Important Matters on the Other Side of the Scale

"There was more than one group involved. I don't know exactly how many people made a move, but whoever handled the cleanup at the end was extremely experienced."

Amid the broken eaves and shattered walls, Ye Xiu, dressed in a light-gray long coat, rose to his feet and dusted off his hands, letting the ashes scatter onto the ground.

"Did you find anything over here, sir?"

Huai Jin True Person, standing nearby, seemed deeply unused to this sort of firsthand fieldwork. His long robe fluttered in the wind, immaculate white without a speck of dust, looking utterly out of place amid the ruins.

Ye Xiu raised a brow and glanced at the Purple Palace realm grand cultivator, a helpless smile appearing on his face.

"The Alliance has only been established for a short time, and many things are still being explored as we go. To be honest, plenty of our official assets have been looted over the years, but very few people have managed to leave their hands this clean—not even the slightest trace of a fight."

"I've heard that the great sects of the upper ranks possess tracking techniques. Might I have the honor of seeing one today?"

Ye Xiu had put on a very humble manner, but Huai Jin True Person's expression did not look particularly good.

The tracking technique Ye Xiu spoke of did indeed exist, but no technique was omnipotent.

At its root, every technique relied on spiritual power that remained within heaven and earth.

The higher a cultivator's realm, the stronger their perception and control of spiritual power. These tracking techniques operated on the same principle, following special trails of spiritual power back to their source.

But the battlefield before them was already three full days removed from the incident.

Never mind that the cultivators