Going a few months without distributing any cultivation supplies might not cause problems in the short term, but as time dragged on, resentment would inevitably build in people's hearts. Not to mention, quite a few disciples had reached bottlenecks in their cultivation during this period and were waiting for this batch of pills to break through.
Now that the pills were gone, what were those disciples waiting to break through supposed to do? They could hardly be told to keep waiting.
After all, a breakthrough in cultivation depended not only on one's cultivation level, but also on timing. The point was for the water to flow and the channel to form naturally. If they failed to break through when the time was right, trying to do so later would be difficult.
Just then, a member of the Ye Household said, "Patriarch, do you think this could be related to what happened earlier? This is far too much of a coincidence."
Hearing this, the Ye patriarch frowned and looked at the person who had just spoken.
If they had not discovered the missing goods, he might have thought those disciples had died because of internal strife within the lineage. But now...
"Tell me the truth. Was this really not the work of any one of you?"
Everyone shook their heads in unison at his words. The candidates for young master, in particular, shook their heads like pellet drums, insisting they had not done it.
Seeing their responses, the Ye patriarch chose to believe them.
"Since none of you did it, an outsider must be responsible. Have you offended anyone lately?"
"Patriarch, it might not be someone we offended recently. Perhaps it's someone we offended in the past." The speaker's tone carried an implication. "I've heard quite a few people are still