Above the ruins, the six monks frowned as they watched the horror below. It was a small town, less than ten miles in radius, with no more than 10,000 inhabitants, and it was completely scorched at the moment. There are broken walls, ruins, masonry and rubble, and there are many flammable materials such as beams, doors and windows that are emitting green smoke, and when the wind blows, there are flames from time to time. The bodies of the dead could be seen everywhere on the ground, men, women and children, many of them were mutilated, and the whole city was dead silent, and there were no more people alive.

"This should be from the handwriting of those people, the vast majority of these dead people are ordinary people, only a few monks, completely in line with the previous rumors, it seems that what happened here has been a few days, let's look separately to see if there are any clues. Fang Dinghai spoke, and everyone fell into the city to search carefully.

After about a stick of incense, everyone gathered again, and after looking at each other, they all shook their heads and sighed, these people are very cautious and fierce, leaving no living mouth or clues, everyone has no gain, it seems that Cui Ling'er was lucky to be able to escape.

The six people left the small city that was already in ruins, and visited several cities along the way, but found that those cities did not cause panic because of this, it seems that the small city is too remote, and the news has not yet come, and the Western Regions are now in turmoil, and similar things also happen from time to time, one side is attacking the city and the other is defending the city, and the besiegers will inevitably be angry and embarrassed after the loss is too large, which is a good cover for the mysterious forces. The six of them went around in a big circle around the clues provided by Cui Ling'er, and they didn't find anything except a few towns that had been razed to the ground, as if those black knights had never appeared, could it be that everyone was looking for a wrong direction? Instead of waiting for the rabbit, it was better to take the initiative, after some discussion, the six decided to give up blindly waiting in the city, but went to the large uninhabited areas around to carefully explore those areas, to see if they could find any suspicious people or suspicious terrain and landforms.

Not to mention, this investigation, although the mysterious force has not been found for the time being, snakes, rats and rats have found a lot, many small forces are doing a lot of unsightly things that will not be noticed on weekdays, and now everyone can't care about their dirty things, as long as they have nothing to do with the mysterious forces, they will let them go, and if there are some suspicious ones, they will focus on them, track them secretly, and only leave after making sure they have nothing to do.

The Western Regions is still vast and sparsely populated, a large desert is uninhabited, six people hide their breath, hiding in the sky and searching aimlessly all the way, suddenly, Feng Zhanyu reminded everyone loudly, saying that there is a corpse ten miles away from everyone It looks very weird, this barren mountain and wild mountains, a corpse suddenly appeared, it is indeed a little strange, several people are busy with Feng Zhanyu quickly approached.

This is the corpse of a seventh-order monk, it has been dead for a long time, it is in the shape of a half-dried corpse, the meridians all over the body have burst, the blood stains on the body have dried up, and the expression is very painful, but other than that, no obvious injuries were found, it should be the death caused by the burst of the meridians, which is exactly the same as the death method after being hit by the secret technique of the Liuyun Sect. I just don't know if this person escaped from the cave of the mysterious force, or if he was left here after his death. However, everyone was overjoyed to make such a discovery, which at least showed that the mysterious force did exist in this area.

So a carpet search began again, this time, everyone searched extremely carefully, and did not spare every inch of land, but, to great disappointment, until everyone found the nearest town, they still did not find any valuable clues. The six of them settled down in the town and began to comb through all the suspicious clues they had found these days.

"I think that since they deliberately wore black clothes and black armor to hide their identities this time, there must be another identity on the surface, and since they are acting in a concentrated manner every time, maybe they are from the same force, otherwise it would be too procrastinating to gather people again every time they have an action. Since we can't trace the traces of their actions, why not start with the forces in this area? See which forces have risen within a thousand years, or which have recently moved from outside, and which forces are more mysterious and do not interact with the outside world on a daily basis. Mei Fang hasn't spoken for a while, but everyone knows that because of her husband's affairs, she hates the remnants of the Liuyun Sect more than anyone else, so this time she came to look for the other party, although she didn't open her mouth, she was the most attentive one. She opened her mouth now, but it brought everyone a different way of thinking, not to mention, her idea really made everyone's eyes shine, perhaps, this method is really feasible.

"The two of you immediately summoned the Yimeng patrol envoy in charge of this area to mobilize the information of all the forces in this vicinity, the more detailed the better, pay attention, this matter must be kept strictly confidential, and no monks below the spirit building level shall know!" Fang Dinghai immediately made a decision, and immediately ordered Mei Fang and Hu Qing.

