The attachment was a spreadsheet. Once the download finished, Zhang Yuanqing opened it. The spreadsheet had ten pages, one for each year. The page with the highest number listed 2,300 people.
The page with the lowest number listed 1,600 people.
From 1990 to 2000, the total number of Night Wanderers in the Taiyi Sect had never exceeded 2,500.
Across millions of square kilometers of land and a population of over a billion, Night Wanderers were indeed scarce by that proportion.
Of course, the number of wild Night Wanderers could not be underestimated either, but compared to the total population, they were still rare.
Zhang Yuanqing stared at the spreadsheet and quickly pondered to himself:
"For now, I can't determine whether the Night Wanderer among the Shadow Twins is official or wild. I'll have to investigate step by step."
"Hmm, the Light Compass appeared in 1998. At that time, the Carefree Organization and the Four Sons of Blazing Sun and Shadow were all peak Sovereigns. Between 1990 and 2000, the Taiyi Sect had nine peak Sovereigns. Six of them had returned to the Spirit Realm before 1998, so they couldn't possibly have participated in the fight over the compass. They probably weren't the shadow Night Wanderer."
"The three who were still alive were the Grand Elder, Crimson Sun Executioner; the Spirit Medium Elder, who managed the training camp; and the Starry Sea Elder, who commanded the patrol teams."
"I'll start with those three. The Carefree Organization vanished more than twenty years ago. Only the old-timers would know about those old events. Who should I ask? Yuan Ting definitely won't do—he's too young to know about something that far back."
"Besides, with his style, before I learn anything about the Sovereigns' past, news that Yuanshi Tianzun is investigating the Sovereigns will spread