Qing Chen sat alone at his desk, the many clues in his mind colliding madly and piecing themselves together.
"That Yue Zhimu... was probably another pawn deliberately lured into the game."
"The aim was to drag the Yue Household into the mire. Then Chu Feikong could produce this clue at just the right moment, claiming great credit for rooting out the traitor and uncovering the truth while splashing the filthy water of the blood sacrifice all over the Yue Household! What a move. What a move indeed!"
At this thought, a ruthless glint flashed through Qing Chen's eyes.
"This maneuver strikes much the same tune as my framing the Xu Household of Sea Prosperity Island to earn merit. This cultivation world really is full of jackals that devour people without spitting out their bones!"
He abruptly rose to his feet. He could wait no longer!
Otherwise, once Chu Feikong's scheme succeeded, given how ruthlessly that bastard operated, Qing Chen probably would not even get a mouthful of broth.
He used an escape art and silently slipped toward the place where Xu Baichuan was under house arrest.
The place where Xu Baichuan was confined was his own cave abode.
As an Inner Sect disciple with cultivation at the eighth layer of Qi Refining, he had not been treated as a prisoner.
A guard post had merely been set up at his entrance to restrict him from leaving.
Qing Chen concealed himself in the shadows and pushed the Demon Seed's spiritual sense to its utmost, carefully probing the guard post.
He saw that the Condensed Jade Sect disciples originally on duty had been replaced. The ones guarding the entrance now were none other than Qin Zigu and his Dao companion, Pan Yuelian!
"So it really is this pair... Qin Zigu is Xu