Hearing this, Ye Han could scarcely believe his ears. After all, whether they belonged to the Orthodox Path or the Demonic Path, they all needed mortals as their foundation...
For cultivator sects to grow and prosper, they had to keep replenishing their ranks with fresh blood...
Although mortals were beneath a cultivator's notice, little more than ants...
Both Orthodox Path and Demonic Path sects strictly forbade the slaughter of mortals...
The difference was that Demonic Path sects only forbade slaughtering mortals within their own territories. Cases of them going elsewhere to massacre mortals were countless.
But the Black Water Sect and the other two sects were all sects of Heavenly Billows. Why would they suddenly slaughter the mortals of Heavenly Billows?
Moreover, this female cultivator had mentioned a blood sacrifice.
In some of the books Ye Han had read, cultivators of the Demonic Path and Heretical Path, and even those whose hearts had strayed from the virtues of old, slaughtered mortals or lineages belonging to minor sects for blood sacrifices, either to practice some cultivation art or to summon demonic beasts from another realm...
But if the Black Water Sect truly managed to destroy the Azure Profound Sect, it would naturally need to preserve enough mortals to continue developing its own sect!
Suddenly massacring vast numbers of mortals for a blood sacrifice made little sense...
Still, the Devil Lord Shadow flashed through Ye Han's mind. Could this be that demon's handiwork?
Ye Han could not help asking, "Is what you said true? Is the Black Water Sect really going to slaughter mortals?"
The female cultivator nodded, her expression grave. "It's absolutely true. I was disguised as a mortal, resting and recuperating in Skywater City, a mortal city several hundred miles away. Just yesterday, the Black Water Sect suddenly sent people