Hearing the threat in Qin Xuan's words, the Disciple's hair stood on end, and he immediately knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly to Qin Xuan.
"Senior, I will tell you everything I know right away."
"I am a Disciple of Nuoshen Palace. Three years ago, the Palace sent me here to specifically manage the witches in this area."
Qin Xuan looked at the Disciple noncommittally.
"Get to the point. Tell me what your main duties are here, as well as your superior, and Nuoshen Palace's plan."
Hearing Qin Xuan's interrogation, the man nodded quickly.
"On one hand, the Palace needs to manage these witches well. On the other hand, it needs to manage the nearby villagers, ensuring they faithfully worship the nuo god statue, don't cause trouble, and we help them resolve any issues that arise."
"Additionally, these witches collect Qi and blood. My job is to regularly send the collected Qi and blood to my superior."
"He is also a Disciple of Nuoshen Palace, but he joined the Palace earlier than me, and his cultivation has already reached around the third level of the Yuqing Realm."
Qin Xuan raised an eyebrow.
"Where do all those Bloodthirsty Bats that fly out at night come from?"
Hearing this, the man's expression froze, and he quickly shook his head.
"I don't know that either. These Bloodthirsty Bats were already here when I arrived."
Looking at his expression, Qin Xuan scoffed.
"You don't know? I don't believe it!"
Along the way, Qin Xuan had been attacked by numerous Bloodthirsty Bats.
But after arriving in this vicinity, the Bloodthirsty Bats had disappeared.
He wouldn't believe it if there was no connection.
Seeing Qin Xuan's persistent questioning, the man completely panicked and quickly shook his head repeatedly.
"Senior, I truly don't know about this matter. I am merely following orders and am specifically responsible for managing the witches here. As for other matters, I know nothing."
"Perhaps my superior might know something."
Seeing that the man consistently denied it, and didn't seem to be faking it.
Qin Xuan also grew suspicious.
It seemed he truly wasn't clear about this matter.
However, if he didn't even know about such things, he certainly wouldn't be clear about Nuoshen Palace's arrangements.
He still needed to find his superior.
"You just mentioned collecting Qi and blood. Why can those nuo god statues collect Qi and blood, and why does your Nuoshen Palace need to collect Qi and blood?"
Qin Xuan pressed on.
At this moment, the Disciple began to get nervous.
After hesitating for a long time, he finally spoke.
"The nuo god statues are specially prepared by the Palace. Each nuo god statue contains a living creature that can collect Qi and blood, condensing it together. Finally, these witches regularly retrieve the Qi and blood from the stone statues and bring it to me."
"I hand over this Qi and blood to my superior, who then takes it to Nuoshen Palace. As for its specific use, I'm not very clear."
Speaking of this, the Nuoshen Palace Disciple nervously looked at Qin Xuan.
"Senior, I am just a Disciple sent here by the Sect to carry out a mission. I am not clear about the specific situation. Please spare my life, Senior."
Hearing this, Qin Xuan smiled noncommittally.
"You don't know? I don't believe it. In these past few years, every time you went back, you must have found out everything."
Hearing this, the Disciple shook his head.
"I haven't returned to Nuoshen Palace for three or four years. Only my superior is qualified to return to the Palace; someone like me isn't qualified to go back."
Hearing this, Qin Xuan roughly understood the situation.
Although this Disciple was a Disciple of Nuoshen Palace.
However, he should be the lowest-level Disciple, not even having the qualification to return to the Sect. He probably could only return after completing his mission here.
"But I found something interesting in her memory."
He pointed to the witch beside him.
Qin Xuan said, glancing at the other person.
"According to what I've learned, your Nuoshen Palace selects some girls who have not lost their primordial Yin from various villages every so often, and then, under the pretense of dedicating these girls to the nuo god, takes them away."
"Where did these girls go?"
Qin Xuan pressed coldly.
He absolutely didn't believe that these girls were simply offered to the so-called gods; these people must have some purpose.
"What? She told you that too?"
The Disciple looked at the witch beside him in surprise.
He then reacted, exhaling a helpless breath.
"These women were all sent to the nearby mountain range. As for whether they were offered to gods, I'm not sure."
"I'm not clear about the situation. After those girls are found by us, they are all sent to the superior. For specific details, you'll have to ask him. I'm just following orders."
Hearing this, Qin Xuan was somewhat disappointed.
This Disciple of Nuoshen Palace indeed knew many things, some of which he even participated in.
However, what he knew was truly limited.
His willingness to easily reveal his superior also carried a hint of deflecting trouble.
Qin Xuan was too lazy to waste words with him.
"Good, tell me where your superior is, and I'll go find him."
"Um, Sir, you have to promise not to kill me first before I can tell you."
This Disciple actually tried to bargain with Qin Xuan. Qin Xuan's expression turned cold, and he raised his hand to forcefully slap him, directly extracting his Divine Soul.
"Since you won't tell me, I have ways to get it from your Divine Soul."
Before, he was afraid of incomplete information, but now that most things had been asked, he didn't have to worry too much.
Soon, Qin Xuan examined the man's Divine Soul.
A moment later, Qin Xuan opened his eyes with some surprise.
This kid had actually hidden a lot of information.
"Han Lao, it seems this place and the other eye of the Double Pupils might truly be related."
Han Ye was also full of pleasant surprises.
"What's going on?"
Qin Xuan took a deep breath.
"From this man's memory, I've roughly found out some things. Nuoshen Palace probably only started building nuo god statues about seventy years ago, and there's only one reason for building the nuo god's body: Nuoshen Palace found a ruin nearby, and in this ruin, they seemed to have obtained a certain secret treasure."
"Although this news was directly sealed off at the time, some information still leaked out in the end."
"This kid heard in Nuoshen Palace that what they found here at the time was an eye."
"Later, Nuoshen Palace began to extensively build these nuo god statues."
If there was no connection here, that would be truly strange!
Thinking of this, Qin Xuan became increasingly excited.
"Finally, Nuoshen Palace sealed off tens of thousands of miles in this vicinity. Unless a powerful being tore open a Space Channel, it would be impossible to enter."
"Not only that, but as these nuo god statues were being built, these ghosts also emerged."
