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Chapter 429

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"Li Li Shaozhang.

When 【Flowing Wind】 dies, this letter will be sent to you.

At that time, I will have died due to the betrayal of 【Jade Tiger】, and everything we discussed will have been realized as truth.

I know you have always been wondering why we were caught off guard that night in Bowang, why our actions were so easily manipulated by others... I am the same.

He gave many plausible reasons, but I do not believe a single one.

The only possibility I firmly believe in is—the Joy-Huan Si Lou has indeed always been receiving support from the Shao-Long officialdom, for ten years, or twenty years, and this person has never been found, nor even suspected.

I am very sorry; in Bowang City, and in the previous few letters, you kept trying hard to convince me to believe this, and every time I ignored you.

Now that I am once again within the great circle he has constructed, if he is the most prominent new favorite in Shao-Long, then he is the most massive backer behind the scenes; wisdom, speculation, gambling... when will it ever end?

The Feather-Binding Book is in her bag; she knows what he has experienced in the past few days, and how glorious he is now; she will never reveal the heavy burden on her own body to him.

They can of course be swords that taught each other, but swords that can betray their masters must be forged by Qu Zhu himself.

Now is not the time for vows of love; the promises of mutual honesty have already ceased.

Seeing Pei Ye walked on the lonely, cool long street toward the Immortal Stage, thinking quietly.

That is the deep mountains of Kongdong; the Bright Sword Master and the Lianxin Pavilion are trapped in 【Mountain Year】, and the Joy-Huan Si Lou is about to advance their twenty-year plot; this is a devil's den through and through; the Kongdong Patriarch and the Joy-Death Play-Master have long been in collusion.

The soul bird's letter tube has traces of being opened in advance; in the case file a few days later, the Immortal Stage will definitely write that the Joy-Huan Si Lou intercepted the soul bird's secret letter and used the leaked information to design the ambush on Seeing Pei Ye.

But we killed the 【Sun】 and 【Liu】 play-faces together, and just like that took down the Jin Jin Yuzhai; by the time I wrote the letter, the Immortal Stage had already traced at least seven branches of the Joy-Huan Si Lou from there.

Inspector Sui was very right that day; many things have no right or wrong, only conflicts of interest between different people. If there had been no impulse at that time, Ji Changyun might have fought the Joy-Huan Si Lou side by side with them; if Qu Zhu's innate sword talent had been better, perhaps he and I would truly be the closest comrades.

"For the third test, I will use this life and my sword.

This was originally an absurdity that did not need proof; I have known him for nearly twenty years, the entire Shao-Long Prefecture Office has known him for nearly twenty years, and has become accustomed to his existence.

And excluding the soul bird, only I and Sui Zaihua know this news.

But I also answered at the time... "I am not among them."

Now that I am in Kongdong, I have seen their shortage of manpower—if the 【Sun】 and 【Liu】 faces were still there, it would be almost impossible for Seeing Pei Ye to place the evidence before the Lianxin Pavilion.

【Flowing Wind】 could have completely avoided being blocked by the Kongdong Mountain formation, but I removed its key accessories, causing it to be captured by the mountain formation.

Because that is an unreasonable thing—if he did not intend to expose himself, then there was no need for the two Body-Gatherers to come and die.

"Next, you might have a very difficult, very painful time, and you might even die in this whirlpool; no one can guarantee anything." The old man looked at him and said softly at the time, "But if we win, we win completely."

The young girl has always kept things very separate.

Everyone knows that the Joy-Huan Si Lou case has already ended; at such a time, what do you have to accuse a high-ranking, flawless new Inspector? A mouth?

Who would be willing to support him? If this Inspector has a problem, then in these twenty years, the entire Shao-Long Prefecture Office cannot escape the relationship.

Of course, there is also the Immortal Stage. He can have a serious talk with Pavilion Master Zhang, or he can write a letter to Miss Ming; these are all more reasonable methods.

Whether exposing it can win or cannot win, he does not want to hand over the power of judgment to others like that again.

So I think Sui Zaihua must not be on the side of the Joy-Huan Si Lou.

He is not the type of person who stays behind closed doors; he is a gathering point; once such a person is truly replaced, there will be clear sounds of breaking all around him.

It turns out that at that time, the old man was already in a desperate situation.

This is truly an exceptionally long letter, clear, calm, and detailed; on that morning when he left himself alone in the mountains, Wu Dong delivered everything to the young girl hundreds of miles away without a single omission, because he had seen her extraordinary insight and cold hatred in many letters.

Seeing Pei Ye finished reading the last paragraph, slowly closed the letter, and put it back into the young girl's small bag.

He solved this case, although no one executed the result for him.

But there is only one 【West Court Heart】.

Qu Zhu is not that heinous; everything he did in his life was nothing more than "resistance."

