Not long after Xiao Yan found a place to refine the Soul Light Orbs, the Soul Hall received word that one of its branch halls had lost contact. When they sent people to investigate, however, they met with fierce attacks from the two Dou Zun originally stationed there. Left with no choice, they killed the two on the spot. Perhaps they had struck too hard, for even the two men's souls were shattered.
With the deaths of those two Dou Zun, the whereabouts of the Soul Light Orbs became an unsolvable mystery. In the end, everyone could only classify the incident as two Soul Hall venerable elders colluding with another faction to steal the Soul Light Orbs. Though everyone knew there were still many suspicious points, they could find no evidence.
They did not dare report the incident to their superiors either. After all, the theft of a soul light cluster was a matter of the utmost gravity. If those above held them accountable, they would have to bear the consequences. This branch hall was unimportant anyway. As long as they assigned more people to collect souls here, they would soon replenish the amount lost.
Xiao Yan knew nothing of this, though he had already guessed most of it beforehand. To put it bluntly, his understanding of the Soul Hall was probably deeper than that of Hun Miesheng, the Soul Hall Master himself. He knew their habit of concealing trouble rather than reporting it like the back of his hand.
The reason he had deliberately left two Human Puppets behind to be killed was simply to give them an excuse. How believable that excuse was did not actually matter; all that mattered was that someone else could take over. Sometimes, Xiao Yan could not help sighing with emotion. Had the