Hammer in her left hand, sword in her right, the eldest sister is connected to both worlds.

Chapter 284 Slaughtering All the Demons

"Grandmaster and the others are back. The powerful demon you provoked before has finally escaped."

As the first rays of morning light shone into the tent, Yin Shishi came in from outside carrying a small bowl and placed it directly into the hands of the person in front of her.

“Long Siyin is seriously injured, her whole body is severely corroded by demonic poison, and her master is healing her.”

Xue Lan held the bowl in her hand and downed it in one gulp. After finishing, she smacked her lips, savoring the bitter taste of the medicine, and asked, "What about the demon elder's demon core?"

Yin Shishi glanced at Xue Lan: "You want it?"

Xue Lan nodded.

Yin Shishi shrugged: "Too late, that senior from the War Puppet Mansion already took the things."

After saying this, Yin Shishi looked at Xue Lan again.

The woman in the light blue dress had a stiff expression, as if she would shatter at the slightest touch.

"Should I not have gone to sleep last night?" Xue Lan asked softly, like a thousand-year-old water ghost that had just crawled out from under a boat.

Yin Shishi shook her head: "Even if you cry and make a fuss, Grandmaster will not give that thing to you."

The woman calmly stated the facts: "You're really making a scene."

Xue Lan said softly, "This is not an excuse for them to give the materials I wanted to other artifact cultivators."

Yin Shishi didn't want to talk to the resentful weapon cultivator in front of her, so she changed the subject.

"The seniors discussed the matter concerning Gong Yuan, and last night they sent people to verify the authenticity of that map."

"These are turbulent times, and we must be on guard."

Xue Lan looked at Yin Shishi, whose eyes were serious, and slowly nodded.

Since the human race has come this far, even if it is Gong Yuan, everyone still has to be on guard.

Yin Shishi took the small bowl from Xue Lan's hand: "Judging by the time, the senior who was sent to investigate should have returned by now..."

The woman paused for a moment, then said, "I forgot to tell you, that senior wants to see you."

Xue Lan was somewhat surprised: "You want... to see me?"

This certainly surprised her.

After all, none of the elders she knew seemed to really want to see her.

Yin Shishi sighed, seemingly having anticipated Xue Lan's reaction.

"You'll know it when you see it."

Xue Lan nodded gently.

Two hours later, Xue Lan met the senior who wanted to see her.

An old man dressed in gray sat at a stone table, holding a disciple's token in his hand.

Xue Lan was very familiar with the aura emanating from that token.

So familiar with it that Xue Lan knew who the old man in front of her was just by seeing it.

The woman slowly stepped forward and bowed: "Xue Lan greets Sect Master Yun."

Yun Wuhuan looked at the young woman in front of him, Xiaoxiao, and pointed to the stone bench beside him: "Sit."

Xue Lan obediently sat down.

Yun Wuhuan stroked the disciple token in his hand, his voice hoarse and slow: "Little girl, you're very thoughtful."

Xue Lan responded softly, "Senior, this is what Junior Brother Ling deserves."

Yun Wuhuan chuckled: "That's a nice way to put it. Disciples of the Six Sects all like to say nice things like that. But my own disciples know best..."

The old man paused for a moment: "Even if he spent his whole life on the battlefield, he couldn't accumulate so many military achievements."

But there's no such thing as a lifetime.

Ling Xuan had long since perished, his life force extinguished on the desolate battlefield, and he was eventually burned to ashes by Xue Lan.

Yun Wuhuan continued to stroke the disciple token in his hand: "You were picked up by your master, and so was Ling Xuan..."

"He was born in a small town at the foot of Shenyingmen Mountain, where there was a wealthy family. In his later years, he fell seriously ill and was bewitched by evil spirits who said that he needed to eat human brains to save his life. So this man hired people to ambush and kill passersby by the roadside."

"Ling Xuan's parents went to a neighboring town for a funeral the day before. Missing their young son at home, they returned under the moonlight, only to be murdered by a villain. His mother returned home on her deathbed, glanced at her two children, and then breathed her last."

"After that, Ling Xuan began wandering with her older brother Ling Cheng, who was two years older than her. They went astray and started stealing to survive in the small town..."

At this point, Yun Wuhuan paused again, and the old man's tone became heavy.

The following year, it snowed heavily on that day. Ling Xuan caught a cold, and Ling Cheng risked going out to find medicine. He never returned.

After Ling Xuan had struggled to survive a severe bout of cold and was able to go out to find his brother, he found the boy's bruised and battered corpse at the city gate...

"Ling Cheng went out to find medicine for his younger brother and went to the clinic to ask for a doctor, but he had no money on him. So the silly boy decided to steal again."

"This theft turned out to be committed against the second son of that wealthy man..."

"The pampered young master beat a petty thief to death on the street, and he wasn't satisfied with just killing him. He chopped off the man's hand and hung him up like a lantern at the city gate."

"The child saw his brother's body at the city gate. That very night, he stole a blunt knife for chopping bones from a pig slaughterhouse, broke into the wealthy family's house, and intended to kill them to avenge his brother. But instead, he witnessed a demon draining the brains of the entire wealthy family."

"That's when I found him."

"Amidst the corpses filling the yard, after hearing my story, he grabbed my sleeve."

Yun Wuhuan still remembered the boy's hesitant words: "Immortal Master, did my elder brother, my father and mother, die because of them?"

"why?"

Children cannot understand why an honest and upright family could be destroyed and left to suffer years of hardship because of an evil spirit or one person's own desires.

"This is the Demon Race!" Yun Wuhuan slowly began, "They twist the desires in people's hearts, ultimately leading to mutual slaughter. Even as they are killed, they utter a final farewell..."

"The immortals of the Yuanming Realm are truly hypocritical; I merely fulfilled their wishes."

"In their eyes, those who died as a result deserved to die."

“Ling Xuan hated the demon race. He personally smashed that demon into mincemeat and then joined my Divine Shadow Sect.”

"He always asked me, 'Master, can't we just wipe out the demon race?'"

“I never responded to him directly, not even once, until he died…”

At this point, the old man smiled gently: "I wanted to see you, but I ended up saying a lot of irrelevant things."

Xue Lan shook her head slightly: "These are not irrelevant words."

"During my recent exploration of the desolate region, I discovered that four cave dwellings had been built there to imprison mortal women. The number of imprisoned women, numbering in the thousands, was kept like livestock and subjected to the bullying of low-level magical beasts."

"It always reminds me of that winter when I met this child."

"I, along with the Divine Shadow Sect, had been hiding deep within the Yuanming Lower Realm. But now I've come to a realization..."

The old man gripped the token in his hand and looked at the woman beside him.

"If Ling Xuan says it again..."

"Master, can't we just wipe out the demon race?"

The old man smiled slightly: "I will certainly reply to him: Of course!"