After thoroughly exterminating Ming Tang, only when the tiny fragment of Ming Tang's true spirit remaining in Ye Zhen's hand could no longer sense any aura from the main body did Ye Zhen relax slightly.
At least along Ming Tang's line, Ye Zhen had cut off the possibility of news about the True Profound Continent being leaked.
Of course, it was not one hundred percent certain.
Bai Zizai and Ming Tang were dead, but Ye Zhen could not be sure whether Ming Tang had told anyone else about the True Profound Continent before his death.
It was precisely for this reason that after killing Ming Tang, Ye Zhen left quietly instead of wreaking havoc in the Marquisate of Tianming.
Ye Zhen feared that too great a disturbance would draw an investigation from the Heaven Temple. If they then discovered that Ming Tang had once visited the Manifestation Water Mansion, and that led them back to the True Profound Continent, it would be troublesome.
The True Profound Continent truly was Ye Zhen's greatest bottom line at present.
Yet even after exterminating Ming Tang, there was no absolute safety.
If Ming Tang had told someone about the True Profound Continent before dying, the trouble might not end here.
Based on their current assessment, Ye Zhen had Niu Er identify the corpses of the Dao Realm cultivators killed beside Ming Tang. Niu Er concluded that these Dao Realm cultivators should have belonged to the Marquisate of Tianming. Many had only defected to the Marquisate of Tianming recently and were most likely Ming Tang's trusted confidants within the marquisate.
This conclusion let Ye Zhen breathe a sigh of relief.
Ming Tang had used his own confidants rather than forces from the Heaven Temple. That meant there was an eighty or ninety percent chance that