Jiang Ding suppressed the thoughts stirring in his heart and began carefully reading the Blood Lake Ancestor's memories.
He skipped the slaughter, the bloodshed, and the scenes of revelry and torture that turned the stomach, focusing instead on extracting useful intelligence.
"He wasn't lying earlier. The Immortal Artifact Sect truly excels at mechanical puppets. None under heaven can match them."
"In the Blood Lake Ancestor's mind, the Immortal Artifact Sect has always been this way. Nothing ever changed... To learn what happened between the old Spiritual Treasure Realm and today's Immortal Artifact Sect after the coup, I may need someone stronger, or more closely guarded intelligence."
Jiang Ding archived what he had gathered.
In this upper realm, intelligence on the Immortal Orders and powers approaching immortality was the source of everything. Every change spread outward from the Immortal Orders, then took shape as time worked upon it.
"Now I know why the Blood Lake Ancestor showed such a desperate need for Spirit Transformation and Nascent Soul Cultivators."
"The pressure came from the Blood Puppet Elder Faction within the Immortal Artifact Sect. The Blood Puppet Elder founded Blood Lake Bone Mountain a hundred thousand years ago. His descendants and direct disciples stuck together and pushed forward with ambition. With luck on their side, they rose to prominence around fifty thousand years ago. The faction even produced a Dao Integration Divine Lord and became highly influential within the Immortal Artifact Sect..."
"But that wasn't the main reason the Blood Lake Ancestor received their protection and favor."
"To the Blood Puppet Faction in the Immortal Artifact Sect, the cultivators of Blood Lake Bone Mountain were merely poor relatives from the countryside. They'd never cared much for them. Even on the rare occasions they met, their reception was lukewarm. There was no question of