As the dark-skinned man spoke, he used both his hands and feet to crawl backwards.
The three of them were only late Foundation Establishment Cultivators. Although they couldn't see the depth of Han Li's cultivation, they knew that he was definitely a senior expert who could crush them to death with a flick of his finger. How could they dare to stay here?
"Stop, who are you people?" Seeing this, Han Li frowned slightly and asked coldly.
"We … we are three Loose Cultivators from Sunflower City. We didn't know that Senior was here, otherwise we wouldn't have dared to come here." When the three heard this, their bodies stiffened. The brown-clothed Youth mustered up his courage and answered.
"Do you know what happened to Heavy Sand City? How did it become like this?" Han Li asked again.
"Senior, you don't know … Could it be that you're not from a local sect, but from overseas?"
Hearing this, the brown-clothed Youth stared blankly for a moment before slowly raising his head to look at Han Li. He asked with some confusion.
"Overseas cultivators …" Han Li was stunned at first, then immediately understood.
For these low-grade cultivators who lived on a lone island, they would most likely spend their entire lives in a small area like Cloud Lake Island, so they naturally thought that they were on the entire continent, and the cultivators outside of the island were the cultivators from across the sea.
"Cut the crap.
Tell me, what happened here, and why was the city massacred? "Han Li snorted coldly and asked sternly.
"Reporting to Senior, I heard that the long serpent monster that lived in Cloud Covered Lake came out of the lake to look for food and ate everyone in the city," the brown-clothed Youth hurriedly said.
"Oh, what does this monster look like? Have you seen it with your own eyes?" Han Li asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Senior, this … this junior wouldn't dare to see it … If I had, I would definitely have become a meal in the monster's stomach.
However, it is said that this beast has cultivated here for tens of thousands of years, and its body is incomparably huge, almost the same size as the earthen mountain outside the city, and its forked tongue is hundreds of feet long when it spits out. As for the venom in its stomach, it is … "The brown-robed young man spoke all the rumors he had heard.
"That's right … That demon beast would come out every once in a while to wreak havoc. Every time, it would eat an entire city's worth of people before stopping …" The dark-skinned man came to his senses and added.
"Does it only come out once every ten years, and each time it would only be active for seven days, after which it would disappear and not appear again for ten years?" Han Li's heart stirred as he asked.
"So Senior has already heard those rumors?" The dark-skinned man carefully looked at Han Li and said with some surprise.
When Han Li heard this, his heart sank slightly.
The long serpent Demonic Immortal that these people were talking about was most likely the Mirage Essence Beast in the intermediate stage of the True Immortal Realm. He had been rushing all the way, but he was still a step too late.
In fact, he had been feeling strange on the way here.
According to common sense, the closer an island was to a freshwater lake in the center, the larger the scale of the town would be. The population would also be correspondingly larger. However, the situation on Cloud Lake Island was exactly the opposite.
On the coast near the ocean at the edge of the island, majestic cities were connected to each other, almost surrounding the entire island. However, the closer one got to the center of the island, the more sparse the distribution of the cities became. The terrain also had to be hidden.
Although Heavy Sand City was hundreds of thousands of miles away from Cloud Concealed Lake, it was already the city closest to the lake in the entire western part of Cloud Lake Island.
Now that he thought about it, it was most likely because of the Mirage Beast that people moved the cities further and further away from the center of the island, resulting in the current situation.
"This beast is wreaking havoc on the common people. Is there no one who wants to get rid of it?" Han Li thought of this and asked.
"Senior, it is said that a long time ago, there was an Immortal who was entrusted by a few nearby sects to get rid of this monster. In the end, the Immortal fought with the monster for three days and three nights. In the end, he was seriously injured and was forced to retreat.
As for those sects that were involved in this matter, they were all destroyed by the monster in a few days. Since then, no one has dared to interfere … "The brown robed Youth said respectfully.
"Speaking of which, what are the three of you doing here?" Han Li looked at the three of them and asked indifferently.
The three of them who had been kneeling on the ground looked at each other and hesitated to tell the whole story.
"Why, is there something you can't say?" Han Li's face darkened.
"Senior, we … we are now at the location of the main altar of the Cascading Sand Sect. This sect is the largest sect within a radius of ten thousand miles … The three of us want to take advantage of the fact that the others haven't arrived yet …" The brown robed Youth trembled all over and explained with cold sweat dripping down his body.
"Make a fortune from the dead first?" Seeing that the other was hesitating for a long time, Han Li added.
"Senior, we have only just arrived here and haven't found anything. If you don't believe me, you can check my storage pouch." With that, the brown robed Youth immediately took out his own storage pouch and held it up high.
When the dark-skinned man and the beautiful middle-aged woman saw this, they hurriedly did the same.
