"Palace Heir, please take the seat of honor!"
At those words, Cheng Yang forcibly suppressed his overwhelming joy and hurriedly ushered Ye Li to the seat of honor.
Then he personally fetched the dossier from the table and presented it to Ye Li with both hands.
"Reporting to the Palace Heir."
"We were ordered to investigate the internal affairs of Jade Splendor Manor."
"Originally, we only intended to investigate a case from six months ago involving the mysterious disappearance of more than a dozen manor disciples."
"But once we actually began investigating, we discovered that far more than a dozen disciples had disappeared from Jade Splendor Manor!"
"Many of the missing disciples' Life Tokens have already shattered."
"They certainly aren't in secluded cultivation in some Secret Realm. They've been dead for a long time!"
Ye Li casually opened the dossier and asked,
"How many died?"
"We haven't determined that yet," Cheng Yang said, shaking his head.
"But we've already confirmed over a hundred."
"And they weren't just ordinary disciples. Several manor elders were among them."
"The manor lord stationed at Jade Splendor Manor, Zhuang Ye, also disappeared six months ago. That notice of clarification was issued by his wife."
"We were preparing to continue our investigation when people from Divine Dragon Mountain suddenly intervened."
At this point, Cheng Yang's expression darkened.
"They forcibly declared this a private matter between Divine Dragon Mountain and Jade Splendor Manor, then drove us straight out of the manor."
"They bluntly stated that people of our standing weren't qualified to investigate."
"If we really wanted to know what had happened inside, we should have someone with more clout in the Alliance Association come to the manor and see him personally!"
Ye Li briefly paused in leafing through the dossier.
"Does that person hold an unusual