That Stone Tablet Treasure was the key item connected to the Jade Firmament Sect's secret art of Breakthrough and Preserve Spirit. Its value far surpassed the lives of Xu Chen and Ban Kuizhen.
The Jade Firmament Sect could accept the deaths of those two, but regarding the Stone Tablet Treasure, they would absolutely not let the matter rest.
Seeing the Jade Firmament Sect's resolute attitude, the various Northwest factions all sensed that something was amiss.
For a time, many transmissions of Spiritual Sense silently spread through the gathering.
"What exactly is that treasure, for the Jade Firmament Sect to value it so highly?"
"Hehe, I guess it has something to do with what happened over thirty years ago."
"Over thirty years ago?"
"You mean the Mingxu Sect?"
"That's right. Back then, the Mingxu Sect was crushed by the Jade Firmament Sect. They claimed they were slaying enemies to avenge old grievances, but who didn't know it was really exterminating a sect to seize its treasure?"
"I've heard of this as well. Apparently, the Mingxu Sect's ancestor, that True Spirit, had obtained some method of preserving spirit, and the Jade Firmament Sect set its eyes on it."
"Hehehe, quite a few people coveted that method back then. It was just that no one expected the Jade Firmament Sect of the Central Region to strike first, using revenge as a pretext to wipe out the Mingxu Sect before anyone else could act."
After this round of "small-group chatter," many Spiritual Connection cultivators who knew nothing of those events finally caught on.
No wonder the Jade Firmament Sect was so frantic. The treasure they had lost was very likely the treasure they had seized from the Mingxu Sect back then!
Someone as shrewd and seasoned as Chang Chengsheng naturally guessed this very quickly.