Chapter 124 Her adoptive father’s enemies blamed her for being ungrateful!
Si Yuan ignored Wan Zhongquan who suddenly called him grandpa so happily. He watched Wan Buyin being tied up and tortured with an expressionless face. But as soon as the whip came down, Wan Zhongquan screamed even more miserably than when the whip hit him himself: "Ah - Huo Siyuan, tell them to stop! Come at me if you dare, don't hurt the young master!"
Si Yuan looked at Wan Zhongquan and said calmly, "Whenever you answer my question, I will tell them to stop."
The original plot clearly hinted that the person who leaked the Sunset Sect's peerless martial art "Heaven and Earth Sorrow" to Master Wan was the traitor Ding Yuan. However, after Si Yuan traveled through time and took over all of the original owner's memories, he learned that "Heaven and Earth Sorrow", a peerless martial art that allows one to die together with the enemy, is a forbidden martial art in the Sunset Sect. Unless it is necessary, the sect's disciples will never be allowed to learn it, and they are not even allowed to know about it.
Unless this disciple is about to take over the position of the headmaster, he is qualified to know the existence of "Heaven and Earth Sorrow".
The original owner was told this secret by the previous leader the night before he took over as the new leader.
Although Ding Yuan was a direct disciple that the original owner valued very much, the original owner had not actually decided to let Ding Yuan inherit the position of the head of the sect. Compared to Ding Yuan, who had a somewhat impetuous temperament, the steady eldest disciple was more to the original owner's liking.
In addition, the original owner was young and strong, and had no plans to find a successor for the time being, so the only one in the entire Sunset Sect who knew the secret of "Heaven and Earth Sorrow" was the original owner. Perhaps some of the old people in the past knew something, but no one would tell this secret to Ding Yuan.
Therefore, it should be impossible for Ding Yuan to know that the Sunset Sect has a peerless magical skill called "Heaven and Earth Sorrow".
At first Si Yuan thought that Ding Yuan had accidentally learned about "Heaven and Earth Sorrow" without the original owner knowing. However, he did not expect that after catching Ding Yuan, he was locked up and tortured during interrogation. Ding Yuan did not say that he knew what secret skills the Sunset Sect had - so Ding Yuan might really not know the existence of "Heaven and Earth Sorrow".
I have always believed that it was Ding Yuan who told Master Wan the secret that brought disaster to the Sunset Sect. But now it seems that Master Wan was the one who first knew that the Sunset Sect had such a magical secret book, so he took the initiative to approach Ding Yuan and bribed him to poison him.
So who told Master Wan about the existence of "Heaven and Earth Sorrow"?
Si Yuan placed his suspicion on the high-ranking officials of the Sunset Sect. Most of these senior elders were the direct disciples of the previous leader, or the direct descendants of the previous generation of elders. Apart from the leader, the only people who might know this secret were these senior elders.
This was also the reason why Si Yuan, who had created a more powerful martial arts secret manual, passed it on to his young daughter Huo Yunzi, and did not pass it on to the senior elders of the Sunset Sect.
If those elders had started practicing the martial arts secrets created by Si Yuan early on, they would probably be able to break through the innate realm soon, and the strength of the Sunset Sect would increase rapidly.
However, Si Yuan would rather spend more energy supporting the Sunset Sect than pass on the secret book to this group of senior elders and let them strengthen their strength to share his burden. This is because the real traitor who has not been found yet may be hiding among them.
Si Yuan was unwilling to allow the traitor who deliberately betrayed his own sect and caused the destruction of the Sunset Sect to practice the magical secret book that he had spent several hours to create.
After catching Wan Buyin, Si Yuan tried to interrogate Wan Buyin, hoping to find out from him the identity of the traitor who leaked "Heaven and Earth Sorrow".
Unexpectedly, Wan Buyin was truly unaware of the things his biological father had done. It was not until Master Wan was killed by Si Yuan and his true face as a hypocrite was exposed by his confidants that Wan Buyin realized what his biological father had done.
It would be really difficult for Wan Buyin to know the details of the "good things" done by the master of Wanzhuang and the list of his accomplices.
However, even though Wan Buyin, his son, was unaware of these things, Wan Zhongquan, his trusted subordinate, might not be unaware of them.
Si Yuan had long heard that Wan Zhongquan was the strongest and most loyal subordinate under Master Wan Manor. Even the name Wan Zhongquan was given to him by Master Wan Manor himself after he was loyal and made great contributions.
Wan Zhongquan is also proud of this name, which has been changed to the point that even his surname has changed.
With such a trusted subordinate, Master Wan would definitely not avoid him in anything he does, and he would even have to rely on him.
After arresting Wan Zhongquan, Si Yuan asked him tentatively. As expected, judging from Wan Zhongquan's reaction, he really knew who the traitor in the Sunset Sect was who revealed the secret of "Heaven and Earth Sorrow" to Master Wan.
As for Wan Zhongquan who refused to say anything? Oh, there are plenty of ways to make him speak.
Now he had just started to try the first method. As soon as Wan Zhong Quan opened his mouth, the opponent couldn't bear it. All the subsequent methods to pry open Wan Zhong Quan's mouth had no chance of being used.
In order to prevent his loyal manor owner's only descendant from continuing to be tortured, Wan Zhongquan said honestly, "It was the great elder of your Sunset Sect who sent someone to inform our manor owner of this matter."
Si Yuan judged that he was lying almost as soon as he opened his mouth to mention the Great Elder.
