"Could someone have deliberately concealed the smell of blood?"
Mu Qinglan glanced down again and said:
"There are indeed signs that someone concealed their aura here, but not the smell of blood."
"Yes, exactly!" another sect master chimed in.
"The smell of blood drifts through the air. It's very difficult to conceal completely."
"But why would they conceal their aura?"
"Could it be... they fled and erased their aura because they were afraid of being tracked?" Lu Tianyun suddenly suggested.
Everyone drew a sharp breath at his words, growing even more puzzled.
Why would the Heavenly Gang Sect flee?
"Nonsense!" Ling Tianchen snapped.
"The Heavenly Gang Sect is one of the wealthiest sects in the Eastern Region, a top-tier sect ranked among the top three in Cloud Province!"
"It has a legacy spanning thousands of years, deep foundations, and generation after generation of talented disciples!"
"What reason would it have to flee?"
"That's right." Everyone nodded again.
After pouring thousands of years of painstaking effort into bringing their sect to such heights, would they simply abandon it?
Unless the Heavenly Gang Sect's sect master, Gu Changfeng, had been kicked in the head by a donkey.
Other than that, they truly could not imagine why Gu Changfeng would flee when everything was perfectly fine.
Thus, after some discussion, everyone dismissed that possibility outright.
Just as he was about to piece together all the clues and find a new direction for their investigation, shrill cries announcing an urgent report suddenly rang out from the distant sky.
"Urgent report! Urgent report!"
A streak of light shot toward them from afar and landed on the dragon boat in an instant. It was a disciple assigned to reconnaissance.
"Reporting to the Alliance Leader! At the Cold Abyss Sect, thirty thousand li away, millions of disciples