Soul Search

Shen Mo used Well Wood Tapir Prison to detain Chen Mengze and Mingyu, then returned to the Azure Cloud Grotto-Heaven.

Only after entering the sect's Longevity Hall did he disperse the Great Hand Seal immortal art and release the two of them... Chen Mengze and Mingyu also knew that if they continued fighting now, Shen Mo would still show them no mercy and lock them back inside the spell prison. Thus, after being released, both obediently stood to one side. Aside from refusing to give each other a pleasant look, they did not resume their earlier struggle!

The two vice sect masters, Yuan Heming and Mingcang, followed him inside together;

Situ, who had previously remained aloof from the matter, arrived late with a faintly inexplicable smile!

Afterward, Shen Mo summoned Guo Xun, the master of the Law Enforcement Hall, ordering him to bring the law enforcement elders investigating this matter and all disciples involved to the Longevity Hall for questioning.

A short while later, everyone had gathered.

The Azure Cloud Peak disciples and Ascension Lake disciples involved were also brought in under escort by the law enforcement elders, kneeling in a cluster within the great hall!

The former seemed to realize that matters had grown serious. They knelt on the ground, trembling like leaves, looking terrified and uneasy... These seven disciples were each battered black and blue, their bones and sinews injured, with serious hidden wounds within their bodies. Some injuries had been sustained while fighting back against the third-tier river demon, while others came from their vicious battle with the Ascension Lake disciples.

Shen Mo found all of these people rather unfamiliar.

After all, once he had reached the Origin Core Realm, he had stepped down as Azure Cloud Peak Master;

After so many years, among the Azure