Frost Lord said in a grave voice, "Forget Wang Zhige. Elder Hui, what about your Level 27 Divine Calculation? Run a deduction and see if you can find any clues."
"No. I only performed a deduction a year ago. The next one will take at least another nine years."
"Wait, a year ago—you didn't deduce that Qin Yu would die?"
"I was deducing another direction. Level 27 Divine Calculation isn't omniscient and omnipotent; it can only deduce along a predetermined course. Unless Qin Yu was destined to appear in that event thread in the future, would I really pay such a tremendous price just to look into whether she lived or died?" Elder Hui said gloomily.
Upon hearing this, Frost Lord and the Black Emperor asked no further questions. In another nine years, the daylilies would be cold; even a Level 27 Divine Calculation would be unable to deduce anything useful.
"I propose that we finalize the preliminary investigation report as it stands. What do you two think?"
The Black Emperor smiled like a peacemaker as he looked at Elder Hui and Frost Lord. This time, he was the most wronged of them all.
He had already lost the competition for the Second-Rank Elder position and been eliminated. In theory, he too had a motive to intercept and kill Qin Yu, thereby stirring up conflict.
But the problem was, he really had not done it. Just now, he had questioned every disciple about their movements, and even the disciples were saying they were utterly baffled and had all behaved themselves.
So if those above believed the three of them had been tearing at one another and fighting internally without regard for the occasion, then he was truly being wronged.
They needed to quickly consolidate the preliminary intelligence and prove that