After speaking with Liu Wei, Ren Ye had already placed Niu Dali at the top of his suspect list for the Huge Star Source Disappearance Case. He could even say with certainty that the bloodbath in the underground Treasury was actually a deliberately exposed setup meant to conceal the truth.
The ultimate purpose of this setup was to create the false impression that, faced with an enormous quantity of star source, those dozen-odd groups of Monk Soldiers had been unable to resist temptation or trust human nature, and had therefore resorted to the extreme measure of killing one another to silence witnesses. In the end, most of them had died horribly in the Underground Vault, while the enormous quantity of star source had been divided up and could no longer be recovered.
With so many people at the scene, nobody knew how much star source anyone else had taken into their consciousness space. You could say it was one piece or a million, but the people were dead now, and the star source could no longer be retrieved. There was simply no living witness left to verify anything...
On top of that, some survivors had escaped. Nobody else could know whether these survivors had taken any star source or how much they had taken, and most of them belonged to different Monk Soldier offices, each with their own backers. So even if the Heavenly Radiance Temple ordered a thorough investigation, it would be difficult to establish anything concrete with so many dead and so many people with powerful backers involved. After all, the dead could not testify, and the law could hardly punish everyone.
Taking all this into account, Ren Ye felt Niu Dali was the most suspicious. The first people to propose breaking into the Treasury had been his