Hong Yin withdrew her gaze from around her. She was also weighing Li Yan's conjectures.
"I feel Fellow Daoist Li's second guess is somewhat more likely. Nothing here shows any sign of disorder.
"And I believe that if I were the Great Elder, when I finally decided to migrate and leave this place, I would definitely take everything here away or destroy it, lest others discover it and, through reckless actions, defile the sacred Buddha and divine spirits.
"As for the third guess, that possibility does exist, but after searching for so many years, I have only found this one clue. So I trust my original intuition more!"
Hong Yin's voice also carried calm, giving one the sense that this was simply how it had to be.
"Then we'll search more carefully!"
Li Yan once again looked around, wanting to spot something unusual.
"Many thanks, Fellow Daoist Li. If we still find nothing this time, I will give Fellow Daoist what I promised. At that time, whether Fellow Daoist stays or leaves will be entirely up to you!"
Li Yan nodded. Hong Yin's words had already revealed her next decision. If she could not find the inherited cultivation method here, Hong Yin would still be certain to use all kinds of methods to verify it, until she finally believed it completely.
And as for how long that verification would take, who knew? Several decades might even be considered short. And she could not make Li Yan wait here the entire time. That would undoubtedly be wasting Li Yan's time.
Likewise, she could not take the initiative to let Li Yan leave. That would make suspicion arise in his heart—had she already discovered the secret here, but was deliberately pretending not to find it, only to quietly open it herself after