Fury blazed in Liu Tengfan's heart, but he had no way to vent it now.
He had been schemed against from the very start, suffering a loss he could only swallow in silence.
"You knew all along that the False Tortoise Shell Inscription contained a 'Longevity Pill'?" Leng Guhan asked.
"No, we only knew there was a secret within the False Tortoise Shell Inscription, one of great importance to our Imperial Remnant Manor. The message our ancestor left mentioned that only once the Longevity Jade Slip appeared and the Selection Inscription Stele, the Tortoise Shell Inscriptions, and the Longevity Jade Slip were used together to obtain the Longevity Pill Manual must we descendants obtain the False Tortoise Shell Inscription beside those three. In fact, we didn't know a Longevity Pill was hidden inside," the Sword Master said. "Actually, whether that aura truly belonged to a 'Longevity Pill' still needs to be verified. Even if it was a Longevity Pill, its existence in the form of an aura like that is surprising and baffling."
"We should be asking you these things, not the other way around," Wan Liukong said coldly. "What else could it be, if not the aura of a Longevity Pill?"
Everyone nodded. They did not think there was any other possibility.
"No wonder your Imperial Remnant Manor never took back these Tortoise Shell Inscriptions despite their having been with the Eighteen Families Firms for so many years. Besides certain tacit agreements, you probably also needed the Longevity Jade Slip, didn't you? Without the Longevity Jade Slip, these False Tortoise Shell Inscriptions probably couldn't be deciphered. Even if you had them, you couldn't obtain the aura of the 'Longevity Pill,'" Liu Tengfan said.
"That was our guess as well. When the Longevity Jade Slip was deciphered just now and