After reading the contents of the purple jade slip, Li Yan frowned. This jade slip had indeed not been recorded by Luo Beixi on a whim, but was a suicide note he had left behind long ago.
It was a rather strange suicide note. The matters within were not described too clearly, because both the one recording it and the one meant to read it understood the reasons behind everything. Thus, only the key points had been mentioned.
Yet Li Yan could still make out that Luo Beixi seemed to bear a blood-deep vendetta. Luo Beixi was uncertain of the murderer's identity, but he already had a suspected target.
Thus, he should have been secretly investigating all along. In this jade slip, he had listed a total of eight pieces of evidence, all pointing toward one person.
However, no one had been explicitly named here. Of those eight pieces of evidence, either someone had supposedly seen the murderer, or someone had said that the suspected culprit had remained within the sect during those days.
Or perhaps someone resembling the murderer had once stayed at a certain inn. As for the cultivation technique used by the murderer, Luo Beixi had also discovered that the other party should have secretly cultivated it. Luo Beixi was seventy to eighty percent certain of this...
Yet among all the evidence, not a single piece was conclusive! Li Yan could also see from the jade slip that Luo Beixi had conducted these matters behind his master's back, and that his master apparently did not permit him to investigate.
Therefore, Luo Beixi repeatedly expressed apologies within the jade slip. When Li Yan reached Luo Beixi's final words, an inexplicable turmoil rose within him as well.
Youhuang—Li Yan had already heard this name before. Seeing it again in