Within the time it took to drink a cup of tea after Adam sat down, the Ji Family Holy Master really did capture the people who had been secretly in contact with the Ruthless Lineage.
Though a few were missing...
Adam kicked the Ruthless Lineage cultivator on the ground, and the man immediately gave up the names of the remaining three.
The Ji Family Holy Master's expression froze.
Although he had not deliberately failed to capture those people, but had genuinely overlooked them because the investigation had been too rushed, was Adam not being far too casual in the way he got those three names?
No, just how had he captured the people from the Ruthless Lineage? Were they all this cooperative with him?
If not for the fact that the people from Tai Xuan Sect they had killed during this period were truly dead, and the losses caused by the destruction of Tai Xuan Sect's industries were real, he would have suspected that Tai Xuan Sect and the Ruthless Lineage had joined hands to set this up.
However, this also revealed a few clues to the Ji Family Holy Master. If the Ruthless Lineage treated Huiming this way, perhaps the Dragon-Patterned Black Gold Cauldron did not need to be suppressed by an imperial weapon at all.
In any case, the Ji Family's actions more or less met Adam's expectations.
To Adam, a traitorous ally was even more detestable than an enemy who suddenly appeared.
He could tolerate the Ji Family Holy Master saying that he knew nothing about it, even if the man had actually had some suspicions. As long as he had not personally taken part, that was enough.
After all, when the forest grew large, all kinds of birds appeared. The Ji Family Holy Master's personal will