The two of them found no traces in the village. Even the mortals in the village had all vanished without a trace.
A Golden Core Realm cultivator's soul plaque in the sect had suddenly shattered. Ordinarily, the death of a cultivator at that level would not have counted as anything major.
But after investigating, they discovered that this man was a rotating-duty disciple of the sect. He had died while leaving to verify an alert message.
Once his soul plaque shattered, the matter was immediately reported upward. When the elders above learned the cause, the sect immediately attached great importance to it.
A disciple sent to investigate evil spirit cultivators had suddenly perished. That was no small matter.
It meant that evil spirit cultivators had most likely truly appeared. Either there were many of them, or their cultivation was above the Nascent Soul Realm, allowing them to act so cleanly and decisively.
Thus, the sect immediately dispatched two Nascent Soul Realm stewards to investigate. After examining the village where Wu Lei had been, the two cultivators immediately determined that powerful evil spirit cultivators had come.
In the village, the fiercest battle had taken place at the entrance. Yet the traces there had only been left by Qi Condensation Realm cultivators.
In the end, they searched the entire village and found no other traces of battle. They even found the underground "Crystal Smoke Ground," which they considered the most suspicious place.
Yet they still discovered nothing. Combined with the disappearance of every villager, it showed that the foreign evil spirit cultivators had acted with extreme ruthlessness.
To conceal their tracks, they did not care in the slightest who their victims were. Their purpose was to thoroughly erase all traces of their appearance.
It had to be said that Li Yan's move