Do you really think you can get me with just a banana?

Yan Ruchen looked at the two of them, confused: "What's going on?"

Hu Qi said, "It's okay."

Guan Shanyu was anxious: "Something's wrong! Why are you pulling my hair?"

Hu Qi put his hands on his hips and retorted, "Hey, who pulled your hair? I was checking your scalp. You were in a hurry to sit down, and now you blame me for pulling it? Or are you just stupid?"

Guan Shanyu rubbed his head with one hand and clutched the clothes on his chest with the other hand. His face flushed red and he pointed at a few strands of hair on the ground: "Why didn't you tell me earlier? I sat down before you told me. Look how much you pulled me."

Hu Qi was furious and said, "You are really here to cause trouble, right? Believe it or not, I will throw you back into the water dungeon and ask the disciples over there to help check you."

Guan Shanyu shuddered reflexively when he thought of the two bearded disciples' sinister smiles. That haunted place was eerie and terrifying, and he didn't want to go back there. Hu Qi stamped his feet and cursed him non-stop, calling him a waste and a nuisance. Yan Ruchen hadn't expected that his arrival would be just such a small matter. He patted Hu Qi on the shoulder and tried to calm him down, "It's just a small matter. Don't get angry. Don't delay the inspection."

Guan Shanyu saw two people suddenly enter the room, both of whom were at odds with him. He knew that arguing was pointless, so he stopped dwelling on the matter. He opened his clothes, stood up, opened his arms and faced Hu Qi, saying, "Okay, I didn't hear it. You can continue checking."

Hu Qi rolled his eyes and continued to complain, "You thought I was bullying you. You wrapped your clothes so tightly around me, you thought I was attracted to you, you bastard."

Guan Shanyu looked away and replied resignedly, "I'm weak and afraid of the cold, okay?"

Hu Qi chuckled twice, roughly pulled Guan Shanyu's arm and turned him around, starting to check his back. He caught a glimpse of Yan Ruchen still standing nearby, so he gestured, "It's okay, Ruchen, go do your thing."

Yan Ruchen was originally staring at the scars on Guan Shanyu's body. When he heard Hu Qi's reminder, he nodded and turned to leave, but the moment he turned around, his eyes still glanced at Guan Shanyu twice.

It was only during the day that I could clearly see the whip marks on his body. The disorderly red marks were like hideous centipedes crawling on Guan Shanyu's smooth white back. A whip wound spread from top to bottom, and you could clearly see the traces of the surrounding skin being torn by the vines and spreading. In addition, there were blue and purple bruises on the white back. It was not difficult to see how harshly the disciple who was guarding him at the time had hit him.

I'm really lucky. After three days of torture, I recovered quite quickly.

Yan Ruchen looked away, turned around and walked away from behind the screen.

Guan Shanyu naturally didn't know that Yan Ruchen had secretly regarded him as a genius. He was tossed around by Hu Qi with an expressionless face. When Hu Qi said "No problem, let's go", Guan Shanyu picked up his clothes and ran out of the charity hall without looking back.

Rather than worrying about whether he felt wronged or not, there were some things that required his attention more than these little things.

He has been resting in the bamboo hut these days, but in fact he can only stay in the bamboo hut.

Although Song Ziye verbally cleared his name, it was hard to say whether it had anything to do with him, at least from an outsider's perspective.

After all, all the accusations point to him, and the evidence and clues all point to him as the murderer. If the murderer really cannot be found in the future, someone must offer sacrifices to the heavens for Si Xuanqing.

By then, this person can only be Guan Shanyu.

Guan Shanyu had been in the water dungeon a few days ago, and he was worried every day about when he would be beaten or whether he would be beaten to death. He had no time to think about why this happened. But he slept well in the past three days, and after recovering, he wanted to carefully review what happened.

After all, someone wanted to kill him.

Guan Shanyu was sent back to the bamboo house by his disciples. He watched them lock the door and leave. After confirming that there was no one around, he hurried to the desk, picked up a pen and paper, and began to recall and organize his thoughts carefully.

First of all, he knew that the core of this case was to find the murderer who killed Si Xuanqing, but Guan Shanyu couldn't figure out the motive, method, the mastermind behind the scenes, and who Si Xuanqing had a grudge against. However, this was something that Song Ziye and the Council of Elders would investigate. As long as they figured out the whole story, the murderer would naturally surface.

Before they find the murderer, they may miss one question, or they may know it but don't care about it, which is who wants to kill them.

