Chapter 1462: Surveying the Scene
If Zhao Baliang at this moment could see the movements and speed of Dou Wei and the others, he would definitely be extremely surprised!
Because, at this moment, Dou Wei's speed was almost on par with that of a normal late-stage Heaven Rank cultivator!
And the dozen or so people behind Dou Wei, the aura on each of them was only the ground level, but their speed was also not inferior, almost like a heaven-level cultivator!
In such a gallop, the distance of just a dozen kilometers was only a moment later, and they had already crossed it and came to the outside of the woods.
Dou Wei stopped first, stood outside the woods, and looked coldly into the woods.
After a while, a person in the woods walked out, stood respectfully in front of Dou Wei, and after whispering a few words, he led the way and walked into the woods.
Dou Wei and the others also followed behind him.
Along the way, not a single person spoke.
Dou Wei's gaze, like lightning, looked around, his eyes flickered coldly, and he didn't let go of any trace in the woods.
A moment later, they were all in the woods.
Walking out of the shelter of a few big trees, the open space in front of them suddenly appeared in front of their eyes.
Dou Wei's footsteps stopped suddenly, and behind him, more than a dozen cultivators with blank faces also stopped, but as if they hadn't seen anything, their expressions didn't change at all, and they didn't seem to have any emotions at all.
In Dou Wei's gaze, a cold look appeared, looking coldly at the scene above the clearing, and a gloomy aura enveloped his body.
Around this clearing, which was hundreds of meters in radius, every few tens of meters, there was a black-clothed cultivator guarding it, and dozens of cultivators surrounded this clearing, and no one stepped into this clearing.
In the center of the clearing, there were only three cultivators with gloomy faces, carefully and carefully probing for clues in the clearing.
On the ground of the clearing, dozens of corpses fell horizontally and vertically within a radius of tens of meters in the center, covered in blood!
As if sensing the arrival of Dou Wei and the others, the three cultivators in the center of the clearing all looked over, and then glanced at each other, and then greeted them at the same time.
The three cultivators came to Dou Wei's front and bowed slightly, and the old man in the middle took a half step forward and said in a deep voice: "Young Master Dou, we have carefully investigated the situation here, and there is indeed no trace of the enemy!
Dou Wei nodded, slightly polite to the old man and the other two people behind him.
The status of these three people is much higher than that of the mid-stage cultivator in Qin Songtao's study before, and these three people are all half-foundation first-level cultivators!
This time when he came to Huaxia, Dou Wei's subordinates had a total of six half-foundation cultivators, one of whom was half-building the second layer, and the other five were all half-building foundation cultivators!
The three people in front of him were the last three half-foundation cultivators under Dou Wei!
Although the status of these three people is inferior to Dou Wei, it is not much different, and on weekdays, Dou Wei is also extremely polite to them.
At that moment, Dou Wei waved his hand and walked into the open space with these people.
In the open space, there are traces left, a total of only the range of tens of meters in the center, and in other places, there is no trace at all, not even a footprint!
This is not what Dou Wei expected.
In the previous battle, and among all the people who are exploring now, including Zhao Baliang, there is not a single cultivator below the ground level, if they don't want to leave footprints, there will be no footprints here at all!
What's more, after the rainstorm last night, although there was no rain left in the woods, it was enough to remove the footprints.
It's just that Dou Wei was a little confused.
Even if there are no footprints, there should be some traces of battle in a radius of hundreds of meters in the entire clearing!
After all, if he wanted to kill the fifty-three powerful cultivators under his command in one fell swoop, Zhao Baliang would definitely have no shortage of manpower!
With so many cultivators fighting, how could they be concentrated within a radius of tens of meters?
At that moment, Dou Wei walked quickly to the middle of the woods, and according to the guidance of the old man beside him, he carefully examined every trace in the clearing.
After a long time, Dou Wei's face was completely gloomy.
He stopped, looked coldly at the old man behind him, and asked in a deep voice, "What do you mean?"
The old man smiled bitterly, then shook his head helplessly, and glanced at each other with the other two half-foundation cultivators beside him, and then, a little bitterly, said: "The three of us have been discussing for a long time, but there is a guess, but this guess, it seems, it seems, it seems"
Dou Wei waved his hand: "Say it!"
The old man nodded, and then said helplessly: "This guess seems to be a little too unreasonable!"
As he spoke, the old man stepped forward, pointed to a subtle mark on the ground, and said softly: "Young Master Dou, please take a look, this trace! According to our analysis, this should be a sword mark! However, the two sides of the war at that time were at least earth-level cultivators, and if there were sword marks, they should not be so subtle, so our final judgment should be that this should be a trace of sword qi!"
