Traitors would never receive trust or rewards. Even if they were rewarded for a time, at some point they would be made to die "of natural causes."
This was a lesson countless powerhouses had paid for in blood.
If you could betray others today, you could betray them tomorrow.
No one would let a traitor control their true core interests.
More powerhouses quietly departed, piloting their Void Vessels into hiding in the Eternal Silence Region.
They controlled everything remotely through other Void Vessels.
Li Qing did not care about their choices. The gulf between them had already widened beyond anything they could ever bridge.
At the True Realm, the Four Sourceflows soon cleared out every suspicious target.
The Immortal Spirit Sourceflow said calmly, "The targets have been cleared out."
"But things aren't as good as we thought."
"There were over ten thousand suspicious targets, but fewer than a thousand could actually be confirmed."
"There must be more parasitized individuals hiding in the True Realm. We need to conduct observations on a broad scale."
"However, that will take a long time."
The Four Sourceflows had gathered at least half their power here, and only by layering their powers together had they opened a view into the unknown dimension.
Their observations required them to select a target, lock onto its coordinates, then conduct a focused observation through the unknown dimension.
Thus, broad-scale observation would take time, and the gains might not be proportional.
The Gods and Devils Sourceflow said gravely, "There's no better method right now. We can only use the Exhaustive Search Method."
"Let's continue, starting from the north of the True Realm."
The Four Sourceflows began their search, observing the cultivators in the northern cities first and overlooking no living being.
Li Qing's puppet, concealed within Mysterious Spirit Mountain, silently