"How did these jade plaques end up in his hands?"
"Looks like Chou Tian's affair has an inescapable connection to this fellow..."
When the jade plaques flew from Nie Yun's hand, Jiang Hao and the others exchanged glances, each revealing a cold, stern expression.
By all rights, after Chou Tian and the others died, the jade plaques should have been scattered throughout Chaos Mountain. Yet they had appeared in his hands; many things went without saying. "This..."
Seeing the jade plaques that had suddenly appeared, while the others remained indifferent, Gu Yong was startled.
"These jade plaques were entrusted to me by Senior Brother Feng Zhen for safekeeping. As for how he obtained them, I don't know much either. And Senior Brother..." As he spoke, Nie Yun's face filled with grief.
Taking out the jade plaques had been part of his plan all along.
The four great sects had fought so fiercely over these slots. By producing the jade plaques, he could, first, make the other three sects suffer a setback; second, by pinning the matter on Feng Zhen, he could avoid quite a bit of trouble.
Since they had already begun to suspect him anyway, rather than wait for them to come looking for trouble, he might as well seize the initiative himself.
When lice multiplied, one no longer feared the itch. As long as these sect masters did not act, he truly did not care about the other disciples.
Now that he had shifted the matter onto the dead Feng Zhen, even if the other sect masters wanted to make trouble, they had no excuse. After all, they were all figures of standing in the Slanting Moon Supreme Domain. They could not possibly disregard their status and act at will.
"Feng Zhen... It seems he picked up these