After dealing with that demonic cultivator, Chi Tian scattered the essence of his blood vitality among the righteous cultivators present, helping them swiftly suppress their internal injuries and replenish their blood vitality.
Nourished by that blood vitality, several righteous cultivators gradually regained color in their faces, while their auras and life force slowly stabilized.
However, Chi Tian did not rush to wake them, because it was not yet time to expose his identity.
The reason he had killed the demonic cultivator so decisively, rather than restraining him for interrogation or using a soul-searching art, was because Chi Tian had sensed an abnormal fluctuation from the Black Lotus Mark.
If that demonic cultivator tried to divulge secrets in exchange for his life, or if someone used a Dao art to search his soul, his consciousness would inevitably be erased by the mark embedded deep within his sea of consciousness and soul.
Such secrecy measures were extremely common throughout the lands of the two Dao paths in Azure Waves. Chi Tian had already been a disciple of the Dao Academy for several decades, so he was naturally no stranger to such methods. He simply could not be bothered wasting time and gave the man a quick death.
Of course, there was another reason he had done this.
Conventional methods of investigation might not have been able to unearth the secrets buried deep within this demonic cultivator, but for Chi Tian, whose origins were extraordinarily special and who was one of the rare cultivators possessing an Innocent Dao Heart, there was still a unique technique he could use for "investigation."
He bent down, reached into that heap of mangled flesh, grabbed a handful, and tossed it into his mouth. After chewing for a while, he swallowed it.
"The flavor's a little faint. There's