Several hours after Fang Qianyuan and the others left, several warriors of the Myriad Phenomena Sect rode their spirit creatures through the desolate mountains outside Impermanence Valley, finally locating the site of the earlier battle.
"Halt!"
At the sight of the devastation ahead, the warrior captain shouted, and the entire party stopped at once, each dismounting from their spirit creature.
"What happened here? Grand Commander Luo and his men..."
Grave expressions appeared on every face. Only a clash between Earth Rank experts or above could have left such traces.
Luo Feihu's disappearance made the situation all the more serious.
"Captain, we found blood here!"
"There's some here too, but no traces of divine abilities or spells."
"The other side seems to have 'cleaned up' the place?"
"It looks like a planned ambush. Grand Commander Luo and his men came to trade with Ye Tianming. Was someone in the Demon Alliance pulling strings behind the scenes, or did Wu Lianyi and his people have something else in mind?"
The Outlaw Martial World of the Northern Wilds was teeming with competing forces.
Their suspects included other powerful figures within the Demon Alliance, as well as Wu Lianyi and the others, who had migrated here in recent years and reached agreements with the Grand Elders of both the Myriad Phenomena Sect and the Great Wilderness Sect.
They had ample motive and strength to seize any mystic treasure that might appear here.
"Captain, what should we do now?" Faced with this scene, the warriors were at a loss and could only turn to their leader.
The captain pondered for a moment, then shook his head helplessly. "We'll keep searching, but first, we must report what happened here."
Over the next few days, the grassroots rogue cultivators active around Impermanence Valley discovered that the