Only at this moment did all the mysteries finally unravel.
The true masterminds behind this bizarre corpse liberation case were Li City God and the Zhao family's young master!
As for Qiu Qianluo, she was merely a chess piece in their hands.
The Ma family, one of Jiangdu City's ten new nobles, had simply been a scapegoat borrowed to lay eggs, then discarded once used.
Yet there were still two points Lu Chen had not fully figured out.
First: why would the City God of an entire region collude with the Zhao family? Why would he even defy the heavens to help Zhao Wanliang become a ghost immortal?
Second: Qiu Qianluo came from Xiangnan, a thousand miles away from Jiangdu. Had Zhao Wanliang hired her specifically? That did not seem right either.
Lu Chen vaguely felt that the one truly pulling all the strings from behind the scenes should have been Li City God.
Rather than saying Qiu Qianluo was connected to Zhao Wanliang,
Lu Chen felt that Qiu Qianluo had a greater connection to Li City God.
But how could the Jiangdu City God have ties to an evil cultivator a thousand miles away? It was truly baffling.
Though the clouds of suspicion had dispersed, doubts still remained.
Still... none of that was important anymore.
What mattered was—after all that, Li City God had been directing and acting in his own play!
Lu Chen had known it. When he first came out of City God Street, Li City God had said he needed time to investigate. Yet the moment Lu Chen reached an agreement with the Kitchen God, the "culprit" was found right afterward.
So Li City God had been watching him from the very beginning. To make Lu Chen owe him a favor, he had not hesitated to