Supreme Heaven was only so big. After Chen Changan and the others had searched every inch of it, they still hadn't found a single person.
The bizarre situation made Chen Changan furrow his brow.
Could it really be just as Da Huang said? Had they run away?
"Junzi Nian, you used to live in Supreme Heaven. You should know this place better than anyone."
"Are there any hidden spaces or passageways here?"
Hearing Chen Changan's question, Junzi Nian helplessly shook his head. "That was so many years ago. There weren't any back then, but that doesn't mean there aren't any now."
"Who knows what Nian Junxin has been up to in Supreme Heaven all these years?"
"But given how deranged Nian Junxin became in her later years, I think she'd rather die with you than run away."
"Running away isn't her style."
She hadn't run away?
Then where had she gone?
"Ren Xuan, are there any especially secluded places in the Nine Profound Domain?"
"Could Nian Junxin's plans still be unfinished, but she learned through Bao Dating's well-connected intelligence network that I was coming, and moved elsewhere in advance?"
After Chen Changan finished speaking, Ren Xuan pondered the question carefully.
"As far as I know, there really are some secluded places in the Nine Profound Domain. Take the Abyss of Ten Thousand Races, for example. If you hadn't been there, you wouldn't have known it existed."
"But when did they leave? How come there isn't a trace of them?"
"Judging by the state of Supreme Heaven, it seems someone was active here within the past few years."
"And there's so much deathly aura here. Why is there no smell of blood? Why haven't we found any bones?"
"Could it be that they've all been refined?"
They'd all been refined?
Had