"Sect Master, please understand. The Chaotic Spirit Domain was only recently occupied by our human race. Although the Three Great Sects hold sway over it, the humans and immortal cultivators who have migrated here from other great domains still number far fewer than those elsewhere.
"Moreover, although cultivators from the Three Sects have swept through and cleared out most of the second- and third-tier demon beasts in the wilderness, quite a few slipped through the net. In recent years, we still occasionally hear of powerful demon beasts massacring mortal towns and minor factions," the man surnamed Tian replied respectfully.
"That is indeed the case. As I recall, the most recent report of a demon beast slaughtering mortals was only seven or eight years ago. A third-tier Earth Turtle Beast was sleeping in an ore vein when mortals inadvertently disturbed and woke it. It surfaced directly and devoured a nearby mortal town, leaving fifty or sixty thousand mortals and dozens of low- and middle-level immortal cultivators dead or injured.
"If a Golden Core elder from the Sword-Grinding Sect hadn't happened to pass by and slain that third-tier demon beast outright, the casualties would probably have been even greater.
"As for the demon race, news of them rarely surfaces. But whenever they appear, the harm they inflict on our human race is far greater than that caused by demon beasts.
"The last report concerning the demon race involved a member of the Snow Wolf Demon Race who transformed and infiltrated an immortal-cultivating lineage within the Spirit Reliance Sect's territory. In secret, that infiltrator instigated a war between several cultivation factions, resulting in the complete destruction of one lineage and devastating losses for two small cultivation sects.
"They say the immortal cultivators killed or injured in that incident alone numbered in the hundreds,