Big Data Cultivation-Chapter 656 - Confessing without being pressed

Chapter 656: Chapter 656: Confessing without being pressed

Chapter 656: Chapter 656: Confessing without being pressed

After learning the details, Huang Fu Flawless began her investigation on Feng Jun.

The Tiantong Commercial Alliance’s hidden influence in the Cultivation World was immense, with sensitive ears everywhere. They swiftly gathered information about Feng Jun.

Chairman Huang Fu wouldn’t be foolish enough to seek verification from Wuyou Platform or the Pan Family, but she could turn to the Red Dust Inspection.

According to the rules, the travels and encounters of Inspectors were faithfully recorded—a matter of serious recordkeeping.

Thus, Huang Fu Flawless learned that an Inspector with the surname Guo had once had a direct encounter with Feng Jun.

Inspector Guo was a vassal of a Pine Cypress Peak Affiliated Family, and even though the Tiantong Commercial Alliance didn’t have many chess pieces at Pine Cypress Peak, they still had some informants in the relative periphery.

Then, to her astonishment, she discovered that this Inspector Guo… had disappeared shortly after meeting Feng Jun.

This was an unusual affair, and Huang Fu Flawless instinctively felt that there was a problem.

Ironically, even Guo Family members couldn’t connect the man’s disappearance with Feng Jun, with many assuming he had gone off to do something else—after all, it was quite normal for Cultivators to seclude themselves for cultivation or to undertake missions from time to time.

On the contrary, it was Chairman Huang Fu who uncovered the truth.

However, she kept silent, conducting a secret investigation into who Inspector Guo had contacted after his return.

Then she discovered another strange case; Yu Meiren, who had a decent relationship with Inspector Guo, also disappeared shortly after.

Normally, Yu Meiren at the Mortal Detainment Realm and Inspector Guo at the Qi Refinement Realm wouldn’t be close friends, but in fact, the Yu Family and the Guo Family had been acquainted for generations, and apart from having a Mortal Detainment Practitioner, the Yu Family wasn’t much stronger than the Guo Family.

The Tiantong Commercial Alliance had built up such a large operation, with incredibly strong information gathering capabilities. They not only conducted legitimate business but also engaged in the purchase of stolen goods, although they refrained from touching items that were too sensitive.

This meant that the Commercial Alliance also had strong connections in some of the gray areas.

The last piece of information they gathered was that Yu Meiren had disappeared after entering Fushan County.

When Huang Fu Flawless heard this news, she was quite startled: Could Mount Zhige actually have the capability to erase a Mortal Detainment Realm Practitioner from existence?

She truly didn’t believe this guess, so she collected some personal items of Yu Meiren’s and asked an expert to divine his fate, only to learn that he was indeed dead, and it had happened in the direction of Fushan County.

This divination could only reveal so much; not that more information couldn’t be uncovered, but she couldn’t afford the services of someone capable of that level of tracking.

In sum, piecing together the causes and effects, she was ninety-nine percent certain that Yu Meiren had been killed by Mount Zhige.

But now she heard Feng Jun categorically deny having heard that name, and he didn’t seem to be lying, which puzzled her again.

However, she quickly came to a realization: There must be something amiss with this person, because his reaction to the words “Mortal Detainment Realm Practitioner” was far too indifferent.

In Huang Fu Flawless’s heart, she didn’t hold much regard for Yu Meiren because she had her own backing, and Yu Meiren himself was just an average Mortal Detainment Practitioner. In fact, had she not been investigating Inspector Guo, she wouldn’t have even known there was such a person.

Mortal Detainment Practitioners were extremely rare in the Mortal Realm, but in the Cultivation World… they really weren’t anything special.

If it had been someone like Pan Jinxiang, a Mortal Detainment Practitioner, Chairman Huang Fu would have heard of them long ago, but Yu Meiren… what was he?

Regardless, Yu Meiren was still a respected practitioner. When a Qi-Refining Practitioner mentioned a Mortal Detainment Practitioner, how could they dare show any disrespect? It wasn’t just Feng Jun— even Wuyou Platform disciples like Wang Botai and Shangguan Yunjin would have shown the proper respect to a senior practitioner.

Yet here was Cultivator Feng facing the news of the death of a Mortal Detainment Practitioner, possibly related to him, with an utterly calm demeanor. Was that normal?

Absolutely not!

Even if he was not related to Yu Meiren’s death, whoever supported him must be formidable enough for him not to fear being implicated in such suspicions.

Huang Fu Flawless became even more convinced of her speculation. Then she changed her approach, “Then let me ask Cultivator Feng, aside from the esteemed Senior Yan of Wuyou Platform, have there been any Mortal Detainment Realm practitioners appearing near Mount Zhige? What does your ‘Mortal Detainment practitioners, please do not enter without invitation’ mean?”

The prohibition against Mortal Detainment practitioners entering Mount Zhige also constituted a reason for suspicion.

Feng Jun looked at her blankly for a good while before smiling faintly, “I’ve heard that Jie Chaoqun from Sword Forging Peak is arrogant and domineering. The disappearance of Yu Meiren could very well be his doing.”

Upon hearing this, Huang Fu Flawless was momentarily taken aback, then burst into laughter like the ringing of a silver bell, her eyes curving into crescents, “Look, a guilty conscience! Yu Meiren indeed met his end on Mount Zhige.”

“I don’t understand what you mean,” Feng Jun said, taken aback, “I merely made an offhand remark, why must you deceive me again?”

