Ten-odd days later.
Wei Tu, having left Guangling Commandery, successfully arrived in the Far Western Lands of the Earth Spirit Kingdom.
Compared to the prosperity of the Earth Spirit Kingdom's heartland, the Far Western Lands were far more savage and barren. Most cultivators encountered were demonic cultivators, while spiritual cultivators made up only a tiny fraction.
After settling down in a marketplace within the Far Western Lands, Wei Tu immediately began searching for the reason behind the Cheng Clan's destruction. Yet most of the intelligence he obtained was vague and ambiguous, consisting only of outsiders' speculation.
There was not a shred of truly crucial information.
"Thirteen years ago, supposedly due to an unequal division of treasures, the three great cultivation clans of Guangling Commandery fell into internal conflict... The Cheng Clan was destroyed as a result..."
Outside the marketplace, Wei Tu frowned slightly as he released the head of a demonic cultivator that had been inverted beneath his right palm, his expression contemplative.
Ordinary means could not uncover detailed intelligence, so he immediately switched to a more radical method—directly soul-searching high-level local cultivators, hoping to learn the truth from them.
Yet regrettably, even after capturing the locally renowned demonic cultivator, Evil Qilin Venerable, he had obtained only this exceedingly rudimentary piece of information, with little of actual use.
Still, this intelligence allowed him to confirm one point.
—Old Ghost Deng and the old crone with the serpent staff had suddenly turned against that seductive young matron. The battle had been swift, precise, and ruthless, so much so that the outside world had heard barely a whisper before the illustrious Void Refinement clan, the Cheng Clan, had already been annihilated.
But as for treasures, he and Dayuan Shuang had jointly enslaved Old Ghost Deng's group for nearly a hundred years. They