The clansman it had deliberately sent to attend the banquet was by no means weak.
In fact, that clansman could already be counted among the strongest members of the Nirvana Crimson Phoenix Clan, apart from the clan leader itself.
Yet the North Sea Dragon Palace had not opened its jaws to swallow such a delectable morsel delivered straight to its lips. That alone spoke volumes.
But the more it considered this, the stranger the whole affair seemed.
Especially after it received the news spreading like wildfire across the Endless Sea and learned that a Personal Disciple of Xuantian Tower had died a gruesome death in the Northern Endless Sea, its doubts only deepened.
Through the Princess's birthday banquet, it had successfully ruled out the North Sea Dragon Palace as the culprit.
Then this news had suddenly emerged about Xuantian Tower, the only remaining possible culprit.
That had largely cleared both powers of suspicion in one stroke.
Otherwise, given the formidable strength of these two powers, if they truly intended to slaughter its Nirvana Crimson Phoenix Clan,
the clan would have had no hope of survival, even without such underhanded little tricks.
Still, these two incidents had helped it untangle some of the truth from the fog shrouding its thoughts.
In both cases, someone had secretly struck at a junior belonging to a major power, with no prior grudge to trace.
There was a very strong chance that its youngest son and Xuantian Tower's Personal Disciple had died at the hands of the same individual, or perhaps the same faction.
And if a faction of such formidable strength had secretly established itself in the Northern Endless Sea, it would inevitably leave some traces, no matter how carefully it concealed the process.
Moreover, judging from the images displayed in that jade slip,