"These two sects had seized the right moment and guessed our sect's suspicions. They first killed some of our disciples, then diverted the disaster onto the 'Golden Blood Earthworms.' Has their retaliation begun?
If this succeeds and nothing is uncovered afterward, then during future explorations of the secret realm, they can continue manufacturing more 'dangers'..."
As the beautiful woman surnamed He considered this, the sharp light in her eyes intensified. Once the spark of suspicion was lit, it would be difficult to stamp it out again. This was precisely the outcome Li Yan wanted to see.
Li Yan felt that directly leaving clues pointing at the two sects would not do, while handling things in an ambiguous, half-true fashion would not do either. It was better to wipe all traces concerning the two sects completely clean.
That way, when the other side found no clues on the island, given the mutual suspicion already existing between them, the Yin-Yang Chaos Sect would instead believe that the "Golden Blood Earthworms" were incapable of doing such a thing.
But with the Wangliang Sect and Life Extinction Sect's capabilities, two people keeping watch on one person outside while those inside meticulously laid out a plan with their sects' support, they could indeed wash their hands of the matter completely afterward.
That was why the beautiful woman surnamed He had developed another idea. She felt that to kill so many cultivators so cleanly and efficiently, if the two sects had truly planned it together, they would certainly have employed a high-powered formation or magical treasure.
Yet she had not found any formations or magical treasures of such power within these people's storage spaces. Moreover, she had arrived so quickly. Since the other side had considered that they could not take away the spoils of battle,