The Aloof Lord's Mysterious Wife-Chapter 924: Gaining Everything Without Effort

After speaking, Siheng quickly performed a hand gesture around Nanli’s body.

The unpleasant smell was blocked.

Nanli instantly felt much better.

With her nose relieved, the lingering bloodiness didn’t seem so bad to her eyes.

Siheng breathed a sigh of relief.

The two stood together, naturally holding hands.

The sunlight bathed them.

A perfect pair.

Ximen Chuan, witnessing the scene, narrowed his gaze slightly.

At that moment, Yun Jianchu hurried forward, staring at the disciple.

"Was it you who leaked the information?!"

The disciple only had his spine intact, and after glancing at Yun Jianchu, he quickly lowered his head, too lazy to respond.

Yun Jianchu was fuming with anger.

Was he looking down on her?

It was time for Siheng to step in, saying, "If you don’t want to suffer, speak up clearly."

The disciple remembered how ruthless Siheng had been earlier, and his heart trembled.

He knew that if he didn’t cooperate, it wouldn’t be so easy to die.

Before he could think it through, Siheng had already gathered his spiritual whip.

The disciple panicked and shouted, "I’ll talk! I’ll talk!"

Siheng stopped.

The disciple immediately admitted that he had earned Qingwu’s trust all along but had never revealed it, with the goal of observing which elders and disciples at Jialan Celestial Mountain were dissatisfied.

He had done his job well.

Those without true talent and loyalty to Qingwu had mostly been secretly executed.

Later, Qingwu had renovated several buildings at Jialan, tampering with the roof tiles to set up listening talismans, allowing him to overhear conversations at any time to keep things under control.

The reason he had Shang Jue’s communication spell was that Qingwu had once taken him to meet someone, and sometimes he acted as a messenger.

It was also him who reported tonight’s events.

He hadn’t expected Shang Jue to come straight to Jialan and cause such a ruckus.

That’s when he realized Qingwu was dead, and he tried to leave Jialan Celestial Mountain in a hurry, only to find that the protective array had already been changed.

He couldn’t escape!

And Shang Jue didn’t care about his life!

That’s how everything had unfolded.

Yun Jianchu laughed loudly three times, feeling victorious.

She turned to the others and said, "Did you all hear that?!"

Bai Hao said, "Then it seems we misunderstood Master Yun."

Ximen Chuan, however, kept his focus on Yun Yubai, "But when we were in the room, who mentioned Nanli’s body containing a Demon Soul? This disciple has been at Jialan Celestial Mountain all along, and he should have no idea about it! Don’t let yourselves be fooled—what we really need to investigate is this matter!"

Everyone present had a connection with Nanli and had received her help.

Hearing this, they all calmed down and turned their attention to Yun Yubai and the Crimson Glow Peak Master.

Even Siheng’s eyes had a cold glint.

The only ones who knew about the Demon Soul in Nanli’s body, aside from Cinian, were these three, making it hard to clear their suspicions.

Yun Yubai frowned, stepped forward, and said calmly, "You can investigate my memories."

Ximen Chuan responded, "Investigating memories isn’t always effective."

Qingwu had already extracted his memories in advance; didn’t that mean they couldn’t do anything about it?

Yun Jianchu looked at Nanli for help, "You know my son’s nature—how could you not?"

Nanli was helpless, "Actually, before this, I had only met Master Yun once."

But she already had a plan, so she turned to the disciple and asked, "When you relayed messages to Shang Jue, did he say anything strange?"

The disciple knew that Nanli’s methods were even more ruthless. Everyone from Penglai Island had been torn apart by her.

He quickly thought back, "Yes... yes! When they attacked Jialan and Penglai Island earlier, they kept asking me if the Vajra Umbrella from Penglai Island no longer had any demonic energy."

Siheng immediately seized on the key point, "Just like with Crimson Nine Lands, they must have known about Celestial Emperor Yining’s plan from that event. Their questions were to confirm that Yun Jianchu was no longer in the Vajra Umbrella’s secret realm."

That’s why they spared Qiao Nanyi’s life, using him to carry Shang Jue’s Demon Soul.

Nanli nodded, "Exactly. Even the big fool from Crimson Nine Lands guessed it, so they must have figured it out too. As long as they had the information and made the right inferences, they could deduce that Cinian and I brought the Demon Soul with us when we left the secret realm."

So, there was no need for anyone to leak information.

After all, Yun Yubai and the others had only just learned of this and had been busy escaping, with no time to spread it.

As for Cinian... she trusted him completely.

However...

She still felt that something was off.

But she couldn’t figure it out, so she decided to set it aside for the time being.

It was clear that the two weren’t planning to continue investigating the matter.

Ximen Chuan hadn’t expected them to let it go so easily, and immediately protested, "This matter is not so simple. If you let it go like this, it’s like seeking your own destruction!"

Nanli calmed him down, "It’s not that we’re not investigating. Let’s set it aside for now; finding my Glassy Bottle is more important."

She then turned back to the disciple, "I suppose you’re Qingwu’s confidant. You received his orders and took his extracted memories. You know where the Glassy Bottle is, don’t you?"

The disciple hadn’t mentioned this before.

But now that Nanli brought it up, his face stiffened.

He thought he still had an escape route, but the protective array had already blocked his way.

He didn’t hide anything, "Yes, I know."

Nanli was overjoyed, "This really is a case of ’fortune from misfortune.’ If you hadn’t informed Shang Jue and caused a ruckus, you wouldn’t have exposed yourself so quickly."

Finding Qingwu’s confidant among so many people had never been easy.

The disciple tugged at his lips, feeling helpless.

"Master... Venerable Master had kept the Glassy Bottle for his own life-preservation, but now it’s done... done to this point, and you’re still willing to kill him without hesitation..."

Venerable Master, you were indeed clever, but you underestimated how much Nanli hated you.

Nanli didn’t care about his address, saying, "Where is the memory of this?"

Given Qingwu’s personality, he wouldn’t have allowed the disciple to directly receive it.

Even a confidant would be carefully guarded.

The disciple didn’t answer immediately, "I only hope that after you get this memory, you’ll... you’ll let the Celestial Sovereign... end me quickly. Don’t torture me anymore..."

This was his final request.

The only one he had.

It was simply too painful.

To Siheng, it was nothing, and he agreed, "Fine, as long as you don’t try any tricks."

The disciple didn’t dare.

He immediately said, "My hairpin..."

Without Nanli needing to act, Siheng had already used his spiritual whip to pull the wooden hairpin from the disciple’s hair.

It fell into his hand, and it seemed ordinary at first glance.

But it was clearly made with great care by Qingwu.

Siheng examined it, confirmed it wasn’t poisoned, and found a sealing spell inside. His expression softened, "Do you want me to do it, or shall I let you?"

"I’ll do it," Nanli replied.

Siheng didn’t refuse, raising his hand to break the spell on the hairpin, and a wisp of smoke escaped.

Nanli was quick, summoning a talisman to capture the smoke, guiding it into her forehead.

The memory was vivid.

Nanli closed her eyes, experiencing that memory firsthand.

But the more she went through it, the more her brow furrowed, and finally, she cursed aloud, "Damn Qingwu!"