Su Jiu saw the female cultivator shake her head. "You've misunderstood. This hot spring pool isn't meant to flush filth from our bodies, but to purify our auras.
"We come into contact with so many people and things every day that we inevitably pick up all sorts of stray auras. The Red Maple Immortal Lord likes people with pure auras, which is why he opened a hot spring pool like this."
Su Jiu glanced skeptically at the pool, then asked, "Can all of you distinguish the qi on your own bodies?" As far as she remembered, ordinary cultivators shouldn't have been capable of that unless they had deliberately trained for it...
The female cultivator shook her head. "Of course not. I certainly can't distinguish the qi on my body, but the Red Maple Immortal Lord can."
Su Jiu understood. This female cultivator had swallowed the so-called Red Maple Immortal Lord's lies again.
Su Jiu walked to the edge of the spring water, gently stirred its surface with her hand, and quickly withdrew it.
She lowered her eyes slightly, her long lashes casting shadows over her eyelids.
She hadn't expected the aura in the spring water to be even stronger than what the red maple trees emitted. It nearly overwhelmed the auras the female cultivators themselves carried.
Beyond that, she also faintly sensed a trace of yin evil qi.
But even that trace of yin evil qi was almost entirely concealed by the red maple trees' aura. Without Su Jiu's keen senses, it would have been difficult to detect...
Clearly, the Red Maple Immortal Lord had probably lied to these pilgrims. What he liked wasn't a clean aura, but simply the aura emitted by the red maple trees.
Of course, what interested Su Jiu most was that trace of yin evil