These top-tier sects truly were anything but simple. They might fear Spirit Venerable experts, but that did not mean they had no means of dealing with them, especially a Spirit Venerable like Huo Hai, who had little backing.
Huo Hai searched the Blazing Sun Sect from top to bottom and actually found quite a few things left behind by past Spirit Venerables: three scrolls and five crystals, all containing power left by Spirit Venerable experts. Ancestor Tianhui's standing had been too low, so he had known of only one scroll. Once activated, these items could unleash terrifying might.
One scroll hidden deep within the sect could even unleash an attack from a third-level Spirit Venerable, and over an enormous area at that. If Huo Hai had been struck by that scroll, he might even have lost his life.
Huo Hai did not know why Moonlight Ancestor and Blazing Sun Ancestor had not used these things during their battle. On reflection, perhaps they had thought they did not need them. It was also possible that these items were assets reserved for the sect's younger generations, so the two had never considered using them. Neither of them had carried any high-grade items.
Of course, there was another possibility: both men had possessed an inner space. In that case, once they died, these items would have vanished into the endless turbulence of space and time as their inner spaces were destroyed. Inner spaces were uncommon among ordinary people.
In reality, however, inner spaces were not all that rare in the Heavenly Soul Domain. Many top experts possessed them. Huo Hai had only recently broken through and still lacked the ability to forcibly break open someone else's inner space with his own power.
Heaven-grade experts had that ability, but Huo Hai had yet to