Jiang Wang's momentary daze had not escaped Granny Bizhu's cloudy eyes.
"What are you thinking about?"
She asked, "Are you... holding a grudge against this old woman?"
As she asked her question, Jiang Wang considered his own thoughts.
Hai Zongming had wanted to kill a Qi State Prodigy. Few in the Sea Fishing Tower would openly support him. It would certainly have been done in secret.
Besides, Hai Zongming had come for the Red Makeup Mirror. Since he wanted to seize a treasure, he would have been even more careful to keep it confidential.
Given Zhu Biqiong's naïveté, how could she have learned of it in advance?
Surely Hai Zongming wouldn't have told her, "I'm going to kill Jiang Wang. You'd better hurry and warn him," would he?
And she had passed the message along so urgently, which meant she was absolutely certain of her source... What source could she have had?
Even though Jiang Wang and Zhu Biqiong were friends, he couldn't honestly say she was clever enough to read people's minds.
She was just a young girl who had been protected too well and was very simple-hearted.
And what he had seen on Youxia Island this time...
The rivalry between the Angry Whale Gang and the Five Immortals Sect.
And the Five Immortals Sect's efforts to tighten its grip after Hai Zongming's death.
Including Granny Bizhu's own control over the Five Immortals Sect, and the willingness its elder Fan Qingqing had shown to move closer to Jueming Island...
If Granny Bizhu had told Zhu Biqiong about Hai Zongming's whereabouts, then everything seemed to fall into place.
No. That was the answer!
Zhu Biqiong had unwittingly become a sacrificial pawn in Granny Bizhu's struggle against Hai Zongming.
Granny Bizhu had used Zhu Biqiong to send word to Qi State.