This immediately made Zheng Youlin realize one thing: among the dead cultivators, there had been clues to cultivators of the Five Immortal Sects.
And anyone whom the Five Immortal Sects believed might know those clues—such as cultivators who had spoken with the dead—had probably also been killed.
Zheng Youlin and the others were all too familiar with such methods. Whenever someone from the Five Immortal Sects exposed their whereabouts, this was the remedial measure that followed.
This undoubtedly showed that the clues held by those few dead men truly existed. They were not merely suspicions, and were likely quite detailed.
Only such a reason could make cultivators of the Five Immortal Sects disregard everything and repeatedly kill to silence witnesses.
This excited Zheng Youlin greatly. Since people with such detailed clues existed, they naturally had to uncover their origins.
Thus, they began expanding their search range. Yet once they began searching, years passed one after another, because they realized their initial assumption had been wrong—the few people killed were not cultivators from nearby.
After investigating for a long time, they found that no one knew where those people slain in the wilderness had come from. But Zheng Youlin and his group had their own methods when it came to tracking.
Following intermittent traces and scattered threads, Zheng Youlin and the others broadened their search range and gradually discovered a pattern.
Whenever they investigated certain markets, they would occasionally find cultivators who resembled those few people.
Such sightings in markets had become one of the more frequent findings in their investigation. In other words, the places those people had most likely appeared were various markets.
Moreover, those people had been asking for information. Yet by the time Zheng Youlin and the others tracked down those reports, too much time had passed,