"I understand." Ye Chuqi nodded bleakly. "But the shortfall kept growing, and so did their appetites. In the end, they reached their wicked hands toward even more innocent people." Had they not encroached on other nobles' interests this time, the matter would never even have come to light.
It was only because the Thirteen Misty Islands were involved that the three great families had intervened.
Ye Chuqi clicked her tongue. Even in a world of light, shadows of varying darkness always lurked in the corners.
"I'll keep following up on this. Trust me, we'll have results soon." By now, the noble blood vial affair seemed to have become a showdown between the new nobility and the Old Nobility. The restless new nobles would surely seize this opportunity to deal the Old Nobility a fatal blow. Since Ye Chuqi was so concerned about its progress, Bai Fenghua did not mind helping things along. "Do you have any other thoughts about the sea demon?"
"Neither Big Black nor I found any trace of a sea demon in the coastal waters. If there really were one, it couldn't have left absolutely no sign of its presence. We even found the sea beasts hidden deep in underwater caves and underground rivers. There's no way we couldn't find a much larger target like a sea demon. Unless this sea demon has an exceptionally strong talent for concealment." But that was unlikely, too. She could now detect even black ghost stone, and San San, whose detection was far more precise than hers, had found no sea demon either. "Or there simply isn't a sea demon."
Once every impossibility was eliminated, the only explanation left was that there was no sea demon behind this affair at all—meaning that humans must have been driving these sea beasts to