“Let me guess,” Huang Fu Flawless’s eyes twinkled, speaking with full confidence, “Yu Meiren came under the name of Jie Chaoqun, and you thought he was Jie Chaoqun, so… you’re hearing about Yu Meiren for the first time, am I correct?”

“Does Yu Meiren often deceive people like this?” Feng Jun was somewhat baffled.

In fact, his answer just now was meant not to deny completely, leaving a sliver of space for wild guesses.

But he truly hadn’t expected the other party to guess this scene, almost no different from what had happened that night.

Seeing him befuddled, Huang Fu Wuxia became even more pleased with herself, “Jie Chaoqun reached the peak of detachment long ago and entered seclusion half a year ago. When he comes out again, if not a real immortal, then at least a half-step Golden Core… If you knew of Jie Chaoqun, how could you possibly not know that he had already gone into seclusion?”

This… Feng Jun really felt somewhat powerless to retort, realizing that asymmetric information truly handicaps.

No wonder she could guess the events of that evening. They knew Jie Chaoqun had been in seclusion for a while, and my guess that Jie Chaoqun killed Yu Meiren would obviously tell the other party: I got the name Jie Chaoqun from Yu Meiren’s mouth, right?

However, he wasn’t one to call a deer a horse, so he just snorted coldly without responding.

Huang Fu Wuxia didn’t want to argue about this; with Yu Meiren’s status, he couldn’t cause much trouble anyway—a declining small clan with only one ordinary detachment-era cultivator left.

It would be possible to stir some trouble with the identity of Inspector Guo, considering it’s affiliated with the Pine Cypress Peak affiliated clan.

So, she tactfully changed the subject, “How about this, Feng Daoyou, could you accompany me for a walk on Mount Zhige?”

“You can walk around on your own,” Feng Jun replied nonchalantly, “I’ll pass on accompanying you.”

Huang Fu Wuxia knew that by saying this, he implied Mount Zhige had no secrets, allowing her to look anywhere she wanted, but… could the kind of secret that led to Yu Meiren’s death be visible to her?

Originally, she didn’t necessarily want Feng Jun’s company, but now… she insisted, “Are you really that busy, Feng Daoyou?”

Feng Jun’s brow furrowed slightly. He felt this woman was incredibly good at directing the conversation. Ever since she arrived, she had controlled the pace of the discussion, which made him quite uncomfortable.

Just now he couldn’t be bothered to quibble, but now, he felt he must assert himself. He smiled, “I am indeed very busy, but the key point is… why should I accompany you? In other words, what would I gain by accompanying you?”

Hearing this, Huang Fu Wuxia’s mood soured; there were many who wanted to accompany her, and she didn’t give them the chance. She laughed scornfully, “Do I really need to gain something? That’s rather materialistic, isn’t it?”

She had an instinctive aversion to men who practiced cultivation and dual cultivation techniques. With so many cultivation techniques in the Cultivation World, why must one practice this? Moreover… to use it on her own female attendant.

So her words were quite impolite.

“Chairman Huang Fu, saying that seems to contradict the principles of your alliance, doesn’t it?” Feng Jun looked at her with a mock smile.

“For merchants, everything should have a price. So, if I am to accompany you around, naturally there should be a price… And I think it’s necessary to remind you, generally speaking, that which is free tends to be the most expensive.”

“Free… tends to be the most expensive?” Huang Fu Wuxia chewed over the meaning of the words for a moment, then suddenly laughed, “Feng Daoyou is brilliant, summarizing the world’s business opportunities in one sentence.”

“I dare not,” Feng Jun shook his head, “Who dares claim they’ve summarized anything? It’s simply a bit of insight.”

There wasn’t a trace of smugness on his face—with these words commonplace on Earth, he was only borrowing the wisdom of others.

But clearly, the phrase worked wonders here, as the mobile phone dimension hadn’t entered the era of information explosion yet. Even if someone had a similar view, they wouldn’t have propagated it for the benefit of the public.

Huang Fu Wuxia looked at him with interest, “Well then, I’ll hire you for a fee. I’m just not sure, what do you want?”

“There are many things I want,” Feng Jun muttered under his breath, then flashed a toothy grin, “How about… we just walk for now? Give me some time to think it over?”

“Then take your time thinking,” Huang Fu Wuxia said indifferently, raising her eyebrows. She thought if the request isn’t excessive, I’ll agree, and if it is… do you really think you can force me to agree?

The two left the room, and the first things they saw in the backyard were the Boiler Camel Motorcycle, farm trucks, and all-terrain vehicles.

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What most intrigued Huang Fu Wuxia turned out to be the motorcycle, which she described as having an unstoppable character.

Feng Jun felt that the eastern chairman had certain, “adolescent” tendencies.

However, Huang Fu Wuxia quickly noticed some anomalies in the backyard, “Purple Belt Ganoderma… hasn’t it gone extinct? Good heavens, who grew this Lingzhi, and why is it just cast aside like this?”

Not just a strand of Purple Belt Ganoderma, but there were ginsengs as tall as half a person and polygonum multiflorum plants as tall as a person, none of them planted in the earth, just lying on their sides in the backyard with clumps of soil.

“Who grew these?” Huang Fu Wuxia’s voice rose slightly, a flash of displeasure in her beautiful eyes, “This is too much!”

Feng Jun cleared his throat, “Chairman Huang Fu, please calm your anger. These spirit plants were brought out by my master from a decaying secret realm.”

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