A delicate fragrance was also emitted. It was faint and almost undetectable, but it could not be erased. It seeped into one's lungs.
Qing Zhu took it from Zhuo Xianglian's hands and examined it. It was indeed made from a branch cut from a tree. It was almost in its original state, but it was slightly trimmed. Qing Zhu put it in front of his nose and sniffed it again. He closed his eyes and felt the extremely comfortable fragrance. He slowly opened his eyes and looked at Zhuo Xianglian expectantly. "Don't be nervous. I mean no harm. Raise your head."
The three girls raised their heads slightly. Their eyes met his face and then quickly lowered their heads. They were not nervous, but afraid!
The three of them never dreamed that they would have the opportunity to come to the legendary Heavenly Palace and meet the legendary Celestial Ruler. They knew that he was a terrifying existence, but they did not know how to face him.
Seeing this, Qing Zhu did not force them. He passed the hairpin to Shangguan Qing and the others. They took turns to look at it and took turns to smell it.
Qing Zhu stared at Zhuo Xianglian and asked, "Zhuo Xianglian, I ask you, is this really made of Undying Wood?"
Zhuo Xianglian did not know how to answer. She was so scared that she almost cried. She trembled and said, "I don't know what it is made of."
"You don't know?" Qing Zhu asked in a serious tone.
Thud. Zhuo Xianglian was so frightened that she knelt down again. Chang Hongmei and Duan Aier also knelt down with a thud.
Qing Zhu was a little speechless. He could see that it was more comfortable for the three of them to kneel, so he did not bother to let them get up again. He asked, "Then why did someone say it was Undying Wood?"
Zhuo Xianglian shook her head. This time, she really cried and said, "I don't know, I really don't know!"
Qing Zhu asked, "You don't know where this hairpin came from?"
Zhuo Xianglian said, "It was a gift from my senior."
Qing Zhu asked, "Where did your senior get it?"
Zhuo Xianglian shook her head and cried, "I don't know."
Qing Zhu's expression turned ugly when he realized that he didn't know anything. He turned around and took a few steps back. At the same time, he looked at Gao Guan and gestured for Gao Guan to come and interrogate him. After all, Gao Guan was good at this.
Gao Guan took out a Star Bell and contacted someone. Soon, several people from the Right Supervisory Department arrived and took Chang Hongmei and Duan Aier away for interrogation. Zhuo Xianglian, who was kneeling on the ground, looked left and right at her Senior Sister and Junior Sister who were being carried away.
The three women were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered. In fact, they were even worse than lambs. When they were taken away, they didn't even dare to make a sound of grievance or beg for mercy.
Gao Guan slowly walked to Zhuo Xianglian and looked down at her: "I am the supervisor of the right, Gao Guan."
The two Overseers from the Right Division, who had been left behind, each took out a jade archive to record their questions and answers.
The legendary cold-faced magistrate … Something flashed through Zhuo Xianglian's mind. She shivered and immediately kowtowed to the ground. "Milord!"
Gao Guan said, "From now on, you will answer whatever I ask you. You are not allowed to hide anything."
Zhuo Xianglian said, "Yes!"
Gao Guan asked, "What is your name? Which sect are you from?"
"My name is Zhuo Xianglian. I am a disciple of the Heaven Valley Sect."
"When did you get this hairpin?"
"Yesterday … No, it was probably the day before yesterday."
Qing Zhu and the others looked at each other. If this woman wasn't lying, then she must have gotten this hairpin not too long ago.
"Did you make it yourself, or did you buy it yourself?"
"Neither. My Senior Brother gave it to me."
"What's your Senior Brother's name?"
"Song Da."
"Why did Song Da give you this hairpin?"
"Senior Brother and I were a couple brought together by my master. Senior Brother often gives me gifts."
"Did your Senior Brother tell you where he got this hairpin from?"
"When Senior Brother went out to train, he said that he almost got lost in the Astral Wilderness. He accidentally saw a strange tree and broke off a branch to decorate it into a hairpin for me. He didn't say where he got it …"
The two of them asked and answered questions. From how they got the hairpin to Heaven's Avenue, to how they were told it was some Undying Wood, to how they escaped from Heaven's Avenue, and how they were captured, the whole process and situation were reconstructed bit by bit.
After asking all the questions, Gao Guan suddenly started from the beginning again. "What is your name? Which sect are you from?"
After a period of questioning, Zhuo Xianglian's emotions had gradually stabilized. She couldn't help but raise her head to look at him. She was a little confused. Wasn't this the same question she had asked before? However, when she met Gao Guan's cold gaze, she shivered and continued to answer honestly.
After answering all the questions once more, the members of the Right Overseer Department walked over and handed over two jade archives with the answers recorded on them to Gao Guan.
After comparing the two answers, Gao Guan found that although there were some discrepancies in the content of Zhuo Xianglian's answers, the situation was the same.
Not long after, the people who had interrogated Chang Hongmei and Duan Aier returned and handed over their interrogation records.
Gao Guan also checked the records one by one, then turned to Qing Zhu and said, "Your Majesty, what the three of them said is roughly the same. There are no discrepancies. As for the specifics, we will have to bring them back to the Right Overseer Department and slowly interrogate them in detail."
Qing Zhu nodded slightly. Gao Guan turned to his subordinates and gestured, "Bring them back to the department and interrogate them in detail."
"Yes, Your Majesty!" His subordinates acknowledged the order and immediately carried Zhuo Xianglian away.
