23 A Lot Of Doubts Reveal The Chaos (2/2)

The man went on, “First of all, the witnesses said that they had seen Ye Xiao knock down Mu Chengbai. It is weird because it is impossible that Ye Xiao has the capability to do so.

So I checked the body of Mu Chengbai and found that… his dantian was wounded. But we all know that it was the hit on his back that took his life; it was a very clean hit…

So what happened to his dantian is suspicious. It is obvious… that someone had blocked his dantian, that’s why Ye Xiao could knock him down… Whoever blocked his dantian is absolutely a world-class elite cultivator!”

“A world-class elite cultivator…” The Crown Prince murmured as he paced around and nodded, “What else?”

“Yes, your highness. When Mu Chengbai was chasing after Ye Xiao,Ye Xiao didn’t get very far. He hid behind some street debris after he turned around a corner, and when he saw Lord Mu and the two guards run by, he immediately went home. There are a lot of witnesses to this occurrence…”

It seemed like Ye Xiao had somehow mislead the spectators to believe in his escape which had clearly worked.

The Crown Prince frowned, feeling increasingly puzzled by these developments.

The man in black continued, “But Lord Mu hadn’t noticed this. So he ran all the way to the ‘a hill, a forest and a lake’ which is where he and his two guards were killed. There are still a lot of unknown factors. I can’t quite figure it out yet.”

The Crown Prince nodded, “What?”

“The fatal wounds on the three of them are all very clean… The two guards were cut at the same time, and the wrist of one guard was completely broken. From this, I concluded that the murderer seized the sword from one of the guards and killed both of the guards at the same time! It is absolutely not a move that could be performed by an ordinary cultivator. Even a man who has reached the top of the Earth Origin Realm is incapable of doing this. The murderer is more like…” The man in black hesitated for a second and said, “…like an actual swordmaster… A sword master of the Sky Origin Stage!”

The man in black felt cold sweat dripping down his back as he spoke out the last few words.

The Crown Prince raised his eyebrows and looked up, “A swordmaster of the Sky Origin Stage… Are you sure?”

“Yes, your highness.” The man in black lowered his head.

The Crown Prince was silent for a while, and then he spoke, “So… This all had nothing to do with Ye Xiao?”

The man in black hesitated slightly before he answered, “It is uncertain.”

“If there is a third force that got to Cheng-Bai, to whom does it belong? For what reason did they kill him?” The Crown Prince asked as he was absorbed in these thoughts; within his voice, a strong sense of horror could be discerned. The man in black quietly listened to the Crown Prince and humbly stood aside.

The Crown Prince was just talking to himself. He didn’t want any answers for the question. And the man in black didn’t dare to answer it.

There were too many variables and uncertainties in this whole ordeal.

With half-closed eyes, the Crown Prince calmly ordered, “Start from Ye Xiao. Move the investigation along from there…”

“Yes, your highness.”

“Anything else you might be working on… should be suspended.”

The Crown Prince turned around elegantly, flicked the sleeves of his bright yellow robe and left calmly.

But the man in black was extremely nervous. He had been following the Crown Prince for many years now, so he knew him better than anyone else. When the Crown Prince showed an unusually calm attitude, his heart would, in fact, resemble a raging inferno!

He had already deeply etched this into his mind.

But he couldn’t understand why the Crown Prince had told him to suspend all his other cases.

The man in black felt cold sweat dripping on his back. He clearly understood that it was very possible that in the near future, endless amounts of blood would dye the sky and land of his beloved capital dark red!

There were also words that he didn’t dare to tell the Crown Prince – Even though Ye Xiao might not be the one to have taken Mu Chengbai’s life, this didn’t make the investigation any easier. Besides the other princes, there were also another eight noble clans that would be very happy to see Mu Chengbai’s early demise.

But all the man in black could do was to keep these words deep inside his heart.

…

At this moment, Ye Xiao was sitting cross-legged as he carefully started to feel the change and increase of the spiritual qi inside his dantian. This was something he enjoyed very much because it gave him an intense feeling of getting stronger. As a matter of fact, this was a feeling every cultivator would crave for!

While Ye Xiao was enjoying this wonderful feeling, the steward quietly entered his room and made a gentle cough.

Ye Xiao opened his eyes at once and asked, “What is it?”

The steward was very surprised when he saw Ye Xiao sitting in a cultivating pose. He then said, “My lord, there is one thing that needs your affirmation.”

“What?” Ye Xiao frowned.

“Was it you who killed Mu Chengbai?” The steward looked at Ye Xiao as he asked directly.

This question, which was asked with such a peaceful tone, really stunned Ye Xiao.

Every time Ye Xiao met this steward, he found him more and more mysterious; he was truly an interesting fellow. He was definitely not a simple man!