Cave Truth Technique was an advanced spell derived from Spirit Eye Technique. Wang Chen had long since raised this Purple Mansion-grade skill to the Grandmaster level.
His perception silently spread in all directions, enveloping every villager nearby.
Although Shangyang Village was remotely situated, the proportion of cultivators among its villagers was quite high.
Their cultivation, however, was generally low, with most below the fourth layer of Qi Condensation.
Wang Chen was confident that as long as these villagers had been tainted by evil aura, they would not escape his scrutiny!
The higher an Evil Cultivator's cultivation, the more easily the evil power within their body went out of control. Even if they retained their sanity, it would still leak out and spread.
Therefore, if the villagers here had come into contact with the target, they would certainly have been tainted by some evil aura.
Yet to Wang Chen's disappointment, after observing for a while, he found nothing at all.
Could Dongming Residence's intelligence have been inaccurate?
Wang Chen was the first to rule out that possibility—this intelligence had cost him one hundred thousand Spirit Stones!
If the intelligence was accurate, then perhaps Zhou Senzhi had hidden himself deeply and had not directly contacted the villagers here recently.
Or perhaps the villagers who had contacted him were not here.
There was also the possibility that this Evil Cultivator had mastered some method of concealing his aura.
But regardless of the reason, it brought Wang Chen considerable trouble.
Evil Cultivators differed from demonic cultivators. Demonic cultivators could hide away in desolate wildernesses or deep mountains to cultivate in seclusion; as long as they had sufficient resources, they could lie low for years or even decades without issue.
Evil Cultivators, on the other hand, possessed an instinctive, intense craving for "human presence." The