After Li Yan found the root of his doubts, he spent much longer searching the young man's memories. He saw many scenes from different periods of the young man's life.
Most showed a family of four, or the young man alone with his younger sister. From those scenes, Li Yan learned much about Jin Zhiyuan's past.
He could not say he knew everything, but he had gained a fairly clear understanding. This even included the rough course of how Jin Zhiyuan had joined Huiyan Hall—after this son of his had been captured, he had been blackmailed into it...
Through those scenes, Li Yan immediately learned the identity of the remaining female cultivator nearby. She was also Jin Zhiyuan's child.
According to the clues obtained through Soul Search, before the materials had been planted within their bodies, the two of them had received orders from above and gone to wait in a cave for further instructions.
Afterward, they had heard someone transmitting their voice from the void above, ordering them to carry out a mission in an immortal cultivation city. As they listened to the voice transmission, all memories after that point vanished...
Li Yan knew it had been a soul-bewitching technique, causing young people like them to completely lose consciousness without realizing it.
Moreover, during the Soul Search, Li Yan had made an even more unexpected discovery. Still, he had revealed no trace of abnormality.
After further confirming his suspicions, Li Yan searched the young female cultivator's memories as well, not wishing to arouse the other party's suspicion.
Many scenes in the two siblings' memories were extremely similar. In the female cultivator's memories, Li Yan likewise verified another matter.
While maintaining an outwardly normal state, he quietly made his move in secret...
Li Yan had now questioned them twice. Especially