"Was this your Divine Martial Heaven ancestor's decision?" Lu Yin asked after hearing Xia Yuan's explanation.
Xia Yuan replied, "I don't know about that. Everything I know came from Ancestor Ziheng."
"What about the letter? Let me see it," Lu Yin said. He realized he had underestimated the internal conflicts among the Four Sides Heavenly Balance. He had grown close to Bai Weiwei, left traces of the Life Palm at the scene of Xia Xing's disappearance, and created the almost impossible cases of the missing resources on Young Ancestor Star and Bai Teng's disappearance. That had led Divine Martial Heaven to make all those connections.
In truth, if he hadn't done those things, then by normal reasoning it really could have been Cold Immortal Sect deliberately laying a false trail. Otherwise, why would Bai Teng have disappeared?
The timing of Bai Teng's disappearance had been too perfect, and Long Ke had been the one to suffer. Whether it was stealing resources right under Food God's nose or abducting Bai Teng, these were things even a Progenitor couldn't accomplish. There was only one explanation: it was all a performance. And everything fit Divine Martial Heaven's suspicions—or, rather, the suspicions it wanted to believe.
Lu Yin let out a breath. He had planted a willow without meaning to, and it had grown into a tree. He hadn't planned so many moves, nor had his cleverness backfired. It was simply that nobody had imagined an Envoy like him could pull all this off, when even Progenitors couldn't. It also proved, from another angle, that the Four Sides Heavenly Balance's schemes were practically out in the open.
Lu Yin looked over the record in the Jade Stone. It was written in Xia Ziheng's own hand and laid out all of Divine Martial Heaven's suspicions,