The two shop assistants who had fled were precisely the rogue cultivators from outside who had entered the shop afterward; the Purple-Robed Youth already knew this.
They should have been in league with Jin Zhiyuan. Besides helping him manage the shop, they were likely responsible for other tasks as well.
For instance, when Jin Zhiyuan was absent, they would be responsible for passing along intelligence or handling matters that Jin Zhiyuan could not show his face for.
After the Purple-Robed Youth finished speaking, Su Liuyun also glanced at Su Hong. Su Hong understood exactly what that look from her elder brother meant.
It concerned the measures within Jin Zhiyuan's body that prevented Soul Search. Once again, they had turned out to be much the same as Li Yan's guess.
Li Yan simply had not known about the "Brain-Winding White Corpse Gu." He had only said that the other side had planted a more sophisticated restriction, one harder to detect. Yet the final conclusion was practically no different.
"We have yet to uncover any leads concerning the two assistants. The reason they fled may be as Father guessed, but it may also be that our earlier deduction was wrong. Perhaps the other side was not afraid of us using their souls to track them back to their headquarters.
"Jin Zhiyuan may have left behind a soul lamp or life plaque that shattered after his death. Judging by the current circumstances, that possibility is extremely high. But logically speaking, a soul lamp or life plaque should not have been left in the hands of shop assistants.
"Therefore, either one of those two assistants was a higher-ranking hidden agent, which was why he possessed Jin Zhiyuan's soul lamp or life plaque and learned of its shattering the instant it happened.
"If so, the