The Pill peak’s elder held his chin for a bit before he checked the body of the unconscious guards. He used his spirit sense and scanned the meridians and even sniffed the body of the man.
"I don’t sense anything on him either..." The pill peak elder said.
"You don’t? Then how did they fall unconscious?" The disciplinary elder questioned.
"There are two reasons I can think of. First, someone used a unique Qi skill on them which made them unconscious but did not physically harm them or second... someone used a high grade tranquillizing poison on them." The pill peak’s elder spoke.
"Our sect does not have a Qi skill like that and I doubt other sects that do have them will dare to enter . I doubt that this is the work of a wandering cultivator too as they would have to go through a lot of loops to enter the sect.
Getting past our security and formations is not easy without the right tools. But even then they can’t get past the eyes of so many people in the sect.
Which means... it is likely to be the second option. If a poison is really high grade, then the chances of it being undetected are higher. Only those kinds of poisons would be hard for me to detect." The pill peak elder said.
"Hmm, if it really is someone from our sect, then it would make sense. But whoever did this is really stupid. They dare to go against our rules and even have the guts to steal... they shall not go unpunished." The disciplinary elder said.
While the disciplinary elder was speaking, Lin Mu glanced over at the expression of Jiao Fang who was the perpetrator behind this entire incident and saw that he was the least bothered by it. Instead, he had the expression of righteous indignation.
"Don’t worry, elder! I have no doubt whoever did this will pay a great price for it! How dare they act against our great sect!" Jiao Fang said with a strong voice.
The elders raised their brows in question but did not speak. For them, this was just another overenthusiastic disciple. There were plenty of them in the sect and there was no lack of those that liked to kiss their ass all the time.
Lin Mu too felt amazed at this act of Jiao Fang.
"This man is really something else. He can act rather easily, huh..." Lin Mu muttered to himself.
He watched for a few more minutes and saw their discussion. The guards who were unconscious were taken to the infirmary of the sect to be monitored while a barrier was set up around the treasure pavilion. This area would now be monitored more closely.
Not only this but the other treasure pavilions were alerted along with the equivalent buildings such as the herb warehouses and Pill repositories. The news reached the patriarch and he directly gave the orders to directly seal the sect so that no one could enter or leave.
A sect wide hunt was quickly launched as Lin Mu stayed hidden. Now it was even more difficult as the disciples were even scanning the ground just in case someone had buried themselves and hidden there.
While they did not find any disciples or thieves this way, they did end up finding some stashes of things related to ’entertainment’ in quite a few places in the sect. The disciplinary elder got angry and immediately ordered such things to be purged so that they may not taint the minds of the hardworking disciples.
As for those that were found to be culprits of hiding such material, they were also punished. Some of them were sent to the disciplinary hall to serve their sentence while some were asked to do hard tasks that many disciples dreaded doing.
The entire night, Lin Mu was on the move as there was little he could do. He even tried to go to one of the vaults of the main peak but was stopped by the spirit sense of elders who were personally guarding these.
Even Lin Mu did not dare to act while they were all here. He did not want to risk the chance of being found out by others as that would end up spoiling the entire plan that had been made. Instead of that, he went to the residence he had claimed in the sect and focused on going over the things about the formations he had learned.
In his mind, Lin Mu was running simulations on how he would unravel the formations of all the storage areas and vaults. Till now the only vaults he had not seen were those of the main peak, due to how hard it was to reach them now.
But it was these very vaults that perhaps had the most expensive items. The three vaults in the main peak were all located near the patriarch’s private courtyard and were watched over by him or by a few elders at all times.
No one dared to slack now that an attack had happened. An elder with a few disciples even went to the treasure pavilion to see if any important books were stolen or not. Even after scanning the entire pavilion, there were unable to find and substation evidence for the robber.
Jiao Fang himself had been relaxing after he had been rewarded with a badge by the disciplinary elder on behalf of the sect. Jiao Fang was so excited for this that he chose to literally wear the reward on his clothes at all time; as if he was afraid of other not knowing that he was given a reward and praised.
Lin Mu had followed the man for quite a while and Jiao Fang had done nothing suspicious all this time. He never took out that page he had torn out of that book, either. Lin Mu was even wondering if he had done all that for the reward he had been given.
A day passed and Lin Mu followed behind Jiao Fang before finally, the man went back to his residence.
"Oh my... did not expect this..."