Chapter 687: Scapegoat
“Elder Brother, what are you saying?”
“It concerns the life and death of our family members?”
“Who has that much capability?”
“Yes, our Wenren family is the foremost aristocratic family of cultivators in Changming Country. Anyone who was unfavorable to us has long since reincarnated, so where is the danger?”
“Elder Brother, did you hear some news? Is it just unfounded fear-mongering!”
The three elder brothers spoke one after another.
“Is that so? Then Fourth Brother, why has your eldest granddaughter gone missing?”
Wenren Jun asked Wenren Zheng.
Wenren Zheng’s smile froze upon hearing this, and his expression turned grim. The disappearance of his eldest granddaughter was something he could never let go of.
“Elder Brother, this was just an accident!”
Wenren Li tried to smooth things over.
“Is that so? What if it wasn’t an accident?”
Wenren Jun smiled noncommittally.
“Elder Brother, what exactly do you want to say?”
Wenren Zheng took a deep breath.
“As you all said, the Wenren family is powerful. In the eyes of everyone, they were able to take your eldest granddaughter without anyone noticing. The cultivation level of these people is something you are all aware of.”
Wenren Jun reminded them, then said, “What’s even stranger is why, after several years, your eldest granddaughter’s treasure sword fell into the hands of a cultivator who is completely unrelated?”
“Didn’t we interrogate him at that time? He said he bought it from an Immortal Alliance disciple.”
Wenren Zheng recalled.
“That’s right, and that Immortal Alliance disciple was also the one responsible for guarding the Tencel Valley Treasure Land for a long time.”
Wenren Jun added.
“So?”
Wenren Zheng frowned.
“You should know the dangers of the Tencel Valley Treasure Land. The Immortal Alliance can only prevent cultivators from the outside from entering, but they are not actually capable of…
controlling it, so every time they enter to search for heavenly materials and earthly treasures, they suffer heavy losses, like the Jinming Flower seeds! Later, I heard that to reduce losses, they used women who had consumed Golden Life Flower seeds and Pink Bamboo water as bait. As long as they could attract Lightning Eagles, they could reduce many detours.”
Wenren Jun narrated slowly.
“This matter is not a secret.”
Wenren Zheng commented.
“But have you ever thought about where those women used as bait came from? Are they all daughters and granddaughters of the Immortal Alliance’s high-level figures? The Tencel Valley Treasure Land is so dangerous, would they be willing to use their own daughters and granddaughters as bait? Moreover, it’s easy to check if they used their own daughters and granddaughters as bait.”
Wenren Jun said word by word.
“Then what is your meaning?”
Wenren Zheng’s expression began to change.
“Many of the baits have an unknown origin. I suspect they were likely abducted by the Immortal Alliance in secret. In fact, many women who have consumed Pink Bamboo water over the years have mysteriously disappeared, especially those who were stimulated with Pink Bamboo water. And your eldest granddaughter was one of them. Coincidentally, her weapon appeared in the Tencel Valley Treasure Land. Do you know what that means?”
Wenren Jun narrowed his eyes slightly.
Wenren Zheng immediately stood up from his chair, his pupils trembling, and said, “You mean my granddaughter was abducted by the Immortal Alliance to be used as bait?”
“I’m just guessing, I can’t produce concrete evidence. After all, it’s something the Immortal Alliance did, how could they leave any flaws?”
Wenren Jun added.
“Perhaps these Golden Life Flower seeds are what the Immortal Alliance uses to cultivate bait. The rewards are just to cover up their true purpose.”
Wenren Li speculated.
“Highly likely!”
Wenren Jun said with a solemn expression.
Meanwhile, Qi Huang, who was eavesdropping, looked around in shock and noticed that the other women had their mouths slightly agape, dumbfounded.
“Their mouths were slightly agape, dumbfounded.”
“Clearly, no one expected the situation to be so complicated.”
“The Immortal Alliance really keeps lowering the bar,”
Qi Huang couldn’t help but exclaim angrily.
“Hmph!”
Cheng Hong Ling didn’t speak, just let out a cold snort filled with killing intent.
“Fortunately, they didn’t target Junior Sister, otherwise it would have been…”
Ruan Lingyu said with lingering fear, and the other martial sisters also showed expressions of after-fear.
…
“These beasts! I will definitely make them pay with their lives for my granddaughter.”
Wenren Zheng stood up from his chair, his eyes bloodshot.
“Fourth Brother, I understand your feelings, but now we have no evidence and no strength, how can we settle accounts with the Immortal Alliance? Our most important task now is to protect the descendants in our family who have also consumed Golden Life Flower seeds, especially those granddaughters who were stimulated with Pink Bamboo water. The Immortal Alliance has been secretly apprehending bait for years, they must have already been recorded.”
