Wang Zhiwu threw an arm around Wei E's shoulders and strode off into the distance.
As they walked, he said with a smile, "Tell me everything exactly as it happened, and I'll let you go."
Wei E could not help asking, "My lord, do you suspect someone has been impersonating you?"
Wang Zhiwu said approvingly, "Smart!"
Wei E vaguely understood and could not help saying resentfully, "Just as I thought, I knew there was something off about that big fool. He never guarded against me along the way and obeyed my every word. I thought he was missing a screw, but who would have thought... I'm the fucking big fool!"
As he spoke, he recounted how he had met Su Yi, and how he had lured Su Yi all the way into Purple Tiger Water Lord's territory in Tiger's Mouth Alley.
In the end, Wei E said with grief and indignation, "I treated him like a brother, yet who would have thought his heart was so black? He even impersonated your distinguished appearance, my lord. He must have wanted to frame you and harm you!"
Wang Zhiwu frowned as well.
That fake "Wang Zhiwu" had indeed acted strangely. No one could guess what he was truly trying to do.
Next, Wang Zhiwu questioned him carefully about several more details, but he ultimately gained nothing.
That fake "Wang Zhiwu" seemed to have appeared out of thin air. Other than spending money like water in the city and purchasing all manner of cultivation resources, he had done nothing else.
"Perhaps this person truly is Purple Tiger Water Lord's enemy. He impersonated me only to Divert Disaster Eastward."
Wang Zhiwu pondered this. He had heard that Purple Tiger Water Lord was a favored guest of City Lord Hundred Leaves Demon Emperor.
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