Qu Jianlei put on a very earnest performance. However, Jade Forest Matron continued staring into his eyes as she slowly asked her question.
"Gentleman Forbids False Speech... Senior Brother once divined True Immortal Yongheng's whereabouts."
"He was the one who set True Immortal Yongheng up?" Qu Jianlei asked without changing expression. "I would like to ask, what is your senior brother called?"
From his tone, he actually intended to settle accounts with the other party afterward.
Jade Forest True Immortal was inexplicably startled. Is that really necessary? If anyone else had harbored such thoughts toward her senior brother, at most she would have sneered inwardly. She would not necessarily have intervened or acted.
Would the dignified Third Pavilion Lord of the Book Pavilion care about the resentment of Nascent Soul Realm cultivators outside?
But the person saying this was the Red Leaf Ridge Lord, so she had no choice but to take it seriously.
Without revealing anything, she said, "He merely divined someone's whereabouts; he had no intention of harming him... Collecting money for divination is quite common, isn't it?"
That was true enough. Divination was difficult to learn and even harder to master. Once one had attained proficiency, it was impossible to use it only for one's own people.
It was like an artifact refiner forging magical treasures and weapons for others. Making a living through one's skills was nothing unusual.
It was just that her senior brother's divination was exceptional. What he collected was not spirit stones, but other hard currency.
Yet Qu Jianlei shook his head and asked seriously, "But his target was our partner, and he was helping Heavenly Expanse..."
"If I do not ask about it, others will say that Red Leaf Ridge fears your Book Pavilion!"
Those words were outrageously arrogant. In all of