Dou Wei raised his eyebrows: "Sword Qi?"
The old man nodded with a heavy face: "Yes, sword qi! Young Master Dou may know that not everyone can use sword qi, even some heaven-level cultivators, if they don't have deliberate cultivators, it is impossible to casually emit sword qi! Among the cultivators, less than one percent can use sword qi! Among the fifty-three people in my Green Wolf Society, none of them can use sword qi! Therefore, those who use sword qi must be the other party! And under Zhao Baliang's command, there must not be many people who can use sword qi!"
As he spoke, the old man's face became a little strange, he pointed in a few directions, as well as a few corpses nearby, and continued in a deep voice: "Young Master Dou can see that in this area of tens of meters, there are no less than hundreds of traces of the same sword qi on the ground! On the corpses of our people, many of them can be clearly judged to be left by the sword qi! As for the other wounds, they are impossible to distinguish, but it looks like a wound left by the sword qi!"
As he spoke, the old man paused slightly, and then said with an even more strange expression: "These traces of sword qi, combined, are already hundreds! With so many traces of sword qi, it is impossible for the other party to have hundreds of cultivators who can use sword qi, right?"
Dou Wei's eyes narrowed slightly, and he carefully looked in the direction the old man was pointing, and his eyes were extremely gloomy.
"What is your conjecture?" Dou Wei asked in a cold voice.
The old man smiled bitterly, and then said with some difficulty: "Our guess is that these sword qi should be used by the same person! It's just that we can't imagine what kind of strength we should have to leave so many traces of sword qi in such a battle, within such a range!"
Dou Wei nodded slowly, but his mouth was extremely cold and spit out a name!
"Zhao Baliang!"
The old man was slightly stunned, looked at Dou Wei, and asked suspiciously, "Young Master Dou, what did you say?"
Dou Wei's face shook slightly, and then he gritted his teeth again and said, "Zhao Baliang! This is what Zhao Baliang did!"
The old man was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head again and again: "However, according to our information, Zhao Baliang only has the strength of the late stage of the Heavenly Rank at most! Even if we half-foundation cultivators have learned the sword qi, it is impossible to send out so much sword qi at one time, let alone "
Dou Wei waved his hand, interrupted the old man's words, and said in a deep voice: "Qin Lao is a member of the military, and the military has some news that is tightly sealed, and outsiders don't know about it! Qin Lao once showed me some news about Zhao Baliang and the hunting ground space! Zhao Baliang once sent out tens of thousands of sword qi in the hunting ground space, killing thousands of demon beasts in the blink of an eye! The military's record will not be wrong! The sword qi emitted by Zhao Baliang is different from the sword qi in the ordinary sense! Sword qi in the ordinary sense is exerted by cultivators with all their might, if it were you, using sword qi, you could completely use sword qi against a cultivator who was also a half-foundation layer! However, Zhao Baliang was different! This kind of large-scale sword qi emitted by Zhao Baliang, although it was large in number, but its power was reduced by a large level! Zhao Baliang's strength in the late stage of the Heavenly Rank, the sword qi exerted could only threaten the late stage of the Earth Rank at most!"
Hearing Dou Wei's explanation, after the old man thought for a moment, he also nodded slightly, and there was a bit of admiration in his eyes: "This Zhao Baliang is indeed a genius! I have never heard of a cultivator using sword qi to exert such a large amount at the cost of reducing his power!"
Dou Wei nodded, didn't take the old man's words, and just asked, "Are there any other discoveries?"
The old man groaned for a while, led Dou Wei to the center of the venue, pointed to the three corpses on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "If what Young Master Dou said is true, then these three people should have died in the hands of another person!"
Dou Wei's eyes froze slightly, and he took a deep look at the three corpses.
These three people, Dou Wei knows.
These three people are all Heaven Rank cultivators!
One mid-tier, two early-tier!
The bodies of the three people fell in three directions, there were no other wounds on their bodies, only a few tears on their clothes, and a fatal wound, only one, that was a blood mark on the throat!
The old man pointed to the throats of the three of them and said, "This blood mark, after careful judgment, we found that it was also caused by the sword qi! Moreover, according to our inference, these three people should have been killed by the same sword qi at the same time!"
The old man didn't continue, but Dou Wei followed the old man's words and said in a deep voice: "That is to say, the person who shot to kill the three of them has the strength of at least the late stage of the Heavenly Rank, maybe even the peak of the late stage, or even the half-building foundation!
The old man nodded: "Exactly!"
Dou Wei sneered and said softly: "It seems that the other party is really not Zhao Baliang alone!"