As Sima Tianyuan was being questioned, Qiu Qianqiu had already raised his hand, using a mighty force to draw Sima Tianyuan’s heavy sword from outside the gate straight into his hand.
In his gaze cast towards Sima Tianyuan, there was a sharpness like a knife and a covert intent to kill.
Others like Wang Shouyi, Shen Zhimou, and more, had directly flashed to block the entrance, not giving Sima Tianyuan any chance to escape.
They all knew that Sima Tianyuan’s words were rely pretexts. Just based on the evidence that Li Xuan had produced, it was enough to convict this Xiaowei Sima.
The Liudao Division eliminates evil spirits, should they also have to question why these evil spirits wreak havoc in the world and what motives they might have?
"This is a docunt that my subordinate, Yue Qianqian, found from the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing."
Li Xuan raised another volu in his hand: "It was from twenty-five years ago when Sima Tongxuan, your current father, adopted you and renad you Sima Tianyuan. Twenty-five years ago, your parents lost their son due to so circumstances, and decided to adopt and raise you who was only four years old at the ti."
"Before this, your na was Fang Tianyuan, a descendant of Minister Fang Xiaoru from the Jianling Era. Fang Xiaoru was annihilated with his nine familial exterminations in the olden days, only his cousin Fang Xiaofu was spared as he was in the military at the ti and granted amnesty by Emperor Taizong, thus his descendants escaped. Your generation of the Fang family is down to rely you. I still do not know why you created the explosion and rescued Xue Wuya and the others, but I presu it has sothing to do with this?"
Upon hearing these words Sima Tianyuan was slightly stunned, afterwards, he beca silent. His face no longer held a smile and his expression gradually darkened.
"Aside from this, during these three days, I visited around and discovered that ever since you, Sima Tianyuan, entered office, nearly all of your salary has been donated to several orphanages outside the city. But I have visited these places, while they claim to be caring for all the orphans of the city, all they actually take care of are the elderly and weak descendants of the servile class."
As Li Xuan said this, his expression was incredibly complex: "Furthermore, you claid that the blueprint of the Zhenyao Tower was far-fetched, but is it really? Your uncle Gu Hong is dead, but there are still three other master craftsn of the Mo who were involved in the project alive, and I visited two of them."
One of them told that your uncle Gu Hong loved you dearly in the past and often praised you in front of them, saying that you had photographic mory when it cos to blueprints. No matter how complex the blueprint, you Sima Tianyuan, could recreate it faithfully with just one look. During their construction of the model for the renovation of the Zhenyao Tower’s waterway, you often ca and went."
At this ti, even the blind elderly man’s face gradually began to change.
At first, he absolutely didn’t want to believe it, but as Li Xuan’s words laid it all out one by one, the elderly man’s gaze when looking at Sima Tianyuan gradually revealed a heartfelt sorrow.
"So it is to say, it was Sima Tianyuan who pretended to be Aunt Lin that night and, while Lei Yun was away from the altar, entered, planted the explosives and God-fire Talisman? Li Xuan, can you explain to in detail the whole course of his cri before and after it happened?"
"Understood, sir!"
Li Xuan bowed to the Fumo Zongguan, and then looked around at everyone present: "Xiaowei Sima’s prison break plan wasn’t a spur of the mont decision, it began being prepared one and a half months ago, shortly after Xue Wuya was imprisoned. From that mont, Xiaowei Sima deliberately began arresting snake demons and smuggling in sulfur from the main arsenal. Three days before the case occurred, Sima Tianyuan and Aunt Lin had already made the gunpowder and God-fire Talisman, part of which had already been delivered to the top level on the 17th of September.
"But it’s worth ntioning that in his initial plan, he never thought of using the sewer, instead, he planned to directly break through the outer wall of the third floor after the ’Zhenhun Pillar’ and Array stopped working. He deliberately moved a ’Mountain-Drill Demon’ from the ninth house level to the third floor for this purpose. Beside the ’Mountain-Drill Demon’ cell, there was also an equally powerful evil spirit, the ’Sanling Child’. The forr could break through mountains and shatter rocks, the latter could dissolve spiritual power, and could turn the spiritual power contained in the protective runes on the outer wall to nothing."
At this point, Li Xuan took out a piece of paper from his sleeve: "This is a dispatch order issued by Xiaowei Sima himself, reassigning a ’Mountain-Drill Demon’, originally located on the thirty-second floor, to the third floor of the Zhenyao Tower, under the pretense of assisting with an investigation. However, due to Deputy Hall Master Qiu’s unexpected decision to imprison Xue Wuya and others in the black water cell, Xiaowei Sima had to change his plan unexpectedly."
"But for Xiaowei Sima, this was not a disadvantage, but a great advantage. Demons and evil spirits are uncontrollable, but compared to the floor where Xue Wuya and others were located, the black water cell provided them with stronger and more nurous experts to use. Xiaowei Sima could also further avoid suspicion."
"On the night of the incident, Sima Tianyuan disguised himself as Aunt Lin and entered the Zhenyao Tower. He first used a pre-prepared letter to distract Lei Yun, and then took advantage of al delivery to bring the gunpowder to the bottom floor. After that, he returned to the first sub-floor. After the explosion occurred, he worked to unlock the Zhenyuan Nail for Shenhui, Xue Wuya, and others, and personally opened the waterway for them, facilitating their escape."
