Unless one saw it with one's own eyes, it was hard to imagine what it looked like when more than two thousand people died in a single mine cave.
And they had been more than two thousand Cloud River Realm cultivators, including quite a few Tier Eight and Tier Nine powerhouses.
Nothing this major had happened on the Cloud River Battlefield in a long time. Thus, even though only Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators had initially known of it, in less than half a day, the entire Cloud River Battlefield had heard the news.
The Cloud River Battlefield was shaken.
The Nine Provinces were shaken!
As time passed, more and more details came to light.
The gathering of those two thousand-plus cultivators had not been a coincidence. They had been pursuing Lu Yiye of the Crimson Blood Sect. Before this, they had received news that Lu Yiye was seriously injured and hiding in that mine cave to recuperate. They had thought it would be a crushing siege, yet somehow, more than two thousand Myriad Demon Ridge Cultivators had all died unnatural deaths.
Judging from the evidence left at the scene, many cultivators had been poisoned to death. Even those with obvious external wounds showed signs of poisoning.
In other words, Lu Yiye had somehow obtained a terrifying poison and released it in that sealed environment. The mine cave had been blocked off, leaving the Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators no hope of escape, and in the end, the entire force had been wiped out.
In fact, before Xia Liang and Tan Sheng led people to investigate the inside of the mine cave, much information had already spread.
Many Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators, such as Ming Zhe of the Sacred Universe Spiritual Land, had told their fellow sect members what had happened inside