After finalizing their plan of action.
Wei Tu and Dayuan Shuang temporarily abandoned their plans to head to Spiritrock City and instead followed the three men, including the horse-faced old man, to their prefectural seat in Guangling Commandery—"Thunderclap City."
It was worth mentioning.
This time, aside from the three Void Refinement patriarchs, the forces dispatched by the three great cultivation clans of Guangling Commandery, led by the Qushan Deng Clan, to encircle and kill Wei Tu and the other two consisted entirely of Spirit Transformation cultivators. There were only a little over twenty people in total, with no insignificant fodder among them.
With fewer people, they were easier to control using soul marks.
Nor was there any need to worry about information leaking out.
Still, for safety's sake—after arriving in Thunderclap City, Wei Tu, Dayuan Shuang, and the Blood-Winged Mo split into three groups and respectively stationed themselves in the ancestral grounds of the three great cultivation clans. They directly controlled the horse-faced old man, the old crone with the snake staff, and the seductive young woman, preventing the three from harboring any further disloyal thoughts.
Wei Tu chose the Qushan Deng Clan—the horse-faced old man's clan.
After settling into the Deng Clan.
Wei Tu rarely showed his face before the Deng Clan's high-ranking cultivators. He kept an extremely low profile, merely occupying the horse-faced old man's cultivation cave to cultivate in seclusion. He did not throw his weight around in the Deng Clan or maliciously plunder its resources.
The former stemmed from his temperament.
As for the latter, there was simply no need.
As a patriarch, the horse-faced old man's realm determined the upper limit of resources the Qushan Deng Clan could obtain.
There was no need for Wei Tu to covet fourth- or fifth-tier spiritual items.
As for