Just as Zhao Dashan was itching to act, Zhao Sanyue suddenly raised her head and glanced at him, then asked out of nowhere, "Who shattered the statues?"
Zhao Dashan's heart tightened, and his expression instantly turned extremely ugly. "I don't know! That day, there were one hundred and ninety-seven people worshiping the ancestors at the altar. But afterward, not a single one was left alive, and more than half of the ancestral statues were destroyed.
"After the incident, This Old Man questioned those on duty that day and confirmed that the last person to enter the altar was Zhao Luoxin of the Yanling branch. That person's whereabouts are currently unknown."
Zhao Sanyue fell silent for a moment, and the expression on her face grew even more murderous.
She suddenly asked again, "Where is the Heavenly Book Ancestral Register?"
When Zhao Dashan heard this, he inwardly cried that he had been lucky, and at once shook his head with a grave face. "The Ancestral Register is lost!"
"Lost?" Zhao Sanyue's pitch instantly rose by three notches, her tone full of doubt.
One had to know that the Heavenly Book Ancestral Register was a True Form Spirit Treasure. Anyone capable of taking it away without a sound had to possess cultivation at least above Return to Void.
With this point alone, the range of suspects was greatly narrowed, and Zhao Sheng's suspicion was also greatly increased.
However, was the truth really so?
The truth was that the one who had shattered the many ancestral statues was it, the one who had taken away the Heavenly Book Ancestral Register was also it, and the one who had killed to silence witnesses was even more so it!
Everything was Myriad Forms Old Ghost's scheme of "crossing the sea while hiding the sky," its purpose