News of the attack on Fang Qianyuan soon alarmed the Azure Cloud Sect. The sect hurriedly sent people to investigate, but they came away empty-handed.
The intruders' concealment methods were exceptionally sophisticated. They had left not the slightest opening along the way, making it impossible to track them down.
"Elder Fang, we aren't trying to shirk responsibility. Their methods were simply too sophisticated, without a single flaw. Without any clues, there's nothing we can do," the leader of the sect guards told Fang Qianyuan helplessly.
"I understand. Thank you, everyone," Fang Qianyuan said evenly.
"But whatever the circumstances, allowing people with sinister intentions to sneak in was indeed a failure on our part. From now on, we'll concentrate our patrols here and strengthen the defenses in the surrounding area as well. We absolutely won't let this happen again." After apologizing, the guard leader hastened to give another assurance.
Fang Qianyuan murmured a casual acknowledgment, but inwardly he remained unconvinced.
Since their methods had no flaws, sending more people would only waste effort. This was not a contest of physical strength, where greater numbers meant greater power.
What the sect guards did next, however, opened Fang Qianyuan's eyes.
They brought in numerous people with spirit creatures such as demon-hunting hounds, Swift Eagles, Big-Eared Beasts, and Whistling Bats, surrounding the Fang Residence inside and out and covering several li in every direction.
Their powers could not actually be stacked together, but meticulous arrangements allowed them to achieve a breadth and comprehensiveness beyond the reach of even ordinary experts. Most experts would not have so many concealment methods at their disposal. Faced with such a deployment, they could only be exposed.
*Could this really work? Still, however sophisticated a concealment method might be, it ultimately had its weaknesses. True perfection was hard to