It was conceivable that not only had Founding Ancestor left in advance, but the Five Elements Holy Sect had likely also transferred away a batch of elite disciples to evade the calamity that might bring the sect's destruction!
This journey could not be considered perfect.
Zhang Qingyuan found it somewhat regrettable that he had failed to uproot them completely.
But there was nothing to be done about that.
In truth, if he had been able to directly attack the Five Elements Holy Sect after the battle at the Wuxuan Sect Ruins in the Outer Sea, he would certainly have been able to block the Five Elements Holy Sect from transferring its elite disciples and the precious treasures within its treasury.
But the problem was,
he had also been severely injured in that battle.
Chasing into the other party's territory with an injured body was simply too dangerous.
And by the time his injuries had healed,
the other side would likely have long since prepared for the transfer.
At that point, attacking the Five Elements Holy Sect would have made little difference from attacking them even later.
Zhang Qingyuan had expected this.
This was precisely why he had first paid a visit to the Demon Sect headquarters, then entered seclusion and spent nearly two years deducing puppet techniques and refining a Myriad Transformations-level Corpse Refining Puppet before finally heading to the Five Elements Sect.
Since he had failed to get there at the first opportunity,
he might as well make ample preparations before coming to their door.
And this decision
seemed, in some subtle way, to have helped Zhang Qingyuan evade a calamity.
Because
when he destroyed the Five Elements Holy Sect, Zhang Qingyuan had directly performed a Soul Search on the Five Elements Holy Sect's Sect Master, Yang Tianlan, in