Han Li only needed to use his consciousness to scan the pouch to know that they weren't lying. All of the items in the three's storage pouch added up couldn't even be compared to five mid-tier spirit stones.
Han Li didn't feel disgusted by their actions. Cultivators at the bottom of the hierarchy, especially those who didn't have a sect to rely on, had a particularly arduous path of cultivation. He knew this better than anyone else.
With a slight movement of his consciousness, he carefully examined the ruins of the Cascading Sand Sect. He couldn't help but frown.
The size of this Sect wasn't small, but it was unknown whether or not it had been destroyed too thoroughly, but the number of magic weapons left in the Sect was pitifully small, and their grades were even more unsightly.
"There are still some things under the ruins in the east. Go dig them out and leave immediately after you get them." After saying this, Han Li's figure swept up and flew towards the east of the Heavy Sand City.
With regards to the magic weapons left here, he naturally didn't care about them at all. It would be better to leave them to these people as a reward for telling him this information. Perhaps they could be of great help on their path of cultivation.
When the three people heard this, they suddenly froze in place and looked at each other with eyes full of surprise. For a moment, they even forgot to get up. By the time they reacted, they couldn't even see a trace of Han Li anymore.
After sincerely thanking the direction in which Han Li had left, they quickly stood up, ran to the ruins, and quickly began to dig.
After Han Li flew to the east of the Heavy Sand City, he didn't directly leave. Instead, he chose a relatively intact house in the east of the city and flew down.
This house should have at least three courtyards, and it seemed that it should be quite a well-off secular family, but now it had been destroyed.
After Han Li came to the courtyard, he casually laid some simple restrictions, turned around and walked into the main hall of the main house.
After lighting an oil lamp in the house, he sat down at the table and chair.
With a slight flip of his wrist, there was a cyan ox mask in the palm of his hand, and he directly put it on his face.
Accompanied by a series of chanting sounds, a huge, misty, green array disc appeared in front of him.
Before coming here, in order to hurry, he didn't search for too much information about the Clam Essence Beast in advance. He thought that when he arrived at the Heavy Sand City, he would find a larger Sect to ask for some information, but he didn't expect to wait until here and see such a scene.
Although he had missed the opportunity of the Clam Essence Beast to go out this time, he didn't plan to return to the Sect, but wanted to find another way to complete this task.
However, the task information given by the Sect was too simple, and his own understanding of the Clam Essence Beast was limited. Most of the information provided by the brown shirt Youth was just rumors, and there was no reliability at all.
After thinking about it, he decided to try to find out some information about the beast through the Anicca Union.
The task to investigate the source of the giant egg and the feather was still hanging there, and no one knew about it.
He shook his head, and after searching for a while, his eyes slightly lit up.
There really was a related task in the Anicca Union, and it seemed to have been issued for no less than a thousand years.
"Kill a True Immortal Realm Clam Essence Beast, reward: 30 Immortal Meta Stones."
Seeing this, Han Li was slightly stunned, there was such a coincidence?
Although the Clam Essence Beast was not rare, the cultivation of the True Immortal Realm was probably not many. Could it be that the other party wanted to kill his own target?
He pointed to the void with a pondering look, and through the mask, he contacted the person who issued this task.
After about a quarter of an hour, the green light array suddenly fluctuated, and then a green light spurted out from it, condensing into a green figure wearing a deer mask in front of Han Li.
"Fellow Daoist, are you interested in my mission?" That person asked after appearing.
"Yes, I am interested in the Clam Essence Beast task you issued. May I know where this beast lives and do you have any detailed information about this beast?" Han Li nodded and asked.
"Since you are interested, I will naturally not hide it.
This beast is located in the eastern sea of the Ancient Cloud Continent, on a place called Cloud Lake Island.
It has the blood of the Ancient True Spirit Clam Dragon in its body, so it is good at transformation, especially in human form … "There seemed to be a hint of joy in the eyes of the green figure, and he quickly replied.
"I am afraid this beast is not easy to deal with, otherwise, no one would have completed your task after so long." Han Li's heart moved, and his eyes flickered slightly as he asked.
"This … this beast has already reached the True Immortal Realm intermediate stage tens of thousands of years ago, and it is cunning by nature, it is indeed not easy to deal with …" The green figure paused slightly and said.
"If it is in the True Immortal Realm intermediate stage … 30 Immortal Essence Stones, that is a little less …" Han Li said lightly.
"Fellow Daoist … To tell you the truth, I can only take out this many Immortal Origin Stones now … However, the spirit shell of this beast is an excellent material for refining treasured armor. If you can kill this beast …" the green figure said anxiously.
"Okay." Han Li thought for a while and said so.
"Friend means … to accept this task?" The green figure seemed to be a little unconvinced and asked.
"I can't guarantee that I will definitely complete the task, but I will give it a try." Han Li said noncommittally.