Chapter 133
Yu Sui's side had already finished the inspection. She closed the door and walked toward her own room while tapping on her Wind-Listening Ruler.
It wasn't surprising at all that Gu Qian would suspect her, but she didn't need to be afraid. She had plenty of ways to fool Gu Qian, or rather, to threaten him.
"You dare say tonight's events have nothing to do with you?" Gu Qian still harbored suspicions.
"I brought Saints to investigate myself?" Yu Sui replied to him. "I'm not arrogant enough to think I can handle so many Saints."
Gu Qian was swayed by her words.
"Don't tell me you know nothing about what happened tonight," Gu Qian said again.
Yu Sui fell back onto her bed and checked Wei Ren's location. He had already entered the dormitory building.
She replied to Gu Qian: "I know someone was hiding Lan poison."
Gu Qian's expression turned stern: "Who?"
Yu Sui answered: "The one who died tonight."
Gu Qian: "..."
Are you messing with me?
Gu Qian said with a dark expression: "I'm asking one last time. Did you take the fragment or not?"
Yu Sui casually typed two words: "No."
Gu Qian's mind raced: "I'll tell the cooperating Saints about your situation. If you don't want to cooperate, you'd better not let me catch you."
"Please do," Yu Sui said. "If it's disadvantageous to me, I won't tell you in advance what kind of things I might do."
Both sides were threatening and testing each other. This conversation had essentially fallen apart.
Gu Qian tightened his grip on the Wind-Listening Ruler. He couldn't stand it for even a moment and wanted to go find School of Names Elder Zhu immediately, but the dormitory building could only be entered, not exited. He'd have to wait until morning to leave.
Except for disciples who were on outer island academy trials and couldn't return, the academy had all other disciples return to the dormitories.
Wei Ren returned to the dormitory with a normal expression, seeing Mei Liangyu waiting by the door, squinting as he examined him.
"Are you specifically waiting here for me?" Wei Ren walked past him to enter.
Mei Liangyu turned sideways to look at him: "With so many interesting things happening tonight, isn't it a pity you weren't here?"
"I was watching quite a show from outside too." Wei Ren shrugged casually.
Mei Liangyu added: "I can tell being deducted points actually made you happy."
This was really annoying to hear, truly picking at sore spots.
Wei Ren glanced sideways at Mei Liangyu, wanting to retort but afraid he'd notice the Floating Pagoda fragment hidden on his person. He silently ground his teeth, thinking he'd endure it.
Though Yu Sui had told Mei Liangyu about taking the Floating Pagoda fragment, she hadn't yet told Wei Ren that Mei Liangyu knew.
So she spoke up: "Senior Brother knows about you taking the fragment."
Wei Ren: "..."
His pupils trembled for a moment as he screamed internally: He knows?!
Yu Sui added another sentence: "But he doesn't know about the Fusang Dewdrops."
Wei Ren immediately calmed down. There were still things Mei Liangyu didn't know.
Mei Liangyu saw Wei Ren's suddenly changed expression and remembered this person's half-dead appearance by the sea back then. Though he didn't die, he had still received his comeuppance.
Wei Ren took a deep breath, withdrew his gaze, and walked into the room: "Can't you be a bit polite when talking to your own people?"
"Who's your own people," Mei Liangyu sneered and walked outside.
Wei Ren closed his door and touched the mechanism box hiding the Floating Pagoda fragment, quietly asking Yu Sui: "Do you want me to bring it to you?"
"No need," Yu Sui said. "I'll get it tomorrow. There's no need to take risks now."
Only then did Wei Ren give up.
He thought about it, then asked unwillingly: "Why does Mei Liangyu know?"
"Why can't he know?" Yu Sui replied expressionlessly. "Even you, who once wanted to kill me, can know. Why can't he know?"
Warning bells rang loudly in Wei Ren's head as he immediately retorted: "I never wanted to kill you!"
Yu Sui quickly corrected herself: "Nearly got me killed."
Wei Ren: "..."
It was best to stop this topic here.
Mei Liangyu went to Nian Qiuyan's room.
Nian Qiuyan seemed to have anticipated his visit, sitting in the main room waiting, with the headless mechanical rabbit on the table.
He indicated with his eyes to Mei Liangyu that he couldn't fix this rabbit and wanted Mei Liangyu to fix it himself.
When Mei Liangyu entered, Nian Qiuyan had just poured himself a cup of water. He looked up at him and said: "Want some?"