Wenren Jun reminded him.
“Elder Brother is right, we all have descendants who consumed Golden Life Flower seeds, especially those granddaughters who used Pink Bamboo water. If we don’t find a way, they will definitely be targeted by the Immortal Alliance sooner or later.”
Wenren Li immediately reacted.
“Elder Brother, then what should we do? Although the Wenren family’s strength is unmatched in Changming Country, it is nothing compared to the Immortal Alliance.”
Wenren Lian also stood up from his chair in a panic.
“Now you know to be anxious?”
Wenren Jun mocked him slightly, then said, “If it were in the past, we would probably just have to wait for death. But now there is a method we can try. You have all seen those female disciples from the HongHua Sect, they all have the aroma of Golden Life Flower on them, right?”
“Yes? So what? What does this have to do with our granddaughters?”
“Yes, didn’t you say you wanted them to help us find Golden Life Flower seeds?”
Wenren Li and Wenren Lian asked successively.
“Just letting them find Golden Life Flower seeds is a waste, isn’t it? What if they die? My intention is to make their deaths valuable.”
Wenren Jun’s face revealed a hint of maliciousness.
“What do you mean?”
Wenren Li and the other two brothers looked bewildered.
“Don’t you understand? The Immortal Alliance has always encouraged everyone to send their daughters who have consumed Golden Life Flower seeds to be ‘bait’, right? Let’s use their plan against them. We’ll send these female disciples from the HongHua Sect over and tell those people they are our granddaughters. Not only will we receive a large reward, but as long as they die in the Tencel Valley Treasure Land, then in the eyes of the Immortal Alliance, our granddaughters will be dead.”
Wenren Jun sneered repeatedly.
“Yes, so they won’t have any ideas about our granddaughters?”
Wenren Li slapped his thigh.
“Will this work? What if they expose us?”
Wenren Lian showed hesitation.
“Impossible, our Changming Country is a hundred thousand miles away from the Immortal Alliance Main Altar. They have no way of knowing what our granddaughters look like to expose us?”
Wenren Jun shook his head firmly.
“What if they find out afterward?”
Wenren Lian asked again after thinking.
“First, they have no motive to investigate further. All they want is bait, it doesn’t matter who it is; second, even if they find out, so what? We haven’t violated any regulations of the Immortal Alliance, can they openly punish us? They wouldn’t dare to publicize this kind of secret abduction of people to be bait. Most people within the Immortal Alliance probably don’t even know.”
Wenren Jun explained one by one.
“I think Elder Brother’s method is very feasible. Whether it succeeds or not, we have to strive for a way for our granddaughters to survive.”
Wenren Li immediately expressed his support.
“Yes, anyway, there’s no downside to this. I also agree.”
Wenren Zheng also concurred.
“Forget it, let’s buy as much time as we can. Let’s do as Elder Brother says.”
Wenren Lian also came around.
“Very good, it’s decided then. Excluding that clone, there are six of them in total, which is exactly enough to replace our six granddaughters. Now what’s left is to ask them to cooperate with our act.”
Wenren Jun smiled with satisfaction.
“This should be fine, unless they don’t want to live anymore.”
Wenren Zheng’s gaze turned cold. Thinking of his deceased eldest granddaughter, he wanted to find a place to vent his anger.
Qi Huang put away the Recording Mirror and then looked around, saying, “What do you all think?”
“What a cunning old fox. No wonder he gave us a choice. In fact, he wants me to be a scapegoat for his granddaughters.”
Ruan Lingyu couldn’t help but curse.
“Yes, it’s a waste of talent that this old guy isn’t a profiteer. Sending us to the Immortal Alliance to be bait is simply squeezing out all the value from us.”
Yun Fei also agreed.
“It doesn’t matter, as long as we can enter the Tencel Valley Treasure Land. We’ll do whatever they say then. Consider it a trip.”
Qi Huang appeased them.
“Junior Sister, there’s something I don’t understand. Your goal is to find more Golden Life Flower seeds. Now that we know the Immortal Alliance is recruiting bait, why don’t we go directly? Why use the Wenren family’s name? Isn’t this letting them take advantage of us for free?”
Shen Yuan raised a question.
“Take advantage? Is it so easy to take advantage of me? If we don’t go under the Wenren family’s name, how can we stir up trouble?”
The corner of Qi Huang’s mouth curved slightly.
That evening, Wenren Jun had servants bring Qi Huang and the others to the study.
