Li Yan decided that he would still obtain what he wanted through a Soul Search. That would be more direct and swift.
Another benefit of a Soul Search was that it could uncover things the target had experienced or heard of that you might never even think to ask about.
You would never think to inquire about them, and thus might lose the opportunity entirely, yet you could stumble across them inadvertently during a Soul Search.
That was also the main reason the mysterious faction had planted the "Brain-Wrapping White Corpse Gu" in Jin Zhiyuan and their other hidden agents.
Did they not know that once "Return Home" had gone through such an incident, it would no longer use other methods?
Yet no matter what methods you used, they only drew out testimony based on what you wanted to know.
A crucial clue you had never considered might simply be wasted in vain. That was a fundamental difference.
Li Yan's Soul Search lasted a full hour and a half...
Li Yan removed his palm from the man's head. His face was grave. Cultivator Du had not left behind a soul lamp or life plaque within the mysterious faction.
The higher one's cultivation, the less one wished to be bound by others. Unless one had been enslaved and left with no choice—but clearly, the high-end combatants of this faction had all been recruited.
A faction that relied solely on forcibly bullying others would certainly not go far. Naturally, they used different methods, both hard and soft, on different cultivators.
Judging from the results of Li Yan's Soul Search, the Integration Realm cultivators in this faction were all people they truly trusted.
The faction Cultivator Du belonged to was called Huiyan Hall. When it had been established, and by whom, even Cultivator