Chapter 540 - The Candle Dragon Cult (1/2)

Liu Xuan was extremely prudent in doing things. These elders were watched separately, and their disciples were detained in isolation.

On the way, Lin Mengya asked and learned that Liu Xuan had brought 3,000 people.

“I, a lowly official, came with the emperor’s order. The emperor guessed that some people in the Pavilion of Herbs might harm you and the prince, so the emperor ordered me to come to the rescue with the Imperial Guards.”

Lin Mengya nodded. “With amazing wit, Cousin Chen has been devising strategies in the dark for a long time. The reason why he hasn’t appeared now should be that he has other things to do.”

“How did you know that Liu Xuan would bring people here, Mengya?”

These people took a short rest and reorganized a bit in the yard.

Liu Xuan had left a squad of soldiers to protect them from being harassed by anyone.

If there were no others, Long Tianyu would naturally show his puzzle with a question.

“In fact, I just had some hunches. Besides, Xiu could come in easily, so I think that was a signal to me from Cousin Chen.”

The Pavilion of Herbs was no ordinary place. In normal times, a foreigner like Xiu could not go through its gate easily, let alone coming to live in it.

But Xiu not only came in but also brought people here to deliver things.

This further proved that her cousin was about to deal with the Pavilion of Herbs, so a few planted agents that had not been exposed previously had gradually gone public now.

But Nan Rui and his companions still focused on struggling to get the Chief Elder’s qualification.

To their surprise, today’s ruling of the Pavilion of Herbs had changed dramatically.

“What are you going to do next?”

Standing in front of Lin Mengya, Long Tianyu asked softly.

Now Zuo Qiuchen had arranged everything, and Lin Mengya could naturally follow the trend to do things.

But those troublemakers who concocted the Immortal Powder had fled. This was great trouble.

“Of course, I’ll interrogate these damn old men. Since we found the people in the backyard of the Pavilion of Herbs, it must have something to do with them.”

Once this matter was mentioned, Lin Mengya felt quite angry.

She had fully thought that she could find the traces of the other party through this surprise attack, but she hadn’t expected that she had still been a bit slower.

It seemed that she had never won completely since she had the contest of strength with that mysterious force.

Unexpectedly, her desire to win had been stimulated.

“But have you thought that they were left maybe because they don’t know about the inside information?”

Long Tianyu was calmer than Lin Mengya was, so he began comforting her in turn.

She definitely knew that the disposition of her opponents showed that they would have killed the four guys a long time ago if they knew the inside information.

“By the way, there is also Xiu. You should hurriedly send people to track down and arrest Xiu in the whole city. This time they could give up the Pavilion of Herbs, but perhaps they didn’t run away in a panic!”

Lin Mengya suddenly realized it. “The move of Liu Xuan and Cousin Chen must have been quite secretive. Even if the other party had gotten the information in advance, how could they have been able to withdraw a few days ago? Unless—the formula of the Immortal Powder has been completely found through testing.”

As she shrank her pupils slightly, Lin Mengya realized that if the Immortal Powder’s formula had truly been completely perfected, then it might be more and more difficult for her to stop them again.

If so, it was easy to explain everything.

Previously, it should be this mysterious organization that had gone to the members of the Pavilion of Herbs.

They had asked these people to cover them by providing them with martial arts or financial resources.

Then, the Pavilion of Herbs had become the delivery reservoir of medical talents of that force.

That force had then become the protection net of the members of the Pavilion of Herbs.

She guessed that Nan Rui and his companions had probably just wanted to rely on the power of that force to take the Chief Elder’s position in the end.

Since they had now accomplished their work, naturally there was no need to let the Pavilion of Herbs, their drag, continue to exist.

Moreover, the person behind the scenes must have predicted that Zuo Qiuchen’s patience with the Pavilion of Herbs had reached the limit!

In this case, Zuo Qiuchen could sort out the awful mess for him.

Besides, restrained by the Pavilion of Herbs, Zuo Qiuchen was sure to have no energy to find out the person behind the scenes.

When he realized it, the force would have re-concealed itself for a long time.

What a great scheme! It could even toy with the monarch of a kingdom.

“Huh, it turns out to be like this. Its strategy was perfectly coherent. I deserve the failure.”

Lin Mengya was never a person who would go to extremes.

A failure was nothing so serious, and she just needed to win next time.

That force had done it perfectly, but unfortunately, nothing is flawless in the world.

“Long Tianyu, leave the affairs here to Liu Xuan to handle. Let’s pack and go home in a few days.”

Suddenly, Lin Mengya didn’t want to interrogate the four elders anymore.

Instead, she looked at Long Tianyu with a little relaxed smile.

“You—OK, I listen to you.”

His confusion only existed for a moment.

Seeing that Lin Mengya’s eyes brightened again, Long Tianyu knew that this girl had thought it through.

“OK, you people and Liu Xuan tackle the affairs here first. Let me and Xiu go outside, but we’ll be back soon.”