When martial artists searched for a person or an object, they had to comb the streets and alleys, investigating bit by bit and gathering information.
When Spirit Monsters searched for someone, they only needed to ask at the butcher shops. If a shop said it had never seen them, they could rest easy; if it said it had, they could give up hope.
When New-Method Cultivators searched for someone, they had to call on their friends and seek out intelligence organizations established by martial artists.
When Orthodox Cultivators wanted to find a person or an object, they only needed to find a few turtle spirits or crystal spirits and take their counting rods onto a platform to perform a ritual: letting their hair hang loose and chanting a little would do.
Dao Seal Cultivators likewise had to mount a platform and perform rituals to find people or objects.
Some cultivators drew down the radiance of the sun, moon, and stars, deducing locations from the constellations.
Some cultivators caught turtle demons and threw them into blazing fires, examining the patterns of cracks in their shells.
Some cultivators counted on their fingers, searching through deductions based on spring, summer, autumn, and winter, the twenty-four solar terms, the seventy-two pentads, geomagnetism, Yin and Yang, inversions, transformations, and so forth.
Normally, when Dao Seal Cultivators searched for people or objects, they could absolutely pinpoint their exact locations; at worst, they could narrow them down to a general area.
But this time, they could not find them.
The many Dao Seal Cultivators, including Ruo Jinghong, found no information whatsoever about the missing cultivators in their deductions and calculations.
It was as though... they had never existed.
This result left the Dao Seal Cultivators looking grim.
"They don't exist? What does that mean? Are my memories