Outside Dragon Soul Valley.
News of what the younger generation from the various families experienced at Meteor Fall Abyss quickly spread throughout the camps.
The story of how the Child of Destiny had disguised himself to stay with the Yu Family Cultivators, only to have his identity exposed before mysteriously vanishing, shocked the upper echelons of the great families. They immediately began using all sorts of methods to get to the bottom of it.
Most of them were inclined to believe that some power had used underhanded means to abduct the Child of Destiny, and that the culprit had to be found.
Unfortunately, no matter how hard those old-timers tried, and despite using every overt and covert trick in the book, they couldn't find a single valuable clue.
Finally, the ancestors of the Nine Great Families communicated privately. After cross-referencing their intelligence, they confirmed that none of them had captured the Child of Destiny.
