Chapter 245: Great Detective

Nan Feihuang heard this and said, "Since it's a lie, then shouldn't I find a way to farm some favor with the Azure Bull Python?"

Xun Yu, however, shook his head. "No need. If I haven't guessed wrong, once that little rabbit returns, the Azure Bull Python will naturally have favor toward you."

This statement left Nan Feihuang somewhat puzzled. "Naturally have favor? Why is that?"

"Because..." Xun Yu explained the cause and effect.

At the same time, Xiao Wu had finally returned to the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest.

Ever since Tang San headed to Wuhun City to participate in the finals, Tang Hao had forbidden her from following. Outside of Wuhun City, Tang Hao was confident that with his soul power protecting her, it would be difficult for ordinary people to detect Xiao Wu's aura.

But once they reached Wuhun City, that place where Title Douluos gathered, it was no longer so safe.

Xiao Wu had no choice but to return home; only by returning here, to the side of her two younger brothers, could she feel true security.

This time, she was prepared to exhaust all her efforts to cultivate to the Mature Period, so that she could openly accompany Tang San in the future.

Although without humans around her, her cultivation speed would slow down significantly, changing from a speed that surpassed innate full soul power to, at most, being comparable to around innate level six or seven.

But here, she could at least be single-minded, doing nothing but bitter cultivation every day.

Plus, with Daming and Er Ming going to pick various medicinal herbs within the forest to assist her cultivation, her cultivation speed would not be too slow either.

Yet, she never expected that the moment she returned today, she would hear news that shocked her.

Er Ming was dead!

Xiao Wu looked at the Azure Bull Python Daming before her with sadness and anger, saying sorrowfully, "Daming, you must be lying to me, right? Er Ming is so powerful, how could he die? You must have seen that I hadn't returned for too long and are playing hide-and-seek with me. Stop joking around."

Having said that, Xiao Wu looked around and shouted, "Er Ming, Er Ming, stop playing, come out quickly, or else Big Sister Xiao Wu is going to get angry!"

Daming remained silent, watching the self-deceiving Xiao Wu; it knew that this was a fact she had to accept herself.

A long time later, Xiao Wu, having seen no movement at all, saw the expression on her face shift from sorrow to rage; she knew that Er Ming was truly gone.

Otherwise, he would never have ignored her at a time like this.

"Daming, who was it? Who killed Er Ming?" Xiao Wu roared.

Daming shook its massive ox head. "I don't know. I only know that Er Ming lost his life on the very day he went to find you. Do you remember? You had returned to the Star Dou Great Forest once before, and Er Ming sensed your aura and rushed over."

"It was that time!" Xiao Wu was startled, and she quickly remembered. That day was indeed very strange; she had been taken away by Er Ming just fine, but was inexplicably knocked unconscious by a powerful shockwave.

By the time she woke up, she had abruptly returned to everyone's side.

"It was Nan Feihuang. It must be him. It was he who saved me and brought me back, and it must also be he who harmed Er Ming," Xiao Wu said with conviction.

No matter how one looked at it, Nan Feihuang was the most suspicious.

"Nan Feihuang?" The Azure Bull Python was hearing this name for the first time and asked in confusion, "Is he a Title Douluo among humans, Big Sister Xiao Wu?"

Since Xiao Wu could name this person, she must have some understanding of him.

If one wanted to defeat the Titan Giant Ape, it had to be a Title Douluo, and not just any ordinary Title Douluo; it would take at least a Level 95 Title Douluo with a Top-level Spirit to have a chance.

Xiao Wu shook her head. "No, he isn't that strong. He is only a Soul King right now, and back then, he had just entered the Soul Ancestor realm."

"Just entered the Soul Ancestor realm back then? Big Sister Xiao Wu, then it couldn't be him. How could a Soul Ancestor defeat Er Ming and even force it to perform a Sacrifice?" The Azure Bull Python immediately denied it; this did not conform to common sense.

