Chai Zhihong narrowed his eyes slightly at Shangguan Yang's words, then suddenly laughed.
"Are you trying to tell Chai that those Mid Twelfth Order Origin Demons all died by themselves?"
"This junior would not dare. It is merely that this junior also does not know what happened."
Shangguan Yang shook his head, pointed into the distance, and continued:
"Earlier, this junior sensed a disturbance and intended to investigate, but before I arrived, the battle over there had already ended."
Following the direction of Shangguan Yang's finger, Chai Zhihong recalled that when his divine sense had swept across the entire Molten Void Realm earlier, he had already discovered the places where those Mid Twelfth Order Origin Demons had perished.
But from those traces alone, it was impossible to tell what had happened at the time.
Once a secret realm reached the Twelfth Order, the madness and contamination contained within its Heavenly Dao became increasingly severe. It was no longer possible to trace the source by refining the entire secret realm.
The Heavenly Dao of a Twelfth Order Secret Realm no longer possessed much logic. Amid its chaos was a thread of order, but that order existed only because the secret realm instinctively wished to keep evolving, thus presenting the appearance of normality.
Only by refining an Eleventh Order Secret Realm could one trace the source. With the Twelfth Order, it was utterly impossible.
Moreover, Chai Zhihong could not possibly refine a Twelfth Order Secret Realm over such a matter. Though his Thirteenth Order cultivation meant he need not fear being eroded by the secret realm's contamination and becoming a Demonic Beast of the Heavenly Chasm, it would by no means be easy.
More importantly, refining a Twelfth Order Secret Realm brought no benefit whatsoever to a Thirteenth Order origin demon such