Qu Feiyan's Choice
Zhao Zijie thought it over carefully, then recounted what had happened.
It turned out that when Liu Hongyuan first joined the Cuiyun Sect, he saw that Zhao Zijie was only a Core Formation Cultivator and didn't take him seriously at all. He had ordered Zhao Zijie around, and Zhao Zijie naturally refused to put up with it. He gave Liu Hongyuan a few sharp retorts. Not long after, Liu Hongyuan learned Zhao Zijie's identity and came to apologize of his own accord.
Shi Yue understood. Liu Hongyuan definitely had a problem.
"Think carefully. Have any other cultivators been in frequent contact with you? I mean cultivators who joined the Cuiyun Sect after I went to attend the Qu family's birthday banquet."
Zhao Zijie pondered for a long while, then shook his head. "No, just Liu Hongyuan. Young Master, is there something wrong with him? Should we send someone to arrest him?"
"No need. Focus on cultivating in seclusion for a while. You don't need to worry about anything else. Don't tell anyone about this conversation, and don't contact Liu Hongyuan or any other unfamiliar cultivators who recently joined the sect without my orders." Shi Yue's expression was grave.
He could be almost certain that Liu Hongyuan was a Qu family spy. Liu Hongyuan definitely wasn't at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage; he might even be in the Spirit Transmutation Realm. That raised the question: who had sent him to the Cuiyun Sect?
The Qu family head? Or Qu Sidao? Could it have been Qu Zhiyang?
Shi Yue couldn't figure it out for the moment. Without evidence, he couldn't make wild guesses.
Why had the Qu family sent a spy to investigate Shi Yue's background? Did they want to uncover his origins, or was there some other secret