The dark-skinned burly man spoke as he scrambled backward on all fours.

The three of them were only Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators. Although they couldn't discern Han Li's cultivation level, seeing his imposing entrance from the sky, they knew he was definitely a senior expert who could crush them with a finger. How could they dare linger here?

"Stop, who are you?" Han Li frowned slightly upon seeing this and asked coldly.

"We... we are three rogue cultivators from Huayang City. We didn't know a senior was here; otherwise, we wouldn't have dared to come here," the brown-robed youth said, gathering his courage.

"Do you know what happened to this Chensha City? How did it become like this?" Han Li asked again.

"Senior, you don't know… Are you not from a local immortal sect, but from overseas?" Hearing this, the brown-robed youth was stunned before slowly raising his head to look at Han Li, asking with some confusion.

"Overseas cultivator..." Han Li was taken aback at first, then understood.

For these low-level cultivators who lived on isolated islands and might spend their entire lives circling around this small Yunhu Island area, they naturally thought that the place they were in was the entire continent. And cultivators from outside the island were, of course, overseas cultivators.

"Enough nonsense. Tell me, what exactly happened here, and why was the city massacred?" Han Li snorted coldly and asked sternly.

"Reporting to Senior, it's said that the long serpent demon beast living in Yunzhe Lake came out to hunt again, devouring all the people in this city," the brown-robed youth quickly said.

"Oh? What does this beast look like? Have you ever seen it with your own eyes?" Han Li raised an eyebrow and asked.

"Senior, this... this junior wouldn't dare to see it... If I had really seen it, I would definitely be in the belly of that demon beast by now. However, it is said that this beast has been cultivating here for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, and its body is incomparably huge, almost equivalent to the earthen mountain ridges outside the city. The core of its tongue, when spat out, must be hundreds of feet long, and as for the venom in its abdomen..." The brown-robed youth blurted out the rumors he had heard.

"Yes, yes... That demon beast comes out to make trouble every so often, and each time it eats up an entire city of people before it's satisfied..." the dark-skinned man also regained his senses and added.

"Does it come out once every ten years, and each time it is only active for seven days, after which it disappears, never to appear again within ten years?" Han Li's heart stirred, and he asked.

"So, Senior, you have already heard those rumors?" The dark-skinned man looked at Han Li cautiously, somewhat surprised.

Hearing this, Han Li's heart sank slightly.

The long serpent demon immortal that these people were talking about was most likely the Zhen Xian Stage mid-term Mirage Yuan Beast. He had been rushing all the way, but he was still one step late.

In fact, he had been feeling very strange on the way here.

According to common sense, the closer an island is to the central freshwater lake, the larger the scale of the city should be, and the more people should be gathered there. However, the situation on this Yunhu Island was exactly the opposite.

In the coastal areas near the ocean on the edge of the island, magnificent cities were connected to each other, almost surrounding the entire island. But the further toward the center of the island one went, the sparser the distribution of cities became, and the terrain areas where they were located had to be hidden.

Although Chensha City was still hundreds of thousands of miles away from Yunzhe Lake, it was already the closest city to the lake in the entire western part of Yunhu Island.

Now that he thought about it, it was probably because of the Mirage Yuan Beast that people migrated their cities further and further away from the center of the island, resulting in the current situation.

"Is there no one who will eliminate harm for the people and eliminate this beast that harms all living beings?" Han Li asked, considering this.

"Reporting to Senior, it is said that a long, long time ago, an immortal was entrusted by several nearby sects to eliminate this demon beast. As a result, that immortal fought with this beast for three days and three nights and was eventually seriously injured and retreated. And those sects involved in this matter were all destroyed by that demon beast in a few days. Since then, no one has dared to care..." the brown-robed youth said respectfully.

"Speaking of which, what are you few doing here?" Han Li glanced at the three and asked indifferently.

The three who had been kneeling on the ground and had not gotten up looked at each other, hesitating and unwilling to say the reason.

"What, is there something you can't say?" Han Li's face darkened.

"Reporting to Senior, we... the place where we are now is the location of Luosha Sect's main altar. This sect is the largest sect within a radius of tens of thousands of miles nearby... We three wanted to take advantage of the fact that others hadn't arrived yet to first..." the brown-robed youth trembled and explained, covered in cold sweat.

"To make a fortune off the dead?" Seeing that he hesitated for a long time and couldn't say it, Han Li added.

"Senior, we just arrived here and haven't found anything at all. You can check my storage bag if you don't believe me." After saying that, the brown-robed youth immediately took out his storage bag and raised it high.

Seeing this, the dark-skinned man and the middle-aged beauty also hurriedly followed suit.

Han Li only swept his spiritual sense slightly and knew that they were not lying. The combined value of all the items in these three people's storage bags was not even worth five middle-grade spirit stones.

