But even with the threat gone, this matter could not simply be brushed aside. Fang Qianyuan continued following the clues.
He began sifting through the various books and written records previously seized from the Qian Clan Ancestral Grounds.
He had initially overlooked these materials. Apart from cultivation manuals and insights, Fang Qianyuan had paid them little attention. Only after this incident did he realize that they, too, might hold enormous value.
Fang Qianyuan silently counted himself fortunate. Luckily, these books and records are still being kept at the City Lord's Mansion and haven't been sent back to my residence at Headquarters. Otherwise, finding them would be rather troublesome.
He had already begun moving things back, but had sent only movable assets, property deeds, and the like first, leaving these materials untouched.
Still, this was not something he could easily handle alone. He could only enlist trusted men such as Lin Xiong, Lin Bao, Wu Longjie, and Lu Feiyang to help.
For an entire day, the men buried themselves in a sea of books, combing through every book, letter, written record, and dossier in the Qian Clan's collection.
Fortunately, they finally found something.
Fang Qianyuan found a secret record treasured by Qian Wei. It clearly stated that the deity statue had been made from a peculiar Treasure Crystal brought out of a Middle Antiquity ruin by an ancestor of the Qian Clan.
Afterward, he also discovered that the technique used was a method called the Deification Sacrifice Rite.
This method was reportedly connected to the Artifact Sect's artifact-refining formulas and was the key to awakening spirituality in Magic Treasures and forging spiritual artifacts. Later, however, for unknown reasons, someone developed the peculiar application of crafting deity statues to collect incense and fire prayer power, and it came to be widely used