Chapter 76: I'm an Official

Having understood the situation, Ning Zhuo began to implement his plan.

He spent a great deal of spirit stones to continue capturing wild monkeys. Then, he hired demonic cultivators to poison the monkeys of the Monkey Head Gang. Finally, he deliberately failed to assassinate Yuan Er.

Yuan Er and Yuan Dasheng felt immense pressure and retreated into a defensive posture, allowing Ning Zhuo's first step to succeed.

Ning Zhuo pressed his advantage, playing the part of a petty man in front of Fei Si, leading Fei Si to misjudge him. Ning Zhuo proactively conceded forty percent of the profit, and obtained the corpses of the Monkey Head Gang's monkeys.

He collected and refined their vital essence, obtaining blood energy of the same origin as Yuan Dasheng's.

He then deliberately participated in the rush to manufacture mechanical monkeys at the Flying Disc Workshop, personally creating a large number of inferior mechanical explosive monkeys. He secretly used the blood energy of the same origin, and cast the Devil-tainted Blood Tendon Art, adding the blood energy into the mechanical explosive monkeys.

On the day of the Fire Persimmon Festival.

Ning Zhuo was stationed on the mountainside, surrounded by an array. He risked using his Heart Seal to control the mechanical monkeys to riot, and deliberately sent them to attack Yuan Er.

The mechanical monkeys were destroyed by Fei Si activating the array, but the latent blood energy had already attached itself to Yuan Er.

Yuan Er was frightened and reunited with Yuan Dasheng.

Yuan Dasheng was thus tainted and infiltrated.

Ning Zhuo had bet correctly!

Yuan Dasheng was indeed unable to perceive the minute details, or perhaps it was because he was worried about Yuan Er at the time, and did not notice the trace amount of blood energy of the same origin in his body.

Although this blood energy was small in quantity, it affected Yuan Dasheng's fingers at a critical moment, creating his "mistake."

The Thousand-Year Fire Persimmon Forest exploded!

The ingenuity of Ning Zhuo's trap was such that even if Zhu Xuanji used his Golden Eyes, he would not be able to detect the blood energy of the same origin.

Right under his nose, Ning Zhuo succeeded in his scheme!

However, Zhu Xuanji's saving of Yuan Dasheng still caused Ning Zhuo to lose his composure for a moment.

He almost thought he had been discovered.

Yuan Dasheng being saved, and still having a glimmer of life! What worried Ning Zhuo even more was that Yuan Dasheng's body was preserved intact, not blown to pieces as he had expected.

Especially Yuan Dasheng's hands and ten fingers were all intact, which made Ning Zhuo realize that he had left a loophole!

When Zhu Xuanji treated Yuan Dasheng at the time, he did not care about the details. The blood energy of the same origin was the best disguise, so he did not notice the trickery in the fingers.

But if they continued to investigate afterwards, inch by inch, would they not find it?

Ning Zhuo did not dare to gamble.

Therefore, Ning Zhuo must kill Yuan Dasheng quickly to erase this loophole.

Ning Zhuo could not act in his own name, he was only a Qi Refining cultivator, and could not bear the possible casual revenge from Zhu Xuanji if he found out.

"I can use Lord Fei Si's name, so that Zhu Xuanji will be wary of Fei Si afterwards, and recognize me as the executor, not the mastermind!"

Ning Zhuo entered the game himself, disregarding his own safety, persuaded Fei Si successfully, and ultimately achieved victory.

As he expected, Zhu Xuanji recognized Fei Si as the mastermind after learning about this. What was even better was that Fei Si also believed that he was the mastermind.

"In the end, I made it happen!" Ning Zhuo sighed in the Flying Disc Workshop.

He came back to his senses, his aura became much calmer, and his mood returned to normal.

Zhu Xuanji and the others did not know that they were only a tiny bit away from discovering the key clue.

But it was this little distance that buried the truth.

A hair's breadth difference leads to a thousand miles of error.

"For now, I can continue to hide." Ning Zhuo wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief.

It was really too difficult.

The whole process did not involve force, but it was entirely like walking a tightrope on the edge of a cliff. There were several times when Ning Zhuo's state of mind almost failed.

