The Ineffectual Investigation

The images on the long scroll vanished, and everyone fell silent.

What had originally been a banquet where host and guests alike were enjoying themselves had unexpectedly ended in such a mess, leaving everyone thoroughly dissatisfied.

"Rest assured, sir, this is absolutely not the doing of the Alliance or Qingyang Group. For these thieves to dare commit such an outrage and rob Spirit Grain, they must have set their sights on the profits involved. They were insolent in speech and so brazen in conduct. We will certainly make the mastermind behind this pay the price."

Judging from the scenes just shown, those who had carried out the robbery were clearly no ordinary rogue cultivators.

The Heyang City cultivators aboard the train had never been a rabble. The fact that they were assigned to field duty already proved that their cultivation was far from weak.

Furthermore, as the train was an important asset of the Alliance, its construction could be called flawless.

All manner of spirit-armored outer plating had been installed, along with talismans and true formations.

At high speed, a head-on collision could send even a Core Formation cultivator flying. Its power was plain to see.

Yet even under such circumstances, the bandits had slaughtered everyone and carried off the goods. A sect had to be backing them.

The words of the leader at the end had also made things very clear.

They were sects located along the route. Knowing that Spirit Grain was valuable, they had simply seized it by force.

What did that mean?

Clearly, some sects that had not joined in were dissatisfied.

That was hardly surprising.

The sects within Heyang City had all passed inspection before being allowed to establish branch sects here. While the major sects were unwilling to see Heyang City collapse entirely, some