In the eyes of the cultivators, even though the flying Wei Tongyin differed greatly in bearing and expression from usual, his gaze was condensed yet unshattered, and his aura burned without disorder. Looking at his surroundings, the domain that naturally formed to resist the Three Suns Tribulation Fire also flowed with perfect order.
For a Longevity True Man like him, who was also of the orthodox Confucian-Xuan lineage, the resilience of his mind was beyond ordinary comparison. Once that mind was destroyed, the impact suffered would be all-encompassing, yet up to this point, none of them felt his cultivation base had suffered any loss. Clearly, his wits were clear, and this was definitely not the style of the burning figures split off earlier.
This situation... was truly even worse.
Many thought of how, according to the Siming Sect's intelligence, Wei Tongyin as an elder was precisely responsible for affairs in the region bordering the sect and the Northern Wastelands, and Seven River Peak City was also under his rule. Every move of the Lishan Gate was even more entirely under his control.
These past two years, changes in the city's lake water had drawn several large-scale searches by the Lishui Gate and the Luzhou Water Mansion, yet none had been able to uncover the problem. Yet a huge problem had truly emerged, and this man was indeed hard-pressed to shake off suspicion.
Yet to say Wei Tongyin had betrayed the Siming Sect made no sense at all given his past temperament. Thus, with various contradictions piled together, by past experience there was one enormous possibility:
Heavenly Demon Kin!
Only that Heavenly Demon method of planting demonic seeds and altering human hearts possessed such capability, though it remained unknown whether it was the handiwork of demonic sect cultivators or Outer Realm