Because I cannot leave any traces of my thoughts anywhere.

It is this thought that makes me stunned.

So I must go and complete this judgment; if 【Flowing Wind】 truly dies, then this letter will be delivered to your hands: Li Li Shaozhang, Qu Zhu and Sui Zaihua have always been thoroughly and completely the same person.

Including the Immortal Stage.

All around there are only the waves of the quiet wind forest; he looks quietly at the direction the young man left, lowers his eyes again, the cold morning light is sprinkling on the back of his hand, and he picks up his brush and writes silently:

"I call it the truth."

If there were another time, perhaps he would not persuade Yang Yan of the Catch-Moon Pavilion.

So she seems very relaxed and happy; in order to conceal this, she also concealed the sorrow of separation.

So I cannot find evidence that he is not "him" from everything in the Shao-Long Prefecture, because everything about "Sui Zaihua" has already been buried in Bowang City.

The lives of hundreds of play-ghosts and the tentacles infecting several prefectures are not enough; it is almost impossible for him to be bought; the only thing that might move him is probably only the 【West Court Heart】.

Just because she is now bearing a heavier burden.

Seeing Pei Ye does not know what she intends to do; perhaps she contacted Tianshan, intending to request the Immortal Stage after obtaining evidence; perhaps she will continue to investigate in the Prefecture City, even if the other party is truly covering the sky with one hand... in short, she has always been that resilient.

That morning on the cliff of Kongdong Mountain was not without value; when he tried his best and finally angrily nailed the Heart-Cutting Glaze into the chest of that black robe, he had already demonstrated to him once how to win against the strong with the weak.

He is the Shaoqing and Changshi of the Prefecture Office, handling countless government affairs every day, many of which involve several platforms, and even span four or five years.

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But if Qu Zhu truly wants to see this secret letter, there will be no traces left on the letter tube, and you will not even notice that the soul bird was intercepted.

Anyway, she is absolutely unwilling to reveal even a hint to him.

Then we have too many doubts—Sui Zaihua is one of the top-level heavy ministers of the Prefecture Office, and Qu Zhu is also under one person in the Joy-Huan Si Lou; how did they detach from their respective affiliations and stand together so firmly?

How could they cooperate so exquisitely and trust each other without gaps? If Qu Zhu wants to control the 【West Court Heart】 alone, then what does Sui Zaihua want?

A platform minister with such a bright future, what else can the Joy-Huan Si Lou and Qu Zhu give him?

Sounds like a heavy responsibility... but crossing the Kunlun alone has always been the mission of the Crane Inspection."

Because this matter should end here.

If they both want the West Court Heart, then it is impossible for them to trust each other like this.

Seeing Pei Ye has told me the life of Qu Zhu twice in detail.

The first direction is the origin of the "Soul-Snatching Bead."

When Seeing Pei Ye opened the door and saw this face, his whole body felt frozen, and his heart was gripped by something. He still remembered her situation when they separated, which made it almost impossible for him to show even a reluctant smile.

He walked further than anyone else; when he discovered all this, there were no companions by his side.

Now Kongdong also has no help that can be used; I must find a way to fix it.

So I suddenly realized that Sui Zaihua can of course go against the Joy-Huan Si Lou, because the person who has contact with him is actually Qu Zhu.

".

Farewell, Li Li Shaozhang. I know this is a gamble; it might win, but it is more likely to lose... but I have no other way.

My second test was the soul bird sent to Kongdong.

But this also plunged me into a predicament, because it means my depiction of the enemy on the other side of the wall was completely wrong.

This person will absolutely not be willing to be under the Joy-Huan Si Lou.

But he is not familiar with this Pavilion Master; perhaps Zhang Xiaozhu is also involved, and the relationship between the sect and the imperial court is so sensitive; can Yunlang Mountain intervene in the imperial court and overthrow a powerful Inspector? Qu Zhu may have already prepared for this exposure; will he be caught off guard? He sent a sword letter to Li Piaoqing, which might be a test, and he likely already predicted the young girl's entry into the city; if he wants to make trouble, perhaps he should first pretend to know nothing...

But he is actually too lazy to think so much.

The moment suspicion was planted in my heart, I knew that a faceless enemy was standing on the other side of the wall.

【Jade Tiger】 was created twenty years ago by the East Sea Sword Furnace and the Yangyi Pavilion, but the 【Thread-Pulling】 vessel pattern did not come from either side, but was provided by the Vessel Bureau; the ownership of this sword after it was cast was also the Prefecture Office.

Seeing Pei Ye only then saw those quiet gray eyes clearly.

So this is an absurd fantasy.

He has no way to turn the tide, and he really cannot control such a huge case; of course, he cannot tell Seeing Pei Ye, because that person noticed this young man earlier than him; letting him drift with the tide under that person's control is more likely to survive than pulling him to his side.

