Su Jiu raised an eyebrow at those words. Suddenly, someone sent her a private voice transmission. "The disciple who examined the injuries concluded that the four probably died fighting one another, but without conscious awareness. More precisely, there's a very strong chance they died in an array."
A killing array! Su Jiu thought.
Following the witness's account, they arrived at the stretch of woods where the women had died.
Before long, another disciple investigating for the Enforcement Hall came to report. "According to information gathered from other disciples, the four deceased, led by the woman surnamed Feng, were not on good terms with Xia Meng."
A flash of panic crossed Xia Meng's face as she was held under guard, but she immediately demanded harshly, "What are you implying? Are you trying to pin the crime on me to protect Su Qingqing?"
Su Mianmian sneered. "Why are you panicking? Is a guilty conscience giving you away?"
"You're spitting blood to slander me!" Xia Meng snapped.
The investigating disciple ignored their argument and simply reported what he had learned. "The four female disciples led by the woman surnamed Feng apparently had rather poor reputations in the Outer Gate. They regularly bullied new disciples and sometimes even seized other people's resources. As far as I know, Xia Meng was among their victims."
Xia Meng fell silent. Almost every cultivator around her knew about this, so there was nothing to deny. She merely sneered at everyone present.
"Did they ever bully Su Qingqing?" That was what concerned Su Jiu.
The investigating disciple shook his head and answered with certainty, "Never. Su Qingqing has plenty of companions around her. However formidable the disciple surnamed Feng might have been, there were only four of them. Besides, Su Qingqing has people backing her. She was outside their