It was a relatively smooth interrogation-or rather, the suspect was quite cooperative.
As the questions and answers went back and forth, the suspect seemed to hold nothing back. Jia Huan spent most of his time picking apart the details, while Shi Chun either had an answer prepared or claimed he could not remember.
Shi Chun himself did not particularly care about vagueness in certain details. Since he had dared to turn himself in, he was not afraid of that. He also knew perfectly well that his life or death would not be decided by such details.
But his testimony subtly steered their attention toward Huang Ye, the Northern District Order Master of Divine Mountain on Gathering Grotto Continent.
Before the first interrogation ended, Jia Huan asked about something else: how Shi Chun had escaped while carrying the gravely wounded Li Hongjiu on his back.
Shi Chun sounded honest, but inwardly he thought nothing of feeding them nonsense. He said he had used the deceptive tricks of the Soul-Scattering Mace, the Soul-Severing Bell, and the Three Corpses Mirror to slip through an opening and escape.
Since the people trying to capture him had not seen how he escaped, he had the nerve to spout nonsense to the distinguished Right Assistant Marquis. No one could prove he was lying, so he dared.
Sometimes his approach really was that simple and direct. He did not look ahead and behind, fretting over every possibility the way many cautious people did.
Once the interrogation was over for the time being, Shi Chun was released from the torture rack and thrown into prison.
He paced around the gloomy cell, finding the surroundings strangely familiar. Then it dawned on him that this was not his first time behind bars. Before he had even managed to leave the