"Demon Lotus?"
Xu Taiping was not unfamiliar with the term.
After all, Junior Martial Uncle and Uncle White Rainbow had gone to the Northern Border to cut down a Demon Lotus and sever a Demon Root, and had nearly lost their lives there in the process.
But even now, Xu Taiping still had only a hazy understanding of what a Demon Lotus actually was.
"For Demon Cultivators to advance their cultivation, aside from practicing all manner of inhuman secret arts, they need a blood medicine for every realm they advance through. Its quality determines whether their advancement succeeds or fails, and even their potential afterward. The Heavenly Fragrance Zhuyan Fruit they planted in this old man and my disciple, for instance, is a blood medicine some Demon Cultivators need to advance from Devil Lord to Demon Venerable. A Demon Lotus, meanwhile, is a blood medicine essential for a Demon Venerable to break through to Devil Master."
"And nurturing a Demon Lotus is extremely difficult. To raise a single one, some Demon Cultivators will even use the blood qi of an entire nation's people to nourish its Lotus Seed."
"But compared with mortal flesh and blood, the flesh and blood of cultivators in the Cultivation World is the best nourishment for a Demon Lotus. So Demon Cultivators often lay traps using various immortal abode ruins, luring cultivators into their nets to become nourishment for a Demon Lotus."
Duan Tianya explained it to Xu Taiping in great detail.
"If there really is a Demon Lotus being nurtured within the Yunmeng Marsh Immortal Abode Ruins, then among the Demon Cultivators who barged in this time, might there be a Devil Venerable?"
Xu Taiping spoke with some concern.
"That won't happen."
Duan Tianya shook his head.
"These ruins in Yunmeng Marsh already existed when