He had actually forced his way out of the Chu Family's dungeon alive.
Fortunately, the maps had been recovered and had not been taken out of the Chu Family.
To prove their innocence, the Chu Family publicly burned every map they had collected.
Before cultivators of the Five Continents could worry whether the thief had memorized the map routes, news spread that Lin Qi of the Southern Continent also held a complete map of the Five Gods Battlefield.
It was said that she had encountered the thief while at the Chu Family and severely injured him. Seeking a way to live, the thief had offered the map to Lin Qi, and only then had Lin Qi let him go.
Afterward, the cultivators of the Five Continents did a little digging and discovered that Lin Qi had not gone to attend the Sword Viewing Gathering, but had been invited by Chu Jiucheng.
Information revealed by quite a few Chu Family cultivators also confirmed that Lin Qi had encountered the thief and seriously wounded him, only failing to keep him behind.
This immediately aroused everyone's suspicions.
Lin Qi was a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator. Her formidable combat strength was known throughout the Five Continents, yet she had failed to capture a mere Nascent Soul Early Stage thief?
At a time like this, everyone instinctively overlooked the fact that this thief had slipped out of the Chu Family's dungeon as easily as slipping through a crack.
On this point alone, nearly half the people accepted the claim that the thief had offered up the map and Lin Qi had taken a bribe to let him go.
A massive black pot had fallen from the sky and inexplicably landed on Lin Qi's head.
Cultivators from the other four continents all turned their eyes