He stood up and said, "Elder Chen, I want to personally handle Yuan Dasheng's body. This is a task assigned to me by Lord Fei Si, and I want to show off more."

Even if the vital essence had been extracted and the loophole had disappeared, Ning Zhuo was still unwilling to let Yuan Dasheng's body fall into the hands of others, out of caution.

"You." Chen Cha sighed, "Alright, I'll pack it up for you."

"You should rest well. This corpse has been pre-treated, and can be preserved for a long time."

"No need to rush."

"It's not worth it to exhaust yourself."

Ning Zhuo bowed and thanked him: "Thank you, Elder Chen!"

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Fei Si, Zhu Xuanji and the other two returned to the Fire Persimmon Forest and continued to excavate the land.

They dug not just three feet deep, but thirty feet. At the same time, several Golden Core cultivators took turns using various spells and magical instruments to probe.

There was no movement at all.

Fei Si's face was as heavy as water. He had a feeling that the shadowy demonic cultivator had really escaped and would not appear again.

Now that things had come to this, he had to continue digging, even if it meant turning the foot of the mountain upside down.

The logic was simple.

If this mission was messed up, he had to at least appear to be working hard so that the City Lord would know that he had no merit, but he had put in the effort.

"This time I also 'returned the favor' to Zhu Xuanji, making him look bad."

"So, the problem shouldn't be too big."

Fei Si pondered his situation and naturally thought of Ning Zhuo.

His eyes narrowed, and his mood was slightly complicated.

From today's incident, he saw the talent in Ning Zhuo.

Ning Zhuo was only in the Qi Refining stage, but he dared to venture into the Monkey Head Gang's residence, threatening and enticing Yuan Er in the Foundation Establishment stage, causing the latter to abandon Yuan Dasheng. From this, it could be seen that Ning Zhuo indeed had the ability and courage!

Fei Si was also very clear that Ning Zhuo acted this way because he had his own selfish motives.

But Fei Si didn't mind, and even felt that he understood Ning Zhuo, could control him well, and felt very safe and in control.

These feelings made him appreciate this young man from the Ning family even more.

"He's really like me when I was young."

"And he has a good sense of the situation!"

"I just don't know if he was the one who caused the mechanical monkeys to riot and suddenly attack Yuan Er on the Fire Persimmon Festival?"

Fei Si was not stupid and always maintained this suspicion in his heart.

In his opinion, Ning Zhuo had a strong motive!

Of course, he also heard Ning Zhuo and Chen Cha's explanations on this matter. After receiving the report from the servant at the time, he also felt that it was reasonable.

But the suspicion was not completely dispelled.

"I don't understand any mechanical arts. Maybe there are some means that allow Ning Zhuo to control the mechanical monkeys?"

"Even if he can't control them, isn't Chen Cha also in the Foundation Establishment stage?"

"If Chen Cha isn't an accomplice, maybe Ning Zhuo offered a high price and hired some demonic cultivators?"

Fei Si, as an official, naturally suspected everything, regardless of evidence.

Of course, Fei Si was more inclined to believe that these mechanical monkeys were secretly controlled by the shadowy demonic cultivator! And the latter had successfully escaped in broad daylight.

He was inclined towards this speculation because it was most beneficial to him.

The shadowy demonic cultivator had tricked almost all the Golden Core cultivators in the city. His strength was too strong!

Then Fei Si's failure would be more easily accepted by the City Lord.

Look, even Zhu Xuanji, who possessed the Golden Eyes, did not discover the shadowy demonic cultivator. Fei Si was also powerless.

Fei Si began to rack his brains, thinking about how to confirm this speculation and how to report to the City Lord.

As for the truth, he didn't care at all.

Having managed the affairs of the Fire Persimmon Immortal City for so many years, how many wrongful and unjust cases had he encountered and handled?

"I'm an official, not someone from the Divine Capture Division!"

Investigating the truth was Zhu Xuanji's purpose and responsibility. Fei Si only wanted to maintain the old order of the Fire Persimmon Immortal City, listen to the City Lord Meng Kui's dispatch, and maintain his own authority and interests.