With enough ability, conspiracies were all too easy to unravel.
Owl and Sa were not particularly powerful yet, but one could see everything in a full three hundred and sixty degrees, while the other could release red threads from her eyes to pry into other people's secrets.
The branch elders' plans had been discovered, exposed, and thwarted before they even began. They had died in the womb.
That was the advantage strength brought. Without their eyes' special abilities, the two might never have discovered the branch elders' plans. After all, with so many people and so much noise, it was hard to make out what anyone was saying even from a few dozen meters away. Without the ability to float, even if they had known, they would have struggled to produce evidence to prove anything.
In the end, they would inevitably have had to wait passively for the conspiracy to unfold before fighting back.
Now, however, things were different. They only needed to fly up high and ignore the plot, and it would collapse on its own.
Why did the branch elders want to kill people? Because they wanted to preserve the secret that the Golden Family had obtained the Lu Yue Treasure. They wanted to kill the witnesses to silence them.
If killing could not silence the witnesses, why kill at all?
In their eyes, Owl and Sa were very likely nobles. Unless they eliminated Owl and Sa—and they had no way to do so—killing the other outsiders would be meaningless.
Thus, when the young man returned and reported the situation to the branch elders, they all realized that Owl and Sa were probably already suspicious.
Ordinary people might not think as far as murdering witnesses, but if Owl and Sa really were nobles, it would be no surprise