Lu Mingshu's heart shuddered. Today on the cliff, in order to relieve her strength, she stabbed the stone surface with the dagger left by Yan Wugui. Because the thorn was too deep and the position was too high, she was unable to pull it back, so she stayed above the nest.
She knew that this thing was a little sensitive, and after being taken off the cliff by Zuo Yiming, she didn't take another look at it, just thought it was an ordinary dagger, so as not to be noticed. Unexpectedly, the other party was more careful than she thought, and even noticed this small flaw.
"Disciple doesn't understand Sectional Master Zhou's words." She changed her mind and still replied this sentence.
Zhou Yinru's face darkened: "Don't think that you can fool yourself by pretending to be stupid. Do you want to say that this dagger belongs to you?"
Lu Mingshu looked confused: "I don't understand, what does this dagger have to do with colluding with outsiders?"
Seeing the puzzlement written on her face, Zhou Yinru smiled, looked at her and said, "Okay! Since you're pretending to be stupid, let's start from the beginning. Lu Mingshu, why did you disappear in the canyon when you were clearly sent to the outskirts? "
Lu Mingshu was stunned: "Did Teacher Zuo not report this matter? Because he was chased by a phantom, the disciple fell down the canyon."
Zhou Yinru frowned: "I'm asking why you disappeared in the canyon, not why you fell down the canyon!"
"But this is one thing!" Lu Mingshu looked at the other two elders, "This disciple fell down the canyon and passed out. I don't know what happened after that. When I wake up, I'm in the depths of the beast den. .”
"Oh? You mean, you have been in a coma for several days, and you don't even know why you appeared in the paddock?"
Lu Mingshu nodded: "Yes."
How dare she admit it! Zhou Yinru kicked the dagger under her feet: "Then how do you explain this dagger? The top-grade Xuanbing, and the mark cast by Zhongzhou, this is definitely not yours, right?"
"It's really not mine." Lu Mingshu said, "I picked it up after I woke up."
Zhou Yinru's smile was meaningful: "It turns out that there are high-grade Xuanbing you can pick up casually." She looked at the others, "Sect Leader, two elders, what do you say?"
Fu Shangqing sat there, holding the teacup, showing no emotion from the beginning to the end, and did not intend to speak at this time.
The two elders looked at each other, and one of them said, "It sounds a little unreasonable."
Another person asked: "Lu Mingshu, this matter is so important that there is no room for negligence. You'd better do it one by one. After the hunt, we found traces of the uninvited guest in the animal den. It just so happened that you disappeared in the canyon and appeared in the Deep in the beast den, that is, near the place where the incident happened. If you don't have a reasonable explanation, it's hard for us to believe that you have nothing to do with this incident."
Lu Mingshu glanced at the elder.
Since she came in, Zhou Yinru kept asking questions, she didn't intend to tell her what happened at all, she just focused on finding loopholes in her words. Although the elder was also asking for accountability, he explained the matter clearly and gave her a chance to defend herself.
"So that's how it is." She showed a suddenly enlightened expression, "As soon as the disciple came, Sectional Master Zhou said that I was in collusion with outsiders, and I was out of my head. The disciple is still surprised..."
"Stop rambling." Zhou Yinru interrupted her, "If you can't explain it, just confess!"
"I've already explained it!" Lu Mingshu looked at the elder, "This disciple was sent to clean up the ferocious beasts outside. Unfortunately, he encountered a fusion-level phantom. Teacher Zuo can testify to this. In order to lure this phantom away Shadow, the disciple unfortunately fell down the canyon and fell unconscious afterwards. When the disciple woke up again, he was already deep in the beast den, and the disciple didn't know exactly what happened in the middle."
The elder asked: "You have been missing for several days, and you have no consciousness at all?"
Lu Mingshu thought for a while: "I remember vaguely, as if someone had carried his disciple on his back for a long time. He was about to wake up several times, but fell asleep again for some reason."
When she said that, the two elders already believed her to some extent.
What can a young disciple in the Inner Breathing Realm do? She has no access to the sect's plan, nor can she see the topographical map. In the Yaoxi mountain forest where fierce beasts are everywhere, she is completely dragged down. In other words, even if she wanted to sell her sect, she didn't have the capital.
The uninvited guest left very few traces, at least in the fusion state, maybe in the ecstasy state. Using common sense to speculate, it is impossible to collude with a disciple of the inner breath, because it is useless. Judging from what she said, it was very likely that when she fell down the canyon, she would be seen by the other party. In order to avoid leaking her whereabouts, they simply took her away. As for why she was sent back, firstly, the other party was not a vicious person, and secondly, maybe he did not want to offend Jiuyao Palace.
The two elders felt that there was no need to interrogate this matter, and because the other party sneaked into the beast den without a sound and found the spiritual land one step ahead of time, a disciple in the inner breath state could not affect the overall situation at all.
