The alchemy convention had ended.
As more and more people left, by the time Li Su and Guo Yuyun finished cultivating, roughly eighty percent of the attendees had already departed. The rest would likely set out one after another within the next day or two, leaving Great Luo Mountain.
The convention ending had, without question, only been a matter of time.
What Li Su cared about was that, even now, Blood Sword Venerable and the others had yet to return.
It had been far too long—nearly twenty days. With Saints stepping in and even supreme Great Luo cultivators rushing over, this delay was excessive.
Yet although Blood Sword Venerable had not returned, a junior brother from the Human Sect had come to see him.
It was the junior brother he had encountered at the exchange. After Li Su left the Elucidation Sect's palace, the man had come directly to his door.
His reason for coming was simple: the outcome of the matter in which people at the exchange had targeted Li Su's magical treasure had come out.
That father and son were dead.
Not long after being detained, they had silently died in the Human Sect's prison, specifically used to deal with rule-breakers.
Their bodies remained, but their souls had vanished completely, leaving behind not the slightest useful information.
Li Su was somewhat surprised to hear this. He had handed them over to the Human Sect first because that setting had not been suitable for killing people outright, and second because he wanted to use the Human Sect to make those behind them feel the heat.
He had not expected the other side to be so direct, killing them to silence them right under the Human Sect's nose.
The Human Sect junior brother who had come to inform Li Su