Chapter 227: Everything was done by the City Lord's Mansion!

Zheng Shuanggou: "If the Xian Gong hadn't appeared, our three families would have explored it secretly, and we were also prepared to accept the Ning family."

"The City Lord's Mansion took the initiative to destroy this great situation, which makes no sense at all."

Zhou Nongying's gaze was deep: "No, it's not like that."

"Before, when we explored the Xian Gong, the City Lord's Mansion was at a clear disadvantage. Meng Kui cannot enter the Xian Gong, and his right-hand men Chi Dun and Seeing Fei Si cannot either."

"They don't have an advantage at the Jin Dan level."

"In fact, they only have a slight advantage in terms of Foundation Establishment stage mechanism cultivators."

"In fact, the one with the advantage before was your Zheng family!"

"The Xian Gong was bombed like this, its defense was greatly reduced, and the standard for recruiting cultivators from the outside was also lowered, dropping to the Qi Condensation stage."

"And at the Qi Condensation level, the City Lord's Mansion has the existence of Immortal Talent!"

"The Lava Xian Gong was bombed, and Meng Kui personally took action, sitting in the depths of the volcanic clouds all day, blocking the top of the volcano. From then on for a period of time, we were all isolated and could no longer enter the Xian Gong to explore."

The Jin Dan ancestors heard these words and were all silent.

What Zhou Nongying said was a fact. Looking at it this way, for the City Lord's Mansion, the bombing of the Xian Gong was completely beneficial.

Zhou Nongying continued: "The bombing of the Xian Gong, the appearance of the Dharma-transmitting bell and trial barriers, might have been unexpected by the City Lord's Mansion."

"But the fact is: now on this route of soul-entering the Xian Gong, Meng Chong and the City Lord's Mansion's re-cultivation team firmly occupy the top ten of the leaderboard!"

"Perhaps, this route of soul-entering the Xian Gong was already in the City Lord's Mansion's plan."

"After all, the City Lord's Mansion discovered the Lava Xian Gong many years before us."

"If the demon art True Scripture was obtained by them, it further proves—they know many secrets we don't know!"

Zheng Shuanggou couldn't help but clench his fists and said indignantly: "Old thief is insidious!"

"The Shadow Demon Cultivator is actually a person from the City Lord's Mansion! Back then, I even took the initiative to plead guilty to the City Lord's Mansion because of poor guarding."

"Meng Kui didn't blame me much at the time, and I admired his magnanimity, but now thinking about it, it's really ironic!"

Zhou Nongying sighed: "Since Meng Kui took office, have our three families had an easy life?"

"He is one of the four generals of the Meng family and has always been known as a wise general. In terms of playing tricks and playing with schemes, we are no match for him."

Zheng Danlian hit his palm with his fist: "That makes sense!"

"The City Lord's Mansion wanted to bomb the Xian Gong long ago and had been planning it for a long time."

"They had been preparing for future investigations for a long time. At this time, Unlike Ning Zhuo happened to take out the mechanism monkeys."

"Chen Cha reported this to Seeing Fei Si, perhaps Seeing Fei Si had a flash of inspiration and decided to use Unlike Ning Zhuo and the mechanism fire-exploding monkeys."

"He instructed Chen Cha behind his back to sell the mechanism monkeys to the market on a large scale. In this way, when Lord Divine Catcher uses the Root-Tracing Method to investigate the real culprit, he has to face countless clues, delaying infinite time and energy."

"If Lord Zhu finally discovers Unlike Ning Zhuo, then Unlike Ning Zhuo is also a person of the Ning family. In this way, he can also splash dirty water on the Ning family."

Ning Jiufan heard this and couldn't help but snort: "This is Seeing Fei Si's style of doing things; he has always been so cunning and poisonous!"

Zheng Danlian continued to analyze: "Using fire essence to bomb the Xian Gong also has benefits."

"With the City Lord's Mansion's methods, secretly purchasing fire essence from the market on a large scale and then erasing the purchase records is an easy thing."

"In fact, they don't need to do this at all. Because they pick fire persimmons every year, and fire persimmons are another form of fire essence."

"They only need to secretly do something in the storage loss of the fire persimmons every year, and they can get a batch of fire persimmons. After a little processing, it is a large amount of fire essence. If they operate like this, we have no way to investigate!"

Zheng Shuanggou had been thinking, and at this moment, he revealed a look of confusion: "Wait. There is one point I can't figure out."

