Despite their bloodthirsty name, the Bloodthirsty Divine Cult Branch concealment, making them virtually indistinguishable from ordinary cultivators, and thus not easy to find.
Um?
The Black Shadow suddenly frowned, as if sensing something.
In recent years, many young Heavenly Prodigy have emerged from the three major Lineage, and the best Boulder Convention has a process, in which all the young talents from Chaos Stone City and the surrounding areas will come here to participate in the competition.
The winner will receive a generous reward.
Could there be a connection between these things?
The Bloodthirsty Divine Cult is one of only two Demonic Cult within the Nine Stars Empire, so its strength is not to be underestimated. It must have experts at the Immortal King level. For cultivators of that level, destroying Chaos Stone City would be far too easy.
Su Chen fell into deep thought; he had a feeling that something was amiss.
The Black Shadow then meticulously searched the Sun family, finding no trace of anything left behind, before disappearing from Black Shadow spot.
Su Chen then went to the Zhou family and the Gongsun Family, with similar results.
He then began gathering intelligence around the three major Lineage, but after spending the entire afternoon doing so, he still hadn't learned anything useful.
The outside world knew little about the situation of the three major Lineage. By the time they realized that the three Lineage had been wiped out, several days had already Past. It was only when someone went to deliver supplies to them that they became aware of the situation, by which time the corpses had already started to decompose.
The three major Lineage were wiped out in a completely silent manner.
Su Chen sat in a Restaurant, his gaze falling on a fool standing in front of the Gongsun Family's gate. The fool's eyes were lifeless, and his behavior was idiotic.
"Senior brother, have you discovered anything?"
Seeing Su Chen's expression, Qin Ran couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.
He was scratching his head, completely clueless, and they still hadn't determined who the murderer was.
Su Chen didn't say anything. He walked towards the idiot, who immediately grinned foolishly, looking utterly adorable.
The next moment.
A surge of Divine Sense erupted from Su Chen's Sea of Consciousness, directly probing Past the fool. This fool was just an ordinary person, how could he possibly resist Su Chen? In the blink of an eye, he was stunned in place, his Sea of Consciousness occupied by Su Chen.
Su Chen quickly gained access to all of his Memories.
Three days later, that evening, several figures descended from the sky and appeared at the Gongsun Family. Within about thirty or forty breaths, those figures disappeared again, fleeing towards some unknown place.
Su Chen immediately looked in the direction the group of people had fled.
Um?
In the center of the Chaos Stone City?
The Gongsun Family was located on the eastern outskirts of the city, while the group of Black-Clothed Man headed towards the very center of Chaos Stone City.
This is unreasonable.
Since it was the Bloodthirsty Divine Cult that did it, they must have left Chaotic Chaos Stone City after succeeding, rather than staying there. Even if they were to stay, they would definitely go to a more secluded place.
There are many powerful individuals in the center of Chaos Stone City, making it difficult to hide.
Could it be that the Bloodthirsty Divine Cult wasn't behind it at all?
But this makes even more sense. The same group of people destroyed the three major Lineage. They had no grudges against each other and no common enemy. Why would someone specifically target them?
However, the only certainty now is that the murderer is in the center of the Chaos Stone City.
Tomorrow is the Boulder Convention, and this is his only chance. If the Bloodthirsty Divine Cult doesn't make a move, he'll have a hard time finding them.
Unless we use methods that surpass his current abilities, but wouldn't that be a foul?
Su Chen remained calm as he returned to the Restaurant.
Qin Ran sat down and looked outside, sighing, "So many people from the three major Lineage, wiped out without even a trace of their roots. These people are truly ruthless."
"However, many members of the Demonic Cult have well-hidden identities. If we ask them today and it turns out that the destruction of these three Lineage was indeed the work of the Demonic Cult, then we've probably already been exposed."
Qin Ran wasn't stupid; he was quick-witted and soon figured out the general idea.
Su Chen nodded; that was indeed true.
But he had already thought this through. His intention in asking the real culprit openly was to make him known, and ideally, to have the culprit come to him directly.
Fishing.
I just don't know if I'll be able to catch anything.
"Sir, this is a gift from someone who said they were an old acquaintance of yours and specifically requested it for you."
Suddenly, the waiter came down from below, carrying a wooden box in his hands.
Su Chen frowned slightly. Before he could ask who had given him the gift, the waiter had already run off to continue his work.
Qin Ran opened the wooden box, and his expression immediately changed.
Su Chen also glanced at the wooden box, his eyes darkening.
Is this... a warning?
Inside the wooden box were a pair of eyeballs and two blood-stained hands. Su Chen turned his head to look at the street behind him, where the idiot had been. But the idiot was gone.
It seems the fish has indeed taken the bait.
However, Su Chen's eyes were filled with a cold killing intent. Although this fool was foolish, he was still a human life. Su Chen was not the kind of cold-hearted person.
Aside from showing no mercy to enemies and obstacles, Su Chen wouldn't indiscriminately kill anyone else he didn't want to be involved with.
Take this idiot, for example.
His death was entirely his own doing.
Su Chen took a deep breath, his gaze gradually returning to calm, and a slight smile appeared on his lips, "Interesting. It seems the person behind this has indeed discovered us."
"I just don't know if he even knows who we are."
Qin Ran swallowed hard. He had a feeling things weren't so simple. "Should we ask the sect for help?"
All of the current events seem incredibly bizarre, and he is genuinely frightened.
Su Chen shook his head. "No rush, I'd like to see who this is."
As he spoke, he patted Qin Ran on the shoulder. "In the future, when you go out on missions, be more prepared, or you won't even know how you died."
At the same time, in the alleyway from where they were Restaurant, an ordinary-looking young man slowly walked forward, as if he were just a passerby.
He didn't notice that a mechanical bird was leisurely following him from the rooftop.
The young man quickly disappeared into the crowd, and the last place he appeared was a Textile Factory.
The mechanical bird didn't continue the chase, but instead perched on a tree at a distance, observing.
Is this a gathering place for Demonic Cult?
The geographical location also fits; it's right in the center of the Chaos Stone City.
"Let's go, it seems we've found the killer."
Su Chen stood up, and Qin Ran finally snapped out of his daze. He still didn't understand what Su Chen meant by what he had just said.
What was found?
Murderer?
How did you find it?
Qin Ran looked completely bewildered; he had no idea what had happened.
He always had this feeling of "Who am I? Where am I?" He couldn't keep up with Su Chen's pace at all along the way.