Danxia Sect had descended into chaos.
When Danxia Sect received the letter written in Ren Feng's own hand, many cultivators in the sect still bore hostility toward Luoling Sect. Even so, they all knew that things couldn't go on like this forever.
There were only two choices before them.
Either keep fighting or negotiate peace.
The cultivators of Danxia Sect had no clear preference. They would rather decide how to handle the trouble caused by this Spirit Stone mine based on the terms Luoling Sect proposed during negotiations.
Before responding to Luoling Sect, Danxia Sect decided to take stock of the situation at the mine first.
The results of that investigation sent the entire sect into an uproar.
The mine's reserves, equivalent to tens of millions of Spirit Stones, had vanished without a trace.
This sudden development had even alarmed Danxia Sect's Sect Master.
Yet even the Sect Master couldn't begin to understand how a mine with reserves of tens of millions of Spirit Stones could have been robbed.
Could it have been Luoling Sect?
No. Ever since the war ended decades ago, the mine had remained under Danxia Sect's control.
But because ownership of the Spirit Stone mine was still disputed, Danxia Sect had never mined it. Instead, it had stationed dozens of cultivators around the mine year-round to prevent anything from going wrong.
In other words, Luoling Sect couldn't have stolen the mine's reserves.
Could the disciples sent to guard the mine have stolen them themselves?
The elders of Danxia Sect did entertain this suspicion, but it was quickly dismissed.
The disciples assigned to guard the Spirit Stone mine simply weren't capable of stealing its reserves.
And emptying the entire mine of its Spirit Stones in just a few decades was even more impossible.
So who could it