Qi Yuanbao was already cramping so hard that he was almost vomiting fuel. He screamed, "No … It's not the Black Wind King's fault. It's all my fault …"
"It's good that you have such an understanding. It proves that your awareness is improving fast!"
Li Yao helped Qi Yuanbao's artificial body return to the normal mode in a hurry. He poked his head so hard that the iron skull was cracking. "Confess now. Are you behind all this? Or are you hiding something else? Did Blackstar the Great give you any other secret instructions?"
"No, it's not me. It's really not me!"
Qi Yuanbao cried and shouted, "I really don't know anything. I've already confessed all my arrangements in the Seven Seas Grand Market. Blackstar the Great did not give us any other secret instructions either. He only asked us to find a way to make Jin Yuyan a figurehead but not to hurt Jin Yuyan's life unless it was absolutely necessary. Even if we were to take care of Jin Yuyan, we had to wait until the battle of Seven Seas was won.
"It was my own greed that made me hasty. If Wuying Qi had given us any other secret instructions, I wouldn't have dared to attack at such a moment even if I were ten thousand times more bold!"
"It does make sense."
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao felt that with Qi Yuanbao's wisdom, he did not look like a mastermind at all. The most important thing was that the guy jumped out too early and made a lot of noise in the beginning, which did not fit the image of a dark schemer. Shouldn't a real schemer keep a low profile from the beginning to the end and be ignored by everybody even though they showed up in public all the time?
His heart tightened, Li Yao suddenly thought of someone. "Where's your sister, Wuying Qinxin?"
"I … I don't know."
Qi Yuanbao was at a loss. "She and I were imprisoned separately. It was impossible for us to communicate with each other. I don't know where she is exactly."
"Let me ask you again. This is a very critical question. You must answer me dutifully!"
"Did you come up with the whole plan to assassinate Jin Yuyan with the 'Soul Transfer Technique' first, or did your sister come up with it first?"
"About that …"
Qi Yuanbao was stunned for a long time, with uncertain waves spreading out of his soul. "I don't know."
Li Yao said in a hurry, "What do you mean by 'you don't know'? You don't know who came up with it first?"
"I was the one who proposed the completed plan first, but it was my sister who mentioned the technical feasibility, which triggered my ambition."
Qi Yuanbao Wuying Qinxin said, "Wuying Qinxin was a very good Meditation Healer was in the first place. One day, she told me excitedly that she had made a breakthrough in the training of the 'Soul Transfer Technique' and that she could swap the souls of two people's's could swap without any damage or traces.. even the experts above Yuying could even the bodies of the experts above the Yuanying stage stage stage stage. That '''s the me, '''s it it, ','s even able. it it it it's that it it..
"Wait —"
Li Yao narrowed his eyes and got to the point immediately. "You are known as' Hanged Man ', and you are the most mysterious ace assassin at the peripheral worlds of the Imperium. That's why you can practice tough soul sacrificial arts. But Wuying Qinxin has been with the Business Alliance of Ten Thousand Sectors and Jin Yuyan for the past hundred years. She is a talent in the business world. Why does she know more soul training arts than you do? Don't you share the same origin?"
"That, I don't know."
Qi Yuanbao said helplessly, "Although my sister and I both received the heritage of our family, we were separated for decades after our entire family was annihilated. It was not until we both made minor achievements that we met again. Naturally, she would not tell me everything that happened to her in the meantime, who was her master, what techniques she practiced, or even what relics and residences she went to during that time.
"We are all Immortal Cultivators. It's perfectly normal for siblings to have secrets. I didn't tell her a lot of my ultimate techniques, either!"
Li Yao couldn't have looked more awful. "In that case, why did she come to you in a hurry to tell you that she practiced the brand-new 'Soul Transfer Technique'?"
After a brief daze, Qi Yuanbao said, "That's right. Now that I think about it, it was indeed rather strange. Normally, the two of us practiced our own techniques separately. Even if we grasped some unparalleled techniques, we barely told each other. The best we could do was communicate with each other when we ran into problems or needed somebody else's protection.
"I — I didn't think too much at that time. I thought that she said it accidentally because she was too excited …"
Gritting his teeth, Li Yao said, one word after another, "Therefore, without Wuying Qinxin's breakthrough in the 'Soul Transfer Technique', your ambitions wouldn't have burst out at all, and the assassination against Jin Yuyan wouldn't have been launched at all. In other words, while you were the mastermind of the whole thing on the surface, she was actually the mastermind. You were also pushed forward by her with very delicate psychological hints!"
