Cao Yiming agreed. There was little point in gossiping about an enemy. The most urgent matter was to uncover the Eternal Night Church's purpose, the source of the Demon Stones, and locate the Demon Stones within Banyan City's secret realms.
With that in mind, Cao Yiming turned to Elder Li and asked.
"Teacher, do you have any way to find Demon Stones? Several secret realms have already shown abnormalities, and they were probably caused by Demon Stones. We need to inspect every secret realm in Banyan City, but searching based on appearance alone would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Do you have any good ideas?"
Cao Yiming looked utterly helpless. It was just a stone, and its only distinguishing feature was that it was black. How were they supposed to find it? They could only place their hopes on his well-traveled teacher. Elder Li had lived through the Demon Dragon Calamity, so perhaps he had a solution.
"Finding them isn't as difficult as you think. Demon Stones are products affected by the Dark Demon Dragon's dark power, and they contain vast amounts of it. You just need a barrier master to set up a simple detection array. If I remember correctly, Fang Tianhai is a barrier master, isn't he? Just go to him."
Cao Yiming's eyes lit up after hearing Elder Li's words. He had not expected the problem to be solved so easily. He felt immensely fortunate that Elder Li was here. Otherwise, this truly would have been a massive headache.
"By the way, Xuejun, based on what you said, Ji... Sikong Luohe was an eighth-rank Guardian, wasn't he? How did you escape?"
Elder Li suddenly remembered that although Ji Xuejun was also an SS-rank super genius, she was only seventh-rank. How could she possibly