The No.1 Undercover in the Immortal World-Chapter 383 - 373 The Murderer Is Not the Flower Fairy
Jiang Chenyu was looked at with suspicious eyes, and her face immediately showed a look of grievance.
"I have no cultivation power now. How could I possibly signal anyone?"
Although she indeed wanted to, she hadn’t done so.
Before Jiang Chenyu could speak in her defense, Lin Yun said, "It shouldn’t be her. We might have been watched since the moment we arrived in Haizhou."
Lin Yun chose to trust Jiang Chenyu. This statement of certainty immediately moved Jiang Chenyu so much that tears nearly fell from her eyes.
But she probably knew that as a five-hundred-year-old girl, it wouldn’t be proper to cry all the time, so she held the tears back in her eyes, trying hard not to let them fall.
This pitiful look made the Flower Fairy very uncomfortable.
"When I hurt her previously, it’s not like I injured her brain!"
While the Flower Fairy was lost in her wild thoughts, Lin Yun began to contemplate a strategy to break through the situation.
First, they needed to determine the identity of the other party.
"If she escaped from your grasp, it indicates that she has at least the cultivation level of the Enlightened Realm," Lin Yun said, looking at the Flower Fairy and probing with his question.
The Flower Fairy hesitated slightly but still nodded.
Lin Yun’s heart immediately understood; that person might be someone the Flower Fairy knew.
But was the person she saw really someone she knew?
Obviously, not necessarily.
If it was an illusion, and the Flower Fairy hadn’t seen through it, that was also very possible.
The people close to the Flower Fairy who could shake her heart... 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
As far as Lin Yun knew, he was one of them, Lin Yu might be another, and there was no one else.
What mattered in the Flower Fairy’s heart was probably only her mother.
However, her mother was already dead, her soul completely scattered, but the Flower Fairy herself didn’t know, so could it be that the other party had taken on the appearance of Hua Ruolan?
Lin Yun felt that he was close to the answer.
With this in mind, it’s very likely that the other party excels at changing appearances, perhaps she took on the Flower Fairy’s appearance, making those in charge here believe it was the Flower Fairy who attacked, thus sending that message.
With the narrowing down of possibilities, the range of identities for the other party had greatly reduced.
Zhang Biyu and Dongfang Hongyue could be ruled out; they had just met them recently. Ji Ye and Yue Ningshuang could also be ruled out. Wukong and Huang Long were dead, Jiang Chenyu was here, and Fang Yu was unlikely.
From both the Righteous and Demonic paths, there was only Qinglian Sword Venerable and those from the Taiqing Daoist Temple that Lin Yun could not deduce.
Suspects listed provisionally.
The remaining suspects were from the Demon Race.
Lin Yun wasn’t sure how many from the Demon Race were still around, and who their leader was. Hu Yuling had not yet found out. Their cultivation level was supposed to be higher than Hu Yuling’s, perhaps he was skilled in the art of transformation.
After narrowing down the scope, Lin Yun began to ponder the purpose of the other party’s actions.
The effect was to make the Flower Fairy attract hatred, and by the way, make him attract hatred, to smear mud, to slander the Flower Fairy for two reasons: either the other party was a mortal enemy to the Flower Fairy, or the other party had taken a fancy to the Flower Fairy and wanted to achieve some purpose.
If it was intended to slander him, then the hidden goal could be the Shenxiao Sect.
Lin Yun pushed his nose and revealed a confident smile.
"Did you guess again?" Jiang Chenyu had already properly held back her tears. She blinked her large eyes as she looked at Lin Yun. When Lin Yun showed this kind of confident smile, she couldn’t help but feel that Lin Yun was really too cool.
"More or less, the other party must have calculated the next few moves," he replied.
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"So what do we do now?"
"Naturally, we loot the treasury."
Lin Yun’s reply left the Flower Fairy and Jiang Chenyu both speechless.
Good grief, I knew you were greedy, but I never imagined you’d be this audacious.
"That doesn’t seem quite appropriate..."
If we don’t take the money and valuables, there’s still a chance to argue our case, but if we take all the treasures and materials, wouldn’t that just confirm their suspicions?
"There’s nothing inappropriate about it. The other party must have already arranged everything against us very clearly. Since we have to shoulder the blame, we might as well make sure we get the money first."
Flower Fairy: "..."
I concede defeat.
Unlike them, Snow Maiden didn’t think too much about it; she didn’t consider the various conspiracies and calculations behind the scenes. Moving the stuff was all that mattered to her.
Unfortunately, her Fulong had been snatched away by the old Taoist; otherwise, she could have stored many things inside it.
The group hurriedly carried the items onto the ship, then swiftly sailed away.
Not long after Lin Yun and the others left, several cultivators from the Celestial Knowing Realm arrived at Pearl Island. Seeing the bodies strewn everywhere, these cultivators were all seething with anger. When they saw the dismembered body of the island master, they shook with fury.
Who could commit such a cruel act!
What infuriated them the most was the line of blood-written words beside them.
"The killer isn’t the Flower Fairy, believe it or not, it’s up to you."
Is this even a thing now?
Initially, upon seeing just the character for ’flower,’ they had not thought of the Flower Fairy, but this sentence was practically a reminder to them, making the Flower Fairy look very suspicious.
"Prepare them for burial, and the rest of you, follow me to Haizhou to investigate."
This trip to Haizhou naturally revealed the big ship that the Flower Fairy had obtained, and the fact that many materials from Pearl Island had vanished without a trace.
All the Seven Great Orthodox Schools had sent elders except for the Shenxiao Sect, and leading them was none other than Elder Zhen Hui from the Taiqing Daoist Temple.
This was considered a senior brother to Zhenren. Yuxuan had lived for almost a thousand years and naturally had taken on disciples before, but Zhenren was his first disciple to inherit the true lineage. His previous disciples were not chosen to carry on his legacy.
"Fellow Taoists, what do you think?"
"What is there to think? Isn’t it obvious that this is a set-up? The clues point straight to the Flower Fairy having committed murder. They even left a line saying it wasn’t her, just as she happens to have left on a ship.
Tsk tsk, it seems the thief underestimates us. Could we possibly fall for such a trick? Surely no one is foolish enough to believe the Flower Fairy is the murderer, right?"
The speaker was an elder from the Yu Ling Sect, appearing in the form of a spiritual monkey. Spiritual monkeys are acutely perceptive and agile creatures, so they are called clever. This elder chose the name Clever Daoist for himself.
When it came to being clever, the Clever Daoist always held a tight grip on the matter.
For a moment, the other elders were left speechless, even those who had thought the Flower Fairy was responsible and were ready to spread the word felt as if they had been scolded by the smartest person in the room.
Upon hearing Clever Daoist’s words, Zhen Hui suddenly saw the light.
"Does the friend suggest someone is trying to frame the Flower Fairy?"
"Not necessarily, what if the Flower Fairy guessed that we would guess she guessed we would think this way, and it’s all just a clever ruse?"
Zhen Hui: "..."
He felt dizzy trying to follow the Clever Daoist’s nesting doll of logic and took a while to sort it out. Seeing that Clever Daoist had talked so much but only spouted nonsense, Zhen Hui lost his patience.
"Just get to the point, what should we do?"
Zhen Hui was more interested in finding a solution to the problem than unraveling the layers of deception that were of no interest to him.
"Simple, we proceed as if the Flower Fairy did it and spread the word far and wide!"