"Perhaps that guy used me as a threat? Er Ming was concerned for me and had no choice but to sacrifice to him." Xiao Wu's guess was very close to the truth, but from an ordinary person's perspective, there was still a major loophole.

"Big Sister Xiao Wu, with Er Ming's strength, could a mere Soul Ancestor move you in front of it? Even if he were less than a centimeter away from you at the time, Er Ming could have used its Gravity Domain to instantly suppress the opponent so they couldn't move," Daming said.

Yes, this was the problem. Those who did not know the relationship between Nan Feihuang and Red Hare could not imagine what means Nan Feihuang could possibly use to force the Titan Giant Ape to sacrifice.

"Big Sister Xiao Wu, think again. At that time, were there any other unusual circumstances, or was there anyone else who might have been in the Star Dou Great Forest and could have posed a threat to Er Ming?"

In order to track down the culprit, Daming had to force Xiao Wu to continue recalling.

"Someone who could pose a threat to Er Ming... there was also that red horse?" Xiao Wu remembered that Nan Feihuang had said at the time that he heard the sound of a horse neighing.

"If it was that mysterious Spirit Beast, Er Ming would indeed be no match for it. It is highly suspicious."

"The problem is, what is the motive? With no grudges or enmity, why would it attack Er Ming? And since it attacked Er Ming, why didn't it come out to deal with me? It possesses strength surpassing a Ferocious Beast; it couldn't possibly not know the principle of cutting weeds and eliminating the roots, right?" Daming's tone was still full of doubt.

They did not link Nan Feihuang and Red Hare together; after all, how could a dignified Ferocious Beast hang out with a lowly human Soul Ancestor?

Moreover, Spirit Beasts cannot accept the sacrifice of other Spirit Beasts. Although Xiao Wu had transformed into a human, she had not reached the Mature Period, so her body still leaned toward being a Spirit Beast. She could not accept external power for her first six Spirit Rings and had to rely on condensing them herself. Therefore, the target of Er Ming's sacrifice could be confirmed to be a pure-blooded human, so the suspicion still fell more heavily on human powerhouses.

However, even if it wasn't the culprit, it likely possessed some information.

Daming felt that it might have to muster the courage to go and ask that Horse King later.

"That makes sense. The most suspicious ones are still humans. Nan Feihuang doesn't have that ability, but someone who does... there was also the Poison Douluo?" Xiao Wu thought of another Title Douluo, the Poison Douluo Dugu Bo, who was also in the forest at the time.

But soon, she cast that thought aside.

Because the Poison Douluo's strength was still insufficient, and according to what everyone said at the time, the Poison Douluo was with them the whole time to protect his granddaughter, providing a solid alibi; he had no time to commit the act.

"Poison Douluo?" The Azure Bull Python noticed a blind spot. "Big Sister Xiao Wu, you mean there was a Poison Douluo in your team that day? Then how did you escape danger? A transformed Hundred Thousand Year Spirit Beast that hasn't entered the Mature Period is extremely difficult to hide its aura in front of a Title Douluo. Having spent so much time together, it's impossible he wouldn't have discovered you."

"Because at that time, my brother's father, the Haotian Douluo, was nearby... Wait!!" Xiao Wu was just about to answer, but stopped halfway, stunned, staring wide-eyed at the Azure Bull Python.

Under the deduction of "Great Detective" Xiao Wu, these two guys, just as Xun Yu had estimated, had gone magnificently off-track.

Although in reality, Tang Hao had been injured by Lan Xue and was not in the forest, and Dugu Bo had only refrained from attacking Xiao Wu due to his promise to Tang Hao, Xiao Wu did not know that.

Ever since she learned of Tang Hao's true identity, she only thought it was Tang Hao who had intimidated Dugu Bo, scaring him into not daring to make a move on her.

Regarding this matter, she had always felt grateful toward Tang Hao.

(End of chapter)