Mingxi and Chu Kuangsheng were quick to leave.

After going through the motions, registering their entry into the secret realm and their safe return, they vanished without a trace.

So, they didn't know that shortly after they left, a serious incident occurred near the space rift.

A group of people unexpectedly attacked several Beast Tamers who had just exited the secret realm.

The behavior and objective of this group were very consistent: to force them to hand over their spatial items and unbind them.

Because these individuals appeared so abruptly and acted ruthlessly, one person, whose face was covered by Tie Mian, was particularly cruel in his actions, like a demon lord descended from heaven.

Even if those Beast Tamers agreed to their demands, they ultimately did not escape his slaughter.

By the time Xiao Li Country's guard team arrived at the scene, including the Beast Tamers' pets, there were no survivors, and the deaths were extremely gruesome.

To describe it in words, they were all pulverized into a pile of bloody, rotten flesh.

Not a single complete body remained!

As for how this incident was discovered?

Even ants know to cling to life; as top Beast Tamers, how could they not have a backup plan when facing a powerful enemy?

One Beast Tamer's pet had a skill, Thought Residue, which preserved relevant images.

Another Beast Tamer carried a semi-rule item called the Heaven-Recording Mirror, which didn't have any particularly amazing uses.

Its purpose was to record everything that happened around its owner for a certain period, and it also possessed strong stealth properties, making it impossible for anyone or any Transcendent creature other than the owner to perceive, observe, or touch it.

Even if the owner died, it could maintain its function for a long time.

Even without these, skills like pet's Time Recall and Soul Awakening could all replay the case.

However, such skills are relatively rare and are all high-level skills, usually only pets that have broken through to the Imperial rank might awaken or learn them.

Mingxi learned of this news the next morning.

"Instructor, can you help me get the content recorded by that Heaven-Recording Mirror and the death list?"

Chu Kuangsheng raised his eyebrows, sensing something.

"Yes."

Chu Kuangsheng's connections and methods were beyond Mingxi's current capabilities.

In less than half an hour, Mingxi saw the images and relevant information about the attacked Beast Tamers.

"Is there a problem?" Chu Kuangsheng looked at the young girl, who had slightly furrowed her brows after watching the footage. He certainly didn't think she was frowning because she couldn't stand the bloody and cruel scene.

"Yes, and it's not a small problem." Mingxi was a bit troubled, "If my deduction is correct, this group of people should be coming for me."

Most of the deceased Beast Tamers had interacted with her in the secret realm, specifically the group in the valley.

"How so?"

Mingxi took out the Formless White Chess piece, "To be precise, it should be related to this item."

She briefly explained her experience in the valley, the attack by the group from Edinburgh, who were suspected members of the Descent Organization, and then the general situation of this Formless Chess.

...I used the absolute perception manipulation of the Formless Chess when I helped you seize Chain Hongyu earlier.

"If I'm not mistaken, this Formless Chess should be part of a set of artifacts. I just don't know where that man named Edinburgh Vogerson got this white piece. I initially thought it was his own.

But obviously, I was wrong."

She tapped her finger on the man with the Tie Mian on the screen in front of her.

"Their actions indicate that this white piece originally belonged to Descent, which is why they were so anxious after Edinburgh Vogerson died."

Chu Kuangsheng's brows furrowed even tighter, "Then aren't you in great danger?"

Mingxi, however, shook her head and said, "Not necessarily."

"Why do you say that?"

"If it were you, when investigating a lost item and finding a ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ suspicious person, would you not inquire about all the circumstances of the lost item before and after its theft?"

Chu Kuangsheng nodded without hesitation. This was inevitable.

Unless—

His eyes gleamed, "Unless they already possess all the information!"

Mingxi gave him a look that said, 'You're not entirely hopeless, you haven't embarrassed me.'

Chu Kuangsheng: "..."

This Xiao Zaizi has indeed become arrogant.

Feeling the murderous intent, Mingxi cleared her throat, "Based on the content of this video, those people have precisely grasped who had contact with Edinburgh, but they most likely didn't rely on torture. Their purpose in contacting the Beast Tamers is very simple: to demand their spatial items!"

"Are you trying to say that among the people who were with you in the valley, there were also hidden members of Descent?"

As soon as Chu Kuangsheng said this, he denied the speculation, "No, if that were the case, they would have come directly for you, instead of bothering other Beast Tamers."

"Exactly, so why do you think they went after those innocent Beast Tamers, but didn't come directly for me?"

Chu Kuangsheng had roamed the Blue Star for many years and became the famous Chu Yanwang, orchestrating countless incidents, big and small. He couldn't possibly be just a simple-minded warrior.

"Two possibilities." He said with a serious expression, "One is that they know the item is in your hands, but they have some reservations, so they deliberately avoided you and targeted these people, intending to warn you and make you voluntarily hand over the Formless Chess.

The other possibility is that they possess an item that can directly pinpoint the people Edinburgh Vogerson had short-term contact with.

Given that you are just an ordinary SS-Class Beast Master, and among the victimized Beast Tamers, there are many individuals of extraordinary status, and 'warning' as a low-level tactic is something even a fool wouldn't do.

So, I deduce that the latter possibility is higher."

Mingxi, the 'ordinary SS-Class Beast Master,' gave him a thumbs up, 'You're the best!'

"Then won't you still face assassination? Why do you say 'not necessarily'?"

Mingxi's recently raised thumb immediately turned.

Shake it.

Big smart and big fool.

"Instructor, even without this incident, would Descent not try to assassinate me?"

Many lice, no itch; many debts, no worry.

The current relationship between Mingxi and Descent is a mutual pursuit where both sides are aware.

Both want to kill the other.

How is that not a mutual pursuit?

However, Mingxi also had a guess: that the item they possessed, which could pinpoint identities, might not be able to pinpoint her.

Because she had a large number of items that severed causality.

And aren't those types of pinpointing items related to causality? 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Of course, this was just an immature guess from her, an immature Xiao Guniang, and it couldn't be verified for now.

Chu Kuangsheng had nothing to say because what she said made too much sense.

If he were the Saint Lord of the Descent Organization, he would definitely put Mingxi, this Xiao Zaizi, at the top of the kill list.

"Your guess about the Formless Chess should be correct. I'll ask the Chu family about it later. Failing that, there's always the intranet, dark web, and the unspeakable web. Such a set of artifacts shouldn't be unknown."

Wasn't this exactly what Mingxi wanted?

She chuckled, "Thank you, Instructor."