I did the first test at the bottom of the lake at Jin Jin Yuzhai; the target that time was two Body-Gatherers of the Joy-Huan Si Lou; if I died, 【Flowing Wind】 would bring the result out.

He also indeed destroyed the Joy-Huan Si Lou; it's not that it doesn't make sense.

Seeing Pei Ye listened to the fanatical cheers beneath the Jade Sword Stage; being able to make a name for himself with his sword in front of hundreds of thousands of people must be something that young man from the mountain city dreamed of.

But I suddenly have a more absurd fantasy. Because if one possibility can truly explain everything, then no matter how absurd, it is possible—

She should be in the same state; now is not the time to comfort herself after a setback and then show a smile; they have truly separated; no matter how many times she returns in dreams, longing can only be suppressed, and suppression only leads to pain.

—He has already lost to him three times.

However, what can she do? Cuiyu has neither operations nor backers in Shao-Long; who recognizes her name as the Cuiyu Sect Master?

This replacement did not happen at some later moment, but when he first entered the Shao-Long Prefecture Office and met each of us, there was already another soul inside.

On that autumn morning in Kongdong, in the tragic battlefield of broken trees and chaotic stones, everything was quiet, and everything had left. The old man with residual clothes stained with blood sat alone on the broken rocks under the tree, his gray hair messy, and the old blood on his clothes was settling into mottled spots bit by bit.

Before she pushed open her own door, she must have adjusted her emotions and demeanor for a long time.

Because if that is the truth, then all of us are too far away from it. Only I luckily picked up a faint, hazy line with it; this line has no support, completely relying on my thinking to climb up; now I am bleeding, and some functions are becoming dull... perhaps in a daze at some moment, I will never be able to connect it again.

Except for Li Piaoqing.

If Inspector Sui has already been assassinated, and now it is a play-ghost disguised, it makes more sense.

This almost made me move my gaze away from him.

I realized early on that it existed in the corner of my mind, but I never touched it, because Sui Zaihua was right in front of me; twenty years ago we met and knew each other at the Prefecture Office, three days ago we fought side by side at the bottom of the Jin Yu Lake—these two figures are absolutely, definitely the same person.

They separated like that; it shouldn't have been such an indifferent meeting.

I know this is an irresponsible conclusion that will lead the investigator to destruction.

Resisting the captivity of the Star-Burial Mound, resisting the control of the Joy-Huan Si Lou, resisting the judgment of the Heavenly Duke... until now, just as he said to himself, "I want to see what is controlling this world."

Seeing Pei Ye still remembers the last scene of parting with Wu Dong; he said he wanted to gamble and could no longer help him.

He drew the Jade Tiger and walked in with his sword held high.

It was nothing more than trying his best and risking his life.

The young girl is sleeping peacefully in the mist; the exhaustion between her brows can finally no longer be concealed; this is the warm and comfortable top pavilion of the Taishan Medical Tower; Seeing Pei Ye sits by the couch, looking down at the familiar handwriting that is wet, wrinkled, and stained with sporadic blood.

Yes, he trusts him.

Now, I ask you to find evidence for this conclusion.

He of course succeeded; he did not die under Kunlun, nor did he lose to Qu Zhu; "Using one's own corpse to solve a case is a skill every Crane Inspection has mastered."

He knew him twenty years ago, they fought side by side at the bottom of the Jin Yu Lake three days ago, and they have been together day and night for several days... standing on the other side of the wall.

I checked the case files; the Vessel Bureau did not record who was sent to contact the two masters this time, but one month after this sword casting ended, Sui Zaihua was promoted to Shaojian of the Vessel Bureau.

Trusting his strength, facing his strength. In such a situation where the building is about to collapse and enemies are everywhere, the only thing the old man can do is to gamble with his life.

The young girl came to this big city alone with serious injuries; what she saw were only boiling cheers; they were clamoring and celebrating, while that name was high-ranking, in full swing, and the Feather-Binding Book was full of his achievements.

He listened to the applause in the pavilion ahead; it was harmonious and happy, and everything had been prepared for him.

They came to ambush me with the confidence of certain death; those two play-faces appeared at the bottom of the Jin Jin Yuzhai lake, absolutely not to die in our hands.

So that night, Seeing Pei Ye was indeed ambushed by Qu Zhu in the Scripture Pavilion.

Moreover, there is no evidence left now.

We cannot see each other, and we will never tell each other that the war has begun, but we believe that the other party must have already realized it.

Or... let's be blunt, Li Li Shaozhang."

Compared to using the 【Young Feather Monitor】 to topple the 【Great Feather Monitor】.

Perhaps he is more accustomed to using the Sixth Life to kill a Yecheng.

(End of chapter)

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