At noon the next day, Jiang Beili received Suijie's order summoning all the officials to a meeting. He paid it no heed and hurried to Moyun Cave, the dwelling of Venerable Moyun.
The gates to Venerable Moyun's cave abode stood open, as though he had been waiting specifically for Jiang Beili. Jiang Beili entered and was about to pay his respects when Venerable Moyun waved him off. "There's no need for all that. The dust has settled. What good would it do for you to come now?"
"Venerable, it's not that I refuse to accept it," Jiang Beili said. "It's just that there are too many strange things about this whole affair.
"Think about it. How highly did Palace Master Yan prize the True Spirit Divine Art? Suijie isn't even his biological son. How could he have passed on such a secret art?
"And that decree appointing Suijie as Deputy Palace Master looks suspicious no matter how you look at it.
"If the Palace Master really had issued such a decree, then even if he hadn't had time to notify me beforehand, he would certainly have sent me a message afterward, so I could file it in the palace archives. There's no record of it here."
Venerable Moyun showed no shock at Jiang Beili's so-called doubts. He calmly replied, "By your reasoning, Suijie killed the Palace Master and took the True Spirit Divine Art and his seal? But have you considered this? With Palace Master Yan's abilities, even if his life wheel had been taken, he could still have disrupted the spiritual flow. How could a Soul-Interrogation Art work on a cultivator at his level?
"If he hadn't sincerely passed the True Spirit Divine Art to Suijie, Suijie couldn't have taken it from him.
"As for the seal, that's even