disappointed."
"After so many years of exploration, they seem to have developed a new method, which is why they've brought up the plan again."
Seeing how Ling Lifu took it all for granted, Yun Yun could no longer suppress her anger.
Sacrificing hundreds of thousands of lives to try to isolate a new source of poison, then fusing it into a Magical Beast-such conduct was unheard of on the Dou Qi Continent.
Had she not heard it with her own ears, Yun Yun would probably have thought it was a joke. Yet within