Shi Fengchen squinted his eyes and said to him, "I don't know what you are talking about."
He didn't understand why the other party was so sure that he was involved in this matter.
"Last night, I calculated all kinds of possibilities, but I couldn't get an accurate result because of a certain variable."
Jing Jiu said, "But I think you should be involved in this matter."
Shi Fengchen squinted his eyes even more, and said with a mocking tone, "How can you barge in and question me, an official of the Imperial Court? How can you make a decision based on mere speculation? Does Immortal Master Jing Jiu also play chess like this? "
"Yes," Jing Jiu said.
Shi Fengchen sneered, but didn't say anything.
Jing Jiu said, "It's not speculation anymore. Your breathing, heartbeat, voice, and other reactions all indicate that you are involved in this matter."
Shi Fengchen's pupils shrank.
"Including this reaction," Jing Jiu said.
It was very quiet in the small courtyard.
Two skinny chickens crowed once in a while, but their clucking sounds were very listless.
Shi Fengchen remained silent for a long time.
Then, he stood up from behind the table, tidied up his official robe, and said, "Yes, I am the mastermind of this matter."
His tone was very indifferent, and his expression was much calmer.
Without waiting for Jing Jiu to ask more questions, he said directly, "The assassin of Bulao Lin was hired by me. The middleman was in a small tavern, but he should have escaped by now. If there is anything unexpected, it is that I didn't expect the assassin of Bulao Lin to be an elder of Zhongzhou School. I'm pretty sure that this wasn't the intention of Zhongzhou School. I even started to suspect that I was used by Bulao Lin. You should understand what I mean. "
Even the most cowardly of criminals would not be able to explain their problems so neatly.
Shi Fengchen's calmness gave off a weird feeling.
Jing Jiu didn't feel anything, because he didn't care. He said, "You are still worried about the internal strife of the Orthodox Sects and the instability of the Imperial Court. It seems that you are a loyal official."
"Not really. I just don't want to implicate too many innocent people."
Shi Fengchen raised his head and said proudly, "I am different from you. Though we are all cultivators, I have never practiced the Heartless Path."
Jing Jiu didn't pay attention to what he was trying to convey through his gestures, saying, "Tell me the person who instigated you."
Shi Fengchen sneered, "There's no mastermind. It's just that I want her dead, and you know it very well. Otherwise, you wouldn't have come to me."
Jing Jiu said, "If Wei Chenzi is Bulao Lin's man, you won't be able to invite him."
Shi Fengchen's expression changed slightly, but soon returned to normal, remaining silent.
Jing Jiu said, "I know it's Jing Xin."
Shi Fengchen's sleeves trembled slightly.
He did not understand how the other party could say the answer with such certainty.
"You don't have any proof. Even if you know the Soul-Searching Technique of the deviant sects, you can only get nonsense, which can't be accepted."
He looked at Jing Jiu and said with a stern expression, "Even if the scene just now was recorded by the Retrograde Pearl of the Aoyama Sect, it still can't be accepted, because there's no sound."
In the world, only the Retrieved Heavenly Pearl of the Zhongzhou School could have the ability to perfectly record the scene and sound.
Such a treasure couldn't be in the hands of a young disciple of the Aoyama Sect.
Jing Jiu said, "So you don't worry because you don't have any proof."
Shi Fengchen said, "That's right."
Jing Jiu said, "I don't need proof to do things."
Shi Fengchen said after a moment of silence, "You Cultivators have always been like this. I'm not surprised."
Jing Jiu took a step forward.
Shi Fengchen said, "It looks like I'm going to die for sure. Before I die, do you want to know why I only want Zhao Layue dead, but I've never worried about you?"
Last night in front of the Zhao Manor House, when Shui Yue Nunnery and Mo Xi said something similar, Jing Jiu didn't listen, but he stopped walking today.
"It's because I've studied you, and I've found that you are different from Zhao Layue. You have no interest in this world, and you're extremely indifferent."
Shi Fengchen said, "Most people might think that people like you are heartless, but only the officials of the Pure Heaven Bureau like us know that a Cultivation practitioner like you is not harmful to the world. But Zhao Layue is different. She is still full of passion and love for this world, and she thinks she can change it."
Jing Jiu understood what he meant, and then thought of those young people mentioned by Bai Zao last night, saying, "There are many young Cultivation practitioners like her."
Shi Fengchen said, "That's right, but those young Cultivation practitioners are not as easy to kill as she is."
Jing Jiu didn't say anything.
"I'm wary of the Cultivation practitioners, because your strength is too great. Any random move of yours could be a disaster for the mortals."
Shi Fengchen stared into his eyes and said, "Zhao Layue is not afraid of killing people, and she will kill people at all costs to practice her Dao. This is the biggest disaster."
If he was the one being criticized, Jing Jiu wouldn't pay any attention to it, but it was Zhao Layue who was being criticized, so he wanted to say a few words on her behalf.
"All the people Zhao Layue killed were evil people."
Shi Fengchen sneered, "Let's not talk about whether the standard of good and evil should be determined by you Cultivation practitioners. Even if all the people she killed were evil people and demons, is that considered a good deed? Back when you and Zhao Layue killed a few thugs of a brothel in Shangzhou, I've already figured out why you did it. A Cultivation practitioner with a high status waved his hand while passing by, and you changed the miserable life of an ordinary person? Do you think you can save that little girl by doing that? Do you know what kind of miserable life that little girl is living now? It's not a good deed, it's just to satisfy your desire to save the world. Hypocritical, disgusting! "
Jing Jiu said calmly, "Yes, I told her that at the time. What about you? Did you do anything after you learned about it? "
The smile on Shi Fengchen's face faded away.
Jing Jiu said, "If you did something, that little girl should thank you; if not, you shouldn't be blamed, just like Zhao Layue."
Shi Fengchen said after a long silence, "Maybe you're right. I'm just too afraid of her."
"What are you afraid of?" asked Jing Jiu.
"I'm afraid that she will become the second Taiping Zhenren."
Shi Fengchen said in a trembling voice, "You probably don't understand why I said that. All you need to know is … it's too miserable, the human world is too miserable."
Jing Jiu fell silent.
Of course he knew that.
Back then, no one in the human world heard the war drums.
Peace. Only peace remained.
Complete silence.
It was extremely dreadful.
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Last night, Bai Zao said that she had a feeling that someone wanted to assassinate Zhao Layue to force the Orthodox Sects to attack Bulao Lin in advance, and then gain some benefits from it. Compared to Shi Fengchen's worry that Bulao Lin wanted to instigate a war between the two leading Orthodox Sects by assassinating Zhao Layue, this was a more far-fetched thought.
But she could only think of the Underworld, because of the existence of the Soul-Fire.
But Jing Jiu thought even further, putting his sight directly between the human race and the Underworld.
It was because he was familiar with this smell.
It was the smell of a silent conspiracy that could kill thousands of people.
It was what someone was best at.
Today, he came directly to Shi Fengchen's house, trying to find some traces.
When Shi Fengchen asked him to say his last words, he listened in silence for the same reason.
But up until now, Shi Fengchen hadn't mentioned that person, not even the words related to it.
He stared into Shi Fengchen's eyes and said, "Did anything different happen before and after you had this thought?"
Shi Fengchen shook his head, revealing a smile on his face, saying, "I only hope that there will be a different world in the future."
Having said that, he sat back on the chair.
Several streams of black blood flowed out from his eyes and nostrils.
He stopped breathing.
He had broken his meridians, and at the same time, chewed the poison that he had hidden.
Looking at the corpse on the chair, Jing Jiu remained silent for a while, then turned around and left the room.
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