"However, finding Duan Changjing won't be difficult."
Wei Tu sneered, took a tiny pill vial from his storage bag, and opened it.
Inside were several drops of vivid red blood, each one emanating Duan Changjing's aura.
Demonic sects did not control their subordinates and higher-ups through something as simple as loyalty. They relied on vicious means that held those people's lives in their grasp.
Take Scorpio Patriarch, for instance. Apart from his bloodline, whom he had not guarded against when discussing the alliance leader position, every other disciple under his command bore a soul restriction he had planted within their sea of consciousness to prevent betrayal.
Red Dragon Ancestor was no exception.
It was only because Duan Changjing was his senior brother and had always been formidable that, after taking Duan Changjing's essence blood as a precaution, he had imposed no further restrictions upon him.
Back when Duan Changjing had received no word from Red Dragon Ancestor, he had not dared to rebel for a long time precisely because he feared Red Dragon Ancestor would settle scores afterward—using his essence blood to pinpoint his location and leave him nowhere to hide, whether in heaven or earth.
Duan Changjing only dared flee now because, during his battle with Wei Tu and Madam Jin, he had been certain that Red Dragon Ancestor was already dead and that he himself no longer had any weak points.
But unfortunately, Red Dragon Ancestor had never truly perished. Within his Dragon Glaze Pearl, he had preserved this pill vial containing Duan Changjing's essence blood all along.
"Chase!" Wei Tu formed a hand seal and struck several incantation seals into the vial of Duan Changjing's essence blood.
The next instant, under the stimulation of his Spirit Transformation mana, the blood in the vial turned into a crimson