The Legendary Master’s Wife - Chap 186

Chapter 186: The Criminal

T/N: We don’t translate the honorifics because it’d be hard to convey the meaning properly and distinguish real siblings from the honorifics. Therefore, only the honorifics that have one meaning will be translated into English.

Elder Shi was the first to react. Before others had a chance, he hurriedly spoke out, “‘Lin Xiao’, you came just in time, the Qing Cheng Sect said that we killed their disciples, and now they want to deal with us.”

If you took a good look, it was noticeable that when Elder Shi looked at ‘Lin Xiao’, there was a hint of guiltiness in his eyes that couldn’t be concealed by his speech.

Ling Xiao acted like nothing had happened, walking over and looking at both side’s murderous intent; finally, he laid his gaze on the Qing Cheng Sect and laughingly he said, “It’s already the last day, why don’t we take a step back? Paradise Realm was dangerous, something out of our expectations might happen. Someone might have even set up that trap to frame us, wanting to provoke us against each other while they just sit and receive the fisherman’s benefit. We are all adults, we have to be careful and think of the consequences.”

These words were very clear and logical, and seeing Ling Xiao’s earnest attitude, many people’s anger calmed down. Luo ShuHe and Mo Sheng looked at each other, they didn’t expect Ling Xiao to point out their doubts with only one sentence.

The truth was, when he took the magic bag earlier, Luo ShuHe also suspected that somebody might have been deliberately trying to put the blame on the Tian Xin Sect, because according to the person who found YeDan’s corpse, there weren’t many traces of fighting on the scene. So, one could assume that the opponent’s level was above YeDan, probably much higher.

But for such a high-level master, how could they leave such an obvious mistake? Even though they suspected it, they couldn’t just announce YeDan’s death like that. So, Luo ShuHe instead thought that since the Qing Cheng Sect and the Tian Xin Sect’s relationship had reached the point of being like water and fire, and that sooner or later would be torn anyway, they could use YeDan’s death to blame the Tian Xin Sect and then the Qing Cheng Sect could openly act. But only they knew the truth, not the other disciples, so Ling Xiao’s words shook them up.

You XiaoMo tried to hold back his laughter. Ling Xiao was good at acting. As the only one who understood this situation, seeing his pretentious act which the opposite of his true nature was, You XiaoMo started feeling like he wanted to vomit. Of course, only in his mind.

Originally the two sects were already at the flaming point, but thanks to Ling Xiao’s “advice”, everyone’s anger had almost died down. The other forces saw that there was nothing to see, got bored, and left.

Luo ShuHe and the others seemed to have other plans, but also didn’t continue.

Even You XiaoMo, who had a two-digit IQ, could see their inner thoughts. Even though Luo ShuHe had contracted with a level nine demon beast, he also knew that the level nine demon beast suffered a serious injury. Unless he had the same lake water as he did, there’s no way the injuries of the Six Thunderbird had healed. Therefore, he shouldn’t start a conflict now.

Ling Xiao came up to Elder Shi, making it look like it was unintentional, and said, “Elder Shi, you all came here at the same time, don’t tell me you all already promised beforehand?”

This sudden remark made Luo ShuHe, who had already prepared to go, stop in his tracks and look over again with a puzzled expression.

Elder Shi, worried that he’d continue to speak, quickly dragged Ling Xiao to another place where others couldn’t hear their conversation.

Making a cough sound, he said, “I accidentally got the information of when Demon Peak would be opened, so I made an appointment with the other Elders to go together to Demon Peak. At that time, you were still in the north, so I was too late to inform you.”

Ling Xiao made his *oh* sound a little long.

Elder Shi didn’t realize his train of thought, and while patting his shoulder, he faked a big laugh. “But fortunately, you didn’t come, Lin-shizhi. You might not know, but Demon Peak just collapsed a while ago, and lots of people got injured. Lin-shizhi, you really are a fortunate person.”

Ling Xiao raised the corner of his mouth, “Just as Elder Shi had said, Ling Xiao’s luck is really good.”

If only this old man were to know that the person standing in front of him was the one who caused Demon Peak to collapse – but he wouldn’t say that.