Li Xuan turned his head again and looked at Sima Tianyuan: "Xiaowei Sima, am I correct?"
Sima Tianyuan’s gaze at Li Xuan was complex. He stared at Li Xuan for a long ti before responding with a question: "Since when did you start suspecting ?"
"Right after that attack!"
Li Xuan responded indifferently, showing no expression: "My Shenpo is stronger and more sensitive than ordinary people. At that ti, I sensed that you, General Sima, had murderous intent towards . It was then that I realized I might have fallen into a trap. If I’m not mistaken, your appearance that day was originally ant to assist the assassins in killing , but my Shen Kui Lei Yin was beyond your expectation, so you had to change your strategy, right?"
That day, he indeed detected a slight anomaly.
But the reason Li Xuan suspected Sima Tianyuan was because of the red-dressed female ghost. At the ti, the ghost had already appeared from the tripod, disseminating countless blood threads and floating ribbons.
This was very strange, given the circumstances at the ti, Li Xuan and the others had already turned danger into safety, and Sima Tianyuan’s tily arrival had only helped their cause.
However, the red-dressed ghost still erged from the tripod, assuming a battle stance facing Sima Tianyuan’s direction.
The only reason was that she had been forced by Sima Tianyuan’s killing intent.
"Also, the unsuccessful encirclent in the east of Jiaozi Mountain last ti, of course, was partly due to the power of our Liudao Division. But you, Sima Tianyuan, could reasonably be accused of leaking information. According to Zhonglangjiang Wang’s arrangent, there was no need for you to take the risk of infiltrating the heartland of those evil cultivators of the Maitreya Teaching all by yourself."
The blind old man’s face filled with sorrow and pain as he heard this: "Tianyuan, I want to know if this is true, and if so, why?"
"Why? Isn’t this question from the Zongguan a joke?"
Sima Tianyuan let out a cold laugh, he raised his head, revealing his high spirits, "This great Jin Dynasty treats people like cattle, leaving them no room for survival, can we still expect these cattle-like people not to rebel?"
"But you are not a low-born anymore, your father Sima Tongxuan loves you so much, he even did not hesitate to use his connections to manipulate the Hucao of Yingtian Governnt and distort your records. If it wasn’t for the fact that the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing kept a backup, I would have almost failed to find out."
This was Yue Qianqian. As soon as her words ca out, she blushed under the gaze of everyone around her.
However, during the previous investigation process, Yue Qianqian had indeed accumulated too many questions that she needed to vent.
"My parents indeed bestowed great kindness upon !" Sima Tianyuan gave Yue Qianqian a surprised sideways glance and then laughed bitterly, "But as Li Xuan said, I have an excellent mory and rember everything that happened before I was four years old.
At that ti, my biological mother and father had already died, leaving to fend for myself alone. I was living in hell. Even the beggars were having a better life than . Only thanks to the support of my fellow low-borns did I not starve to death on the streets. That bitterness, it seeped into my bones, I will never forget it."
"Naturally, I can continue to be Sima Tianyuan, ’Xiaowei’ of the Demon Slaying, and even future ’Fumo Zhonglangjiang’. But so things, so people, are not so easy to let go of, girl! Should I just enjoy my wealth and honor, and watch them continue to sink into the abyss, unable to transcend generation after generation?"
"I can use my own salary to help so people in Nanjing, but how many low-born children in the whole south Zhili and across the Yangtze River are experiencing the sa situation as I did before I was four? As a human being, one must not forget their roots!"
Yue Qianqian was speechless for a mont, while Li Xuan’s eyes dimd, his face cold.
At this ti, Qiu Qianqiu had already stepped forward to Sima Tianyuan: "Absurd! The ’not forgetting roots’ you speak of ans colluding with evil cultivators, causing chaos in Nanjing? The blood sacrifice case on Jiangjun Mountain, caused by Xue Wuya, resulted in hundreds of innocent children from nine families losing their lives. Shenhui’s Maitreya Teaching doctrines deceived people’s hearts, causing countless families to be broken and lives to be lost. Regardless of the other evil cultivators you let escape, every one of them committed nurous bloodshed cris."
He stared at Sima Tianyuan, his hands gradually gathering ’Juemie’ power: "Do you prefer to give in or should I make a move?"
"You’re right, I, Sima Tianyuan, indeed have committed monstrous cris."
Sima Tianyuan showed no fear or hesitation, standing firm against Qiu Qianqiu’s gaze: "If I can’t find what I want in the right path, I will seek it in the evil path! If heaven wants to oppress , then I will overturn heaven! If the earth wants to bind , then I will shatter this earth. If people won’t tolerate , I will take sides with the demons."
"Foolish madness!" A hint of coldness flashed in Qiu Qianqiu’s eyes. Then, with a raise of his hand, the atmosphere in the hall shifted, and two dragon-like black flas, from left to right, crisscrossed towards Sima Tianyuan.
At this ti, a layer of black vapor was already swirling around Sima Tianyuan’s body, keeping those black flas with ’Juemie’ power at bay. At the sa ti, black threads spread around him, his montum fierce as a demon.
"It’s impossible for to give in before fulfilling my wishes!"
Luo Yan, standing next to Li Xuan, slightly opened her eyes: "He has broken through to The Fourth Gate, entering the tenth house level."
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