Those who could use nebulous yin qi as exquisitely as it had been used were few in number on his shortlist of suspects. So yes—because of what he had found—high on his list of likely would be kidnappers of Bai Chen and his disciple was someone from either the Aurora Dark Winter Jade Spruce tribe or the Dark Yin Water Oak tribe, given the abilities and reputation those two treefolk tribes had when it came to nebulous yin qi.
And if he was being perfectly honest, his spirit stones were on the culprit being from the Aurora Dark Winter Jade Spruce tribe rather than the Dark Yin Water Oak tribe. The reason was simple—one tribe had fallen on hard times, and turning to kidnapping when you were desperate was a predictable action for someone in such straits, whereas the other tribe was thriving, living alongside another mythical race famed for having one of the sturdiest defenses in the world.
