"Wait!"
Jiang Boyue said, "Brother Long, if you have no more questions, then Jiang has one. You rushed here, saying over and over that because the two sides couldn't agree on a price, Divine Lord Huan Zhen instead reached an agreement with someone else, and Zuo Menghui flew into a rage and tried to kill him. May I ask where exactly you heard this?"
Long Ao said, "From Divine Lord Huan Zhen!"
"May I ask when?" Jiang Boyue asked, eyes wide.
Long Ao said, "At the third quarter of the Xu hour."
"That's impossible!" Jiang Boyue and the other two cried out almost in unison.
Jiang Boyue had received Divine Lord Huan Zhen's dying message at the first quarter of the Xu hour. No matter how long the battle had dragged on, it couldn't possibly have lasted for two whole quarters.
Long Ao snorted. "There's nothing impossible about it. I'm sure your next question will be how I can prove Divine Lord Huan Zhen sent the message. You don't need to ask; I'll tell you directly. It came by a message talisman. You heard me: Divine Lord Huan Zhen's message talisman."
Jiang Boyue fell silent, his mind going blank in waves.
If the message had been sent through a Ruyi Pearl, he could still have argued that Lei Chiyan had killed Divine Lord Huan Zhen, taken his Ruyi Pearl, and used it to spread a false message.
But it had come through a message talisman, and a message talisman couldn't be refined. What... what on earth was going on?
Jia Zhen asked, "May I ask if Divine Lord Huan Zhen is still alive?"
Long Ao snorted. "He's dead. His Life Soul Tablet shattered."
Jia Zhen asked, "Did Divine Lord Huan Zhen send any other messages by talisman besides this one