Inside the main hall of the sect.
Lin Wanwan knelt before the sect leader, her face full of anger and grievance.
"Sect Master, I didn't kill Crane Zun! Someone framed me!"
Crane Zun is a crane Spirit Beast of the Ethereal Sect, at the early stage of the Second Tier, roughly equivalent to the Foundation Establishment, Third Layer.
Cranes are a common mode of transportation used by ordinary disciples of the Ethereal Sect when they go out.
The Ethereal Sect has a special Crane Garden for raising crane Spirit Beast.
If this Crane Zun were just an ordinary crane, that would be one thing. The key point is that this Crane Zun is the son of a Fifth Tier Crane King in the Crane Garden.
Fifth Tier is equivalent to a Spirit Transformation Realm expert among humans.
Even the sect leader has to be given some face.
But now that the Crane King's son has been poisoned, this is a serious matter.
"Trying to frame you?" Chu Qing threw a porcelain bottle in front of her.
"Then explain why there are Spirit-Devouring Pill in your room, and why there are Spirit-Devouring Pill components in Crane Zun's body?"
"Furthermore, someone saw you leave the Ethereal Sect three days ago riding Crane Zun, and in the past six months, Crane Zun has only had contact with you. How do you explain that?"
Crane Zun is the Crane King's own son; no one in the entire sect, not even the sect leader, has ever ridden him.
Because Lin Wanwan possesses the Female Lead Aura, Crane Zun is very close to Lin Wanwan.
Well, I have to say, the Female Lead Aura is really powerful.
It is attractive to both men and women, and even to Spirit Beast.
Lin Wanwan glared angrily at Chu Qing: "This Spirit-Devouring Pill isn't mine. I've never bought Spirit-Devouring Pill."
"Although I did ride Crane Zun, I only went down the mountain to the First Pin Pavilion to buy some cultivation pills."
"All of this is verifiable; you can find out by asking at the First Pin Pavilion."
"Smack!"
Chu Qing tossed a jade slip in front of Lin Wanwan.
"This is the purchase record provided by the First Pin Pavilion, which clearly shows your purchase of the Spirit-Devouring Pill."
"Now that you've been caught red-handed, are you still trying to deny it?"
Lin Wanwan was somewhat dazed by Chu Qing's reprimand, or rather, she was completely dazed.
Half an hour ago, she was cultivating in her room when she was inexplicably captured by the Law Enforcement Hall.
She did nothing wrong, so how did she become the murderer of Crane Zun?
However, Lin Wanwan is gradually realizing what's going on.
This is a setup; Chu Qing is framing me.
"Why?" Lin Wanwan looked at Chu Qing, puzzled.
Why? Of course, it's to expel Lin Wanwan from the sect; that's what Ling Yi ordered.
Chu Qing had made thorough preparations to frame Lin Wanwan.
The chain of evidence is complete and the logic is sound.
No one could find fault with it.
"Why what?" Chu Qing asked.
"Senior Sister Chu Qing, why did I have to kill Crane Zun?"
"Then it must be that Crane Zun has discovered some secret of yours," Chu Qing said with great certainty.
"What secrets could I possibly have?" Lin Wanwan's heart skipped a beat at that moment.
Had Chu Qing discovered his collaboration with the Yan Demon?
"Your secret is that you can devour the cultivation of others!" Chu Qing gave a wicked smile and Voice Transmission to Lin Wanwan.
"You, you, you!" Lin Wanwan's face turned deathly pale.
"You wouldn't want anyone to know that you have a Yan Demon living inside you, would you?"
"What exactly do you want?" Lin Wanwan Voice Transmission.
"I want you dead!" Chu Qing's voice was icy.
"No, if you really wanted me dead, you wouldn't be threatening me like this." At this moment, Lin Wanwan regained her composure.
"So clever!"
At this moment, Chu Qing bowed respectfully to the sect leader.
"We request that the sect leader strip Lin Wanwan of her cultivation and expel her from the sect."
At this moment, Sect Master Si Yunkong frowned and looked at Lin Wanwan without saying a word.
