The destruction of Pavilion Master Fu's squad was discovered by other Soul Clan members before long.
Every ten hours, each squad sent someone back to relay information, and many squad members were still traveling the long road back and forth to deliver messages.
Thus, returning messengers soon discovered that the squad had vanished without a trace and immediately went back to report it.
But the remaining personnel continued exploring ahead.
Xuan Bei, who had discovered news of the Spirit Clan, had already returned ahead of them.
However, they had been searching for more than half a month. They were already more than half a month's journey away from the original starting point of their search—the place where the Heavenly Soul Source World had once been.
In other words, Xuan Bei would need at least more than half a month to return to the original starting point and pass on the news.
Then, delivering this news to every squad would require nearly twice as much time.
With the time needed for those squads to return added in, no one knew how long it would be before the Soul Clan army reached the place where Pavilion Master Fu and the others had disappeared.
Relaying news back and forth greatly delayed the Soul Clan's pursuit. If this continued, the Soul Clan army would almost never catch up to the Heavenly Soul Source World, and the distance between them would only grow wider and wider.
Nor could the remaining members of Pavilion Master Fu's squad possibly know that the Spirit Clan had changed direction, much less continue pursuing them.
The upper echelon of the Lu Yang Tribe naturally understood this drawback, but there was nothing they could do about it.
Still, they believed that since the Spirit Clan had occupied the Heavenly Soul Source