After Perfected Zhiyang left, Xiao Yu found a secluded spot, set up a magic formation, and began performing a Soul Search on Old Demon Hehuan's nascent soul.
With Xiao Yu's current divine sense, searching the nascent soul of a late Nascent Soul cultivator was hardly difficult.
A quarter of an hour later, Xiao Yu happily placed the dazed nascent soul, whose form was on the verge of collapse, into a jade box, then turned into a streak of golden light and flew toward the Falling Cloud Sect.
Old Demon Hehuan had dominated the Heavenly South for many years. His memories contained countless secret techniques and cultivation arts, and Xiao Yu now knew every location where he had hidden his treasures, along with secret intelligence concerning many sects in the Southern Heaven Cultivation World.
Of course, there were also the various rare materials in the two men's storage bags: three pieces of geng metal the size of an infant's fist, water- and earth-attribute essence of the five elements, and some excellent materials suitable for refining the puppet described by the Great Evolution Divine Monarch, among other things.
Xiao Yu had only given these things a brief inspection. Many jade slips, jade boxes, jade bottles, and other items remained unchecked.
The instant Xiao Yu imprisoned Old Demon Hehuan's nascent soul, the disciples on duty in the Joyful Union Sect's Soul Hall discovered that something had happened to their Grand Elder.
When the news broke, the entire Joyful Union Sect became a pot of boiling chaos. How could anything have happened to their pillar that held up the heavens, one of the Heavenly South's only three Grand Cultivators? Who could possibly threaten him?
But before the sect's senior members could figure out what had happened, even worse news arrived. Their Grand Elder's