Chapter 51: 【Only the Dead Don't Lie】 (Fourth update, please follow)

Chai Liyuan's words made Fang Tuo silent for a breath.

Dugu Wenda shouted violently:

"Now the matter is very clear. No matter the reason, hand over the few people who are still alive. I will kill them, and this matter will be considered settled."

Fang Tuo understood in his heart that if this matter were really settled so hastily, I am afraid that the disciples of the Golden Wind Immortal Sect would suffer a round of assassinations by the Purple Radiance Immortal Sect next.

Those were Dugu Wenda's two biological sons, the Sect Master's successors!

To be killed just like that, merely removing the real culprit was just doing a superficial job to put the disciples of the two sects at ease.

The real revenge was still to come.

Dugu Wenda was not a magnanimous person; Fang Tuo, as an old rival, was very clear about this.

Furthermore, he was not willing to let his own surviving disciples pay with their lives for those two who had died.

Fang Tuo looked at Dugu Wenda and advised:

"Brother Dugu, this matter cannot be so hasty, otherwise it would be unfair to my two nephews and the disciples of our two families who died. We must find out who exactly triggered this battle."

"It is very obvious that this battle is full of strangeness everywhere; people died too casually. In a six-person melee, the few people who died were almost all killed in one strike."

Although one might lose their life due to negligence in battle, these few people couldn't all be negligent together.

There is something suspicious about this matter that is worth our deep investigation; after all, it concerns the peace between the two factions."

Dugu Wenda was not a person who would be blinded by a hot head, otherwise he would have directly moved to slaughter the people of the Golden Wind Immortal Sect.

At this time, after listening to Fang Tuo's analysis, he, who already felt that the death of the two children was not quite right, also decided to investigate.

"Where are the corpses of those two people? I want to search their souls."

Dugu Wenda said so.

He had not found the souls of his two sons in the Red Mist Mountain Range, and had only found the corpse of his eldest son; the corpse of his younger son was not even there.

According to what this Chai Liyuan said, it was the power of the talisman treasure released by Cong Li that caused his younger son to turn into fly ash under the thunderbolt, not even leaving a residue.

His eldest son had traces of Golden Palace Divine Wind on him, so it was this Chai Liyuan who blew his soul away.

If one was just killed and had a soul, it could still be preserved.

Although there was no method of reincarnation, those who died prematurely like this could also be deposited in spirit tools in hopes of finding a method of rebirth one day.

But now both sons had already had their souls scattered, which was also the reason why he was so angry.

Having his grandson and son searched for their souls right in front of him, Cong Chi was naturally unwilling.

But now he had no choice and could only take Dugu Wenda and the others into his palace to check the corpses of his son and grandson.

Their souls were indeed still preserved within them.

It was just that they were in a muddled state, and one look showed they had already lost their intelligence.

After a biological entity dies, death Qi infects the soul, which will cause the soul to gradually lose its intelligence; this process is very fast.

If it can absorb death Qi and thoroughly transform into a ghost, the intelligence will revive.

If it cannot, then it just waits for the soul to detach from the flesh and scatter.

But this does not affect soul searching.

Dugu Wenda and Fang Tuo successively searched the souls of Cong Yi and Cong Li.

After searching Cong Yi's soul, Dugu Wenda's expression became even gloomier, and Fang Tuo's expression also changed suddenly.

"It really was a scheme. Just because of the setback in the last exchange meeting, they actually staged such a big drama, but it's a pity they miscalculated their own strength!"

In Cong Yi's memory, Dugu Wenda and Fang Tuo saw the 'entire process of Cong Yi plotting the whole thing'.

Because of the last sixty-year exchange meeting, he held a grudge against the Purple Radiance Immortal Sect person who defeated him, one of whom was Dugu Xiu's son, Dugu Fang.

So he found an inside agent that the sect had long planted in the Purple Radiance Immortal Sect. He originally wanted to lure Dugu Fang over, but didn't expect this fellow to be in seclusion, so he settled for the next best thing and lured Dugu Xiu.

Didn't expect that Dugu Jing would also rush over after receiving the news.

Dugu Xiu was the first to kill Cong Yi. He originally wanted to use a talisman to block it, but didn't know what means Dugu Xiu used to impact his divine soul, causing him to lose the ability to resist.

Then his head was slashed off.

These contents were naturally all added to his memory by Lu Chengtong after Cong Yi was killed.

Lu Chengtong had plotted for so long, of course he knew that after this matter happened, there would be a 'soul searching' step; after all, in everyone's cognition, the dead do not lie.

Therefore, no matter how simple his plan was, whether it looked like it had flaws, in the end, as long as it reached the soul-searching step, people who obtained 'definite information' would naturally fill in all the unreasonable parts to make them reasonable.

Lu Chengtong did not fabricate too much information.

Soul searching is a rough spell to begin with; the information obtained is only a part. The more recent the memory, the clearer it is obtained; distant things cannot be searched out.

He could have implicated Zhao Yongcheng, but he did not do so.

Too many elements would lead to flaws. He just placed the root of everything on Cong Yi, so although it could be seen as a battle caused by Cong Yi's personal grudge.

But the result could no longer be changed—Dugu Wenda's two sons were both killed, this was a fact.

It was killed after being plotted by people from the Golden Wind Immortal Sect, this was also a fact.

These two points remained unchanged, the seeds of hatred were planted, and after the assassinations appeared, the two immortal sects would eventually trigger a great war.

Well, these were all Lu Chengtong's own assumptions.

If this time it did not trigger a great war, he would need to summarize his experience and do it a few more times.

It must be a great war between the two factions for him to fish in troubled waters.

Just fighting at the lower levels would not work; the Golden Core Masters must be implicated.

Seeing these contents in Cong Yi's soul, Fang Tuo also subconsciously believed that this was the truth.

Because it really seemed very reasonable!

For a time, he looked troubled.

Cong Chi saw the change in the two people's expressions, and hearing Dugu Wenda say this, he immediately realized something was wrong and hurriedly searched Cong Yi's soul as well.

After learning the 'cause' of this matter, he also sank his face and said in a low voice:

"I didn't expect this child to be so vengeful, but he has already paid the price, and even took the life of his own uncle. Please, Sect Master Dugu, do not implicate the Golden Wind Immortal Sect."

Dugu Wenda learned that Cong Yi still wanted to kill his grandson, and furthermore, the other party had planted spies around the closest people in his own sect, and he was furious in his heart.

Upon hearing this, he just raised his hand, and instantly, the souls of Cong Yi and Cong Li were directly scattered by a purple light, turning into nothingness.

Seeing this scene, Cong Chi subconsciously wanted to rush over to stop it, but his reason finally controlled his body, and he stood on the spot, motionless.

In reality, his body was trembling violently.

What kind of grief could compare to watching one's own son and grandson have their souls scattered by others?

"Hand the people over to me, kill them, and this matter will be considered over."

Dugu Wenda's tone sounded very flat, but Fang Tuo knew that doing so was just the beginning of a turmoil.