Seeing him evade the question, Yue Wen asked again, "Don't you want to uncover the truth and avenge Situ Ling?"
"She died inside Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb. What is the point of talking about revenge?" Ao Ligun sighed. "Even if I became a Dao Lord, would I have the strength to raze Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb? Even a living immortal might not be able to flatten the Ten Thousand Mountains. How could I?"
"What about the person who sent you to Snake Mountain Tiger Tomb?" Yue Wen pressed. "Was that expedition really about obtaining an inheritance, or was there something else behind it? I don't believe you don't want to know the truth."
"I..." Ao Ligun fell into another deep silence before saying, "Of course I investigated. But this has nothing to do with your parents."
"Teacher, I spent five hundred thousand in Talisman Currency. Shouldn't I be the one to decide whether it's relevant?" Yue Wen chuckled. "You just need to answer the questions I want answered."
Only then did Ao Ligun continue, "After returning from Snake Mountain, I went to the Hall Lord to demand to know where the information had come from. The dangers involved were completely different from what we'd been told before the operation. Someone should have been held responsible for Situ Ling's death."
"But the Hall Lord said she was the Void Dragon King's lackey. If she was dead, she was dead. Why pursue the matter..."
"I couldn't accept that, so I went to Elder Yuan Ren. He was the Hall Lord's most trusted confidant. He must have known the inside story of this operation."
"Elder Yuan Ren couldn't withstand my questioning. He told me the Dragon Hall had captured a Demon Race spy and obtained the information from it. The Demon Race had