"I understand."
Wang Wu nodded. This really was a pain in the ass. Everything had its pros and cons; this was the backlash brought about by Frost Lord's all-out gamble.
He then asked, "If your Senior Brother had been killed back then, triggering the Hidden Origin Elder Council's emergency alert, and the Elder Council had launched an emergency motion to investigate the matter, could they have caught the murderer?"
Feng Muhan shook his head with a bitter smile.
"In theory, they could have caught him, but in reality, that would have been difficult. The one who ambushed my Senior Brother was not personally sent by an enemy force, but a hired Wandering Grand Unity. I can even say with certainty that the murderer was Xiao Bu Er, the Wandering Grand Unity True Immortal currently ranked fifty-seventh on the Nine Alliances, Three Societies, and Two Sects' wanted list in the Cultivation World."
"His assessed strength is roughly between the Grand Unity Sixth Stage and Grand Unity Seventh Stage. So unless a second-rank elder of the Hidden Origin Elder Council is willing to act personally, there is nothing we can do to him. The Seven Domains are highly autonomous. Unless their interests are involved, the other six domains will not assist us in capturing him."
"Most importantly, Wandering Grand Unity cultivators are all lone wolves. They have no interest-bearing faction and no individual interests, no weak points to exploit. Once they succeed, they simply hide Beyond the Heavens. So unless they are captured and killed on the spot, once they escape, even if my master came in person, there would be nothing she could do."
"Then what if we also hired a Wandering Grand Unity to carry out a retaliatory assassination? Surely an equal countermeasure is possible?"
The moment Wang Wu said