Lin Bai listened patiently to Xia Jingzhi's confession and summed it up. Xia Jingzhi had confessed to many things, but there were only four that concerned Lin Bai most.
The first thing Xia Jingzhi confessed to: conspiring with Southern Border Insect Valley, pretending to betray Southern Border Insect Valley, infiltrating Eastern Region Chu, and serving as a sleeper agent.
Xia Jingzhi's confession also proved that he and Southern Border Insect Valley had indeed remained secretly connected.
A thousand years ago, Xia Jingzhi was summoned in secret by Southern Border Insect Valley. After discussing it with him in secret, they settled on a scheme.
Using Xia Jingzhi's "betrayal" of Southern Border Insect Valley and theft of its most precious treasure as an excuse, they forced him to leave the Southern Region and come to the Eastern Region, where he served as Southern Border Insect Valley's sleeper agent.
To prove that this was genuine, Southern Border Insect Valley had even issued a "Demon Realm Kill Order" to prove that Xia Jingzhi had truly severed ties with it.
It was precisely because of the "Demon Realm Kill Order" that, after Xia Jingzhi arrived in Chu's imperial capital, he quickly gained the Third Prince's trust and became his trusted aide, allowing him to discover what came next.
After hearing this part, Lin Bai asked curiously, "Southern Border Insect Valley and Chu are one in the far south and the other in the far east. Why would Southern Border Insect Valley go to such lengths to plant a sleeper agent in Chu?"
This was a question Lin Bai had never been able to unravel.
Southern Border Insect Valley lay in the extreme south of the Demon Realm, while Chu lay in the extreme east. The distance between them was like the distance between heaven and