For several days in a row, while handling some sect affairs in Jian Qianxiong's stead, Ye Zhen also used the authority in his hands to begin gathering information on powerful figures within the True Spirit Domain whose cultivation had once reached the ninth level of the Palace Opening Realm over the past eight hundred years.
Especially those powerful figures who had kept their whereabouts concealed and whose deaths had never been clearly confirmed.
Ye Zhen hoped to trace this mysterious Old Qiao's origins through these scattered clues.
He was even more curious about the answer Old Qiao had spent more than four hundred years seeking.
However, after only five days, Ye Zhen gave up on this meaningless effort.
There were not many powerful figures at the ninth level of the Palace Opening Realm. The True Spirit Domain might not produce even one in a hundred years. Yet the intelligence division of the Sun Moon Divine Cult had compiled records of more than a hundred King-level experts who had reached the ninth level of the Palace Opening Realm over the past eight hundred years.
Upon closer investigation, he discovered that most of those hundred-odd people were Kings who had come to the True Spirit Domain from other regions. Some might have merely been passing through, some might have come to handle matters, and some might have been fleeing disaster. Their numbers were considerable.
Moreover, the Internal Affairs Hall of the Sun Moon Divine Cult could only provide an approximate number; it knew none of the details.
Investigating matters from a hundred years ago was already exceedingly difficult, much less matters from eight hundred years ago.
Besides, Ye Zhen had realized that this needle-in-a-haystack method of his would never uncover the mysterious Old Qiao's origins.
A King at the ninth level of