The group of people avoided the villagers and followed the little girl to a shabby thatched cottage. The cottage was short and small, and looked like it was about to collapse. They didn't know if such a house could shelter it from the wind and rain.

When the little person returned to the front of the thatched cottage, she shouted towards the inside, "Grandfather, I'm back!"

"Little Bean is back. It's the time for foreigners to come in, so don't keep running outside. If you meet them, they'll beat you to death." An old and weak voice came from inside the thatched cottage.

"I understand, I will be careful." She then led Yin Manfeng and the rest into the hut.

Yin Manfeng followed Little Bean into the cottage, but when they saw the situation inside, both Yin Manfeng and Fatty Lu could not help but feel sad.

What kind of house was this?

There was almost nothing decent inside. A broken bed was made up of a few pieces of wood, two old stools at each end, and in front of the bed was a table with missing legs. On the table was an old bowl with a gap in it.

At this moment, an old man was lying on the bed. Looking at the lifeless direction of the door, one could tell that he was blind.

The whole room was so narrow that there was almost no place to stand. After Yin Manfeng and the others entered with Little Bean, they blocked all the light in the house.

Although the old man was blind, his hearing was quite good. After Little Bean led them into the house, the old man frowned and said to Little Bean, "Bean, how did you bring an outsider home?"

If the villagers found out, the villagers wouldn't be able to tolerate them.

"Grandfather, I know they are outsiders. Because they helped me catch the fish, I brought them back. In exchange, I want grandfather to tell them about the situation here." Little Bean was small, but his speech was sloppy and his manners were so good that it was hard to imagine how he could be so slovenly.

The old man muttered to himself for a while, then said to Yin Manfeng and the rest: "Looks like all of you are kind people."

Yin Manfeng chuckled: "Old man, you're just being kind just because you caught a few fish for him?" Catching a fish was extremely easy for cultivators like them.

"No!" "Not really!" The old man shook his head, "This old man has said you are kind, not to catch fish. If you weren't kind, Bean wouldn't have brought you home."

Yin Manfeng, Fatty Lu and Yan Xiaofeng all looked towards Little Bean.

The only person Ling Junchu was paying attention to was Yin Manfeng. No matter what place she went to, he would only care about Yin Manfeng's reaction.

When Yin Manfeng was chatting with the old man, Ling Junchu's gentle gaze had never left Yin Manfeng.

The old man seemed to have seen through everything, and said to Yin Manfeng: "Don't just look at Little Zhu, he is intelligent. If I didn't implicate the brothers, they would have already gone to offer assistance."

Yin Manfeng saw that Little Bean was dressed in shabby clothes. Although her body was unkempt, her eyes revealed a resolute light. When looking at them, she never revealed any expression of cowardice, and agreed with the elder's words.

The old man continued, "Little Bean is only six years old, and he still has a brother who is ten years old. In order to support us, he went to work in the town, and their parents died a long time ago. No one usually takes care of them.

For some reason, after the old man opened the sluice, he went on and on about a lot of things.

The people in the village are afraid that we might go and have fun, but they also don't get along with us. At such a young age, they already know how to judge the situation.

"Sigh!" Thinking about it, Little Bean has not eaten meat for a long time. It's all because of me, so I can't be bothered with them. It's no wonder that in order to repay you all, he put forth such a condition. "

"Foreigners are excluded from our society. If you want to live a normal life here, you'd better not let anyone know that you're outsiders."

The old man rambled on for a long time, his throat a little hoarse, and Little Bean poured him a bowl of water from a broken bowl on the table.

Yin Manfeng and the rest listened quietly, and did not urge them to leave.

After the old man drank the water, he continued, "I don't understand the outside world, but here, in this world, there are four great sects in the most prosperous city: the Empyrean Terminus Sect, the Cool Breeze Sect, the Heavenly Saint Sect, and the Profound Yin Sect."

"These four great sects are the most powerful places in this place. The other small factions are afraid of them. Most of the outsiders who enter this place every hundred years will be killed by the people from these four great sects."

"The Four Major Sects and the outsiders are like water and fire. Every time they meet, blood will flow like rivers. You'd better be careful!"

Yin Manfeng asked in puzzlement: "Why do the Four Major Sects want to kill the outsiders?" Other than this doubt, Yin Manfeng was surprised that the old man knew so much.

In this backward village, he actually knew what was happening in the bustling city.

He said, "Foreigners are just like invaders. After they enter this place, they fight with the people here for resources, and often, the outsiders rely on their great strength to suppress the people here. The resources here are already barren, so if they were to steal them away, what's the point of the Four Major Sects?"

So, this is why the natives hate outsiders?

The old man continued, "As long as there are resources, there will be fights, and as the competition goes on, the hatred accumulated by both sides will become deeper. Although, every year, the foreigners will be different, but the hatred accumulated by the four major sects will always be there, and every time the foreigners enter this place, there will be a massacre by the four sects."

Yin Manfeng frowned, she did not want to fight with the Four Major Sects for resources, it seemed that she had to avoid encountering them in the future.

"Thank you for telling me." Yin Manfeng said sincerely.

"Sigh!" The elder sighed and said, "What a shame. I just hope that you can be merciful to the people here in the future."

However, Yin Manfeng said: "Elder, don't worry, as long as no one dares to provoke us, we will not take the initiative to cause trouble."

The old man didn't feel relieved at all when he heard this, and he even shook his head as he sighed, "If things were this simple, then it would have been fine. You all entered this place to enter the Sky Realm, right?"

"Sky Realm?" Yin Manfeng and the others really didn't know of such a place.

The elderly said: "If you want to leave, Sky Realm is the only way, unless you want to stay."

However, Fatty Lu said in puzzlement: "Didn't the rules say that as long as we break through the Spirit Level, we can leave?"

"Sky Realm is the only thing that can allow you to break through the spirit level."

Ah!" Fatty Lu widened his eyes. He had never thought of this.

But Yin Manfeng was suspicious: "What does entering the Sky Realm have to do with the Four Major Sects?"

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