One night a few days later, Su Jiu decided to visit the Zheng Household again on her own. No matter what, she wanted to see those four secret chambers.
After all, she needed to see for herself where that batch of Spirit-Draining Stones was hidden.
Little did she know that, at that very moment, the same matter was being discussed in another hall.
By now, Zheng Li had grown somewhat anxious. He had ordered someone to put Spirit-Draining Stones inside the box that could activate the Puppet, intending to make Su Jiu and the others suspect that the person controlling the stones behind the scenes was connected to the siblings. He had never expected the siblings to be in the room.
He had no idea what the siblings had said that kept those Golden Core cultivators from killing them. But that was secondary. What worried him most now was whether they had said something they should not have, making those Golden Core cultivators suspicious of him.
Two days earlier, after Eleventh and Fourteenth had emerged from the secret chamber, he had sounded them out with a few indirect remarks. They did not seem to have discovered the Golden Core cultivators hiding there at the time.
On reflection, that made sense. The elder sister lacked cultivation, and the younger brother lacked brains. Even together, they were probably no match for him alone.
Zheng Li felt that certain matters could wait no longer, so the following day, he exposed what the siblings had done to his father and the members of the Lineage who held decision-making authority.
He said that the two had colluded with people from the Yu Household to harm their own kin.
He had thought his case was airtight, yet as soon as he finished speaking, everyone present merely