"If we can help you recover from your injuries, our battle strength will naturally increase!"
"Aren't you afraid that the culprit hiding in the passage formation will also have a chance to set up a trap for us?" Xiao Baiyu still said in a stiff tone.
Lu Ping did not mind and said in a serious tone, "Senior, have you ever thought about why there are a total of 18 formations in this passage? Is this a coincidence?"
Before Xiao Baiyu could speak, Laozu asked, "Lu Daoyou means that the culprit controlling this passage formation already knows about us and has already set up a trap for us?"
"And even if we know it's a trap, what can we do? Don't we still have to jump in?" Lu Ping did not directly answer Laozu's question. Instead, he turned to Longhuai Ancestor and asked, "What does Senior think?"
Longhuai Ancestor said, "Now it seems that when the Seventh Patriarch went to the North Sea to seize a treasure, there was most likely an internal conflict. It's just that we don't know who or which Laozu was the one who obtained the treasure in the end. It seems that the Laozu who obtained the treasure in the end did not have it easy. Otherwise, after the sky was opened, the seven Laozu would have appeared."
Guangyuan Laozu said in a strange tone, "Then why didn't the seven Laozu perish together?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Guangyuan Laozu knew he had asked a stupid question. If the Seventh Patriarch had all perished, the passage formation would not have specially set up a trap for them.
However, from the way the Heaven-splitting Ancestor had cast down the formation, he must have been greatly weakened. Otherwise, how could cultivators in the first True Spirit realm like them, who were only at the first True Spirit realm, shake the formation he cast down?
Longhuai Ancestor then said, "But no matter who benefited from the Seventh Patriarch's internal conflict, there is one thing the Old Man can be sure of. It is definitely not Jiao Daoren, and Jiao Daoren must have been destroyed in the internal conflict!"
Longhuai Ancestor's body was originally a backup plan left by Jiao Daoren. If Jiao Daoren had a bit of True Spirit, the Dragon Pagoda Tree in the secret land would not have formed its own consciousness and become the current Longhuai Ancestor.
Hearing this, Xiang Laozu's expression changed, and he tentatively asked, "Senior, who do you think is most likely?"
Longhuai Ancestor glanced at Xiang Laozu, but Xiang Laozu inadvertently looked away. Longhuai Ancestor did not care. He pondered for a moment and said, "In the Old Man's opinion, only Peng Daoren and Taoist Gui are the most likely."
"Gui Laozu?"
Xiang Laozu looked quite displeased when he heard this. "How is that possible? Among the Seventh Patriarch of Kai Tian, my Ancestor Ba Gui is the most law-abiding. He has never participated in the grievances between the other six Patriarchs. He even hid overseas and opened up a medium-sized cultivation world in the South Sea. He usually spends most of his time cultivating himself. Even when he gives lectures, he is urged by his followers again and again. With such a temperament of not stirring up trouble, if there really is an internal strife, I'm afraid that the other six Laozu Patriarchs would have already schemed against him. How could he set up such a shocking scam in the passage formation?"
Longhuai Ancestor asked with a smile, "Why are you so excited, Fellow Taoist Xiang? Could it be that you know something?"
Xiang Laozu was stunned and said, "Know what? The Old Man just doesn't want my ancestor to be the suspect in your words! "
Longhuai Ancestor laughed and said, "The Old Man is just guessing. If Fellow Taoist doesn't believe me, you can choose not to listen. Why do you have to do this?"
Xiang Laozu looked unhappy. He snorted coldly and didn't say anything else.
Longhuai Ancestor continued, "There are two reasons why the Old Man suspects Taoist Gui. Firstly, it has been more than thirty thousand years since Kai Tian was created. Among the Seventh Patriarch, if there is someone who has the longest lifespan and is most likely to have lived for more than thirty thousand years without losing his intelligence, then Taoist Gui is naturally the most likely person."
Xiang Laozu sneered and said, "If the Old Man doesn't remember wrongly, Fellow Taoist Long Huai once said that he was originally a backup left behind by Jiao Daoren. In that case, didn't he also live since Kai Tian was created?"
Longhuai Ancestor said with a serious expression, "What Fellow Taoist said is correct. However, although the Old Man's original body has lived since Kai Tian was created, the Old Man first gained intelligence more than ten thousand years after Kai Tian was created. He received the inheritance left behind by Jiao Daoren and learned to cultivate only eight or nine thousand years ago."
Xiang Laozu laughed and said, "Eight or nine thousand years? Even if Fellow Taoist said that he only learned to cultivate three thousand years ago, no one here can doubt you. "
"What's the second reason?"
A clear and beautiful voice suddenly sounded, not only interrupting Xiang Laozu's ridicule, but also causing all the True Spirit Cultivators present to look at the source of the voice in surprise.
The butterfly fairy, who had been silent since they met up in the North Ice Field, suddenly opened her mouth and asked Longhuai Ancestor at this time.
Although Xiang Laozu was angry in his heart, he didn't show it on his face. Instead, he remained expressionless and didn't speak, but his flickering eyes showed that this Tyrannical Turtle Laozu must be thinking about something unknown at this time.
"The second reason is naturally the case of Jiao Daoren being poisoned!"
Longhuai Ancestor glanced at Xiang Laozu in surprise. He didn't know why he didn't refute this time, but he still said, "There are many opinions about this case in the cultivation world, each with their own reasons and speculations. The Old Man won't say anything more. The Old Man said before that these are just some speculations of the Old Man. It's up to you whether you believe it or not."
Back then, Daoist Jiao mistakenly took a poisonous pill, leaving an eternal mystery in the cultivation world. Whether it was Daoist Jiao's own carelessness, Daoist Gui's intentional framing, or Daoist Gui's unintentional taking of the wrong pill, no one could say for sure except for the person involved. However, from Patriarch Long Huai's tone, it was clear that he was inclined to believe that Daoist Gui had deliberately framed Daoist Jiao.
If Taoist Gui really intended to frame Ji Hao, then he was clearly not as lazy and aloof as he appeared to be. Instead, he was also a scheming, black-bellied man with other plans in mind.
This time, unexpectedly, Xiang Laozu didn't refute. Since the beginning of the cultivation world, there had been no conclusion about the poisonous pill. Obviously, Xiang Laozu didn't want to waste his breath on it.
"Peng Daoren is needless to say. He was the strongest among the Seventh Patriarch when the Seventh Patriarch was created. Naturally, he had the highest chance of surviving the internal strife of the Seventh Patriarch. Moreover, Peng Daoren is even more likely to be the mastermind behind the scenes than Taoist Gui!"
Longhuai Ancestor added, "The most obvious one is the Yuwen family, which was destroyed by the Old Man himself. This family was the only one among the human race that claimed to have the direct bloodline of the Seventh Patriarch. Moreover, they inherited the bloodline of thunder, which could not become a real spirit in this world. Indeed, only Peng Daoren was capable of inheriting this bloodline."
"However, the reason why the Old Man finally believed in the Yuwen family was that when the Mara disaster broke out, the Old Man was traveling in the cultivation world with the secret skill of external incarnation. He found that the Mara family was actually closely related to the secret skill of puppetry that Peng Daoren was best at."
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