Ming Yu wondered whether Li Yan's appearance there back then had truly been such a coincidence. What kind of immortal herb had he actually wanted? Li Yan had never made it clear, and it still seemed more like an excuse.
"When he said that, I already suspected it. But... after thinking it over carefully, it really was possible that he had gone there for some immortal herb.
Do you remember how we were trapped in a small courtyard guarded by scarecrows? After we finally got out, we saw those patches of spirit fields?"
"Yes, but they had all been abandoned and were filled only with wild grass. You mean the clues he investigated were actually related to those spirit fields, except some of the clues he followed overlapped with ours.
After we got out, those spirit fields were empty. Since he had gotten out before us, he must have harvested all the spirit plants and medicinal herbs that might have been there? But even if that was the case, it would only mean he did not want to divide the spirit herbs evenly with us. He had merely raked in a rabbit while gathering grass."
Ming Yu spoke as she pondered. She was no fool either, and as she recalled the situation back then, she laid out ample reasons.
"But what happened afterward? Did he not know the use of Silver Sand as well? He even used that question to exchange for a certain amount of our Silver Sand. We knew the entrance to that secret land. If he only knew those things too, then some coincidence was involved.
When we were trapped by the scarecrows inside, when we broke out of the courtyard, and later when we searched for clues to the inheritance—don't you think the results of all