Shi Lan let out a long breath, still shaken, and asked tentatively, "Could it be... that Zhang Tianling tampered with the pills to murder the guests attending the Grand Luotian Offering?!"
"Impossible."
Lin Mo shook his head and said gravely, "I trust my judgment. Zhang Tianling is an upright man."
"Even if he truly intended to murder the guests, he would never tamper with his own pills and sully the alchemical mastery he takes the greatest pride in."
Lin Mo rubbed his chin and sank into thought.
He had witnessed the entire pill-refining ceremony that afternoon in person.
Moreover, to see its mysteries clearly, he had used the Divine Wood Eye to observe it. No subtle movement could have escaped his eyes.
From opening the cauldron's lid to distributing the pills at the end, the entire refining process had proceeded step by step without a single error.
That meant... someone had played a trick during the refining process!
Naturally, Lin Mo immediately thought of the thirty-six young Alchemists who had assisted.
The elderly Alchemists involved had only supported the refining throughout the process. They had never even had a chance to approach the Five Elements Imperial Heaven Cauldron.
The young Alchemists, however, had been responsible for pouring Spirit Spring Water into the Five Elements Imperial Heaven Cauldron and adding the medicinal ingredients.
Only if one of them had switched the materials Zhang Tianling had given them beforehand...
Could they have slipped poisonous insects into these pills without anyone noticing, right beneath his eyes and those of thousands of guests.
"Miss Shi Lan, we can't rest just yet."
Lin Mo narrowed his eyes and said gravely, "Tonight is certain to be a sleepless night!"
Events unfolded exactly as Lin Mo had anticipated.
That night, the guests staying throughout Immortal Herb