But then news broke that tens of thousands of troops from the Yu Kingdom had been wiped out as well, and that theory fell apart.
No one would sacrifice their own army along with the enemy.
Yet that only made the incident all the more baffling.
As word spread, many Ghost Immortals traveled to Central Province to investigate in person.
They discovered that this unknown expert had destroyed the Yu Kingdom's army first, then the Great Zen Temple.
An army was nothing like other factions.
With their incredibly dense blood energy and murderous aura, several Human Immortal experts, and coordinated battle formations, such a force had few rivals anywhere in the Great Chiliocosm World.
A single surge of that blood energy would render a Ghost Immortal's Daoist arts useless and shatter their Yin Spirit thoughts.
Yet even such a terrifying force had had its souls erased by a Daoist art.
Just how powerful must someone be to accomplish that? It was practically the work of a living Yang God.
The ruins of the Great Zen Temple, meanwhile, clearly bore the marks of a martial expert.
That supremely domineering fist intent still lingered, refusing to dissipate.
The site of the battle that had erupted far from the Great Zen Temple was also uncovered. Its fist intent was identical to the traces left at the temple.
In other words, this martial expert must have joined forces with a Ghost Immortal whose strength rivaled the Yang God realm, allowing them to wipe out every monk in the Great Zen Temple with astonishing speed.
It was also the presence of such a Ghost Immortal that had prevented even a single survivor from escaping.
As for what had actually happened, the various factions remained in the dark. Everything was speculation.
But the Yu Kingdom's leadership