After obtaining this information through Soul Search, Zhao Ziming and Ling Yao realized something was wrong. They then hurried day and night to the Phantom Sect.
This matter was far too important. They had to notify Li Yan as soon as possible; there might still be a way to remedy the situation afterward.
But when they arrived at the Phantom Sect, they came up empty-handed. The sect said that Li Yan had left the sect long ago and gone out traveling.
After discussing it, since they could not find Junior Brother Li, they decided to handle the aftermath themselves and help Li Yan eliminate all trouble.
Thus, over the following several decades, they followed Elder Feng's memories and found one cultivation city and market after another.
The two of them began clearing people out from the tail end, working their way forward. Anyone Elder Feng and the others had learned knew Li Yan's appearance was secretly killed one by one, without the slightest mercy.
Yet this process was also exceedingly long. Some people had already left their original locations, so they had to inquire into their whereabouts before searching everywhere for their targets.
Fortunately, these people were cultivators who guarded teleportation arrays. They all belonged to fixed sects or factions, and apart from a few who had perished in accidents, nearly all of them were eliminated by the two.
In this way, while clearing their way along, they arrived at Western Qi Market some time ago. Their purpose in coming was to deal with those in Luo Gucheng who knew the truth.
Throughout these years of cleansing, they had also kept gathering information from every aspect regarding Luo Gucheng. In the end, they had identified their targets for execution.
The number of people they intended to kill was the same