Ban Lan and He Li spoke for a few moments. First, they left some crafted insect-creatures behind, then followed the traces left by the craftsmen's retreat.
It was clear that these people were ordinary mortals and had received little help from supernatural power, so their trail was obvious all along the way.
From this alone, it was clear that these people's fate had already been sealed. If someone had truly intended to take them away, they would never have made them travel on their own. More likely, they had been sent to some place and then dealt with.
Their subsequent discovery confirmed their guess. About a hundred li from here, near a lake, they found a great number of human bones and remains. The time of death was exactly three years ago.
Ban Lan and He Li examined them. There were more than three hundred people, all killed without the slightest ability to resist, all dying in an instant beneath some supernatural power. As a result, no wild beasts had come to drag away the bodies in the intervening years, leaving them to rot here. Yet that made their investigation easier.
After conducting an examination, He Li took out a secret-refined talisman bestowed by the Guardian of Rectitude Palace garrison and drew threads of residual supernatural aura into it.
After putting it away, he said with relief, "Sir, fortunately they did not completely destroy the evidence, and not much time has passed. Otherwise, examining this would have been quite troublesome."
Ban Lan said, "These people could not have known many secrets. The Revival God Association likely killed them merely out of caution. They only dragged them here to kill them because they did not wish to defile the Divine Land they recognized. But they did not know that Celestial Xia