With Luo Yuanhua joining them, Feng Jun's group now had seven Venerables and two True Lords.
The nine of them split into nine teams and set out separately to capture the known Thieving Vein cultivators across Heavenly Zither.
Feng Jun was paired with... the Jiang Clan Venerable. There was no helping it; Yi Jue was chiefly targeting Thieving Vein cultivators from the sects.
Of the nine, only Qing Yao, Hanhai, and she were sect Venerables. Only those three could move against sect cultivators.
If the great powers of other clans directly targeted sect cultivators, it could easily cause unnecessary complications.
But the sect system had only Seven Sects and Seventeen Paths in total—Spirit Wood Dao was gone—making twenty-four factions altogether.
So three people were basically enough to handle them.
Some Thieving Vein cultivators were not near their sects, while others were even in Lower Sect branches in the Lower Realm. This was hardly an easy task.
However, the people and forces faced by the other six great powers were even more complicated. So even with twice as many people, they were still somewhat stretched thin.
Both True Lords wanted to protect Feng Jun, but after asking around, Feng Jun discovered that the Jiang Clan Venerable needed him more.
The Jiang Clan had a sufficiently ancient history—any force capable of producing a Venerable was no simple matter.
But over the past thirty thousand years, the Jiang Clan had steadily declined. Its ranking among clans had continually fallen, and now only this one Venerable remained.
That was precisely why he was exceptionally enraged that one of his clan's talented juniors had joined the Thieving Vein.
And because this Venerable rarely showed himself, his reputation was somewhat less imposing than that of the other Venerables. He would likely encounter some trouble while making