Dugu Ciu nodded. "I found this piece two years ago in the ruins of a village wiped out in the northern province. No survivors. Not a trace of energy left, as if everything had been erased."
Hearing that Lin Mu furrowed his brows as he thought about it. The attacks of the strange cultivators had become a few years ago and had originally been in the Lotus Prefecture.
'Did they start there and spread here or did it start elsewhere?' Lin Mu wondered.
"Is it a sect emblem or something else?" Meng Bai asked.
"I don't know yet but I believe it's part of a cult. I've read old records from tens of thousands of years ago during the time of great conflicts. There were many such cults back then." The elder replied grimly. "They don't follow conventional cultivation paths. From the few clues I gathered, their practices involve emotion suppression, invasive mind control, and—possibly—body modification."
Lin Mu's eyes narrowed.
