"People from the East Sea Dragon Hall went to Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb?"
Yue Wen feigned surprise and asked another question in return.
Of course he knew people from the East Sea Dragon Hall had been to Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb. He had heard the Heart-Ripping Woman tell the story while chatting with that bunch of lunatics on Snake Mountain through the Demon Emperor Hide.
She had originally been a Thousand-Scale General of the East Sea Dragon Hall and had become trapped there after entering Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb with a delegation from the Dragon Hall. According to her, a Demon Race infiltrator within the Dragon Hall had set her up.
During that same expedition, his father-in-law and mother-in-law had accompanied the Dragon Hall delegation as consultants. The Heart-Ripping Woman possessed an exceptionally high cultivation, and it was precisely because she had needed to protect his two mortal in-laws that she had failed to escape Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb.
He knew all this, but only from the Heart-Ripping Woman's perspective. If he could hear Ao Yuanchi explain the Dragon Hall's side, he should be able to learn more.
Besides, asking a question like that both conveyed that he knew nothing about it and did not count as "deception."
I didn't say I didn't know. I just asked, "That happened?"
That way, even the Illusion and Reality Dao Lord would sense nothing. Yue Wen had to use all sorts of little tricks when speaking with Ao Yuanchi, and this was one of them.
Sure enough, Ao Yuanchi suspected nothing and began explaining to Yue Wen. "Thirty years ago, the East Sea Dragon Hall organized an expedition to the Ten Thousand Mountains. Its destination was Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb."
"At the time, the story was that Ao Yuanzhong's subordinates had discovered that