After hearing this, Su Liuyun nodded as well. Thinking back now on Jin Zhiyuan's expression and words, it was clear that he had long known Soul Search would mean certain death.
That was why he had deliberately used such provocative words, constantly goading him into acting quickly!
Since they had already examined the other party's body and found no other abnormalities, if they wanted to obtain every secret he knew as quickly as possible, they would inevitably use the most direct method. That could only be Soul Search.
Only information obtained through Soul Search was most likely to be the truth.
Then this proved that everything Jin Zhiyuan had done was deliberate. Clearly, these hidden agents had long prepared this method of self-destruction, fearing they would be captured.
"But why had nothing like this happened when we performed Soul Search on hidden agents captured in the past?"
It was not as though "Return Home" had never captured other hidden agents. Naturally, they had performed Soul Search on those people as well. Some of them had shown no abnormalities whatsoever within their bodies, allowing Soul Search to proceed normally.
However, they had also discovered that many hidden agents had restrictions placed within their bodies to prevent Soul Search. In those cases, "Return Home" cultivators had to break the restrictions. Naturally, they could not hand such matters over to figures like the ancestors above every time they encountered them.
For the most part, the halls in charge handled such matters themselves, because they needed accurate intelligence at the first possible moment in order to launch their next move immediately. The enemy's restrictions came in every conceivable variety. Some could be broken successfully, while others caused the target to die outright during the attempt.
Yet such cases shared one common point: they could