"Chief Steward Pi is dead?" Zuan was stunned. "How is that possible?"
"That's the truth. You'd better run! You're the last hope of the True Demon Clan. You can't let anything happen to you," the Grand Elder urged anxiously.
Zuan was somewhat dismissive: "It's not that serious. I didn't kill Steward Pi. At most, I had a little conflict with him. Even if the Demon Lord is angry, he wouldn't want to kill me."
Upon hearing his words, the Grand Elder's expression immediately became extremely strange. He gave Zu'an a deep look: "Wasn't it you who killed Steward Pi?"
Zuan frowned: "What are you saying, Elder?"
The elder looked at Jiang Luofu and Ji Xiaoxi beside him: "I was discussing something with you in the secret room earlier, and then I learned that Steward Pi was harassing your maid at the herb field. You were furious and rushed over. There was a verbal conflict between the two sides. He first killed the guards who were harassing the two girls, and then he killed the toad follower next to him."
"I know all that. I taught him a lesson later, but didn't I let him go after you persuaded me to?" Zu'an felt a little confused.
The Grand Elder hesitated several times before finally saying, "You did let him go, but Steward Pi made a threat when he left, saying he would report to the Demon Lord and punish you, and would bring more experts to deal with you. He would even play with your two maids right in front of you..."
Upon hearing this, the women immediately showed anger on their faces; this Steward Pi was really going too far.
The Grand Elder continued, "You were furious when you heard this, saying that rather than let him stir up trouble and seek revenge later, it would be better to nip the danger in the bud. So you chased after him and killed Steward Pi and all the guards. At that time..."
"Wait a minute!" Zu'an hurriedly interrupted him. "That's true what happened before, but I didn't chase after him afterwards. I came straight back."
A hint of doubt even arose in his mind, wondering if the Grand Elder had deliberately plotted against him, trying to force him to do something for him.
However, this method is rather clumsy.
The elder sighed and looked at him with a complicated expression: "Donar, there are no outsiders here, why do you have to say these veiled things in front of me?"
Seeing that he spoke so convincingly, Zu'an felt even more confused: "I really didn't kill Steward Pi, what does the Grand Elder mean by saying that?"
The elder pointed to Jiang Luofu and Ji Xiaoxi beside him: "You think I'm lying to you, but surely the people around you wouldn't lie to you, would they? Why don't you ask them?"
Zuan was taken aback and looked directly at the two women, thinking to himself, "Why should I ask them? How could they possibly agree with what you say?"
The next second, Jiang Luofu said with a complicated expression, "Master, it was indeed you who killed Steward Pi."
Ji Xiaoxi's tears streamed down her face as she wiped them away, her voice trembling with sobs, "It's all my fault. If I hadn't gone out to gather herbs, none of this would have happened."
Pei Mianman hugged her and comforted her: "How can this be blamed on you? It was Steward Pi who had already brought about his own death."
Zu An was startled, and hurriedly reached out to grab Jiang Luofu and Ji Xiaoxi's hands, his face extremely gloomy.
Ji Xiaoxi blushed and for a moment forgot about crying. She thought to herself, "It's so embarrassing for my brother Zu to hold my hand in front of so many older sisters."
Wait a minute, why is he holding his aunt's hand too? Could it be...?
Although Jiang Luofu appeared calm on the surface, her heart was pounding wildly.
The two rarely had such physical intimacy, and she was momentarily dazed.
However, she quickly noticed the strange looks from the other women and immediately realized what was happening. She hurriedly tried to pull her hand away, but in front of the Grand Elder, she suddenly remembered that she was now the young master's female slave, so she couldn't just pull her hand away directly. She could only say in a trembling voice, "You... what's wrong with you?"
Zuan frowned. He had been worried that the two women were being controlled by something like the Heart-Eating Spider, which was why he had been talking nonsense with the Grand Elder earlier.
However, an examination of both individuals revealed no abnormalities.
The question then arises: why would they lie and collude with the Grand Elder to frame him for such a crime?
Whether it was Ji Xiaoxi or Jiang Luofu, he believed that neither of them would ever harm him.
At this moment, Xie Daoyun advised, "Young master, now is not the time to dwell on whether or not the other party should be killed. Now that they have been killed, we should think about how to deal with the situation next."
The elder nodded secretly, thinking to himself that Donal was truly skilled; these women were all devoted to him.
Zu An was startled, then looked at the other women with disbelief on his face: "Do you also think that I killed Steward Pi?"
The women nodded slightly: "Didn't you just come back and tell us about this?"
The women looked at each other, their expressions full of worry.
Firstly, I was worried about the serious consequences of killing Steward Pi, and secondly, I felt that Zu'an was really strange these days. Could it be that it had been possessed by some kind of demon?
Despite the sweltering heat, Zu An felt a chill run down his spine, rising straight to his head.
What's going on?
It's one thing for Jiang Luofu and Ji Xiaoxi to say that, but why did all the other women say the same thing?
For a moment, he even wavered, wondering if he had been too tired lately, causing his memory to become confused.
However, he quickly dismissed this guess. With his current cultivation level, he could almost have a photographic memory. Moreover, after communicating with the world's will, his understanding of power was now far superior to what it had been before.
He couldn't possibly have misremembered something that happened so recently.
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