Three days later, Zhang Yu received a report submitted from below. It said that Si Wuzhang and Daoist Xing Chuan had gone to the cave dwelling previously identified to search for the evil cultivators, but those people had already withdrawn ahead of them.
He had in fact been mentally prepared for this outcome.
These evil cultivators knew they were unwelcome among their peers. They had hidden on the wasteland all these years, and no one knew how many underground caves they had built for concealment. Without expending great effort, they would never be found so easily.
But until the outcome of the northern war was known, he could not commit all his strength to this matter.
For now, as long as those evil cultivators were forced into obscurity and ceased conducting blood sacrifices, that would count as achieving half their objective.
Yet he felt that matters would likely not end so simply.
Since someone had deliberately guided this affair from behind the scenes, if it continued to yield no results, that person might well devise some other means.
Several days later, when Shi Yue came to make his report, he said, "Profound Rectifier, a fellow cultivator surnamed Mo has recently arrived from the Mystic Profound Realm. For reasons unknown, he has also come to investigate these evil cultivators. He hopes we can provide more accurate information. How should this be handled?"
Zhang Yu considered it. Most evil cultivators were old cultivators. Previously, the Profound Residence's forces had been scattered, and each sect had concerned itself only with its own affairs. No one would make enemies for nothing. Thus, for the past several decades, it had always been the cultivators of the Mystic Profound Realm pursuing the evil cultivators. Both sides had suffered casualties, and their mutual grudges ran deep.
Yet