"So he really was a mage." Li Chunfeng looked stunned. After pondering for a moment, he guessed, "Because of that story Granny Wang told?"
Zhang Yuanqing nodded.
"In Granny Wang's story, the mage was a helper Squire Zhao had hired. He subdued the demoness who dug out people's hearts and livers. By normal logic, the mage should have been stronger than both the blacksmith and Squire Zhao.
"There was no way the instance would let the evil faction encounter the strongest boss right from the start."
Granny Wang's story and Widow Xu's account could corroborate each other.
In Granny Wang's story, the demoness dug out people's hearts and livers, and Squire Zhao hired a mage to exorcise her. In Widow Xu's account, Granny Wang's son and Squire Zhao had conspired to murder Yin-Yang Recluse's descendant.
The common point was that both groups had been dealing with Yin-Yang Recluse's descendant.
The difference lay in their motives.
The mage must have really existed too. If Squire Zhao and Granny Wang's son could have joined forces to deal with that poor woman, they would have acted long ago. Then the mage would not have appeared in Granny Wang's story; they would have made up a different tale instead.
Of course, before the Spirit Realm's prompt appeared, all of this had merely been Zhang Yuanqing's speculation.
Besides, he finally understood who had arranged Granny Wang's house.
It had been the mage!
"That mage was probably a Voodoo Master," Queen suddenly said.
Zhang Yuanqing glanced at her. This woman had figured it out too.
After confirming that Widow Xu was not the one who had cast the curse, hearing the Spirit Realm prompt, and recalling Granny Wang's story, if she still had not caught on, then her status as a level-three Water Ghost would have