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Song Yan stared blankly, feeling somewhat bewildered.
This was the Minor Grotto-Heaven Realm, a little world within some spiritual treasure, to put it plainly.
Why would the Two-Pole Bead react here?
Could a Sword Cultivator have perished here in High Antiquity?
Or...
Song Yan thought of his sect master.
From that first sky-shrouding sword strike on the Dao-Entering Terrace to the intangible Sword Intent hidden in the handwritten message on New Year's Eve.
Every outward sign pointed to one thing.
His sect master was also a "Sword Cultivator."
Song Yan had never believed that the Sword Cultivator inheritance he could obtain from the Two-Pole Bead was the only one of its kind in the world.
The Evil Cultivator Notes alone recorded three schools of Sword Cultivators, and naturally, each school would have had more than one sect.
Even if those Sword Cultivators had truly fallen overnight, someone in this world would surely have been fortunate enough to glimpse a fragment of their legacy.
"..."
He took a deep breath and reined in his thoughts for now.
"Whatever the case, I'll know once I go and look."
The Two-Pole Bead could only provide a hint, but the way it guided him toward clues was extremely elusive.
It was as though this part of its function was incomplete.
Fortunately, he had other means.
He could take this opportunity to test whether the Mysterious Calamity Spirit-Worshipping Veil could actually track clues concerning Sword Cultivators.
Previously, Song Yan had yet to form his Life-Bound Flying Sword, so his idea of using the Face Covering to track them had never been put into practice.
Now, he could finally give it a try.
Leaving the sword body untouched, he summoned the Unmoored Boat from the Sword Mansion of the Dao-Subduing.
But how to separate out