In the end, neither Huang Ye's nor Lou Xiu's belongings yielded anything obvious that could lead them further down the trail.
To dig any deeper, they would have to find the killer.
Who could it be? Only the Phoenix Clan itself knew the situation on Divine Mountain best. Eastern Victory's involvement was limited, so they could only ask the Phoenix Clan to investigate its own people.
The Eastern Victory Secret Envoys had suspected Feng Xi, but on further thought, they found it unlikely. If the Phoenix Clan under Feng Xi's control had been behind this, they could never have caught Huang Ye and Lou Xiu in the first place. Besides, Huang Ye's earlier, abrupt flight had clearly been prompted by a warning from a hidden informant.
These were the facts the leader of the Eastern Victory Secret Envoys reported truthfully after returning to the East Victory Royal Court with the suspects' bodies and belongings, when he met with Right Assistant Marquis Jia Huan and the Queen's attendants.
After the leader withdrew, Jia Huan circled the two demon cultivator corpses, now reverted to their true forms, and examined their wounds himself. In the end, his attention still returned to the Soul-Capturing Bags.
The Round-Faced Palace-Dressed Woman said slowly, "With both suspects' cultivation restrained, killing them would have been child's play. The problem is that all of Divine Mountain was on high alert. Even getting close to the prison would have been difficult, let alone breaking inside to silence them and killing the guards as well. It may indeed have been someone within the Phoenix Clan, and very likely someone high-ranking."
The Oval-Faced Palace-Dressed Woman, who had recorded the report on a Jade Slip, said, "Then does that mean Shi Chun wasn't responsible for what happened in Her Majesty's room?"
Jia Huan