Nine Infants looked at the Gold Foil E'shou had stolen back and fell silent in thought.
E'shou directly used a spell to recreate the scene of the conversation just now, without even needing to recount it. It was as if Nine Infants had personally watched it in full, every detail laid bare down to the finest strand.
Yet even Cao Cao could fall into the trap of Jiang Gan stealing the letter. No matter what, Nine Infants was no cleverer than Cao Cao—far from it.
This was "eavesdropping" on Qin Yi's private bedroom conversation with his woman. People were inherently far less guarded against the authenticity of such things. So long as the conversation conformed to common sense, they would basically believe it completely.
And Qin Yi's conversation truly conformed to common sense in every respect.
Including his assessment of Nine Infants, as well as the need and considerations behind refining the Netherworld—all of it matched perfectly.
Nine Infants knew even more deeply that if the Human Emperor could truly bring himself to use Mountain and River Dragon Qi as the lure and sacrifice one hundred thousand living souls, then the Netherworld really could be restored completely. The latter alone would have been enough; that was originally one of the conditions for forming a Plane Spirit. With the former added in, success would be certain, as stable as a mountain.
And Meng Qingying was the reincarnation of the Phoenix Emperor. She had once taken the Great Qian Dragon Qi as a puppet, and this likewise matched Nine Infants' investigation into the histories of these important figures. No matter how it listened, it sounded exactly like Qin Yi normally discussing matters with his woman.
For the Phoenix Emperor, it was entirely possible to connect this Dragon Qi with the Human Emperor,