Since Ling Yi's return, Si Yunkong and the other elders have shaken off the female lead's Intelligence-Lowering Aura and regained their rationality.
Although he regained his senses, he still couldn't bring himself to attack Lin Wanwan.
In fact, the moment the sect leader regained his senses, he wanted to kill Lin Wanwan.
This woman is terrifying; she can actually control the minds of everyone in the entire sect.
If not eliminated, the Ethereal Sect will surely fall into chaos.
But every time he tries to hurt Lin Wanwan, his body resists, and in severe cases, his body becomes uncontrollable and he is frozen in place for a moment.
Otherwise, the sect leader would have wanted to kill Lin Wanwan long ago.
Just like now, is it that Si Yunkong doesn't want to cripple Lin Wanwan's cultivation? No, he can't.
" Lin Wanwan, you have committed a grave mistake. It would be unjust not to punish you. Leave the sect tomorrow!" Si Yunkong said helplessly in the end.
"Sect Master, I have been wronged. Don't you believe me?" Lin Wanwan tried to use her previous methods to deceive the authorities.
"The evidence is conclusive!" the sect leader said slowly, then his figure disappeared.
Lin Wanwan glared at Chu Qing, then got up and walked out.
With the sect leader gone, the matter was settled, and the others followed suit.
Chu Qing smiled, her body transforming into a streak of light and disappearing from sight.
The next moment, they appeared outside Ling Yi's door.
Just as she was about to knock, the door opened automatically, and Chu Qing lowered her hand and walked into the room.
"What's the deal with that Yan Demon?" Ling Yi asked.
"How did you know about the Yan Demon?" Chu Qing asked, taken aback.
"When you Voice Transmission with Lin Wanwan."
Chu Qing suddenly took a few steps back. "Wo Cao, you can even hear other people's Voice Transmission? And from this distance at that?"
"There's nothing I can do, my system rewards me too much, too much." Ling Yi shrugged.
Chu Qing rolled her eyes dramatically. Damn, this is really Versailles.
"This isn't Versailles, I'm just stating the facts."
To be honest, isn't this just another version of Versailles?
"That seems to make sense!" Ling Yi nodded.
Chu Qing took a few steps back again. "You... can you hear my thoughts?"
"Didn't you say anything just now? Oh, sorry, I forgot to turn off the Attentive Listening Art."
"Your 'Attentive Listening Art' is just too damn unreasonable! With this, what secrets can others keep from you?"
"I already turned it off, didn't I?" Ling Yi hadn't expected that the Attentive Listening Art, a reward from the system, would be so domineering.
"Is it really closed?" Chu Qing asked.
"Certainly!"
Then give it a try! Eldest Senior Brother is a bastard, an idiot, a scumbag!
"Alright, stop cursing me in your mind. Let's get down to business. What exactly is that ' Yan Demon '? Is it Lin Wanwan's cheat code?"
"You still say you turned it off? Even if you did, you still knew I was cursing at you?"
"Junior sister, judging from your expression, do I even need to activate my Listening Skill? I can guess it already!"
"Alright, let's assume you're telling the truth. As for the Yan Demon, it's just a pitiful, unlucky fellow, a mere tool for the host."
Like Chu Qing, Ling Yi also Soul Transmigration, but unlike Ling Yi, Chu Qing transmigrated into a book and was familiar with the plot.
Ling Yi is just a passerby, while Chu Qing will likely remain in this world forever.
Therefore, if anyone knows the secrets of this world best, it must be Chu Qing.
"Furthermore, the Yan Demon is merely one of the female protagonist's external advantages; it can only help her absorb the cultivation of the dead."
"What kind of being is Yan Demon?" Ling Yi asked curiously.
"In the original text, Yan was described as the ancient ruler of this world, teeming with them. Their only way to survive and grow stronger was to devour!"
"Because of their unrestrained devouring, all living beings in this world were consumed by the Glutton. In order to survive, they had no choice but to devour each other until only one Glutton remained."
"That is, the Yan Demon inside Lin Wanwan's body!"