Flying Clouds in Another World

"Switched? Humph! The secret book might have been swapped with the crystal! I got reliable information that the Heavenly Demon Sect cheated you of a crystal worth more than a thousand taels of gold in order to obtain this Heavenly Rank Secret Book! Well! Let's see how many crystals you received from this Heavenly Demon Sect spy!" Captain Chen said with a cold face and no emotion. As he spoke, he took out the crystal bag from Xu Weiying's arms, untied the rope, and poured the crystals in the bag onto the ground.

One by one, crystals fell to the ground, some large, some small, and all colorful, and soon scattered all over the ground. Everyone present looked at these crystals and couldn't help but show shock. Just by looking at the color of these crystals, they could roughly estimate the value of these crystals, which was definitely more than a thousand taels of gold.

Xu Weiying looked at the colorful crystals on the ground and couldn't believe it. He had realized that he had fallen into someone's trap. But the person who set the trap was really willing to spend a lot of money. These crystals were worth more than a thousand taels of gold, even if they were worth two thousand taels, they might still be worth more.

In his opinion, this trap was not very clever, and could even be said to be childish. But with such a huge investment, even a childish trap would be effective and deadly. However, he could not just sit there and wait for death, and shouted to Captain Chen: "This is a frame-up, this is a trap! I request that the four elders jointly investigate this matter! You cannot convict me of treason based on your one-sided statement." Then he glared at the registered disciple who bought the cultivation secret book from him, and shouted: "Who are you? Why are you framing me?"

The registered disciple no longer had the flattery he had when he first met him. He was submissive and had a look of regret for failing. He said calmly, "What a pity! We are just one step away from getting the Heavenly Rank Secret Book and the Spirit Armor Secret Art. If you hadn't been reluctant to give me the secret book, they wouldn't have found you and caught you. Since you have already planned to join the Demon Sect, why do you still want this money? Once you join the Heavenly Demon Sect, you will still have a lot of money!"

"Nonsense, you just said that the secret book was wrong and wanted to return it, why are you saying that now! I understand! You, the spy from the Demon Sect, are here to sow discord and deliberately cause internal strife in my Miyun Sect! My fellow disciples, please don't fall for his evil scheme." Xu Weijie looked at the large number of people who came and thought that it was impossible that everyone wanted to frame him. Except for Captain Chen and Qi Hanyu from Wuyin Peak, the others were just used as witnesses, and he still had a chance to get away with it.

"You really won't give up until you see the coffin! Since you said he was the one who was trying to sow discord and was lying, then your own confidant wouldn't lie too!" Captain Chen waved his hand, and two of Xu Weiying's confidants stepped forward and told how Xu Weiying coerced and bribed them to participate in stealing the secret book of heavenly cultivation and the craft of making spiritual armor. One of them even took out a very thin piece of paper from the interlayer of the hard cover of the secret book, on which was drawn a strange picture and some very small words.

"This is the structure diagram of the magic array on the spiritual armor. I have seen similar diagrams before! I'm afraid we can only draw a conclusion by asking someone from the Sky-Watching Pavilion to identify what kind of magic array this is on." An enforcement officer who had some knowledge of the crystal magic array in miscellaneous studies said after looking at the diagram.

Captain Chen sneered: "Xu Weiying, Captain Xu, what else do you have to say now!"

Seeing that the two people he usually relied on the most betrayed him, Xu Weiying understood clearly: It seems that the people who want to deal with him have great power in the sect, and they have invested a lot of money and spent a long time to set up this trap. Unknowingly, even his confidants have been bought by them! Originally, he thought that the Liu family might have found some clues about the assassination of Liu Feiyun last time, and they were taking revenge on him. But now it seems that there may be someone else, and the Liu family should not have such great power. At present, he can only rely on Elder Qi as a backer.

He figured it out and stopped arguing. He pretended to be calm and said, "I admit that I privately resold the cultivation manuals. After all, I am not the only one who did this. But if you say that I colluded with the Heavenly Demon Sect and betrayed the sect, that is really nonsense. Now I don't want to say anything more. I just ask you to send me to the Law Enforcement Hall and let the four chairmen and the four elders jointly review this matter. Only then will I be convinced. Otherwise, I can only think that this matter is framed by some people with ulterior motives, and they want to get rid of me as soon as possible!"

"You want the chief and the four elders to personally review this matter! Haha! It seems! You still refuse to plead guilty! Well! It's up to you! Come on, take Xu Weiying back to the headquarters!" Captain Chen stared at Xu Weijie and sneered.

At Wuyin Peak, Liu Feiyun and Hu Lie listened to Qi Hanyu's story. When he finished, Liu Feiyun asked, "Why didn't Captain Chen kill Xu Weiying on the spot? Senior Brother, can you guess the reason?"

Hu Lie thought for a moment and said, "I guess it's probably because Captain Chen thinks that even with Qi Xunyu as his backer, Xu Weiying will still die in the end!"

"Is he that confident?"

"Perhaps it's because your Liu family invested too much this time. Just the crystal stone worth two thousand three hundred or four hundred taels of gold is not a small amount. In addition, your Liu family mobilized so many connections this time, and the Luo family also helped. So many people want to deal with a small law enforcement captain. How can Qi Xun, an elder of the Yu Law Enforcement Hall, save him? To be honest, you joined forces to deal with Xu Weiying this time, which is really overkill!"

"Killing a chicken with a butcher knife! Ho ho! No, that's killing a chicken to scare the monkeys. In fact, I still don't understand why Qi Xunyu wants to get so angry with a loser like me. Could it be that my Liu family has offended his Qi family in the past? But my father wrote to me saying that my Liu family and his Qi family don't have any deep hatred!"

"Perhaps, it has something to do with the rebellion of King Jin back then! I heard that many aristocratic families participated in that civil strife, either openly or secretly, and your father, Le Anbo, killed many people when he was suppressing the rebellion. Perhaps, the Qi family, or perhaps just Qi Xunyu himself, had someone close to him who died because of your father!"

Liu Feiyun listened to Hu Lie's analysis and nodded, also thinking that this possibility was very high. Sometimes he couldn't help but sigh that his father was really good at attracting hatred for him. He conquered the Northern Wilderness and suppressed the civil strife, and made so many enemies. When he was at home before, he encountered several kidnappings and assassinations against him. Now that he was in the Miyun Sect, there were still people who didn't want to let him go. He didn't know whether he would encounter enemies on the way home again, since he didn't deliberately keep it secret and didn't have Uncle Master Zheng Zhou to take charge.