Several cultivators behind her changed expression at the same time.
Han Yu placed the blood scab into a jade vial and sealed its aura within.
"Do not let this matter spread."
"But Great Xun..."
"I will tell them we found something unusual. As for what exactly it is, we will wait until my master confirms it."
Han Yu had already formed a judgment.
The ones who slaughtered the city might not have been people personally arranged by Motian Xing.
But there had definitely been demonic cultivators behind them.
Just as she was about to inspect the formation eye, a Great Xun cultivator rushed into the military camp.
"Urgent report from the front lines!"
"Great Qian has breached Linchuan Pass! Two Thirteenth Realm ancestors are pursuing and killing our army commander!"
The commander defending the city turned pale and immediately led his men rushing out of the city.
Han Yu did not follow.
She looked over the corpses filling the city, the doubts in her heart growing ever heavier.
If the one behind this only wanted to provoke a war, killing the city's garrison would have been enough.
Why massacre every civilian as well?
Not a single one left alive—even the vitality within their corpses had been drained clean.
Han Yu lowered her head to look at the jade vial in her hand. The blood scab inside trembled once.
The lingering Demon Qi within separated from the flesh, clung to the wall of the vial, and shifted half an inch westward.
"..."
At the same time, after news of Linchuan Pass's fall reached the Great Xun Imperial City, calls for war drowned out every doubt.
That very day, the Great Xun Imperial Family issued an order to dispatch another two hundred thousand troops to the border.
Three sects that had originally