"You're quite leisurely," Mei Liangyu closed the door behind him, walked over to sit across from him, and casually fiddled with the mechanical rabbit on the table.
Nian Qiuyan smiled somewhat innocently: "I really have nothing going on."
Mei Liangyu worked on the mechanical rabbit, reattaching the fallen rabbit head, asking in a conversational tone: "What do you think about tonight's events?"
"A bit unexpected. We previously only suspected someone stole Silver River Water to make Lan poison, but now it seems... Lan poison might have been around for a while already." Nian Qiuyan held his cup, lowering his eyes as if contemplating something after speaking.
Mei Liangyu fixed the rabbit and placed it back on the table.
A red-eyed white rabbit sat on the table, quietly gazing at Nian Qiuyan across from it.
Nian Qiuyan laughed at him after seeing it: "Why do you still carry this kind of thing around?"
Mei Liangyu said casually: "Who doesn't carry some unexpected things on them?"
Nian Qiuyan just smiled.
He held his teacup and took another sip, listening to Mei Liangyu ask: "Do you have any impression of this Qiao Jun person?"
"First time hearing about him tonight," Nian Qiuyan said. "Want me to calculate something?"
Mei Liangyu glanced at him: "Calculate what?"
Nian Qiuyan said: "The relationship between Qiao Jun and Lan poison."
"Your master will calculate that. With Lan corpses hitting them right in the face, they can't hide it even if they want to. The academy will definitely take major action next." Mei Liangyu picked up the teapot and cup to pour water for himself. "My master will also act this time. If the old man gets orders to take action, others will be in trouble."
Nian Qiuyan nodded in agreement: "Indeed. When Saints act together, it's none of our business."
Mei Liangyu said casually: "We just need to watch the show."
After chatting for a moment, Nian Qiuyan stared at the mechanical rabbit on the table and said: "Mei Mei."
Mei Liangyu was drinking tea from his cup, glancing over with a silent inquiry about what was wrong.
"Would you consider making another rabbit to pair with this one?" Nian Qiuyan pointed at the mechanical rabbit. "Make a black one, black and white twin rabbits. It would suit you and Nangong Sui quite well. Yi Yi mentioned last time that you like her. I didn't believe it at first, but recently I think what Yi Yi said makes sense."
Mei Liangyu: "..."
This conversation was going nowhere.
He stood up: "I'm leaving."
Nian Qiuyan smiled up at him: "The rabbit."
"It's yours now," Mei Liangyu left without looking back.
After Mei Liangyu left, the smile in Nian Qiuyan's eyes gradually cooled. His fingers caressed the equally cooling teacup as he moved his eyes, slowly examining his surroundings.
Tonight's events didn't seem like something Zhang Xiangyun and the others had arranged. Besides Zhang Xiangyun's group, who else knew the Silver River Water was with him?
This person leaked information to draw out Lan poison and make Saints suspect each other and take action?
Who would want to do this?
Nian Qiuyan got up to check every room, searching the dormitory again himself, but found nothing suspicious.
He stood at the door, playing with Divine Wood Signs in his hands, looking thoughtful. Leng Rouyin had exposed Lan poison directly. Next, whether it was people at Taiyi Academy or people outside Taiyi Academy, things would probably be difficult for everyone.
Both sides would make moves.
He had already used up his three trigrams for today and could only wait until tomorrow.
……
After Yu Sui finished chatting with Xue Mushi and others about the Floating Pagoda fragment, she went to the bathroom to wash and change clothes. Compared to others' anxiety and anger, she appeared quite leisurely.
It was already late at night, and dawn would come in a few more hours.
Tonight's commotion had lasted quite a while. After Zhongli Que learned that things had ended on Yu Sui's side, she sent another voice transmission.
Yu Sui had just finished dressing and was combing her hair in the mirror when she heard Zhongli Que's voice asking: "Why aren't you resting yet?"
"The excitement from being able to transmit voice messages to you hasn't worn off yet!" Zhongli Que said happily. "Are you tired?"
Yu Sui said: "Of course I'm not tired."
Zhongli Que petted the snow flying squirrel sleeping by her bed. She knew what Yu Sui was going to do tonight, and Yu Sui hadn't hidden it from her. Now she naturally chatted with Zhongli Que about Saints discovering disciples consuming Lan poison.
"Doesn't this confirm that there's Lan poison at Taiyi Academy?" Zhongli Que said. "Where did the Lan poison come from, how did it arrive, who brought it, and who was it sold to? Taiyi Academy will have plenty to investigate."