The two of them were ordered to start the interrogation immediately, and after a busy day, everyone went down separately to rest, and they were nervous these days, and it was time to relax.

Lu Yi returned to his room, lying on the bed and pondering, Cui Ling'er said at the beginning that there were mid-stage soul-building monks in the city where they were located, but they were all scared away by the other party, then there must be powerful people in this mysterious force, at least, there will be more than two mid-stage soul-building monks, then, if this is the case, their power on the surface will definitely not be too small, at least it is ranked among the top ten countries of the Western Regions in name. However, the ten major countries of the Western Regions are all old Western Regions forces, how can they rise within a thousand years, could it be that within these ten major countries, there was originally an existence that secretly supported the Liuyun Sect? Or is it that the Liuyun Sect was originally just a puppet organization? plus Cui Ling'er said that they were building altars and mining magic crystals, thinking about it like this, Lu Yi couldn't help but feel a little creepy, could this also be the dark chess left by the demons back then? If it can continue to this day, then the belief of this force is too strong. Lu Yi got up, he was startled by his own idea, and hurriedly went out of the room to find Fang Dinghai and told the other party what he thought just now. After hearing this, Fang Dinghai also fell silent without saying a word, and in the end, he said that he would wait for the information fed back by Meihu and the others to arrive.

After more than half a month, a lot of information about various forces within a radius of 500,000 miles has been transmitted one after another, and as a result, the intelligence shows that there has been no strong rise of forces in the past thousand years, then, there is only one possibility, and one or even a few forces in this area should be the puppets of people behind them. There are powerful backing forces behind them, and these forces have not been significantly impacted in this chaotic tide in the Western Regions, and with the strength they show on the surface, it is impossible for them to remain intact until now.

After finding the target of attention, the six began to investigate one by one, going to the territory of each suspicious force to search in detail, looking for clues, and even sneaking into their headquarters to observe secretly. Finally, in the end, everyone locked on two inconspicuous forces with relatively large suspicions:

One is a sect based on demon cultivation, called Putianhui, with thousands of disciples in the door, and the main cultivation of the door is in the early stage of spiritual building, occupying a small hill with rich resources and building a cottage. Such an inconspicuous force should have been destroyed a long time ago, but they are still standing. After the investigation, everyone found that there was a mysterious family behind the Putian Society secretly supporting, at the beginning of the Western Regions Rebellion, there was a force that tried to get into the territory of the Putian Society, but as a result, the two leaders of the early stage of the spirit building were killed for no reason, and that force quickly collapsed because of this, and was taken advantage of by other forces. The Putian Society is very low-key on weekdays, never expanding its territory or causing trouble, and no one even knows what they rely on to maintain the continuation of the sect. Such a low-key, mysterious and backstage demon cultivation sect, the suspicion is definitely not small.

The other is a small country, as small as a city, but a family power, surnamed Zhong. The rise of the Zhong family is not verifiable, only that the history is very long, and the years of running the city where they are located are also quite long, and it is said that this city was slowly built by the Zhong family themselves little by little. The Zhong family is also the kind of low-key family, with a deep heritage in the clan, with two mid-stage cultivators, and the children of the Zhong family use pseudonyms when they walk outside on weekdays, trying not to cause trouble for the family. The reason why everyone paid attention to the Zhong family was actually because when they went to the city where the Zhong family was located to conduct a thorough investigation, because they knew that the Zhong family had two mid-stage spiritual cultivators in charge, only Tu Zi and Fang Dinghai went to prevent others from being discovered by the other party and causing unnecessary trouble. However, when the two of them quietly arrived in the sky above Zhong Ding City, where the Zhong family was located, both of them felt a glance of extremely faint spiritual power. This is too abnormal, the description of the two mid-stage cultivators of the Zhong family in the intelligence is that they are all "novices" who have entered the middle stage for less than a thousand years, it stands to reason that it is impossible to discover people like Tuzi and Fang Dinghai in advance, could it be that the Zhong family has other more powerful characters hidden in the shadows? Or, what are their hidden methods? Inevitably startled, the two did not enter the city, but pretended to pass by, and left after a short stay above Zhong Ding City, and returned to everyone's assembly place, Fang Dinghai immediately transmitted the matter back to the headquarters of the Yimeng to obtain more information about the Zhong family, and at the same time summoned his old buddies to come, he was afraid that if the other party had a hidden old monster, he might not be able to hold the scene alone.