“That’s right, Elder Shi, how come I didn’t see Elder Wang and Huang Jie-shidi?” As if wanting to ease the tension, Ling Xiao ‘considerately’ changed the topic.

Elder Shi suddenly felt relieved, “YunQi had disappeared, so they are looking for her. After five hours at most, they should be back.”

There was a proverb that said speak pf the devil, and the devil shall appear. Right after Elder Shi said it, somebody arrived at the teleportation point. It was none other than Elder Wang’s group, but their expressions looked very gloomy.

Elder Shi looked over, his sight falling to the stretcher carried by two disciples at the back of the group. When he saw the person on the stretcher, he took a breath, and his eyes darkened.

“Wha… what’s the matter?” Elder Weng’s face also became pale. His eyes darkened as he stared at the hole in the chest of the person on top of the stretcher. Tang YunQi’s body was covered in blood; her lifeless appearance indicated that she had been dead for a few hours.

Of course, their gloomy expressions were not because of Tang YunQi’s death, but because of the Grand Master’s anger – once he found out that his daughter had died in Paradise Realm where they had taken responsibility…

“Elder Wang, what happened? How come my niece YunQi is dead?” Elder Shi hurriedly went to Wang An’s side, who had the gloomiest expression.

Wang An was the one who was given the responsibility to ensure Tang YunQi’s safety when they were inside Paradise Realm. Now that Tang YunQi had met this accident, he was the one to hold the biggest responsibility.

The moment he found Tang YunQi’s body up until now, one could say that Wang An’s facial expression had not gotten any better. In fact, it had only gotten worse. His icy-cold gaze looked as if he wanted to devour a person. After he heard Elder Shi’s words, he coldly said, “I don’t know what happened either. By the time we found her, she was already dead.”

He also wanted to know who had killed Tang YunQi. Although he couldn’t protect Tang YunQi, if he could have brought back the murderer at least, the punishment would have become lighter. However, the murderer’s work was too clean, he couldn’t find any clues about while he was at the crime scene.

When Elder Weng saw that they were getting nowhere, he couldn’t help but wonder, “Elder Wang, where is Niece YunQi’s contract beast?”

Upon hearing this sentence, Wang An’s facial expression became gloomier, “It’s gone. I suspect the murderer might have been after Tang YunQi’s contract beast, that’s why she was killed.”

It was not uncommon to kill people just to rob them of their treasure, that’s why everyone didn’t doubt this reason. But–

Tang YunQi’s contract beast was a level Seven One Star. The Seventh-Star Star rank beasts were powerful, despite even being in the Paradise Realm. When compared to the level seven demon beast, the strength gap was still very big. No matter how they thought about it, there was no way that a practitioner would just kill her to rob her of a treasure in just a few hours. Unless it was planned, like for example if more than one Star Rank Seventh Star joined forces, then it might be possible.

However, this theory didn’t have any evidence.

The collapse of Demon Peak wasn’t something that anyone could have expected, Tang YunQi getting separated from them was also accidental, so they could rule out the possibility of a planned murder. If they thought about it like this, there was only one possibility.

The killer might be a person who owned a contract beast, and his contract beast’s strength was likely above Tang YunQi’s contract beast’s. Only this way, could they explain Tang YunQi’s death.

“Stronger than a level Seven demon beast.” Wang An said this to himself, his fierce eyes instantly looking towards all the practitioners and mages who owned contracted demon beasts. With this as the key, the scope for the potential murderer had narrowed down a lot, because not everyone had the chance to get a contract with a level Seven Demon Beast and above. They could even say that this kind of person was absolutely like a phoenix feather and a unicorn horn.

Besides, if the murderer really had snatched Tang YunQi’s contract beast, then that person was most likely a mage, because only mages could get a contract with more than one demon beast. With this, the scope had narrowed down even more. But they still could not rule out the possibility that the murderer might be two or more people.

Having said that, Wang An still couldn’t risk offending the other parties by confronting them. No one would like to be suspected as Tang YunQi’s murderer. Besides, not everybody was like Tang YunQi, who flaunted her demon beast for everyone to see. The stronger the demon beast, the more they’ll hide it; otherwise they might be the one who gets killed and robbed of their treasures.

