Having said that, Sheng Qingjun paused and continued.
"The former is in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul and rarely fights with others, while the ghost grandma is in the late stage of the Nascent Soul and controls a powerful ghost fire that can refine the souls of cultivators for her own use."
Xu Chunniang nodded slightly. What Master Sheng said was almost the same as the information she had received.
Although Master Hunyuan has only reached the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, he built Hunyuan City on his own and even formed an alliance with the evil cultivators of Wuwang Mountain. He is definitely an extraordinary person.
As for the ghost grandma, it is rumored that she is a ghost and has unpredictable moods. She and the blood baby monster are known as the Yin and Yang evil spirits.
“Although that ghost lady is powerful, you control a kind of strange fire, which can restrain evil cultivators, so it should be able to have a miraculous effect.
I will then hold back Master Hunyuan and buy you some time. After you have dealt with the ghost woman, you can come and help me."
Xu Chunniang shook her head and said, "There are only two of us in Xiaoyao Sect who have reached the Nascent Soul stage. We need to leave one person behind to guard against the Blood Infant monster that may appear at any time and ensure the safety of our fellow disciples.
Then leave the Master Hunyuan and the Ghost Granny to me alone."
Sheng Qingjun thought for a moment and nodded, "This arrangement is indeed safer, but you need to be more careful when facing two Nascent Soul evil cultivators at the same time."
"Master, rest assured. I have the Yuanci divine light protecting me. It won't be easy for those evil cultivators to hurt me."
Sheng Qingjun said with some satisfaction, "I still remember the day you established your foundation, when you built a golden platform that was rarely seen in hundreds of years. In the blink of an eye, a hundred years have passed, and now you have grown up and become the support of the sect."
"Uncle Master, you are too kind. I can only get to where I am today because of the cultivation of the sect."
Sheng Qingjun shook his head, "There are tens of thousands of disciples in the sect, but only a thousand can build a foundation. Among these thousand foundation-building cultivators, even fewer can form a pill and condense an infant.
Especially in recent years, the spiritual energy has become increasingly thin, and even the spiritual veins have shown signs of drying up..."
When she said this, a trace of worry flashed across her face.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth is closely related to practitioners of Taoism. These are not good signs.
"Master, do you know when the abnormal spiritual energy began?"
Sheng Qingjun thought for a moment and said uncertainly.
"It seems to have started one or two thousand years ago, or maybe even earlier. At the beginning, the change was very slight, and it gradually became apparent over time. Not only were cultivators and monsters affected, but the growth rate of spiritual medicines also slowed down."
Sheng Qingjun sighed, "At first everyone thought that the spiritual energy between heaven and earth followed a certain law of change, sometimes decreasing and sometimes increasing, until later when the spiritual energy became less and less, people started to pay attention to it.
The most obvious change brought about by the reduction of spiritual energy is that there are fewer and fewer high-level cultivators. The last time a Divine Transformation cultivator appeared was more than 2,000 years ago."
Xu Chunniang once thought that the spiritual energy disappeared because the small world of Qianluo Realm was heading towards annihilation.
However, the spiritual energy in the sea cultivation world is abundant, and there is no sign of spiritual energy weakening, which means that the problem does not lie in the Qianluo world.
"Has anything special happened in these two thousand years?"
Sheng Qingjun thought for a moment and shook his head.
"Two thousand years is too long, and too many things have happened. Just talking about the past hundred years, the emergence of evil cultivators and the subversion of the five major sects that have existed for thousands of years is the biggest change."
The reduction of spiritual energy from heaven and earth makes cultivation increasingly difficult, which is also the reason why there are more and more evil cultivators.
Evil cultivation techniques are often overbearing and evil. They plunder the essence of others' cultivation and refine it for their own use. They make rapid progress, but it is very easy to go astray and explode to death.
Even so, many practitioners will still take risks and turn to evil ways when there is no hope of making progress.
For low-level cultivators, what they pursue is nothing more than powerful magic and a long life.
The so-called good and evil are nothing but different choices. As long as the goal can be achieved, it doesn't matter if you are an evil cultivator despised by everyone.
Xu Chunniang remained silent, but secretly made up her mind that after dealing with the evil cultivators of Hunyuan Sect, she would thoroughly investigate the reason for the disappearance of the spiritual energy.
Not long after seeing off Master Sheng, there was another knock on the door.
When Xu Chunniang's spiritual sense swept over the person outside the door, a look of surprise appeared on her face.
The people who came to see her were her old friends, Huo Chunyan and Lin Yuxuan.
She was just wondering whether she should go find them, but she didn't expect the two of them to come to her on their own initiative.
After not seeing each other for many years, the childish look on their faces was gone, replaced by a look of calmness and determination.
Perhaps it was because they hadn't seen each other for many years and their old friend had become a Yuanying Zhenjun when they met again, so in addition to anticipation, there was also a bit of uneasiness in their eyes.
Xu Chunniang stood up, opened the door, and a genuine smile appeared on her face. "Long time no see."
Lin Yuxuan's nose felt sore and tears almost rolled down her cheeks. "I didn't expect that I could still wait for you to come back. It's so great!"
Huo Chunyan's eyes also turned red, and she clenched her fists and pretended to hit her shoulders twice.
"You're so cruel that you left after so many years! They all said that you and Senior Brother Zhuge were killed, but I always feel that you are not that easy to die!"
Xu Chunniang showed an apologetic look on her face. "I'm sorry to have made you worry. It's not that I don't want to come back, but I just couldn't find the way home in those years."
"If you ask me, could it be that you fell into some secret realm and practiced there for many years?"
Huo Chunyan wiped her eyes and looked her up and down. "Tell me, what delicious food did you eat that made your cultivation level increase so quickly?"
"Secret realms? I have indeed been to two of them. It's a long story to tell about my experiences over the years. Are you sure you want to listen to me at the door?"
Huo Chunyan snorted and laughed, then took the lead to step into the room and found a place to sit down.
Seeing this, Lin Yuxuan also walked into the room and sat down next to her.
Xu Chunniang closed the door and when she turned around, she accidentally caught a glimpse of the fine lines at the corners of Lin Yuxuan's eyes, and a myriad of thoughts surged in her mind.
When I first met Lin Yuxuan, she was still a naive little girl. Because she had a father who was a Jindan Zhenren, she was straightforward and simple and ignorant of worldly affairs.
When we met again, she was still as bright and beautiful as ever, but her cultivation in the foundation-building stage had left traces of time on her.
"What are you daydreaming about? Come and sit down!"
Huo Chunyan raised her eyebrows in dissatisfaction, interrupting Xu Chunniang's thoughts.
She smiled and shook her head. Chunyan was still so impatient. She thought she had become much calmer.
Xu Chunniang sat opposite the two of them, took out a small table from her storage ring, and then took out a teapot and teacups and placed them on the table.
While making tea, she recounted her experiences over the years.
Huo Chunyan kept shaking her head as she listened, not even bothering to drink the newly brewed spiritual tea.
"Did I hear you right? You need to have at least the Golden Core level of cultivation to go to the Immortal Palace ruins you mentioned?"
She had just broken through to the Golden Core realm not long ago, and was now only at the first level of the Golden Core realm.
Xu Chunniang nodded and said, "You heard it right. Without the Golden Core cultivation, you cannot enter even if you have the Immortal Palace Order."