Qi Qingsong's face was grim.
Everyone looked at Zhuang Yuyan with suspicion, and they all thought she was a major suspect.
Zhuang Yuyan never showed up, and no one knew what she was doing hiding in the house. When everyone suffered many strange killings, she never participated.
When Pang Jian found her, she was quite calm and composed.
The same is true now.
"Is that you?"
Qi Qingsong asked again.
As soon as this question was raised, the little bit of closeness that had recently been created due to drinking and eating meat was suddenly broken.
"My master is Guanghe. The distribution and deployment of Jianlou Pills, Spirit Swords, and Spirit Techniques are all controlled by my master."
Zhuang Yuyan, who was also wearing a blue robe with the sword tower logo on her chest, had a calm temperament and a gentle smile.
She slowly smoothed the hair on her smooth forehead and smiled, "He has a strange temper and I am his only disciple, so when I decided to enter the forbidden land..."
After a pause, she smiled at Qi Qingsong and said, "He gave me 50,000 spiritual jades."
"in addition… "
"I still have 60,000 spiritual jades in my hand, which adds up to 110,000 spiritual jades. I should have more than all of you."
She floated down to the deck.
“Wow!”
The barrier she cast out suddenly expanded more than ten times, and the huge light green transparent shield covered a large area of the deck.
Soon, pieces of crystal clear spiritual jade filled the space.
"It's difficult to show you the other things in my bracelet, so I'll just show you my spiritual jade."
Standing in the "Spirit Jade Mountains", Zhuang Yuyan looked at the people in the stands with a smile and said sarcastically: "Now, do you still think I will attack Junior Brother Han Lu in the cabin for some spiritual jade?"
"One hundred and ten thousand spiritual jades!"
Zhou Qingchen licked the corner of his mouth, shocked by the huge amount of shining spirit stones, and said: "Pang Jian, compared with the inner disciples of the second realm sect, we are really poor."
Pang Jian nodded slightly.
I thought to myself, if I didn't need to nourish the spiritual veins of the rocky ground and help the black tortoise transform and advance, I would have more spiritual jade than she does.
Lu Lingchan from Black Valley was also outshined by the wealthy Zhuang Yuyan, and nodded and said, "It should have nothing to do with you."
Zhao Yuanqi muttered secretly: "Second Realm, Sword Tower, Black Valley, Inner Gate, Personal Teaching..."
She suddenly felt that she should have found a way to go to the second realm long ago instead of staying in Hongshan to practice hard.
No matter how much Hongshan values her, due to the lack of foundation in the sect, it is impossible for it to give her tens of thousands of spiritual jades at once like the master of Lu Lingchan and Zhuang Yuyan did.
Lingyu is the symbol of wealth in the world of cultivation. It can be used to purchase many high-level spiritual tools, even holy tools!
She felt a little envious.
"Junior Brother Qi, do you still think it's me?"
Zhuang Yuyan said again.
Qi Qingsong smiled awkwardly and shook his head, looking apologetic: "I misunderstood Senior Sister Zhuang."
Zhuang Yuyan, who is wealthy, carries more spiritual jades than Lu Lingchan, enough for her to survive in the "strange fog" for decades.
No wonder she has always been so calm and not impatient at all.
"call!"
Zhuang Yuyan took the mountain of spiritual jade and flew back to the third floor. She smiled and said, "Before I came here, my master specifically told me that I must maintain my cultivation in the Profound Cave Realm before entering this strange fog."
"After entering, whether or not you have reached the forbidden land of heaven, you can try to advance to a higher realm."
"What about me..."
She took a silver wine jug and wine glass from between the crowd and filled the glass with wine.
After taking a sip, she continued, "Before entering the strange fog, I stayed in the house and tried hard to suppress my realm, so as not to accidentally break through to the Concentrated Spirit Realm."
Everyone was immediately surprised.
“Junior Brother Pang, I didn’t come out to see you or say hello to you because I was afraid that if my state of mind changed a little, I would have to condense my soul.”
She drank the wine in the glass and turned the empty glass over to apologize: "It is a very difficult thing to be suppressed in a realm that should have been broken through long ago."
Pang Jian suddenly realized.
“So, when the sword boat rushed into the strange fog, I immediately focused my attention.”
Zhuang Yuyan spoke in a gentle tone and with a calm expression, and then continued: "During the critical stage of concentrating my mind, I don't have much time to pay attention to the outside world, and I will not sneak into the cabin and kill Junior Brother Han for a few spiritual jades."
Fang Boxuan was shocked and asked, "Are you in the state of concentration now?"
Zhuang Yuyan nodded with a smile.
The crowd was shocked.
When they were deeply trapped in the quagmire of strange fog, all at a loss, with all kinds of dark sides of human hearts erupting one after another, there was actually an outlier like Zhuang Yuyan who took the opportunity to advance to the state of concentration!
The success of concentrating her mind meant that she had surpassed everyone in front of her in terms of realm!
Unless there is a weapon powerful enough to narrow the gap in realms, no one present will be her opponent.
Pang Jian also praised secretly.
Lu Lingchan, Qi Qingsong, and Zhuang Yuyan from the Sword Tower, none of them are simple characters.
Compared to Yang Rui of Lieyang Sect and Xie Xiwen of Xinghe League, these geniuses from the second realm are indeed much stronger in all aspects.