So, in the end, Tang YunQi ending up like this was completely because of her own actions. Nevertheless, Tang YunQi’s death still caused an uproar among the crowd.

The murderer suspects were not only Wang An and his people, everyone here was sharp. Although some may not show it, but secretly, they must have told their own contract beasts to hide.

However, there was one person whose contract beast was very eye-catching. That person was Fang ChenYue.

At that time, to save people, Fang ChenYue was forced to bring out the Poisonous Tail Flood Dragon. The consequences were that some people ended up seeing it. Some people were the disciples from martial arts, and their friendships were not deep enough; even if Fang ChenYue had asked them to not tell, there ought to have been some disciples who spilled it out.

Elder Shi, who You XiaoMo guessed had abandoned Fang ChenYue before, was showing an utterly unhappy expression, because he found out that the Poisonous Tail Flood Dragon was the demon beast that was from the lake before.

Apparently, not only had Fang ChenYue survived, his luck was also large. He didn’t know how he had managed to get a contract with the Poisonous Tail Flood Dragon, but after that, Fang ChenYue also didn’t tell them about the Poisonous Tail Flood Dragon. He clearly must be cautious of them.

After they met, Fang ChenYue was surrounded by a group of disciples asking him this and that. Fortunately, there was Fu ZiLin. His expressionless yet as cold as an iceberg face, scared people off.

When You XiaoMo walked out, his cold face melted a little.

“Da Shixiong, congratulations!” You XiaoMo, ignoring Ling Xiao, who was busy playing innocent in front of Elder Shi and the others, immediately ran towards Fang ChenYue, who was surrounded by a crowd before, sincerely congratulating him.

Upon seeing him, Fang ChenYue’s face finally revealed a sincere smile. He pulled XiaoMo to his side, checking over his body. After he was sure that he didn’t have any scratches, he finally sighed in relief.

Fang ChenYue said, “Da Shixiong wants to congratulate you too; I heard you managed to get a contract with a Blue-Blooded Wolf. Not bad, oh?”

You XiaoMo immediately laughed cheerfully. “Da Shixiong’s luck was better than mine, I heard that the Poisonous Tail Flood Dragon had dragon’s blood inside its veins, and someday will get to breakthrough into level eight.”

Fang ChenYue pointed his finger towards his forehead, “Poisonous Tail Flood Dragon is only level seven right now, it’ll be a long time before he can breakthrough into level eight, and besides, do you think a level nine shape-shifting beast could breakthrough that easy?”

Speaking of shape-shifting, You XiaoMo’s eyes sparkled, “Da Shixiong, can I see your contracted demon beast?”

“Of course!” Fang ChenYue couldn’t but agree. The Poisonous Tail Flood Dragon didn’t like being watched by humans, so it changed into mini size and hid inside his clothes. If other people asked him, he wouldn’t let it, but You XiaoMo was different.

You XiaoMo took the Poisonous Tail Flood Dragon from inside Fang ChenYue’s sleeves, and touched its mini body, whispering, “Poisonous Tail Flood Dragon, ah, Poisonous Tail Flood Dragon, ah, I’ll leave Da Shixiong’s safety to you, you can never let me down, oh, or else I will ask Ling-shixiong to beat you.”

Poisonous Tail Flood Dragon, “…….”

After he talked in a manner that looked like he was talking to himself, You XiaoMo gave the Poisonous Tail Flood Dragon back to Fang ChenYue, and then casually mentioned, “Second-Shixiong, you didn’t contract a demon beast?”

In fact, he only wanted to know whether the Dead Soul Beast looked for Second-shixiong to form a contract. When they heard this sentence, both went silent; although he was silent before, Fang ChenYue finally opened his mouth, “Xiao Shidi, we will tell you after we get back.”

It seemed like he had formed a contract, so You XiaoMo nodded immediately.

“Xiao Shidi, look at Lin Xiao over there.” Fu ZiLin don’t always open his mouth, but when he did, he only said such a shocking thing.

You XiaoMo turned back to look and found out someone very familiar was walking toward Ling Xiao.

Da Shixiong: the eldest senior brother / the first to become the disciple

Xiao Shidi: The youngest junior brother / the last to become a disciple