On the night when the Sunset Sect was exterminated, the sect's grand elder almost risked his life to hold back several masters of the same level. Even though Si Yuan rescued him in time, his martial arts skills had regressed greatly.
If Si Yuan had not arrived in time, the Great Elder would have died. How could he be the traitor who betrayed the Sunset Sect?
Of course, the most important evidence is that Si Yuan can sense the subtle mental fluctuations of Wan Zhongquan when he speaks and judge whether he is telling the truth or lying.
No one can hide his mental fluctuations so well when lying, unless the other person's spiritual strength is far superior to Si Yuan, making it impossible for Si Yuan to detect his mental fluctuations.
There are such strong people in the Tiancang Realm, but in this small martial arts world, no one can lie in front of Si Yuan without being discovered by him.
Si Yuan directly picked up the dagger that Wan Zhongquan carried with him, stabbed Wan Buyin in front of Wan Zhongquan, and then said slowly: "You are lying to me."
Wan Zhongquan looked at Si Yuan with horror.
Wan Buyin painfully swallowed back the scream that was about to come to his mouth. He glared at Si Yuan and Wan Zhongquan and wanted to curse, "Wan Zhongquan lied to you, why did you stab him? Why did you stab me?"
If he really asked, Si Yuan would probably reply: That's because if I stab you, it will hurt you physically, but it will hurt him in his heart!
No matter who you stab, Wanzhongquan will be able to take this attack.
Wan Zhongquan didn't know how Si Yuan judged that he was lying. Looking at the blood gushing out of Wan Buyin's body, he regretted in his heart that he shouldn't have thought of provoking the relationship between Huo Siyuan and the Grand Elder of the Sunset Sect and framed the incident on the Grand Elder of the Sunset Sect.
Si Yuan said calmly: "Wan Zhongquan, if you lie to me once, I will make a hole in your young master's house. I am also very curious about how many holes your young master can persist in making..."
No matter how angry Wan Zhongquan looked, Si Yuan remained unmoved and had the aura of a villain boss.
Wan Buyin, weakly hanging on the cross, supported by the ropes that bound him, murmured feebly, "Why am I always the one who gets hurt?"
Si Yuan inserted the dagger stained with his blood into the wooden stake next to Wan Buyin's face and said with a smile: "There is really no other way. Wan Zhongquan is a tough guy who refuses to give in. I can only use you to threaten him."
Wan Buyin: “…” So he is just a tool used to threaten Wan Zhongquan, right?
Wan Buyin turned his head weakly and looked at Wan Zhongquan who was staring at him in the darkness with a pair of eyes as big as copper bells. What was there for that traitor to keep secret for him? Hurry up and tell the person to save him!
Although Wan Buyin kept saying that he wanted to avenge his father, he never thought that his father's behavior of wanting to wipe out the entire Sunset Sect for his own selfish desires was right. He hated even more the traitor within the Sunset Sect who told his father the news about the secret manual of the magical power and lured his father into making such a wrong decision.
Wan Buyin is just an ordinary person after all. He stands for justice rather than relatives, but he knows who is right and who is wrong, so he can't help but vent his anger on others. He thinks that his father went astray and was led astray by malicious outsiders.
Wan Zhongquan actually had similar thoughts. He didn't think that Master Wan had taken the wrong path. He just resented the traitor for passing the news to his own master, who ended up killing him. He kept the identity of the traitor secret only because Si Yuan was now his number one target of hatred, so he didn't want to reveal the identity of the traitor and let Si Yuan get his wish, thinking that the traitor might be able to hide in the dark and trick Si Yuan in the future.
Wan Zhongquan gritted his teeth and said, "Master Huo, wait a minute, don't hurt the young master. I'm telling you, the one who actually told the master the secret was the fifth elder of your Sunset Sect."
When Si Yuan heard what Wan Zhongquan said, he stabbed Wan Buyin again, leaving a second bloody hole. Wan Zhongquan screamed in horror: "What are you doing? Didn't I tell you that I was the traitor? Why did you still want to hurt the young master?"
Si Yuan blinked and saw that Wan Zhongquan's mental fluctuations were indeed normal, which meant that he really did not lie this time.
So he calmly retracted the dagger and said lightly: "Sorry, my hand was a little quick. I thought you didn't care about your young master's life, and you would definitely tell me a false candidate this time, so I subconsciously stabbed him first..."
Wan Buyin: “…” Damn it, why is it always me who gets hurt?
Si Yuan was not too surprised to learn that the traitor of the Sunset Sect was the Fifth Elder.
Because when Si Yuan was investigating the top leaders of the Sunset Sect, the person he most suspected was the Fifth Elder.
Because the fifth elder is the original owner's direct senior brother, and also the direct disciple of the previous master.
The heir who was initially valued by the previous master was actually this eldest direct disciple.
It was just because he was obsessed with love when he was young and became a love-brained person, which made his master extremely disappointed in him, so he gave up on him and instead made the original owner's second disciple the successor to the head of the sect.
He, the eldest direct disciple, was only appointed as an ordinary fifth elder.
If we were to ask who among the elders is most likely to know this secret that only the sect leader can know, it would be the fifth elder who was once trained as the sect leader's successor.
But Si Yuan was not sure that the traitor was the Fifth Elder before, because the Fifth Elder was seriously injured on the night of the massacre, which almost cut off the hope of a breakthrough in the future. He was unwilling to believe that the Fifth Elder, who fought so hard for the Sunset Sect, would be the traitor who brought disaster to the Sunset Sect.
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