"The people involved in this battle were probably no weaklings... This corpse alone must have possessed the strength of a High-tier Dou Zong in life."
Xiao Yan rose from beside the mangled corpse, burned the bloodstains from his hands with Dou Qi, and slowly spoke to the pink-haired girl behind him.
Suppressing her discomfort, Liuli glanced at the pierced robes on the corpse and said softly, "Those clothes belong to the Yao Family!"
As she and Xiao Yan hurried toward the junction between the Inner Realm and the outside world of the Spirit Imprisonment Realm, they had suddenly sensed intense residual Dou Qi fluctuations below. After landing to investigate, they discovered two corpses on this battlefield. It appeared to have been a pursuit, with traces of battle stretching westward for who knew how far. The fighting had been extremely brutal.
"People from the Yao Family..." Xiao Yan pondered for a moment before his expression suddenly changed. "Could something have happened at the Divine Tree?"
The strong individuals of the Ten Great Powers stuck together, and each possessed trump cards bestowed by their sects or clans. Even if they encountered a Dou Venerate, they had the means to contend with one. In this desolate outside world, there should have been nothing capable of threatening them, unless...
"Soul Hall..." Xiao Yan narrowed his eyes at the black corrosion marks on the Yao Family elder's corpse.
Upon reaching the Dou Zong realm, one's Soul Power was already exceptionally strong. Even if the physical body was destroyed, one should still have been able to condense that Soul Power and become a Soul Body like Old Yao. Yet Xiao Yan could not sense the slightest trace of Soul Power within these two corpses, as if it had been forcibly extracted...
Of course, it was also