Qin Luo did not know that Sun-Devouring Immortal Emperor's disturbance had been so great that it alerted the controller behind the source of the Blood Beasts.
Ji Yan happened to enter the Blood Vault and became the scapegoat.
Yet before he could make up his mind about whether to head to the Blood Domain, an upheaval erupted there.
The Blood Vault exploded.
"It wasn't me! It wasn't me!" Ji Yan shouted as he fled at top speed.
He was on the verge of tears. The instant he heard that sound, he realized that he seemed to have been saddled with the blame.
But before he could explain, the doors of the Blood Vault burst open, and three Blood Beasts pounced on him.
The Blood Vault was empty...
That drove the Blood Beasts mad.
Ji Yan expended nearly all his trump cards before barely preserving this soul fragment and escaping the bloody maws of those Blood Beasts.
But though he had escaped, he was far from safe. Every Blood Beast had gone berserk.
He had accomplished what Qin Luo had failed to do.
Although Qin Luo was the true culprit and the matter would eventually have been discovered, Blood Beasts were still puppets, after all. Their intelligence had been developed later on. The Blood Beasts near the Blood Vault truly were not much smarter than those that fought year-round in the Blood Domain.
They only felt that there was nothing left to drink. They would not question it, nor were they likely to report it.
But now, Ji Yan had pierced through that thin layer of window paper.
If they did not hunt him down, then who would they hunt?
Qin Luo's arrangements near the Blood Vault had been destroyed, but the surveillance he had left elsewhere in the Blood Domain