After emerging from the secret passage of Ying Family Fort, Zhang Tie circled the fort once more in flight, hoping to find some clue. Unfortunately, apart from seven as-yet-unactivated underground escape tunnels leading to different places, there was nothing of value or any useful leads outside Ying Family Fort.
Under the Lotus Blossom Eye, those underground tunnels had nowhere to hide. To Zhang Tie, the entire earth seemed transparent. Flying through the air, he swiftly traced all seven tunnels, going to inspect the end of each one, yet found nothing.
The exits of these tunnels were all in concealed locations—some in mountain forests or lakes, some inside private residences in Red Mountain City, and some connected to the Martial Emperor Temple in Red Mountain City. The farthest stretched over a hundred kilometers away, while even the shortest ran for more than ten kilometers. Tunnels extended in every direction, yet everything at their exits was normal. No corpses or bloodstains had been found inside, nor had any of the mechanisms been triggered. This meant that the Yin-Yang Sect people had not even had time to activate these escape passages. Even the quickest among them had only just entered the underground level when Ying Family Fort was destroyed and the people above came slaughtering down.
The enemy had moved swiftly—so swiftly that the Yin-Yang Sect people had had no time to react. Moreover, they seemed extremely familiar with Ying Family Fort. That was somewhat unusual, yet beyond doubt.
After making a round outside, Zhang Tie returned to the skies above Ying Family Fort.
The experts from the Martial Emperor Temple had yet to arrive. Its people still surrounded Ying Family Fort, while the surrounding hillsides bustled with countless people talking among themselves.
Without needing to ask anyone, merely by sorting through the