350 It's really hard to be a traitor
When Ning Yao and his companions arrived, Chu Linfeng had already tied up Yao Hengtai and Gu Dong with immortal chains.
Jiang Xin is interrogating the two: "Who is your superior?"
Gu Dong looked at Yao Hengtai.
Yao Hengtai didn't want to talk: "I will never betray the academy."
Jiang Xin sighed: "It's so inefficient to ask like this. Anyway, there are no restrictions on you, so I'll just search your soul directly."
Yao Hengtai's heart trembled, but no matter how he looked at Jiang Xin, he felt like a child with no cultivation, which gave him a glimmer of hope.
At this point, there was no need for these people to lie to him anymore, and they all showed their true abilities.
Jiang Xin's cultivation level has not changed, it must be because she really has no cultivation level at all.
After all, he is too young, and it is not time for him to practice yet.
Yao Hengtai looked around at everyone and confirmed that the highest level of cultivation among these young men was only the Golden Core Stage, and he felt a little relieved.
Although he is not as good as Chu Linfeng in actual combat, soul searching is different from actual combat. Sword cultivators have weak spiritual awareness, and soul searching is an extremely risky spell. If you are not careful, you may suffer backlash.
The difference in cultivation between the two sides is not that big, and these Jindan stage teenagers definitely don't dare to search his soul.
Suddenly, he felt someone kicking his leg as he knelt on the ground.
Yao Hengtai glared at Jiang Xiao unhappily: "Why did you kick me?"
Jiang Xiao kindly reminded him: "Put away the complacency on your face, lest the gap be too big and your Tao heart collapse."
After he said that, Yao Hengtai realized that he had gotten a little too proud of himself. He quickly put away the not-so-obvious smile on his face and said coldly, "I advise you not to use soul search. Even if you Jindan-stage warriors can fight, your spiritual consciousness..."
Before he finished speaking, he saw Jiang Xin pull out a round tiger head from the spirit beast bag at his waist.
The tiger also has a pair of horns on its head.
An aura so terrifying that Yao Hengtai could hardly imagine emanated from the tiger's head, frightening Yao Hengtai so much that his legs trembled and he dared not make a sound.
Because the difference in cultivation level was so huge, he even found it difficult to judge the other party's cultivation level.
Xiao Mi didn't care about him at all. She wagged her tail in the spirit beast bag so that no one could see it, and asked in a pinched voice, "Xinxin, what did you call me for?"
Jiang Xin pointed at Yao Hengtai and said, "He is not behaving well. He won't cooperate with me when I ask him questions. Go and search his soul, and then tell me everything you see."
"Okay." Xiao Mi crawled out of the spirit beast bag, and the huge tiger body occupied a large area in the room.
It stretched comfortably, and its spread wings cast a shadow that just covered Gu Dong and Yao Hengtai.
Gu Dong’s face turned pale and his heart was trembling.
Yao Hengtai screamed after seeing the other person's whole body: "Qiongqi?"
"Oh, you have a keen eye." Xiao Mi glanced at him, and did not forget to please Jiang Xin, "Then why didn't you know the answer when Xin Xin asked a question?"
Yao Hengtai looked at Jiang Xin in horror, finally realizing what these people were confident about, and quickly said, "I'll tell you everything! My superior is the governor of Wucheng County in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and all the fake spiritual roots came from him. Not long ago, he was investigated for corruption, and the academy was worried that the matter would be exposed, so they killed his entire family in advance. So far, no new superior has contacted me."
This border is located near Wucheng County. The murder of the county magistrate's entire family was so horrific that Lin Yan and others heard others mention it in conversation while queuing up to go through the entry procedures.
The court suspected it was a vendetta, but they didn't expect the real reason to be this.
"Who did it?" Lin Yan asked.
Yao Hengtai dared not not answer: "I don't know..."
"Then how do you know it was the academy that did it?" Jiang Xin asked.
Yao Hengtai shuddered, as if he remembered the tragic death of the county magistrate's family. "The cause of death for the whole family was that their hearts and souls were pierced by wood magic at the same time, and their souls flew away. This is the method used by the academy to punish traitors. When I saw the cause of death, I knew that someone from the academy did it, but I don't know who did it."
The county magistrate’s cultivation level is at the Spirit Transformation Stage, and he was able to kill their entire family without alerting the guards. The killer’s cultivation level is at least at the Void Refinement Stage.
After being surprised, Lin Yan quickly figured it out.
It is unknown how long this "academy" has existed. Since the Devourer wants to invade the Tiancheng Spirit World, it will definitely train high-level monks to work for it.
"Where did you get the fake spiritual root in your hand?" Jiang Xin asked.
"The county magistrate gave it to me before he died." Yao Hengtai knew that after he revealed the true cause of death of the county magistrate's family, he had become a traitor to the academy, and the academy would not let him go.
If we want to survive right now, we can only place our hopes on these disciples of the immortal sect.
He was anxious to redeem himself and make amends, so Yao Hengtai confessed the rest without Jiang Xin having to ask.
Xuanlin Village was originally just an ordinary mortal village with no spiritual energy, but because of its remote location, no one cared about it, so the academy took a fancy to this place and used it to store pseudo spiritual roots.
Yao Hengtai just said that the academy is extraordinary. Not only did he want to flatter himself, but also because there are a large number of pseudo spiritual roots hidden in the underground palace of his palace.
These pseudo spiritual roots were of average quality, and some were used by Yao Hengtai himself to implant spiritual roots into candidates for the academy.
The other part will be sent to other academies in batches for the same purposes as here.
The fake spiritual roots are more or less related to the spiritual roots. As their number increases and time passes, they create the illusion that Xuanlin Village is full of spiritual energy.
As for the origins of these fake spiritual roots, Yao Hengtai knew nothing about them. They were all sent by the county magistrate.
After all, Wucheng County is the territory of the Great Zhou. There are many cultivators in the city, and it is not suitable to store so many fake spiritual roots.
However, the higher quality three-root and four-root pseudo-spiritual roots were sent elsewhere by the county magistrate and were not kept with Yao Hengtai.
"After the county magistrate died, have you contacted the higher-ups at the academy?" Ning Yao asked.
Yao Hengtai nodded: "I am responsible for distributing pseudo spiritual roots to other academies on a regular basis. I know the locations of many academies, and I can tell you all of them."
[Wow, you are so sensible now. I am embarrassed to beat you up. 】
Jiang Xin secretly gave him a thumbs up and signaled the fellow brothers to write down all the locations.
After Yao Hengtai finished speaking, Wu Xin frowned at the map and said, "Is that all?"
"That's all I know." Yao Hengtai was very tactful and even took the initiative to remind them, "The area I'm responsible for is very close to Xuanlin Village. I guess the rest of the area is where other cultivators are escorting fake spiritual roots. The academy is very ambitious, and it's definitely not limited to this amount of power."
Driven by the instinct for survival, even the mind-control techniques he had been subjected to when he entered the academy were no longer so effective.
"Why do you create so many fake spiritual root cultivators?" Ren Yuan asked.
Yao Hengtai was silent for a moment, secretly glanced at Xiao Mi who was turning over her belly in front of Jiang Xin and begging for a rub, then whispered: "I guess it's to consolidate the power of faith in the World Tree."
After saying that, he quickly glanced at the sky and breathed a sigh of relief when he was sure that he had not been punished by heaven.
It's hard to be a traitor.
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