The Old Man Tianhun then recounted his encounter with the disappearance of the Ghost School disciples in Xun Province, as well as some clues he had uncovered.
After listening, Jiang Liu and Qin Bailian exchanged glances, and Jiang Liu asked, "Soul Old, have you noticed any distinctive features about these people?"
The Old Man Tianhun shook his head and said, "Since these people had already disappeared by then, I only conducted a cursory investigation and did not delve deeper, so I did not find any distinctive features of them."
After hearing this, Jiang Liu thought to himself, "Although Soul Old didn't find any clues, he did know that they had appeared in Xun Province before. As long as we continue to investigate, we will definitely find some clues."
However, these people must have ulterior motives for secretly kidnapping people.
Moreover, each time they kidnapped disciples, so the strength of the kidnappers must not be very high. Perhaps they also have experts hiding in the shadows.
However, their methods are very secretive, which is something to be careful about.
However, at least it can be confirmed that they are only targeting martial artists who specialize in mental cultivation techniques, because of the connection between Ghost School and Soul Valley.
Therefore, the main cultivation method of the Ghost School is also to cultivate spiritual power.
This suggests that, barring any unforeseen circumstances, the disappearances of the people from Ghost School and Soul Valley were likely the work of the Blood Demon Island.
After all, the only people with unknown origins appearing in Yunzhou right now are from Blood Demon Island.
Subsequently, Jiang Liu asked Qin Bailian to tell the Old Man Tianhun his guess.
Upon hearing this, Old Man Tianhun clenched his fists in anger, for many years ago, a disciple of Soul Valley had also disappeared.
However, at that time, there were more disciples in Soul Valley, and not many disciples went missing.
Therefore, the Old Man Tianhun did not connect these two things.
Unexpectedly, these two incidents were committed by the same group of people.
That would explain why they only operated in Xun Province and Yunzhou.
Because both states have access to the sea, they can flee overseas at any time if their actions are exposed.
After all, their base of operations is overseas, so capturing them overseas would definitely be much more difficult.
However, now that we know it was them who did it, we have a direction and a goal.
Then, Jiang Liu told Old Man Tianhun about the next steps, asking him to cooperate with Qin Bailian and Yi Yue's actions.
The Old Man Tianhun happily agreed, and then the two of them bid farewell to Jiang Liu.
Jiang Liu nodded and let them go back together.
After they left, Jiang Liu sat cross-legged again in the cultivation square and began cultivating the Saintly Sky Art.
Soon, streams of Essence Particles were frantically poured into Jiang Liu's body.
One of the Essence Particles, emanating a special aura, was almost a quarter the size of an ordinary Essence Particles.
These are the Special Essence Particles needed to advance in the cultivation of the Saintly Sky Art. The amount that can be absorbed now is almost twice as much as before.
As this Special Essence Particles entered his body, Jiang Liu could feel some subtle changes in his body.
First, the body's vital energy circulates much faster.
However, this should be related to the secondary strengthening of bones, that is, the strengthening of blood vessels, which has already completed a quarter of the body's work. Although it is very difficult, it is a steady improvement.
Secondly, these special energies seem to further strengthen the dantian.
The Special Essence Particles in the dantian were slowly transforming and gradually forming a new, solidified mass of primordial energy.
These changes also affected the dantian, as if it were being split apart.
Jiang Liu wondered if this change would result in having two dantians. Would one contain ordinary primordial energy, and the other contain special primordial energy?
However, all of this will only become clear after the two types of energy have completely separated.
Jiang Liu is currently focused on absorbing more of these Special Essence Particles so that his dantian can be completely transformed.
With a thought, a deep blue light screen appeared before Jiang Liu's eyes.
Name: Jiang Liu
Realm: Grandmaster (Grandmaster)
Divine Sense: 5.19 kilometers (Characteristic: Devour)
Alchemy (Minor Success 20/500)
Medical Skills (Minor Success 156/1500)
Cultivation Technique: Annihilation by Thought (Heaven Grade, Peak Rank Mastery, 226/)
Beast Mastery Art (Heaven Grade, Peak Rank Mastery)
Saintly Sky Art (Saint Grade Lesser Completion 3833/) Holy Skill: Saintly Sky Strike
Nebula Art (Saint Grade Lesser Completion 7687/) Saint Skill: Nebula Extinction
Seeing his slow progress in accumulating Yuan Qi, Jiang Liu sighed. At this rate, it would take at least four more years to advance to the Peak Grandmaster!
Moreover, after advancing to the Peak Grandmaster, his spiritual power also slowed down, and it is estimated that advancing to the Saint Realm will not be so easy.
However, even though his progress was slow, Jiang Liu was not discouraged at all, because he could always see his strength improving little by little.
They are far superior to those martial artists who can't see any improvement in their strength even after several years or even decades.
Jiang Liu suppressed his complicated thoughts and continued to cultivate the Saintly Sky Art, accumulating and strengthening the vital energy in his dantian.
Two days later, in the early morning, Jiang Liu slowly woke up from his meditation, glanced at Murong Yin was still sleeping peacefully beside him, and got out of bed lightly.
After washing up outside the bedroom, Jiang Liu went to the side hall to have breakfast.
Feng Yue was already sitting there waiting. When she saw Jiang Liu arrive, she smiled sweetly, "Husband, husband! Where is Sister Murong?"
Jiang Liu smiled at Feng Yue without answering, sat down, picked up his bowl, and began to eat his breakfast.
Seeing that Jiang Liu didn't answer, Feng Yue pouted and muttered to herself, "He always favors Sister Murong. Last time she woke up late, everyone was laughing at her."
After the two finished their breakfast, Murong Yin appeared in the side hall, and Feng Yue Murong Yin teased him.
Jiang Liu ignored the two women and let them play around.
At this moment, the messenger from the Listening Wind Pavilion, who was guarding the message room, hurriedly entered the side hall, carrying a secret scroll in his hand.
The messenger held up the secret scroll with both hands and said to Jiang Liu, "Master, a secret message from the Heretic Leader."
Jiang Liu took it, opened it and read the message. It turned out that traces of the Blood Demon Island people had been discovered in Zhu County.
This was something Jiang Liu hadn't expected; he thought it wouldn't be so quick to discover the Blood Demon Island Islanders.
Who knew that these Blood Demon Island people would be so bold as to linger in Yunzhou and even dare to come in the direction from which the Soul Valley disciples had retreated.
It seems that these Blood Demon Island people thought the people of Daqian couldn't capture them, so they were fearless.
Or is there some powerful martial artist protecting them from behind?
It seems I need to go and meet them in person to see what they're relying on.