"Since the Lava Xian Gong was bombed by the City Lord's Mansion, why did the Shadow Demon Cultivator appear in Fire Persimmon Xiancheng again and be chased by Chi Dun? He could have retired after success, isn't this doing more than necessary?"

Zheng Danlian fell into silence; he also couldn't figure this out.

At this time, Zhou Nongying laughed and said: "I understand! This is exactly the brilliance of the City Lord's Mansion's plan!"

"Under Meng Kui's rule, a Shadow Demon Cultivator appeared in Fire Persimmon Xiancheng and bombed the Xian Gong, which is unfavorable to Meng Kui and is a stain on his political achievements."

"At the same time, the Shadow Demon Cultivator is also the most obvious clue. In the future, he will definitely be investigated by people from the Divine Catcher Division."

"So the City Lord's Mansion arranged for the Shadow Demon Cultivator to appear again after bombing the Xian Gong and confront Chi Dun in public."

"Chi Dun chased him into the Fire Persimmon Forest, on the one hand, showing the ability of the City Lord's Mansion and highlighting the incompetence of fellow Daoist Zheng Shuanggou; on the other hand, it also created the impression in the public's mind that the Shadow Demon Cultivator was confronting the City Lord's Mansion."

"We didn't know that this was actually a play arranged by the City Lord's Mansion!"

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"Chi Dun wanted to chase into the Fire Persimmon Forest and fight the Shadow Demon Cultivator, but was stopped by Seeing Fei Si."

"After that, Seeing Fei Si secretly let the Shadow Demon Cultivator go. He originally controlled the various arrays of the Fire Persimmon Forest, which was an extremely easy thing for him."

"As for whether Chi Dun knew about it... I am familiar with his personality and tend to think he didn't know."

"If he knew this secret, it would be very difficult to hide, and his expression and words would reveal flaws. So I boldly guess that this conspiracy should be led by Seeing Fei Si."

Ning Jiufan also figured it out and continued: "It is precisely because the Shadow Demon Cultivator was released by Seeing Fei Si in advance that we couldn't find this person in the Fire Persimmon Forest at all."

"Even if we dug three feet into the ground, we didn't find a trace of him."

"And throughout the whole process, Lord Zhu Xuanji had been using the Heavenly Beauty Golden Eyes to investigate. It makes no sense that such means couldn't find a Shadow Demon Cultivator."

"Once this happened, the high-level officials of the entire Fire Persimmon Xiancheng lost face, and no one knew how the Shadow Demon Cultivator disappeared or where he went."

"But precisely because of this, the City Lord's Mansion cleared its suspicion."

Analyzing to this point, Ning Jiufan frowned again and whispered: "But why did the City Lord's Mansion kill Yuan Dasheng in public?"

Zhou Nongying smiled slightly: "Who would have thought that Yuan Dasheng's death was done by the City Lord's Mansion?"

"I think they attacked Yuan Dasheng to create the illusion that the Shadow Demon Cultivator was still present at the time, and then they could spread the responsibility after the fact to all of us."

"After all, those present at the time were not only the Jin Dan cultivators of the City Lord's Mansion, but also our three families, and even Lord Zhu Xuanji! We didn't find the Shadow Demon Cultivator."

"Besides this reason, attacking Yuan Dasheng was of course for the demon art True Scripture on it."

Ning Jiufan frowned: "Why kill Yuan Dasheng in a hurry in public? If I were Seeing Fei Si, I would be more secure and choose to take action secretly after the Fire Persimmon Festival."

Zhou Nongying said: "Perhaps they only discovered the demon art True Scripture at that time. To avoid long nights and many dreams, they grabbed the time to take action immediately!"

"Or perhaps they discovered the True Scripture on Yuan Dasheng long ago and had already succeeded. Taking a death blow to Yuan Dasheng at the Fire Persimmon Festival was to cut the weeds and remove the roots, clearing away all clues."

"However, they didn't expect that this premeditated murder would have an accident."

"And this accident was our Lord Zhu Xuanji."

Speaking of this, the gazes of Zhou Nongying and others were cast towards Zhu Xuanji.

Zhu Xuanji nodded slightly: "At that time, I felt Yuan Dasheng's loyalty, chose to appear, and personally saved its life."

"I remember very clearly that when I asked Seeing Fei Si to open the array, he was not straightforward and didn't want to obey my order."

"I did save a glimmer of vitality for Yuan Dasheng. But in the end, this matter was still achieved by Seeing Fei Si."