After a long daze, Qi Yuanbao said, "Well … Now that I think about it, maybe?"
Li Yao roared angrily, "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
With a long face, Qi Yuanbao said, "I didn't realize it myself. Besides, would the Black Wind King have believed me if I had said it earlier? Would he have thought that I was shirking all the responsibility to Wuying Qinxin so that he could excuse himself? Then, he would despise me, hate me, and torture me even more? "
Li Yao was lost for words for a moment. Taking a deep breath, he released his telepathic thoughts to search for Wuying Qinxin's place of confinement.
In order to locate the few important persons, other than leaving marks on Qi Yuanbao's artificial body, he also put a tracking collar on Wuying Qinxin's neck, which was releasing waves of a special frequency every second. Li Yao should've been able to scan the thousands of square meters nearby with a telepathic thought.
But right now, Li Yao's scanning of telepathic thoughts found absolutely nothing.
That was impossible. Li Yao's tracking collar was extremely solid, and it had just been charged with spiritual energy yesterday. Even if Wuying Qinxin had been blown into smithereens or crushed by a collapsed building, there was no reason for the tracking collar to fail.
The only possibility was that Wuying Qinxin had run away with the tracking collar. She killed all the guards around her the moment the explosion took place and left.
Li Yao cursed in his heart again, cursing himself for not having learned his lesson after suffering so many losses. A guy like Qi Yuanbao, who jumped to the surface and bared his fangs at the beginning, must've been a scapegoat or a lackey. Wuying Qinxin should've been the one who paid more attention to her when she kept such a low profile!
"I'll believe you this time, but if I find out that you're lying, I'll tear your soul apart bit by bit to go with my wine!"
Li Yao grabbed Qi Yuanbao's neck and swung him into the air. Then, he kicked the guy out of the window to a hundred meters high and sealed the guy's artificial body, allowing him to crash to the ground while screaming.
After all, the guy was a spectral Cultivator, and his artificial body was thick enough. He wouldn't be killed by the fall. The best he could do was suffer a little more.
It was the fastest way for him to get away from the burning building.
Then, Li Yao stomped on the ground and smashed all the way to the third floor, dashing to the room where Wuying Qinxin was kept.
As he expected, the corridor and the room were empty. There was nothing except for the bodies of almost ten guards. Wuying Qinxin was gone.
On one of his knees, Li Yao examined the bodies of the guards, but the more he examined, the more shocked he felt.
Those guards were not knocked out by the blast of the explosion, nor were they smashed to death by the ceiling. Instead, their skulls were blown apart, their brains exploded, and their souls shattered. They were killed instantly.
Everybody's head was shivering like a balloon that had been filled with water. Not even a part of their soul was left. Even the deities couldn't save them.
Two guards summoned the Crystal Suit in time and put it on. Even their heads were protected by the toughest helmets, but they still couldn't escape from death.
Judging from the deep, clear fist marks on the helmets, the attacker did not even wear the Crystal Suit but beat the brawny men who were wearing the Crystal Suit to death with bare hands.
Li Yao measured it with his own fist, only to discover that the fist mark on the helmet was much smaller than his own. It was obviously a woman's fist.
It was Wuying Qinxin.
Li Yao's heart sank into a bottomless abyss.
According to all the files, Wuying Qinxin was a pure Meditation Healer between admin-type and research-type Immortal Cultivator. She did not have a high combat ability.
Jin Yuyan also told Li Yao that he had barely seen his wife fight for a hundred years. Wuying Qinxin fought with her head, not her fists.
Li Yao himself had performed a thorough examination on Wuying Qinxin before she was locked up, but he did not find anything wrong with her.
If she had hypnotized the guards with the unique mental attacks of the Meditation Healers and made them kill each other, Li Yao could still understand why she did that.
However, how was it possible that she had beaten so many guards to death with her fists, and her strength even pierced through two Crystal Suits and treated the Crystal Suit as a paper shell?
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao suddenly thought of something. His face almost turned black, and he hurried to the other end of the corridor to investigate.
Before he broke into the room, he had already discovered another body in the corridor. It was a woman's body.
It was a woman with high cheekbones, surprisingly large eyes, and knee-long arms.
Her eyes were still open. Suspicion and fear filled her frozen eyes. Her mouth was wide open, as if she were about to cry out in disbelief.
However, her chest had collapsed so deeply that her spine was almost visible.
There was a tiny hole on her forehead that penetrated all the way to the back of her head. The brain tissues inside had all been burnt up by the flames of spiritual energy.
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