Guan Shanyu frowned. If he were Song Ziye, he might be used as bait to lure out the real culprit. After all, he was a suspect. If the real culprit lost his patience, he would likely kill him to prevent the case from being overturned, leaving no evidence. The Council of Elders, however, could use him as bait to lure out the real culprit.

After all, to the sect, his life doesn't seem to be worth much.

If this was really what Guan Shanyu was thinking, then this bamboo house was now a huge trap. The elders were probably gambling, waiting for the murderer to strike again. Whether he could survive or not was the only concern of Guan Shanyu himself.

He spread the paper on the table, picked up the brush, dipped it in his mouth, and drew a timeline on the paper.

He recorded every important event and person he encountered between his arrival in this world and his imprisonment in the water dungeon. Then, based on the testimony presented by the elders during the interrogation, he mapped these events and people onto the timeline, searching for overlaps. After careful comparison, he narrowed down three names.

Yan Ruchen, Si Hongyin, Chen Rongrong.

Guan Shanyu picked up the paper and looked at the three names, feeling a little confused.

It’s true that these three people are the protagonists, but what conflicts exist between me and them?

As for Yan Ruchen, the conflict also existed before he went up the mountain. Moreover, he was the main plot-teller in this world, and he should have just followed the plot development and lived out his life as a cheater. Even if he awakened his consciousness, it would be meaningless for him to cause these chaos. After all, the end goal was still to be a cheater, so why bother?

Si Hongyin was even less likely. She couldn't possibly kill her own father, could she? After all, with her father's support, she could call the shots in this world of immortal cultivation. Why would she tear down her own protective umbrella?

As for Chen Rongrong...her abilities are similar to his own, and she is not very powerful in the sect. She can't use her money power to secretly send Guan Shanyu into the sect just to kill him.

Thinking of this, a name suddenly flashed before Guan Shanyu's eyes.

Qing Yuanzi.

Yes, wasn’t he the one who was secretly let in by Qing Yuanzi?

Guan Shanyu picked up the paper and carefully examined the time points and events he had marked. When he joined the sect, Qing Yuanzi was indeed fully capable of directly selecting him. Especially during that time he went down the mountain for training. He should have been disqualified due to his involvement in Yan Ruchen's bullying. Although he ultimately won the championship through hard work and earned the opportunity, the fact was that Qing Yuanzi had already included him on the list for going down the mountain before he was officially selected.

The same goes for the magical herbs that he had planted so hard to get first place. In Qing Yuanzi's territory, he could swap those herbs at any time. Besides, as an elder of Lingcaoxuan, could he really not see that Guan Shanyu was cheating by using those ripening herbs?

He asked Guan Shanyu to come down the mountain, and he happened to be playing "Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss", which was the song that his disciples heard on a rainy night when Si Xuanqing was killed by lightning. It became the key evidence pointing to him in this case.

For an elder like him, it was not difficult to escape thousands of miles underground from the Wuzijian hunting ground back to the Sutra Repository.

Guan Shanyu speculated and broke out in a cold sweat. If this was indeed the case, then why would Qing Yuanzi choose him and not someone else?

A gust of wind blew outside the window, and the papers danced in the wind. Guan Shanyu grabbed them suddenly and stabilized the flying pages. For the first time in his life, he felt creepy.

Qing Yuanzi appears amiable and affable, but is usually lazy and casual. He hardly interferes with his disciples' requirements other than growing magical herbs and learning acupuncture. He doesn't even care about their ranking within the sect, and has always been at the bottom of the sect with Jin Yunche.

Perhaps that is why we do things in a low-key manner.

Assuming that Qing Yuanzi really did this, there are only three possible motives behind it:

First, he may really know nothing, and it is purely a coincidence that the incident just happened to him.

Second, he might be a hidden time traveler, undetected by the system, who is deliberately creating chaos to achieve some of his own goals.

Third, he is an awakened person. Although he did not travel through time, the system gave him self-awareness. He was unwilling to follow the original plot and ended up having an unclear relationship with a homosexual and ended up in disgrace.

If it is the third case, then Guan Shanyu is indeed a good candidate to take the blame. He can achieve his goal and get rid of the gay man who brought him shame, killing two birds with one stone.

If he just wanted to eliminate me, it would be fine. At worst, I would surrender and roll down the mountain and never come back. But if Qing Yuanzi really traveled through time and knew that Guan Shanyu was the storyteller and could control the plot, that would be even more terrifying.