The No.1 Undercover in the Immortal World-Chapter 346 - 335 Lin Yun’s Guess
When Lin Yun learned the truth of the matter, the scene became incredibly awkward.
Seeing Hu Yuling with tears in her eyes, looking pitiable, Lin Yun also felt somewhat embarrassed.
"I’m sorry, it’s my fault, I punished you without understanding the situation."
Upon Lin Yun’s apology, Hu Yuling quickly said, "It’s alright, Master. It was just a misunderstanding, I..."
"So you really think I was wrong? You need to remember, the master is never wrong, even if he is, he’s right."
Hu Yuling: "..."
What, are you fishing for compliments now?
The next second, Lin Yun’s palm slapped her buttocks.
"Oww..."
It kind of hurts.
"Do you now know who is right and who is wrong?"
"I do."
"Does it hurt?"
"It hurts."
"Then let me rub it for you."
Hu Yuling, with sultry eyes and a flushed face, bit her lip, not daring to make a sound, but the sensation in her body was so real, so strange.
"Now tell me why you suspect the Flower Fairy framed you, do you have any evidence?"
Hearing Lin Yun’s command, Hu Yuling shamefully said, "Can Master put me down first?"
Lin Yun sat on the eaves while she lay across Lin Yun’s legs, with his other hand always ready to hit her.
Hu Yuling found this position to be too shameful.
After all, she was raised in the Shenxiao Sect and was used to being the aloof and dignified female elder. Being bullied like this made her feel humiliated and there was an oddly thrilling sensation.
"Are you teaching me how to do things?"
Lin Yun smacked her again, the sound crisp, and Hu Yuling yelped, quickly saying, "I’m wrong."
Seeing her looking so pitiable and easy to bully, although Lin Yun found hitting her to be quite enjoyable, he also felt it was about enough.
Nonchalantly playing with Hu Yuling’s tail, Lin Yun said, "Continue answering the questions!"
"Yes..."
Hu Yuling’s voice trembled as she tried to control her body’s reactions, she answered, "There’s no evidence, but I’m not the murderer. The suspects are only a few people. Flower Fairy, Lin Yu, and Zhang Biyu, none of them alone could have incapacitated Jiang Chenyu without a struggle.
With Jiang Chenyu’s cultivation level, only a pre-arranged confinement formation could have made it impossible for her to escape, or some other covert method can be used. Only someone very close to her could do this. Flower Fairy is the most suspicious.
As the successor of Thousand Mechanism Valley, she has enough motive to kill, and with Flower Fairy’s cultivation level, she probably couldn’t have killed Jiang Chenyu without Zhang Biyu noticing.
She must have had an accomplice, someone who could impersonate me. Among Lin Yu and Zhang Biyu, one of them might be the Flower Fairy’s cohort, probably just one."
Hu Yuling spoke her deductions, which were very well-reasoned, and Lin Yun was thinking nearly the same.
"So, you mean, if you were gone, there wouldn’t be any evidence left?"
Hu Yuling: "..."
She was so frightened her body stiffened. Seeing her in such terror, Lin Yun dropped her tail, stroked her head, and laughed, "Don’t be afraid, how could I bear to kill such a sensible slave like you? Besides, you’re so enticingly seductive, it’s hard for anyone to resist."
Lin Yun casually pinched Hu Yuling’s cheek and indeed, the touch of a Demon Race was quite pleasant, whether it was the tail, the **, or the **.
With a blush of shame, Hu Yuling bit her teeth, remaining silent. Being toyed with like this, she felt extremely humiliated.
The Demon Race shall never be enslaved!
It must be because of the slave mark, she felt such humiliation, yet she found some strange happiness in it.
"I won’t kill you, but I want you to admit that you are the killer. If someone traces it back to you, you must take all the blame."
Hu Yuling: "..."
She became the scapegoat.
"Don’t worry, I won’t mistreat you."
Lin Yun used his finger to pry open Hu Yuling’s mouth, found the sharpest tooth and cut it, squeezing out a drop of essence blood.
Hu Yuling immediately perked up.
"Thank you, Master, you’re so kind."
"Good girl."
Lin Yun patted Hu Yuling’s head, then continued, "You may leave now. Keep a close eye on the situation. When necessary, show yourself to admit your crimes and also search for Jiang Chenyu. If there’s any news of her, try to control her before the Righteous Path does. If necessary, you can contact me."
"Yes, Master."
She received a reward, a punishment, and a new task, leaving contentedly.
Lin Yun dispelled the Great Mist and returned to his room, only to fall into deep thought.
Those directly involved may be confused, while onlookers see clearly. When it came to the Flower Fairy’s affairs, Lin Yun was probably the most informed.
Still, there were doubts about the situation.
From the Flower Fairy’s perspective, the Six Righteous Sects annihilated Thousand Mechanism Valley under the pretext of the Valley’s collusion with the Demon Sects, yet no evidence was found thereafter. It was oppression of the weak by the strong, especially since Thousand Mechanism Valley was growing rapidly at the time and had the potential to become a major sect.
After learning about the Flower Fairy’s past, Lin Yun began to look into Thousand Mechanism Valley and indeed suspected that there was a conspiracy at play.