However, Miss Tuesday wanted to make a fuss out of a molehill, and they couldn't help it.
"Master Zhou, why don't we forget about it." The elder said, "It's important to find out the identity of that person right now."
"Zhang Zhangyuan," Zhou Yinru didn't want to think about it at all, "I just want to find out the identity of that person, so I want to pursue this matter. You have to know, she is probably the only person who has seen that person."
"This..." Zhang Zhangyuan thought for a while and stopped talking.
"Since the two elders have no objection, then take her back to await trial!"
Just as Zhou Yinru finished speaking, a voice sounded outside: "Elder An, the head is discussing something, you..."
The tent door was raised, and the disciple's words were interrupted.
An Tongchen stepped in, turned his eyes around the tent, stared at Zhou Yinru and smiled: "Junior Sister Tuesday, I didn't hear that you took the post of Jingyiyuan!" His tone was full of sarcasm.
Under his gaze, Zhou Yin shivered violently. She hated this An Tongchen since she was a child. If Zhuo Jiangui is like a handful of ice and snow, noble and unapproachable, then he is like a gloomy wind, chilly and uncomfortable. It's okay to be cold at ordinary times, but it's just that he rejects people like a thousand miles away, and when he smiles, it's terrifying, as if he's being stared at by a snake, and there's a chill in his bones.
Before she could speak, An Tongchen made a hasty salute to the others: "Sect Leader, two senior uncles, I don't know what mistake this little disciple made to make such a big battle?"
Now that An Tongchen came, Fu Shangqing could no longer pretend to be dumb. He bowed back and said with a smile: "Brother An doesn't know something. We found the spiritual place of the beast cave here, but found that someone went in earlier, so we are investigating."
"Oh?" An Tongchen raised his eyebrows, "Since we are looking for outsiders, what do we have to do with this disciple? She can't be the one who brought people into the spirit land, right?"
"Because it is very likely that she has seen that person, so ask carefully."
"Is it just for questioning? Why did I hear from Junior Sister Tuesday that she is going to be detained for trial? I don't know, but for questioning my own disciples, she will be detained." An Tongchen looked at Fu Shangqing with a meaningful look on his face. Laughing, "I don't know, I thought this disciple's identity was shameful."
There was silence in the tent.
Zhou Yinru cursed in her heart, did this An Tongchen come here to slap his face? Liulin's lineage claims to stay out of the matter, so they have intervened too many times recently, right
Thinking so in his heart, An Tongchen couldn't help but answer. Zhou Yinru said: "Because she acted suspiciously, disappeared inexplicably, and happened to appear at the place where the incident happened, maybe she was colluding with outsiders! If this matter is not severely punished, how can the sect's dignity exist?"
"What about the evidence? As far as I know, the reason why this disciple disappeared was because he encountered a phantom from the Fusion Realm. A disciple from the Inner Breathing Realm volunteered to lure away the phantom from the Fusion Realm, and saved several fellow disciples, so that he fell Canyon. Just because she is suspicious, it is unreasonable to say that she colluded with outsiders?"
"This dagger is the evidence!" Zhou Yinru said coldly, "The top-grade black weapon, made by Zhongzhou, must belong to the intruder. She has something belonging to the intruder in her hand, how dare she say it has nothing to do with it?"
"Ha!" An Tongchen glanced at the dagger on the ground, "With just a dagger, you dare say it is evidence, why don't you just pick it up?"
"You..." Zhou Yinru gritted her teeth, "Then according to Senior Brother An, shouldn't this matter be pursued?"
An Tongchen was about to speak, when a voice sounded outside: "Master, there has been a change in the spirit."
After encircling the beast den, the most important thing is to search for the spiritual land, Fu Shangqing hurriedly said, "Come in."
The person who came in was a disciple of Fusion Realm and one of Fu Shangqing's confidantes. Seeing the situation in the tent, he hesitated for a moment and didn't speak.
"What's wrong with the spirit land?"
He paused, and replied: "Return to the head, according to the investigation of the two elders, the earth veins and spirit roots of the beast cave are very likely to be dug out!"
"What?" Zhou Yinru yelled, "The spiritual roots of the earth veins have been dug out?"
The disciple nodded: "Yes, the two elders judged based on the topography that there is a 80% chance that the spiritual land may grow out of the earth's veins and spiritual roots, but after searching the entire spiritual land, they couldn't find it, and there were traces of being dug."
The spirit root of the earth veins, that is, the essence of the spirit land. It takes at least a hundred years or as many as a thousand years for the formation of an earth vein spiritual root. With the existence of the spiritual roots of the earth veins, the spiritual land can be quickly formed and the treasures of heaven and earth can be cultivated.
In other words, with the spiritual root of the earth veins, one can cultivate the spiritual land on their own! There are really earth veins and spiritual roots, which account for at least half of the value of this beast cave.
Zhou Yinru sneered at An Tongchen: "Brother An, is it qualified to detain her now?"
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