Jing Long was first stunned, then flew into a rage. "Slander! You're making wild accusations! Dong, if you've got the guts, kill me! If you can't, I'll tear you limb from limb! And you, Xu—you want me to sign my name, to smear myself in writing? Not a chance! If you've got the guts, kill me and see whether my Jing family and Senior Brother Tong will let you get away with it! Come on! Come on..."
If Dong Qingke had used some other method, Jing Long might have caved. But the matter of Tong Mei was the most terrible wound in his heart, his greatest nightmare. Once it was exposed, he would go down in flames with anyone who tried to use it against him.
He would never put any of this down on paper.
Xu Yi cursed Dong Qingke for botching the job. He'd had such a good handle on Jing Long, and somehow he'd managed to turn it into this mess.
Dong Qingke gave a smug chuckle. "You think that just because you won't put it in writing, I can't do anything to you? Take a look at this, Brother Jing."
Dong Qingke took out a blue, gleaming bead. Xu Yi recognized it: a Ruyi Pearl.
It could record images, transmit sound, and send pictures. It was practically a combination of the Shadow-Sound Pearl and the message-transmitting pearl he'd seen in the lower realm.
Dong Qingke activated the Ruyi Pearl's restriction. Images immediately appeared: Dong Qingke recounting what had happened to Tong Mei, with Jing Long's several reactions clearly captured.
Though Jing Long never admitted to having anything to do with Tong Mei's death, anyone of even average intelligence could connect Dong Qingke's account with Jing Long's reactions and see at once that Dong Qingke was telling