"You are still alive, but many people who are at a higher level than you have died." Pang Jian comforted.
“That’s right!”
Zhou Qingchen felt a little better.
"Who is behind the murder?" Guo Hongyuan looked at Pang Jian, Zhao Yuanqi, and Dong Tianze with suspicion, feeling that everyone of them seemed to be a suspect.
"Someone died in the cabin, but the jade and bracelet that should have appeared disappeared, which means someone benefited from it."
Lu Lingchan looked around at everyone, and finally his eyes fell on Pang Jian's face. He said, "The golden consciousness you released earlier seemed quite strange. Perhaps..."
She stopped there.
"Pang Jian has been staying in the room with me the whole time. He has never left my sight!"
Zhou Qingchen shouted.
"You two are brothers with a deep bond. It's possible that you would perjure yourself for him."
Lu Lingchan's face was indifferent. He snorted and said, "The dead man was not weak in realm and combat power. There were not many people on the sword boat who could kill him in the chaos."
"And Pang Jian was able to kill a person in the Condensed Spirit Realm in the Yuanmang Shattered Land. He does have this suspicion."
“So, here’s my advice.”
She looked at Qi Qingsong, then glanced at Zhuang Yuyan, and said, "Check Pang Jian's and Zhou Qingchen's storage bracelets!"
"Yes, Pang Jian is indeed a big suspect."
"He and Zhou Qingchen have a very good relationship. We must check their storage bracelets."
Ye Fei and Lu Lianchen from Heigu immediately responded to her.
"I have a good relationship with Pang Jian, so do you want to check my bracelet as well? After all, I may also be protecting Pang Jian, right?" Qi Qingsong sneered with his eyes slanted.
Ye Fei and Lu Lianchen fell silent immediately.
Lu Lingchan nodded and said seriously: "Yours would be good to take a look."
"Just because you're a leader doesn't mean you're completely free of suspicion. I've seen people who cry thief before. Who knows if you killed Han Lu and then pretended to drag others to the cabin with you?"
In her eyes, the only ones who could kill Han Lu were herself, Zhuang Yuyan, Pang Jian, and Qi Qingsong.
She didn't do anything herself, and the total number of Zhuang Yuyan's spiritual jades was terrifyingly large, so the most likely candidates were Pang Jian and Qi Qingsong.
"We haven't done it before, so we're not afraid of checking the bracelets!"
Zhou Qingchen immediately took off the bracelet and prepared to take out all the spiritual materials inside to prove his innocence.
"Brother Zhou, we haven't done this before, there's no need to do this."
Pang Jian frowned, stopped him from taking the next step, and said calmly: "I don't understand why you insist on finding this murderer? Knowing that there is such a person, everyone should be careful. Even if we find him out and kill him, it won't change the fact that we can't get rid of the strange fog."
"I'm afraid he will continue to kill people." Ye Fei said.
"As long as everyone stays in this stand and doesn't leave, he won't find a chance to take action," said Fang Boxuan.
"Wait! I remember now!"
Zhuang Yuyan's expression changed, and she suddenly said, "I felt someone enter the cabin. At that time, I had just succeeded in concentrating my mind, so I didn't pay much attention to it. Later, I was busy consolidating my state of mind, and I didn't pay close attention. I don't know what happened in the cabin."
"When he went to the cabin, two outer disciples from Jianlou were fighting a desperate battle on the deck, and everyone's attention was drawn to it."
As Zhuang Yuyan spoke, she looked toward the deck from the stands and said, "That person entered the cabin from the deck of the Sword Boat. Pang Jian and Qi Qingsong were both in the room on the third floor of the Sword Boat at the time."
"There was a man..."
Zhuang Yuyan’s expression became more and more solemn.
She took a deep breath, her eyes showing shock. "There is a person who should be among those living dead! He has not lost faith, and he still has a strong desire to survive. If I am not mistaken, he is pretending to be like those living dead, sitting on the deck below."
"He should be an outer disciple of Sword Tower and Black Valley. He is not only powerful, but also extremely vicious and terrifying."
After hearing these words, everyone shuddered.
Frightened eyes were cast towards the living dead who were sitting on the deck with stiff bodies and wooden faces.
If what Zhuang Yuyan, who successfully condensed her soul, said was true, there really was a man who sneaked into the cabin from the deck, and while the two disciples of the Sword Tower were fighting above, he killed Han Lu and took the spiritual jade.
Then, it is possible that this person is really among the living dead.
After all, no one has ever really left Jianzhou.
Everyone felt a little depressed when they thought that there was a sinister and scary guy lurking in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to hunt and kill, ready to snatch the spiritual jade from everyone.
"Luo Yuan!"
Ye Fei stood in the stands and shouted at the living dead below: "It's you, right? But you changed your appearance and mixed in with those people?"
"Luo Yuan?"
Everyone suddenly remembered what he said before, saying that an outer disciple of the Sword Tower had 128 strands of spiritual consciousness condensed in his sea of consciousness.
They also began to doubt.
If such a person really exists, with so many spiritual consciousnesses in his sea of consciousness, he must have extraordinary means.
Even Qi Qingsong and Nie You had never heard of this person. He was unknown in the Sword Tower and was an outer disciple. All aspects of his identity met the characteristics of a murderer.
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(End of this chapter)