Wang Jingxian shook her head. "The dead were all reduced to withered skin and bones, every last trace of their flesh-and-blood essence drained away. What can you discern from a skeleton? Apart from a tiny wound on the side of the neck, there were almost no other injuries on the body, and not a trace of residual true qi could be sensed in that wound. It was eerily clean."
Her brows creased slightly in thought. "But... the depth and angle of those wounds seemed to vary a little. They didn't look like the work of a single person using the same method. Rather, they looked like a group of people with similar techniques but slightly different habits, striking one after another."
Lu Changfeng's gaze sharpened. "You mean... there might be more than one killer? Or more than one of those evil objects? The wielders of these 'swords' are a group?"
"It's only speculation," Wang Jingxian said. "The scenes have already been disturbed. It's hard to reach a firm conclusion."
Lu Changfeng committed this question to memory and set it aside for now, raising another issue that had troubled him. "To be frank, I have trained in certain eye techniques. I intended to use this qi-reading art to help investigate the case by searching Youzhou City for the source of that sinister killing intent. Yet since entering the city, apart from sensing residual blood baleful intent near the Liu Family estate and your Army-Breaker's sword fiend just now, I have found nothing anywhere in Youzhou City. Even the killing intent of the peerless weapon you carry only became clear at close range. If these people truly possess evil weapons, those weapons must leak killing intent and be recognizable at a glance. How have they concealed them so perfectly? If we could