After the official internal investigation was completed, the search began for those Sects and families. At first, they met with strong resistance, but eventually, it was Emperor Dugu Jingtian himself who stepped forward and persuaded the Sects and families to accept the search.
The search operation lasted for a month and consumed a vast amount of human and material resources, but the final result was... nothing was uncovered.
"Are you sure that you searched every place, every person?" Ximen Lie asked with a stern face.
Emperor Dugu Jingtian nodded: "I am certain! There was absolutely no place overlooked, nor a single person missed."
"That's strange then," Ximen Lie frowned. "If everything has been searched, why was the Stele not found?"
"Could there have been a mistake? Is the Stele not in the Southeast Region?" Dugu Jingtian said hesitantly.
