Fang Jiuyuan's accusation that Su Xin had colluded with the Heavenly Court was actually a compromise. At first, Fang Jiuyuan had intended to accuse Su Xin of colluding with the Underworld—or even claim that Su Xin himself was one of its members.
Fang Jiuyuan had harbored this suspicion for quite some time. It had probably begun when Liu Fengwu was killed.
Liu Fengwu's death had been rather suspicious. He had indeed been killed by someone from the Underworld, but the Underworld had never provoked the Imperial Court before. The two sides had always kept the peace.
That was why the Underworld's move had taken the Imperial Court by surprise and enraged its people. They had immediately ranked the Underworld as a threat on par with the Heavenly Court.
Back then, so many members of the Six Fan Sect had escorted people from the Golden Tent Khanate to Great Zhou. Why had Liu Fengwu been the only one to die?
Fang Jiuyuan couldn't make sense of it. The only thing he knew was that Su Xin had benefited the most from Liu Fengwu's death.
And that was only the first suspicious point. The last time, Xuan Guan of Shaolin Temple had gathered so many people to kill Su Xin, only for Su Xin to call in a powerful expert who turned the tables and killed them instead. That person might also have been from the Underworld.
After all, aside from the Heavenly Court and the Underworld, there weren't many places in the martial world that could produce a Yang Spirit Realm expert so powerful and mysterious.
Still, hearing what had happened to Su Xin inside the Nine-Layer Sword Pavilion left Fang Jiuyuan confused.
Su Xin didn't seem to have any ties to the Underworld. If anything, he seemed much closer to