"Unfortunately, that person died shortly after running. It won't be easy for Taiyi Academy to investigate." Yu Sui dried her hair, remembering the scene of Qiao Jun transforming into a bird and flying out, then added: "Qiao Jun possessed Divine Mechanism Art: False Beast. If I'm not mistaken, he should be responsible for Xuan Kui's message delivery, and could also transform into birds and beasts to transport Lan poison."
That's why he had never been discovered.
And Divine Mechanism Art: False Beast was most likely kept fixed within Xuan Kui's own people.
The previous person who possessed "False Beast" would have their successor take action when they were about to die, so they could continue to possess False Beast.
Hearing Yu Sui say this, Zhongli Que suddenly understood and nodded repeatedly: "Very likely! Then Qiao Jun's accidental death this time is a major loss for Xuan Kui. Will they try to get the Divine Mechanism Art back?"
Yu Sui said: "Getting Divine Mechanism Art back from Saints would be quite difficult and too troublesome."
Leng Rouyin moved too quickly. Her Five Elements Light Core couldn't keep up, so she didn't know what happened when Qiao Jun died, and the two sword energies couldn't distinguish who actually delivered the killing blow.
She also didn't know which of Leng Rouyin and Kuang Chu had obtained Divine Mechanism Art: False Beast.
If both Leng Rouyin and Kuang Chu already had Divine Mechanism Arts, then "False Beast" would disappear.
This was currently difficult to determine.
"You're right, Taiyi Academy has so many Saints." Zhongli Que realized this and quickly said to Yu Sui: "If there's danger, you must protect yourself and let the Saints fight with the Lan corpses and Xuan Kui."
Yu Sui also didn't want to get too deeply involved. She was responsible for muddying the waters and getting various factions busy.
It's just that Xuan Kui seemed to involve Chu Jin, and if Chu Jin was Qing Kui, then it might involve Nangong Ming.
Yu Sui's thoughts paused, ultimately deciding to ignore these matters for now. She would first resolve the Heavenly Character Text issue.
As for Nian Qiuyan...
Senior Brother was so smart, he would discover it himself.
Yu Sui manipulated Five Elements Light Cores, wanting to listen to how the Saints were discussing things. Previously, Saints had been scattered, gathering at most two together. With many people around and noisy environments, the Five Elements Light Cores had hidden quite smoothly without being discovered.
Now Saints were gathering together, from two or three to seven or eight. Half of Taiyi Academy's 24 Saints had already arrived, gradually entering the Legalist School's Judgment Court.
Currently, only Saints seemed to be entering, with no Thirteenth Realm instructors seen, and in such a quiet environment, Yu Sui felt the risk was too great and wasn't confident, so she didn't have the light cores follow them in.
……
Yu Sui accompanied Zhongli Que in conversation through the night until after dawn when Zhongli Que couldn't hold on anymore and fell asleep in bed.
After the transmission ended, Yu Sui's side became extremely quiet.
She separated several Five Elements Light Cores to hover in her palm, trying one by one to control the Masterless Energy within the light cores, manifesting these Masterless Energies as Nine Schools Arts.
From Eight Trigrams Living Arts to Nine Schools Arts from other schools.
Simple Eight Trigrams Living Arts were easy, but Nine Schools Arts from other schools were somewhat difficult.
Currently, the most manageable and stable for her were still Ghost Way School Nine Schools Arts.
Early that day, the first to come to Yu Sui was Wei Ren.
He couldn't wait to hand over the hot potato that was the Floating Pagoda fragment.
Yu Sui had him enter and close the door. Wei Ren placed the box on the table and opened it to show her the glowing circular fragment inside.
"I didn't dare open it to look even once last night in my room." Wei Ren sat down by the table and quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Yu Sui walked over and bent down to look. When she had previously seen the Floating Pagoda fragment through light cores, she had felt it was very gentle. The pale green light was like a flowing stream, slowly moving over the circular ring connected by broken stone pieces.
Now with the distance shortened and within her reach, that gentle aura seemed to flow into her body, making Yu Sui momentarily distracted.
Knocking at the door brought Yu Sui's attention back.
Wei Ren raised an eyebrow, looking toward the door with a silent question: Who?
Yu Sui habitually kept a Five Elements Light Core outside the door, allowing her to know in advance who was approaching.
She glanced at the scene within the light core and discovered Mei Liangyu standing outside the door, so she got up to open it.