Materialized heaven's investigation was extraordinarily efficient. Under Li Chen's direction, not only did Heavenly Pivot devote most of his computational capacity to the matter, but the Creation Sect also cooperated closely, dispatching emissaries to follow the vines to the melons and investigate problems along every channel.
Li Chen's ordeal made them realize that their own Sky Cities could suffer the same attack. They needed to intimidate petty villains and guard against trouble before it arose.
Although the root cause this time was a Wisdom Dao Great Power from the Immortal Alliance obscuring the heavenly secrets, those people had helped fan the flames to some degree.
Had they reported the danger immediately upon discovering that someone was plotting against Li Chen, none of this would have happened.
Within just a few days, people finally began to surface.
Then the warehouse managers, merchants' association managers, Spirit Peak masters, and others outside who had been implicated in the affair were identified one after another.
By then, however, Li Chen's anger had instead subsided.
He had realized that this was indeed a systemic problem, not the fault of any single clan or sect.
His materialized heaven still exchanged material goods with the outside world, after all. Loopholes in those channels were almost impossible to guard against.
At its core, he had simply been outmatched, plotted against in advance by an Outer Dao Great Power who had obscured his perception.
But reason was one thing; Li Chen could not possibly let the matter slide. With a stroke of his vermilion brush, he still had the Creation Sect kill a small group of people for him.
They were all disciples or members of subordinate forces under the Creation Sect. Li Chen was showing the sect consideration by letting it deal with its own people.
But he