"He handed the waist token to Unlike Ning Zhuo, used Unlike Ning Zhuo's selfish motives, and let him come forward. The latter came to the Monkey Head Gang's residence and persuaded Yuan Er to die without saving it, ultimately letting Yuan Dasheng die from severe injuries."

"Looking at it now, this should be a small flaw left by Seeing Fei Si."

After a pause, Zhu Xuanji continued: "When Yuan Dasheng died, Yuan Er and Unlike Ning Zhuo were both present. If the True Scripture had leaked at that time, Yuan Er should have known."

"Unlike Ning Zhuo took Yuan Dasheng's corpse and immediately rushed to Chen Cha's mechanism workshop. When we arrived, they had already handled the essence blood."

"Thinking about it now, we were just one step late. If we had been a little faster, perhaps we could have discovered the clues."

Zhu Xuanji sighed, feeling very regretful.

If he had been a little faster, he wouldn't have been kept in the dark for so long.

The three Jin Dan cultivators were speechless.

Because of the Shadow Demon Cultivator matter, they lost face.

Now looking at it, they didn't expect the truth to be like this! It was actually the City Lord's Mansion's handiwork, the City Lord's Mansion crying thief while being the thief.

Although the Fire Persimmon Festival matter also made the City Lord's Mansion lose face, they gained more.

On the one hand, they cleared their suspicion. On the other hand, they also eliminated Yuan Dasheng.

"So, the City Lord's Mansion obtained the demon art True Scripture?" Zheng Danlian said.

"This is a Jin Dan level demon art. I don't know what the content is, but it was created by the Three Sects' Master, so it must be an extremely excellent cultivation technique."

Discussing the demon art True Scripture, the Jin Dan ancestors couldn't help but reveal a look of longing and curiosity.

"When exactly was the True Scripture taken away?" They continued to discuss.

"It might have been secretly stolen beforehand. Yuan Dasheng was a Fire-Melting Demon Ape after all, how dare it make a fuss about the demon art being stolen in the human Xiancheng?"

"I tend to think it was at the Fire Persimmon Festival. After all, Yuan Dasheng's mistake looks very suspicious now."

"Seeing Fei Si of the City Lord's Mansion has always controlled the array of the Fire Persimmon Forest and is fully capable of disguising it, making us all think it was Yuan Dasheng's mistake."

"The explosion triggered by the mistake also once obscured our vision."

Zhu Xuanji suddenly said: "Do you know that not long after, Yuan Er also died?"

"And after this, the entire Monkey Head Gang was forcefully conquered by Unlike Ning Zhuo and now has become his subordinates, helping him manage the black market."

In an instant, similar thoughts surfaced in the minds of the three Jin Dan ancestors—killing to silence! Destroying the corpse and erasing the traces!

"The City Lord's Mansion wants to extinguish all clues."

"Then why is Unlike Ning Zhuo fine?"

"Yes, if I were Seeing Fei Si, I would have planned so much, even if I just simply used Unlike Ning Zhuo, even if Unlike Ning Zhuo didn't know, but he participated in so much, for the sake of stability, I would still kill Unlike Ning Zhuo."

Zhu Xuanji smiled slightly: "You seem to have forgotten that not long after the Fire Persimmon Festival, the talented cultivators of your three families were all suffering from assassination at the same time."

"Meng Chong was assassinated, but he perfectly solved the assassin."

"Your three families suffered huge losses."

"Unlike Ning Zhuo also suffered an assassination, his entire residence was bombed, and he luckily picked up his life."

"At that time, I participated in the investigation, and a strange feeling always lingered in my heart."

"Looking back now, I finally understand where that strange feeling came from."

"The assassinations suffered by other talented cultivators were either assassinations or poisoning; these were controllable."

"Only Unlike Ning Zhuo encountered an explosion, and the attack method was completely different from the others."

"If the City Lord's Mansion attacked other talented cultivators just to delay their exploration progress. Then for Unlike Ning Zhuo, this murderous intent was quite obvious; clearly, it was to put Unlike Ning Zhuo to death."

Speaking of this, Zhu Xuanji scanned the room and said: "I have explained everything I should explain to you."

"Now you should know very clearly why I made such a big fanfare to find Unlike Ning Zhuo."

The hall was silent.

"Beating the grass to scare the snake."

"Luring the snake out of the hole!"

Zhou Nongying and Zheng Danlian said at the same time. ===== CHAPTER 228 =====