The hairpin had already returned to Qing Zhu's hands. Qing Zhu held it in front of his nose and sniffed it. "Gao Guan, do you think they're hiding anything from us?"
Gao Guan shook his head. "At first glance, there shouldn't be any problems. Based on my experience, it doesn't seem like they're lying. From the interrogations of the other sects on the planet where Heaven Valley Sect is located, according to the people who knew these three women, their backgrounds in Heaven Valley Sect are very clean and simple. They don't have any complicated experiences. If they're really lying, then these three women aren't simple at all. If they're not lying, then that's all they know. In short, regardless of whether they're lying or not, if we want to verify this, we have to find the people from Heaven Valley Sect, especially that Song Da. "
Qing Zhu nodded.
Wu Qu said, "The crux of the problem is that all the people from Heaven Valley Sect have disappeared. Someone beat us to it and took them away."
Gao Guan said, "From what the local Mountain Deity and the Land Deity have told us, the people from Heaven Valley Sect were kidnapped after the hairpin was exposed in Sky Street. This means that no one else knew about the relationship between Heaven Valley Sect and the Undying Wood. They only found out about it after the hairpin was exposed. It seems like someone found out about the three women's background in Sky Street before we did."
Sima Wentian frowned and said, "From the situation in Sky Street, we were the ones who found out about the three women first, and we were also the ones who arrived at Heaven Valley Sect first. Even if the news was leaked at the same time, the thousands of people from Heaven Valley Sect didn't live together. They couldn't have all been kidnapped so quickly, right?"
Gao Guan said calmly, "The news might not have been leaked at the same time. Maybe someone found out about it before we did."
Everyone looked at him and Defeating Armies asked, "What do you mean?"
When it came to investigating cases, everyone trusted Gao Guan's judgment. Even Defeating Armies couldn't deny this, even though he often scolded Gao Guan for being a treacherous official!
Gao Guan said, "The reason is simple. According to the shop owner who found out about the three women's background, Heaven Valley Sect is not far from Heaven Street on Feihua Planet. The three women often go to that side of Heaven Street, so it's not surprising that someone else knew about the three women. It's entirely possible that someone found out about the three women's background before we found out about them. However, it's not easy to organize a group of people to kidnap almost a thousand people from Heaven Valley Sect so quickly. It's not something an ordinary person could do. "
Wu Qu said, "The people who arrived at Heaven Valley Sect didn't see anyone from the Xiahou family, so we suspect that it was done by them."
Gao Guan said, "Just because they weren't there doesn't mean they did it. The Xiahou family doesn't like to show off their power, so it's understandable that they weren't there. Moreover, who can guarantee that no one from the Xiahou family was there? We can only say that it's possible. Hao Defang is also possible. In terms of familiarity with the situation in the Southern Army, the Xiahou family might not be as familiar as Hao Defang, so it's very likely that they knew about the three women first. However, it's possible that both of them did it, or rather, it's possible that everyone did it. Without any clues, we can't rule out the possibility that they're all faking it. "
Everyone was silent. It was true. Hao Defang had been in the Southern Army for many years, and there were Hao Defang's people everywhere. It wasn't strange for them to know about the three women first. Hao Defang's people might be running around to cover up the truth.
Gao Guan looked at the thing in Qing Zhu's hand and said, "Now that we have the hairpin, we still need to confirm whether it's the Undying Wood or not. Everything has to be based on the fact that it's real. If it's fake, then all our efforts will be in vain."
Qing Zhu sniffed the hairpin again and said, "Shangguan, go to the Starry Temple's library and bring me the Rare Ancient Scroll."
He didn't hide someone to check it secretly, but made it clear that he wanted to make it clear in front of everyone.
"Yes!" Shangguan Qing responded and quickly left.
In less than an hour, Shangguan Qing flew back again and landed in front of them. He took out a thick book and offered it.
Under Qing Zhu's signal, Shangguan Qing flipped through the book in front of everyone. They also gathered around to look. They saw that the paper that Shangguan Qing flipped through was a little thick and seemed to be slightly elastic. It was greenish white and seemed to be made from the skin of some animal.
"Your Majesty, I found it." Not long after, Shangguan Qing shouted and brought the book in front of Qing Zhu.
On the greenish white page, there was a big tree on the snowy peak. The pictures on the page were all black lines. The colors of the pictures couldn't be distinguished, but the shape was very vivid. Although they didn't know the original shape of the tree, the leaves of the tree were still on the hairpin. When they checked, they immediately found that they were exactly the same. The leaves were in the shape of two hearts, so it was easy to recognize.
Everyone's heart jumped. They looked at each other and looked at the description below the picture.
Qing Zhu suddenly took out a dagger and cut the hairpin with force. The hairpin didn't break and was very tough. The cut was squeezed back together.
Then, they flashed out of Li Palace. Outside the palace, Qing Zhu took out a piece of Blaze Resins and burned it. He used his arts to control the size of the flame and burned one end of the hairpin. Although the temperature of the Blaze Resins was high, the hairpin was very fire-resistant. Gradually, it looked like it was burnt and smoke came out. Once the smoke came out, the delicate fragrance immediately became much stronger. The more it burned, the more fragrant it became.
Not long after, they looked at the ground around them and saw ants, bugs, and other small animals crawling out of the ground one after another, crawling toward them. Soon, birds flying past were attracted over and circled above their heads, chirping and chirping.
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