Chapter 933: Simple reasoning often only needs immortal knowledge

After learning from the experience of Lu Yang asking who the culprit was and she not knowing, the Immortal Fairy constantly scanned the Immortal Palace with her divine sense, vowing to find the culprit and restore her reputation. Fortunately, she finally found a clue. Indeed, as long as Huang Dou Dou was on the case, there was no mystery she couldn't solve!

"Who? Bai Ye?" Lu Yang heard the Immortal Fairy's sudden interjection, and the three words "Palace Master Luo" were stuck in his throat.

"Fairy, next time can you tell us what you see earlier!" Lu Yang found it hard to believe the Fairy hadn't noticed anything before Bai Ye poisoned the laurel tree. And even if it was Bai Ye, how did she break through the medicine vault's formation?

"Isn't it about catching someone red-handed?" the Immortal Fairy retorted. "I was just suspicious before. What if I wrongly accused that girl?" Having studied law with Lu Yang for so long, the Immortal Fairy had developed quite a legal mindset.

"Senior Brother? Senior Brother Lu Yang?" Lan Ting noticed that Senior Brother Lu Yang had suddenly stopped speaking halfway through his analysis. Extremely puzzled, she waved her small, pale hand in front of Lu Yang's face, finally bringing him back to attention.

Lu Yang realized he was in the middle of analyzing the case, and it wasn't the time to argue with the Immortal Fairy.

"Come on, let me handle this!" the Immortal Fairy exclaimed, feeling that since she had discovered the truth, she should be the one to reveal the answer! Lu Yang was no match for the Immortal Fairy and was instantly possessed.

The Immortal Fairy then displayed a look of waking from a dream. "Ah, yes, I'm here, I'm here. Where were we just now?"

"You just said, 'The culprit is Luo...'" Lan Ting prompted, "and then you stopped talking."

Lan Ting looked at Lu Yang with a strange expression, though she hid it well. Why does Senior Brother feel like a different person?

With extensive experience possessing and impersonating Lu Yang in the Imperial City, the Immortal Fairy now imitated him perfectly, no longer referring to herself as "this immortal."

"I was just saying the culprit is the delicate Bai Ye!" the Immortal Fairy said confidently. "Culprits often return to the scene of the crime. If I'm not mistaken, she's currently at the thirtieth laurel tree in the twelfth row of the laurel tree forest!"

Lan Ting was completely bewildered. How had Senior Brother Lu Yang deduced such a precise location? Had she missed any steps? She really couldn't keep up with Senior Brother Lu Yang's way of thinking. And most importantly...

"Who is Bai Ye?" She had never heard of such a person in the Immortal Palace.

"You don't know her?" the Immortal Fairy asked, her tone somewhat resentful. "She comes to me every night for stories." If it weren't for that little girl Bai Ye occupying Lu Yang's evenings, he could have played snowball fights with her all night.

"Comes to Senior Brother every night for stories?" Lan Ting was increasingly astonished. Who was it that neglected cultivation at night to secretly get a head start with Senior Brother?

"Wait, wait a minute," Lu Yang in the mental space couldn't help but ask. "How could Junior Sister Lan Ting not have heard of Junior Sister Bai Ye?" This makes it seem like I'm telling stories to a non-existent person every night, which is quite terrifying.

"An existence like the incarnation of the Laurel Tree Ancestor is probably a secret in the Immortal Palace," the Immortal Fairy said nonchalantly, revealing Bai Ye's identity as if the Laurel Tree Ancestor was an insignificant nobody. "It's normal for little Lan not to have heard of her."

"The Laurel Tree Ancestor?!" Lu Yang was greatly startled. He suddenly remembered Bai Ye had given him a bag of laurel flowers to eat as a snack. Could Bai Ye have plucked them from herself?

The Immortal Fairy temporarily ignored Lu Yang's astonishment. She was now the only one in the Immortal Palace who knew the truth, feeling her intelligence had reached a transcendent level, and intended to capture Bai Ye in one swift move.

"Let's not talk about this for now," she declared. "Let's go after Bai Ye!" The Immortal Fairy waved her hand grandly, leading Lan Ting on a jog all the way to Luo Hongxia's cave dwelling. Little Yang was now without any cultivation, so even if he found Bai Ye, he wouldn't be able to catch her. They needed the help of Luo Hongxia, her former defeated opponent. But then again, it seemed Little Yang couldn't catch Bai Ye even if he still had his cultivation.

At this moment, Luo Hongxia also had three spirit fruits in front of her, pondering which one had stolen the medicinal ingredients. She heard a knock at the door, opened it, and saw no one.

"Here, here," a voice piped up.

Luo Hongxia looked down and saw two tiny figures.

"Master," Lan Ting said, "Senior Brother Lu Yang has deduced who the culprit is. It's a little girl named Bai Ye, about my height, and she's in the laurel tree forest!"

"Who is Bai Ye?" Luo Hongxia had never heard of that name either. However, her expression quickly turned serious. Now was not the time to investigate who Bai Ye was; since there was a trace of the culprit, catching Bai Ye in the laurel tree forest was the most important thing!

"Let's go!" Luo Hongxia soared into the sky and noticed two people missing beside her. She looked down and saw the two tiny figures desperately jogging towards the laurel tree forest. Luo Hongxia landed, tucked one under each arm, and swiftly flew towards the laurel tree forest again.

"Let's go!" she declared again.

Luo Hongxia's speed, despite carrying two burdens, was no slower than usual. She also thoughtfully enveloped them both in transparent shields to prevent the cold wind from harming them.

She flew above the laurel tree forest and indeed spotted a small figure pouring something into a pit near a laurel tree while muttering to herself.

"Thief, take this!" Luo Hongxia dropped the two tiny figures and brazenly attacked. Thanks to the shields, the two bounced twice on the ground and landed steadily, unharmed and not startled.

The small figure saw Luo Hongxia's attack and inwardly cursed, "Not good!" She had been so engrossed in her experiments on the laurel trees that she hadn't noticed Luo Hongxia's arrival. The small figure seemed disinclined to fight. She turned and fled, moving so quickly that she left a blur behind, her true form having teleported to an unknown location.

Even with Luo Hongxia's keen eyesight, she couldn't track the small figure. Luo Hongxia extended her divine sense to search, but found nothing. She recalled the face the small figure had briefly revealed, her brows furrowed.

"A face I've never seen before," she mused. "Could she be an outsider?"

"Phew, that was close, Little Luo almost caught me," the small figure muttered, leaning against the Laurel Tree Ancestor and panting in fright. She still couldn't figure out how Luo Hongxia had discovered her. It was as if Luo Hongxia had known exactly where she was, her target quite clear.

"Hehe, think you can run? Can you really?" A childish giggle sounded from behind the small figure, startling her into spinning around.

"Who's there!" She was sure that if she had extended her divine sense, she would have detected anyone approaching. And how did this person know she was here?

"Lu Yang?" The small figure was surprised. How could it be Lu Yang?

"Little Bai Ye, come back with me and admit your mistake," the Immortal Fairy said with a triumphant smile. No matter how fast Bai Ye moved, could she outrun her divine sense? Caught red-handed, it was a great achievement!

The small figure scoffed, "I'm not Bai Ye; I'm Bai Ri."

In the mental space, Lu Yang vaguely remembered hearing that name somewhere and was suddenly startled. "Bai Ri..." he thought. "I thought the founder of the Immortal Palace, True Immortal Chasing Moon, was named Bai Ri?"