"Before coming here, I had people search every place nearby, but they found nothing. It was too clean, which only made it suspicious," Xie Yichu said.
"Given the cultivation levels of the Blazing Sun Holy Land's leadership, they couldn't possibly have been wiped out to the last person, even if they'd been caught completely off guard. Besides, from what I've learned so far, not everyone near the center of the explosion died. Some survived, though they were severely injured.
"Those people didn't survive because their cultivation was particularly high, either. They survived because they carried defensive magic artifacts."
Hearing her master say this, Xue Fuyao couldn't help looking enlightened. "Master, if those people had magic artifacts protecting them, the Blazing Sun Holy Land leaders who died couldn't possibly have had none. In fact, they would only have had more defensive magic artifacts. After all, the Blazing Sun Holy Land was renowned for artifact refining."
Xie Yichu gave her a look that said she was a pupil worth teaching. "Exactly. You're not too stupid after all."
"If that's the case, Master, I did discover something unusual at the Blazing Sun Holy Land Ruins earlier. I just don't know whether it has anything to do with what's happened to the Blazing Sun Holy Land."
Hearing his young disciple say this, Xie Yichu looked at her and asked, "Tell me."
"Well, it happened like this..."
Xue Fuyao then recounted everything exactly as it had happened, from discovering the secret chamber and entering it to what had happened afterward, including how she had used Haoran Righteous Qi to disperse all those vengeful souls.
After all, there was no hiding something like this. Besides, Haoran Righteous Qi wasn't some evil or heretical practice. It was simply something few cultivators chose to cultivate.
After hearing Xue