Wang Bianzhu quailed beneath Lu Feng's glare and hurriedly replied, "N-No, I wouldn't dare hide anything. We all swore soul oaths before. We told you everything we knew."
"No," Zhou Hu suddenly recalled something and reminded them, "Do you remember what Old Ma said in a panic before he escaped?"
Wang Bianzhu froze, puzzled. "Telling us to run? Telling us not to touch the Heavenly Dao Soul Fire? What was strange about that? He was worried those people would target us too, so he said those things out of concern, wasn't he?"
Li Yu shook her head and summed up, "Looking at it now, I'm afraid that wasn't the case. Before Old Ma and the others were retaliated against, their team had discovered a Myriad Aspects Soul Fire."
Wang Bianzhu finally understood, and a chill ran down his back. He cried out, "Could it be... the Flame Dragon Blade Sect's retaliation wasn't merely because Old Ma and the others had schemed against them and stolen some Soul Fire Source? They accidentally discovered that Old Ma's group had found a Myriad Aspects Soul Fire, and only then developed murderous intent? Using revenge as a pretext to conceal the truth of seizing the Myriad Aspects Soul Fire? Their true target was the Soul Fire itself, not Old Ma and the others?"
Li Yu nodded. "That should be it. But what do they need so many Myriad Aspects Soul Fires for? Logically, shouldn't refining just one be enough to break through to the upper space? Or do the Myriad Aspects Soul Fires that can be found here have another use for them? A use that cannot be revealed openly, forcing them to plunder them in secret?"
Zhou Hu shook his head to show he did not know. After thinking for a moment, he