After getting to his feet, Huo Hai had finished asking for all the information he needed. With a thought, he had Little Butterfly release the Celestial Star Sect expert below. Freed from Little Butterfly's control, the life in the expert's body instantly dissipated.
The moment the corpse fell to the ground, it began to dissolve. As it gradually melted away, everything left on the Celestial Star Sect expert, including his clothes, vanished without a trace in a flash of light.
"This place really is strange. Who knows what else the Celestial Star Sect has in mind? If... forget it. They have nothing to do with me anyway." Huo Hai shook his head. He held little hope for the current Celestial Star Sect. If it really were powerful, how could it still be under the Moonlight Sect's nominal control?
Continuing forward, Huo Hai took out the map fragment from time to time to test it. Every time he infused it with spiritual power, he could clearly sense that the map probably had some connection to the spirit formation within.
As for why the map had shattered, Huo Hai was not entirely sure. Something so important should not have been easily broken. He had tried it himself, too: he could not tear the map fragment in his hand at all.
If even he could not destroy it, how had Elder Yinshan done it back then? Huo Hai was certain that Elder Yinshan had never touched the treasure map beforehand. Moreover, the Jin Family patriarch's research had confirmed that the treasure map had no seams whatsoever; it had not been assembled from separate pieces. Forget it. Why concern himself with so much? He should hurry up and keep searching.
An unknown amount of time passed. As Huo Hai went through a spatial node,