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Song Wen returned to his residence.

Set up the Qi-Isolating Formation in the room.

A pile of jade boxes suddenly appeared on the couch. Song Wen took out the Yellow Essence Fungus from his storage ring and sealed them one by one in the jade boxes according to their age, from highest to lowest.

After arriving at the Su Clan, he obtained quite a few storage rings, including many empty jade boxes, which he found one by one.

However, there were far too many Yellow Essence Fungus harvested, exceeding a thousand, and the jade boxes were simply not enough. There was still more than a hundred Yellow Essence Fungus left with nowhere to be stored.

The jade box can minimize the loss of the medicinal properties of Yellow Essence Fungus. If Yellow Essence Fungus placed in a storage ring for a long time, its medicinal properties will gradually weaken.

Just as Song Wen was troubled by the excessive amount of Yellow Essence Fungus, the information sent by the Sacred Beetle Gu on guard outside indicated that a large number of the Su Clan members were heading towards the courtyard where the non-surname cultivators lived.

"They arrived so quickly!" Song Wen muttered to himself.

With a thought, a blood-red Corpse-Nurturing Coffin appeared inside the room.

Upon opening the Corpse-Nurturing Coffin, a third-tier pseudo- Silver Corpse appeared inside.

Song Wen put all of the more than one hundred Yellow Essence Fungus into the Corpse-Nurturing Coffin.

According to the <Corpse Puppet True Canon>, Yellow Essence Fungus is a spiritual object that parasitizes corpses and has the effect of nourishing corpses. Since I have a large amount of Yellow Essence Fungus and don't know what to do with it, rather than letting its medicinal properties slowly dissipate in my storage ring, I might as well throw it all to the Silver Corpse.

Corpse-Nurturing Coffin and then stored all the jade boxes in his storage ring.

Song Wen put away the <Qi-Isolating Formation> and swallowed the storage ring into his stomach.

The Su Clan only has one Golden Core Early Stage cultivator, and his lifespan is nearing its end. It's unlikely that he would descend upon the courtyard of a non-family cultivator to investigate outsiders one by one just because the Yellow Essence Fungus was lost.

Song Wen was confident that he could keep the investigation by the Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Su Clan a secret.

As for the other empty storage rings, Song Wen had the Sacred Beetle Gu drill a hole less than an inch deep in the open space behind the house and bury them all deep underground.

After doing all this, Song Wen sat cross-legged on the couch and closed his eyes to meditate.

Suddenly!

A huge sphere of light appeared in the dark sky above the courtyard.

The sphere of light was over ten feet in diameter and emitted a blinding light, illuminating hundreds of houses in the courtyard as if it were broad daylight.

All the cultivators in the courtyard were startled by the bright light and got up to investigate.

A Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivator from the Su Clan stood in mid-air and shouted loudly.

"Listen up, everyone in the room! I am Su Junhao, the Second Elder of the Su Clan. No matter your status, get out of this room within ten breaths. Otherwise, you will be considered an enemy of the Su Clan and thrown into the Su Clan prison."

"Ten, nine, eight, seven..."

As the countdown began, the non-family cultivators in each house realized that something big was happening, otherwise the Su Clan wouldn't have made such a fuss. Not daring to delay, they all got up and went out.

"... two, one."

When the countdown ended, almost all the non-clan cultivators went to the open space outside the house.

Only a dozen or so non-Buddhist cultivators were delayed for some unknown reason and did not leave in time.

Su Junhao's eyes sharpened as he looked at the still-closed houses. He then shouted to the nearly one hundred Qi Refining Stage members of the Su Clan standing on the ground below.

"Bring them out here! If they resist, kill them on the spot."

The hundred Su Clan cultivators, like a well-trained army, were divided into more than a dozen teams and quickly rushed towards the tightly closed doors.

Before they arrived, a door suddenly opened.

The non-clan cultivator inside hurriedly shouted, "I'm out! Don't arrest me!"

The Su Clan wouldn't listen to his explanation. Several of them surrounded him, tackled him to the ground, and bound him with chains.

The situation was almost identical in the other dozen or so houses. Whether the people who opened the door voluntarily or the Su Clan members broke in, they were all arrested.

Upon seeing this, the hundreds of visiting cultivators standing in the open space began to stir.

Although they submitted to the Su Clan and served them, they were not sold into servitude. They had an equal relationship with the Su Clan were not Su Clan slaves. Moreover, they were all Alchemist, talisman masters, weapon refiners, and array masters, and were quite respected in the Cultivation World.

The fact that the Su Clan arrested people without asking any questions or explaining the situation naturally made them resentful.

Seeing the crowd below gradually becoming noisy, Su Junhao suddenly roared.

"Those who don't want to die, all of you, shut up!"

As the second elder of the Su Clan, Su Junhao was in charge of the entire spirit field. He was largely responsible for the loss of all the Yellow Essence Fungus.

He desperately hoped to find Yellow Essence Fungus to atone for his crimes.

The Su Clan dispatched almost all of its members to search for suspicious individuals around Clearpeace Mountain. At the same time, they also conducted a thorough investigation within the Su Clan itself.

Foreign cultivators like Song Wen were naturally their primary suspects.

Of the hundreds of visiting cultivators, apart from a few Foundation Establishment cultivators who lived in cave abode above the mountainside of Clearpeace Mountain, the rest lived in courtyards at the foot of the mountain.

Su Junhao unleashed his powerful Foundation Establishment Late Stage aura without reservation, creating a sense of oppressive tension, like the calm before a storm, that enveloped the entire courtyard.

The hundreds of visiting cultivators in the open space below felt a chill run down their spines and fell silent, making the entire courtyard so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Having brought the situation under control, Su Junhao looked at the dozen or so captured non-family cultivators and shouted loudly.

"They were all imprisoned in the imperial prison and subjected to severe torture."

In truth, Su Junhao didn't believe he could gain anything useful from these dozen or so cultivators.

These dozen or so people were mostly at the Qi Refining Middle Stage, making it extremely unlikely that they were involved in the theft of the Yellow Essence Fungus.

Upon noticing that these people were dawdling and hadn't yet left their rooms, Su Junhao immediately used his Divine Sense to observe them. Su Junhao could clearly see that these people were delaying their departure because they didn't want to expose certain secrets of theirs.

Among them was a pair of lovers who, fearing their affair would be exposed to the public, hid in their room and dared not come out.

However, right now, Su Junhao needs to establish his authority. Regardless of whether these dozen or so people know the truth or not, they can only end up in jail.

After a group of the Su Clan cultivators escorted away the dozen or so non-family Rogue Cultivator, Su Junhao shouted loudly.

"Search it!"

More than a hundred Su Clan cultivators rushed into the various houses and began searching.

They searched very carefully, looking in every corner inside and outside the house, leaving no stone unturned—door cracks, wall cracks, floor crevices, and everything else unchecked.

After their search, it was as if a hurricane had swept through; the furniture in the house was ransacked, and some suspicious parts were even dismantled. Doors, walls, and stone slabs on the floor were all torn down.

The once tidy courtyard is now dilapidated.

They also found a lot of things hidden in the shadows inside the house.

These items were all handed over to Su Junhao for inspection, but no items were found that were related to Yellow Essence Fungus's theft.