Han Li did not actually feel disgusted by their behavior. Cultivators at the bottom, especially rogue cultivators without sect affiliations, had a particularly difficult cultivation path, which he knew better than anyone else.

His spiritual sense moved slightly, and he carefully examined the ruins of this Luosha Sect again, but he couldn't help but frown.

This sect was not small in scale, but whether it was because it was too thoroughly destroyed, the magic treasures and artifacts left inside were surprisingly few, and their grades were even more unsightly.

"There are some things under the ruins in the east. Dig them out yourself and leave here immediately after you get them." After Han Li said this, he shot up and flew towards the eastern part of Chensha City.

He naturally didn't look down on the magic treasures and artifacts remaining here now. It would be better to leave them to these few people as a reward for telling him this information. Perhaps it could become a small boost on their cultivation path.

Hearing this, the three were stunned in place, looking at each other, their eyes full of astonishment and suspicion. For a moment, they forgot to get up. By the time they reacted, they could no longer see Han Li's figure.

After sincerely thanking Han Li in the direction he left, they quickly stood up and ran to the ruins, quickly digging.

It is said that after Han Li flew to the eastern part of Chensha City, he did not leave directly. Instead, he chose a relatively complete house in the east of the city and flew down.

This house should have had at least three courtyards, and it seemed to be a wealthy secular family, but now the family was destroyed and dead.

After Han Li came to the courtyard, he casually set up some simple restrictions and turned around and walked into the main hall of the main house.

After he casually lit an oil lamp in the house, he sat down next to the table and chairs.

With a slight turn of his wrist, a cyan bull-headed mask appeared in his palm and was directly put on his face.

Accompanied by a sound of chanting, a huge cyan light and shadow array disk appeared in front of him.

Before coming here, in order to hurry, he had not searched for too much information about the Mirage Yuan Beast in advance. He originally wanted to find a larger sect in Chensha City to inquire about some information, but he did not expect that when he arrived here, it would be this scene.

Although he had missed the opportunity for the Mirage Yuan Beast's outing this time, he did not intend to return to the sect. Instead, he thought about finding another way to complete this task.

However, the mission intelligence given by the sect was too brief, and he himself had limited knowledge of the Mirage Yuan Beast. The information provided by the brown-robed youth was mostly just rumors and had no reliability at all.

After thinking about it, he decided to try to inquire about information about this beast through the Merciless Alliance.

The task he had previously posted to investigate the origin of that giant egg and feathers was still hanging there, and no one had recognized it yet.

He shook his head and searched for a while, and his eyes lit up slightly.

There was really a related task in the alliance, and it seemed to have been posted for no less than a thousand years:

"Kill a Zhen Xian Stage Mirage Yuan Beast entrenched somewhere, reward: thirty immortal essence stones."

Han Li was slightly stunned when he saw this. How could there be such a coincidence?

Although the Mirage Yuan Beast was not rare, there were probably not many with the cultivation level of the Zhen Xian Stage. Could the one the other party wanted to kill be his target?

With a contemplative expression on his face, he pointed to the void and contacted the person who posted the task through the mask.

After about a quarter of an hour, a wave suddenly rose on the cyan light array disk, and then a cyan light burst out from it, condensing into a cyan figure wearing a deer head mask in front of Han Li.

"Is Fellow Daoist interested in the task that I posted?" the man asked after he appeared.

"That's right, I am somewhat interested in the Mirage Yuan Beast task that you posted. I wonder where this beast is located, and is there any detailed information about this beast?" Han Li nodded and asked.

"Since Fellow Daoist is interested, I will naturally not hide anything. This beast is located in the eastern sea area of Guyun Continent, in a place called Yunhu Island. Its body contains the bloodline of the ancient true spirit Mirage Dragon, so it is good at transformation, especially at transforming into human form..." A hint of joy seemed to flash in the Qingguang figure's eyes, and he quickly replied.

"This beast is probably not easy to deal with, otherwise your task would not have been posted for so long and no one has completed it," Han Li's heart stirred, and he asked with a slight gleam in his eyes.

"This... this beast has had a Zhen Xian Stage mid-term cultivation for tens of thousands of years, and it is cunning and not easy to deal with..." the Qingguang figure paused slightly and said.

"Zhen Xian Stage mid-term... Thirty immortal essence stones are a bit too little..." Han Li said indifferently.

"Fellow Daoist... to be honest, I can only take out so many immortal essence stones now... But the spiritual shell shed from this beast's body is an excellent spiritual material for refining treasure armor. If you can kill this beast..." the Qingguang figure said anxiously.

"Okay." Han Li pondered slightly and said.

"Fellow Daoist means... to take on this task?" the Qingguang figure asked, seeming a little disbelieving.

"I can't guarantee that I can definitely complete the task. I'll just give it a try," Han Li said noncommittally.

"This... this is great. Then I will be here, waiting for your good news!" The Qingguang figure was immediately overjoyed.