When these records first came to light, they had indeed stirred up quite a storm.
But later, some supporters of the Vast Righteousness Sect spoke up, saying that the person who had compiled the records was merely courting attention, deliberately twisting the facts to smear the Vast Righteousness Sect. Just because he said there was something wrong with the sect, did that make it true? Who was he? The Heavenly Dao?
As more voices joined that chorus, the upheaval caused by the records gradually subsided, and the former calm returned.
After all, many people still trusted the Vast Righteousness Sect back then. Its consistently good reputation had long since taken root in their hearts. Compared with records left behind by a stranger, they naturally trusted the upright Vast Righteousness Sect more.
In the end, the matter was left unresolved.
Even so, some attentive people quietly committed it to memory.
Decade after decade passed, and just as everyone was on the verge of forgetting the matter, trouble struck Windforest Star River again.
Yun Huanling felt that before long, someone would probably bring up those records again.
"A Ling?"
Only upon hearing Su Jiu's voice did Yun Huanling snap out of his thoughts.
He rubbed beneath his nose and said somewhat sheepishly, "I remembered a few things from the past."
Su Jiu glanced at the corpse on the ground. "Something to do with magic beasts?"
Yun Huanling nodded. "Yes, but based on what I know, even the lowest-ranked magic beasts shouldn't be this fragile..."
Her knowledge of magic beasts and demons reached much further back than Yun Huanling's, so she naturally understood some of their characteristics as well.
"They certainly shouldn't be this fragile..."
"In that case, could it have undergone a mutation for some particular reason?"
Su Jiu's eyes flickered. She