Only after capturing Hu Yuling did Lin Yun discover that the Demon Race, eager to seize the Exquisite Heart, had fabricated evidence against Thousand Mechanism Valley, then tipped off the Orthodox Sects to destroy the Valley while the Demon Race would take the opportunity to steal the Exquisite Heart, an attempt which ultimately failed.
Having this key information, it seemed that Lin Yun should know the ins and outs of the Thousand Mechanism Valley incident.
But he always felt there were still pieces of the puzzle he hadn’t figured out; hence, after learning that the Demon Race had framed Thousand Mechanism Valley, Lin Yun chose not to share this information with the Flower Fairy.
Because he suspected that Thousand Mechanism Valley itself wasn’t so innocent either.
Putting himself in their shoes, if he were the Valley Master of Thousand Mechanism Valley and saw the six major Orthodox Sects at his door, surrendering would be the only option to avoid death. Any rational person would choose to surrender rather than die along with everyone else.
What’s more, none surrendered. If he were just a regular disciple of Thousand Mechanism Valley, faced with a life-and-death crisis and with a leadership unwilling to yield, would he not surrender?
Were all of them really that loyal?
Lin Yun certainly didn’t believe it.
While this world had warriors willing to die for their cause, as shown during his first task in this world when Wang Wanqiu didn’t bother to hide her intention to send him to his death, giving him farewell wine before the mission even began.
Loyal individuals, Lin Yun was convinced, certainly existed, and he even believed that the majority of sect members would choose to die with their sect. This era’s mindset was completely different from what Lin Yun had been taught, which he could understand.
But Lin Yun didn’t believe there weren’t any who feared death; was there really not a single person who betrayed the sect before the upcoming battle?
Most unbelievable was that in the Flower Fairy’s dreams, some had surrendered but were still killed.
Previously, Lin Yun might have thought members of the Righteous Path were just that cruel.
But after getting to know those on the Righteous Path, Lin Yun realized that the Orthodoxy was just, and the majority of its members held justice in their hearts, making it unlikely for them to kill prisoners.
Yet the dreams of the Flower Fairy, representing her most vivid memories, replayed the scenes as if they had just occurred.
"If the Valley Master of Thousand Mechanism Valley had a conspiracy, she’s dead now, so what did she calculate?"
The more Lin Yun analyzed it, the more contradictions he found.
He considered the issue from a different angle. Since the clues were limited, Lin Yun could only deduce backwards.
Based on the outcome and impact of the incident, he contemplated the possible motives of those behind the scenes.
After the Thousand Mechanism Valley incident, the Valley’s treasures of Formation techniques and puppetry arts began to spread everywhere, with Dongfang Hongyue profiting greatly and mastering the art of formations.
With Thousand Mechanism Valley’s fall, a potential competitor to the Lower Three Sects was gone.
All of these outcomes seemed beneficial to the Orthodox Sects, but for Thousand Mechanism Valley...
The Flower Fairy had witnessed the destruction of her sect, lying low for years, all for the sake of vengeance...
This realization suddenly dawned on Lin Yun, enlightening him.
His imagination had always been bold.
Firstly, assuming the Valley Master of Thousand Mechanism Valley wasn’t dead, it might have been a ploy to fake her own death, fostering hatred for the Orthodox Sects in the Flower Fairy, who was exceptionally talented and fortunate. Planting the seed of hatred from a young age would ensure her drive for revenge when she grew up.
With the Flower Fairy’s capabilities, aside from the Yu Ling Sect, it was feared that the rest of the Seven Righteous Sects would face calamity.
Lin Yun envisioned a potential narrative unfolding, with the Flower Fairy starting from Jiang Chenyu, killing one, taking control of Guanghan Palace, and then settling scores with the sects of the past one by one.
One day she would be exposed, but by then, with the Righteous Path in disarray and external threats looming, any scheme the Valley Master of Thousand Mechanism Valley had could be carried out.
If the goal was merely to have the Flower Fairy infiltrate the ranks, there was no need to sacrifice a whole sect—unless...
"Her aim is to have Little Flower commit murder."
Upon considering this possibility, Lin Yun could no longer remain seated.
Now, with the Flower Fairy having initiated her plan, she would soon kill more of her enemies with a speed that left no time to react, fulfilling the hidden mastermind’s agenda.
Lin Yun regretted not having communicated with the Flower Fairy earlier; his concern had been for her feelings, and he had wanted to investigate deeper before bringing it up, since mentioning the sect’s destruction would sadden her every time. He had hoped to resolve it all at once.
At the time, the Flower Fairy was only in the Heart Guarding Realm. Then, on his first trip down the mountain, Lin Yun got caught up in the Misty Forest, followed by a journey to the grasslands, with a succession of events following. Lin Yun had been too preoccupied to focus on anything else and had neglected the matter, and secondly, he had not expected the Flower Fairy to take such decisive action amidst the internal and external chaos.
Besides, she was still only in the Celestial Knowing Realm. Even armed with a Divine Artifact, she was not entirely secure, and given her character, she wasn’t likely to take such risks. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚
In the end, it all boiled down to a slight oversight and a few misjudgments that had led to the current situation.
Now, he had to stop the Flower Fairy.
Unfortunately, the evidence at hand was insufficient, virtually nonexistent, and the reasoning was tenuous, entirely based on Lin Yun’s personal conjecture. Under these circumstances, convincing the Flower Fairy to suspect her own mother would be a significant challenge.
After all, the dead are the most trusted...
