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"Probably not. That mission on Founding Peak was quite conspicuous; anyone who had been there should have seen it. If it really was Senior Sister Jiang Ying, she could have just said so. Why deliberately conceal it?"

Wen Xu thought Chunchou truly thought too well of people. But he was different. Though he had fought Jiang Ying once, he did not know her and had no friendship with her whatsoever, so he naturally did not hesitate to view her with malice. "Is there a possibility that she did not want to expose herself—that she was the one calling for help that night? Otherwise, she could have stayed where she was and waited for you that day. Why leave without a trace?"

"That's true. Why? Why was she hiding? Could it be..."

"Could it be what?"

"Could it be that, apart from Senior Sister Jiang Ying, there was someone else there at the time?"

Bian Chunchou scratched his head. Why was this getting stranger and stranger? From the Jiang parents' utterly different attitudes before and after, to Senior Sister Jiang Ying's own transformation, it all carried a kind of... stiff, forced sense of a sudden turn.

But if there truly was something wrong with Senior Sister Jiang Ying, could so many high-level cultivators of Yonglu Mountain really have failed to notice?

"No, I have to look into this. This damned curiosity of mine."

After saying that, Bian Chunchou headed straight for Founding Peak. He first returned the Shadow Recording Stone that had recorded the audio, then went to chat with some Outer Sect disciples he had recently met. Before long, he learned how Senior Sister Jiang Ying had entered Yonglu Mountain.

Just as he had heard beneath the arena that day, Senior Sister Jiang Ying had entered with a recommendation slot.