You had learned roughly about the three-faction alliance, but why they had done this—and what lay behind it—had been obstructed from your view.
After meeting Lu Wuyou, you learned more useful information from this professional Qi Observer. This concealment of the divination was far from as simple as you had imagined; it was not merely influenced by human interference!
Only then, following Lu Wuyou's words, did you learn that before your own divination, Lu Wushuang had already sought out Lu Wuyou and asked him to give it a try. After painstaking calculations, Lu Wuyou's results had not been much better than yours.
However, Lu Wuyou ultimately possessed far more experience than you did. Based on those divinations, he had seen more than you, allowing him to determine directly that aside from the human concealment employed by Jin Wuya and the others, there was also a kind of rule-level concealment meant to prevent others from digging deeper.
Such rule-level divinations were rarely seen, and treasures capable of resisting divination at that level were even scarcer. At the very least, Lu Wuyou did not believe that the three factions, including the Spirit Palace, possessed such foundations.
After ruling out the possibility of a supreme treasure, only two possibilities remained. The first was a Qi Observer whose strength far surpassed Lu Wuyou's, whose mastery of divination was sufficient to touch upon rules—a being even rarer than an ordinary Supreme Dao Pioneer. This possibility was likewise slim, but compared to the near impossibility of anti-divination treasures, it was still possible for the three factions to spend enormous sums to hire someone.
The second possibility was that the reason those people had formed an alliance directly involved a crucial secret of another world. That world itself might possess immensely powerful anti-divination rules, delivering a dimensionality-reduction