Black Bone Skeleton heard the dissatisfaction in the shadow's words, and his heart jolted. He hurriedly examined every inch of the Yin corpse.
In the end, he turned the Yin corpse inside out, yet still failed to find the Yin Chen Pearl on it.
"How could that be?"
Black Bone Skeleton found it hard to believe. After White Lotus entered the pool, she had found nothing. If the Yin Chen Pearl was not on the Yin corpse, then where could it be?
The shadow cast him a cold glance. "Tell me everything that happened, in detail."
Black Bone Skeleton did not dare conceal anything and laid out the entire matter.
After hearing his account, the shadow fell into thought.
"You are saying that, from beginning to end, White Lotus was the only one who entered the pool?"
"That's right. When White Lotus went to search for the Yin Chen Pearl, An Yue stood guard beside the pool. After Xu Chunniang found this place, she was extremely wary of the Yin energy in the pool and did not enter it. Later, the Yin corpse was disturbed, and we followed it into the karst cave."
At those words, the shadow suddenly laughed.
"Who told you that one had to enter the pool personally to obtain the Yin Chen Pearl?"
Understanding his meaning, Black Bone Skeleton belatedly realized that Xu Chunniang had taken the Yin Chen Pearl.
She had secretly taken the Yin Chen Pearl, then deliberately attacked White Lotus to clear herself of suspicion!
Once he realized it, rage surged through him. "I paid such a steep price to win her over—I even gave her the Golden Flood Dragon Token—and she actually dared to cheat me like this!"
The shadow did not grow angry. "Heavenly treasures and earthly wonders belong to those