Hearing Abbess Xuezhen's speculation, all the elders frowned. The matter of spies had existed in the Incense-Passing Cult for a long time, and they all knew about it. However, those spies possessed weak martial arts and could not stir up much trouble, which was why the Incense-Passing Cult had never made any major moves.
Moreover, the Incense-Passing Cult itself had planted spies and undercover agents in other sects. This was an open secret. If the Incense-Passing Cult wiped out the spies from every sect, their own spies in those sects would surely meet the same fate. Thus, all the sects understood this perfectly well and turned a blind eye, refusing to lay such matters bare. Even when Abbess Jingyi had felt that certain spies were causing too much of a mess, she had merely sent Zhang Xiaohua, a newly minted Protector disciple, to investigate. Did that not prove the point?
As though Abbess Xuezhen had voiced her thoughts, Abbess Jingyi's face darkened like still water. "This cult has made the same conjecture!"
Then she glanced out the window again, her tone distant. "But... the activities of the spies from every sect have basically been kept under the control of our Mocu Palace disciples, and they... do not possess such strength! Could it be the Heavenly Dragon Sect? Or chess pieces planted in our Incense-Passing Cult long ago by that mysterious force?"
Abbess Jingfan nodded as well. "The Cult Master's reasoning is sound. Only those two sects have such strength and such a grand hand, capable of sending cultivators of the Immortal Dao to infiltrate our Incense-Passing Cult!"
Yet Abbess Jingyi immediately gave a bitter smile. "The problem is, why would the Heavenly Dragon Sect make a move against the Great Elder? Could it be... that the Great Elder discovered some