"Sect Leader Bai... has your Divine Blade Sect... oh, has Shuiyunjian ever seen anything so bizarre?" Master Changsheng turned and asked.
Bai Yanqiu shook her head blankly and replied, "The three True Persons of our sect examined it carefully as well. There seemed to be no such precedent in the sect's records. But... I recall that in Yao Mountain Immortal Mansion, Ren Xiaoyao asked whether your temple had some kind of black banner, then... he mentioned the Heavenly Dragon Sect. In my opinion, this matter is most likely connected to the Heavenly Dragon Sect!"
"Alas, Amitabha, good, good!" Master Changsheng pressed his palms together and said solemnly, "Great Forest Temple indeed has no black banner of the sort Benefactor Ren mentioned. Even the sect's ancient records contain no mention of one. Master Tiangang of our sect guards the Library Pavilion and has read every record within. If even his venerable self does not know of it, then it does not exist."
"Furthermore, this old monk has already sent several hundred disciples to inspect every corpse within dozens of li around Yao Mountain. Without exception, every body had been drained entirely of blood. If this truly was the Heavenly Dragon Sect's doing... then the Heavenly Dragon Sect's scheme runs very deep. I fear it is not something a single sect or school like ours can handle!"
"Exactly. Where did the blood of those ten thousand people go? Whenever there was slaughter in the martial world in the past, the air would surely reek of blood for a long while. Yet... Yao Mountain today carries not the slightest scent of blood. It smells exceptionally fresh instead. It truly is strange!"
"This matter requires further planning... Do you all have any thoughts?" Master Changsheng sighed.
They could not simply attack the Heavenly Dragon