Chapter 644

After treating the injured disciples, the elders this time ordered people to strictly forbid ordinary disciples from leaving their dwellings.

This is the fate of those who like to watch the show.

And in the huge explosion, Feng Yue left no remains, making it truly impossible to know how to track down the thief.

"Since Hall Master Yan said this explosion is related to the flower incense, let's start from there," Yao Wen said.

"That is only proper."

Yan Buji watched the raging flames engulfing the Internal Affairs Hall and sensed that something was off.

"Too fast, too fast."

Yan Buji sighed, while treating those injured disciples and pondering what exactly was going on.

First, whoever benefits from Feng Yue's death is likely the biggest suspect.

Certainly, Yao Wen is absolutely the first to be suspected, and moreover, because the explosion left no trace of Feng Yue's corpse, this lack of evidence is even more advantageous to Yao Wen.

But Yan Buji knows that if everyone thinks that way, then Yao Wen's situation is actually the most dangerous.

Because everyone thinks that if you use such means to seize power and profit, although they won't say anything to your face since they can't find evidence; but in private later I'll also do the same to you, so you'd better not say anything.

And for a sect, such vicious competition is naturally unacceptable.

"So Yao Wen is unlikely to do such a stupid thing, of course we can't rule out that he deliberately did it," Yan Buji thought.

Mainly, Yan Buji dares not confirm Feng Yue's true cause of death; the origin of the flower incense he previously discovered still needs investigation, and that kind of incense is also quite rare....

Yan Buji froze for a moment: "Youming Jie?!"

"Then this matter is somewhat secret; should we investigate it?"

Yan Buji thought it over; he didn't want to get involved in these matters, but the explosion at the Internal Affairs Hall earlier clearly targeted this group of Outer Gate seniors, so even if he didn't want to interfere, he had no choice.

"We must capture that person."

Thinking this through, Yan Buji began to act.

A few days passed.

The Inner Gate elders came together, angrily looking at the destroyed Internal Affairs Hall, pointing at Yan Buji and this group of seniors they scolded: "Are you lot just eating dry rice?!"

"How come we're only now being notified of such a major incident?!"

The Paolong Sacred Land's inner and outer gates each have two layers of defensive formations, so that when a powerful enemy attacks, the enemy cannot break through both inner and outer gates in one go.

Therefore, the explosion a few days ago actually did not affect the Inner Gate interior; as for why these elders only came today, Yan Buji does not know.

"Elder Pang, we..... we have been busy treating disciples, cleaning up traces, and searching for Elder Feng's corpse; in the rush we haven't had time to notify you." Yao Wen stepped out, also frightened, his face turning pale, and hurriedly said.

"Trash!" Pang Mingde narrowed his eyes and glared at Yao Wen: "Could it be that you killed Feng Yue, then caused the explosion to destroy the corpse and erase traces?"

"Absolutely impossible!" Yao Wen flatly denied: "Even though I've always been on bad terms with Elder Feng, I wouldn't dare commit such a heinous act; I ask Elder to judge clearly!"

"You!"

An Inner Gate elder beside Pang Mingde grabbed him and said with a smile: "Senior Brother Pang, this matter is still undecided; perhaps the thief is still hiding in the gate watching us laugh, or we should wait until the investigation is clear before assigning blame."

"Hmph!" Pang Mingde snorted coldly, looking at him: "Who in Paolong Sacred Land doesn't know that Yao Wen is your man, Hong Shu?"

This person is named Hong Shu, and he is also one of the Inner Gate Elders of Paolong Sacred Land.

Yan Buji carefully observed Hong Shu; this was the Inner Gate Elder who was backing Yao Wen, and speaking of which, this was the first time he had seen him.

Hong Shu looked at Pang Mingde and said with a smile: "Pang Senior Brother, why bother? Right and wrong are self-evident in people's hearts; if this matter was done by Yao Wen, I would without hesitation report it to the Sect Master and let him handle it. But right now, whether it's Feng Yue or the Internal Affairs Hall explosion, everything is mysterious and confusing; why rush to condemn someone?"

Hong Shu looked at Pang Mingde, whose expression was not good, and suddenly realized: "Oh right, could it be that Pang Senior Brother thinks that simply finding someone to blame would settle this matter?"

"You damn nonsense! When did I ever say that?" Pang Mingde, furious, blew his beard and glared, staring angrily at Hong Shu.

The two Unity Dao cultivators were arguing, and naturally those below dared not utter a word.

After he had argued for a while, Hong Shu then opened his mouth and said: "If that's the case, then let's first ask."

"Among you, who knows exactly how Feng Yue died?"

Yao Wen stepped forward, clasped his hands, and said: "At that time we discovered Elder Feng's corpse...."

Yao Wen then gave a detailed description of the previous situation, and both Hong Shu and Pang Mingde sensed something was off.

Logically speaking, even if Yao Wen had done it, there would be no way for there to be no trace of a fight, unless that room had been rearranged.

"Is what he said true?" Pang Mingde looked at the other few Hall Masters.

Yan Buji and the others also nodded; if there had been a fight, even if Feng Yue were stupid and weak, he was still a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, so it would be impossible for there to be no movement at all.

Furthermore, when several people went to Feng Yue's residence, they also found no sign that his room had been moved; with the strength of their divine sense, a sweep of the lingering aura in the room would show that Feng Yue himself had spent the entire night in the room, naturally ruling out the possibility that he had been killed elsewhere and his body brought back to stage the murder scene.

Afterwards, Pang Mingde asked a few more questions, found this matter rather mysterious, and then looked at Yan Buji: "Hall Master Yan, it was you who discovered that the Huadan incense had a problem, right?"

"Yes." Yan Buji responded with clasped hands: "Huadan incense and Tempering Spirit Pill, when exposed to air, if they exist in large quantities in an enclosed space, will indeed cause an explosion.... but at that time the timing was too perfect—it just so happened that all of us were in the Internal Affairs Hall."

"Oh? Then what you mean is...."

"Someone might have been monitoring the situation in the Internal Affairs Hall all along, calculated the time, and triggered the explosion; therefore I suspect that person may not have left Paolong Sacred Land." Yan Buji voiced his suspicion.

Of course, this is not all he has investigated, but there are some things he really dares not say in front of everyone, for fear it might endanger his own safety.

Moreover....

Yan Buji also does not trust these two Inner Gate Elders, always feeling that their arrival seems to be deliberately waiting for that thief to leave.

However, as for who actually did this, although Yan Buji has a suspicion, the direction of his suspicion is rather vast, and he cannot bear it alone; perhaps even these two Elders could not cope, so he chose to keep it concealed.

The investigation had barely begun when it fell into stagnation; with the Internal Affairs Hall explosion leaving no trace of Feng Yue's remains, not even a single clue could be found.

Everyone could only continue clearing the ruins, and then try to investigate the outside personnel.