Chapter 3024 — Investigating the Sun Family
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Even at great-perfection, under the encirclement of the three of them, it should have been no more than a draw at best. If the three of them could not win, they could still have withdrawn intact—but to be wiped out entirely is unthinkable!" Little One said.
"That is true. Could some expert have come to his aid? But even if an expert came, it would have to be a late heaven-tier peak great-perfection expert to slaughter them all—and there are only a handful of such experts among cultivators. I know every one of them. Who would come out to help an old madman slaughter my disciples? Anyone who has reached late heaven-tier peak great-perfection surely knows of the Five Luminaries Sect's existence and would certainly recognize Little Six and the others' attire."
"Then it really is strange!" Little One too fell into thought. Earlier he had merely rushed over to report, without considering such deep matters. Now that he thought about it, this affair reeked of the bizarre!
"Master, Senior Brother, do you think it could be Wei Zhao who intervened?" Kang Jingming pondered for a moment, then said, "Didn't they say before that Wei Zhao was in league with that old madman in the Ulonghote Mountains?"
"Wei Zhao?" Old Ancestor Xuanchen could not help shaking his head at the name. "Zhaoming, I know you hate Wei Zhao in your heart and want me to strike him down, but am I not just as eager to see Wei Zhao dead? It is only that, constrained by that creature Xuantian—he is training wood-element inheritors for us—I cannot fall out with him! We can only keep the peace for now. To move against Wei Zhao, we must have justification; otherwise we can only strike in secret. And for you to claim that Wei Zhao, a lone cultivator who has only just advanced to heaven tier, could wipe out three experts like Little Six, Little Seven, and Little Twelve—that is utterly unrealistic! Besides, Wei Zhao and that old madman actually have no real connection. The man is a madman—what connection could he possibly have with Wei Zhao?"
"Exactly. Our Five Luminaries Sect's experts are no ordinary experts—they can all fight above their level. Wei Zhao would be doing well just to beat Little Twelve!" Little One said dismissively. "If Wei Zhao had such ability, we might as well kill ourselves! To think that years of cultivation bringing one to late heaven-tier peak great-perfection would be worth less than a lone cultivator who has only just advanced to early heaven tier?"
"Oh..." Kang Jingming had only mentioned it in passing, but it had to be said that his loose tongue sometimes stumbled onto the truth by sheer accident—such had been the case back in the Kang family, and such was still the case now in the Xuandan Sect. Yet few were the people who believed him.
"All right, let us not dwell on this. Are there any leads?" Old Ancestor Xuanchen asked.
"None. We have no idea where they chased him to, so there is simply no way to start looking for clues!" Little One shook his head somewhat helplessly.
Old Six and Old Twelve had only begun leaving markers after Old Seven was injured, so that Old Seven could follow them—but those markers were already very far from the Five Luminaries Sect, and so the sect's people had no way of finding the place where they had fallen.
"Then this will be difficult. That old madman's sect has already been destroyed, and he has no fixed abode at all. Unless he comes knocking again, there is simply no finding him!" Old Ancestor Xuanchen was somewhat vexed as well. When they had wiped out the Fire Lion Sect back then, they had let this one man slip through the net—truly, endless trouble in the aftermath. RS