After the strength of the fighters at their side had improved considerably, Chi Xue and the others began looking for sects skilled in gathering intelligence. They knew that these specialized sects were better suited to finding all kinds of Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures, so they questioned the cultivators they had captured and learned about several sects that excelled at intelligence gathering.
Chi Xue and the others were also quite lucky. They soon found a branch outpost of the Dark Pavilion, and with their overwhelming strength, they easily captured its branch leader. Naturally, that meant they had taken control of the branch.
It was worth mentioning that, aside from the Mist Hidden Sect, the Dark Pavilion was the best intelligence-gathering sect in the Outer Realm. Its intelligence was no less accurate or reliable than the Mist Hidden Sect's. So controlling one of its branches would undoubtedly help Chi Xue and the others, at the very least by giving them an advantage in obtaining information about Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures.
For one thing, simply by controlling the Dark Pavilion branch leader, Chi Xue and the others had learned of four Saint-grade Heavenly Treasures they had yet to obtain. That showed just how useful an intelligence sect could be to them in their search for such treasures.
But Chi Xue and the others soon faced another problem: it was practically impossible to take control of every Dark Pavilion branch. Like the Mist Hidden Sect, the Dark Pavilion had branches spread throughout the entire star domain. Controlling them would mean capturing the leaders or experts of those branches, something that was nearly impossible for Chi Xue and the others.
It would take them an extremely long time just to travel throughout the Outer Realm. And the Dark Pavilion also had many powerful experts whom they couldn't