Jin Liwei nodded his head "they used the people whom they have to bless as heaven officials for placing the curse. They started this plan after some time from Yan's berserk when they felt their cultivation was at a bottleneck, Official Zong, Official Song resulted as the prime suspects, but later many officials very revealed their involvement"
Bai Qiuran placed his hand on Yan's shaking hand, clutching tightly he spoke "what are the casualties?"
Jin Liwei "worse at first they conducted this kind of practice a total of 6 times, the first two times everyone died by the curse, they were two survivors from the next three, then the last practice succeeded on people with strong mental aptitude and cultivation"
Xiuying closed her folding fan at once "the punishment that Lu Si Cheng gave them on punishing their younger generations, you can't believe they made full use of it" her words confused the crowd
Huan Mei took a sip of the tea before speaking to clear their confusion "that curse they disguised as the punishment to use it on their available experimental pieces"
Jin Qiang "what?! how can they even not flinch doing these horrible things to their own kin"
Ye Tianxin chuckled in mocking as he said "A front-run thought when doing tactics is to do what you can with what you have"
Huan Mei "the choice of victims they choose are within their range and unrecognized they got nothing for them to keep at stake nor to make their plan a failure"
Ye Qiran interrupted them "they have Lu Man Man's seal and its original, the officials have access to the seal"
Ye Qinyang "if what elder sister said is true then any evidence gathered or can be gathered would end up in their favour"
Bai Quiran remained silent through their discussion as he went deep into his thoughts, Yan narrowed her eyes realizing something "victims...scapegoats.... martial Aunt's seal..." Yan squinted her eyes tightly, before suddenly opening her eyes she snapped
"From the start, we are looking from the wrong direction, all your information, shreds of evidence everything points to their grand plan how come? if anything they are not the ones to plan so easily that their opponents can catch them with just a drop of hints"
Ran squinted her eyes along with Yan "drop of hints here and there...? come to think of it all these were revealed in a timely manner just before the summoning"
Huan Mei "interesting so they planned this whole sidereal with the summoning in mind to distract us from finding their main motive"
Xiuying "the question here is what's the big motive they are hiding which possibly related in taking so many lives"
Jin Liwei who was silently listening to their reasoning "the people they bribed at my territory and the traitors we discovered all were manipulated to speak the same, all their reasons pointed towards officials or rather should I say they blamed everything on the officials" said at once
Jin Fen said "brother you mean the title reputations they accumulated through years with Uncle Bai's incident, those rumors, and their attitude towards this incident as a cover-up to the whole sidereal we discovered"
Ye Qinyang smirked "more like they made us believe that's what we discovered"
Ye Tianxin took a deep breath as he said "I am not getting the slightest idea on why their playing this game of hide and seek, but one thing is for sure in their view we are prey and they are the predators"
he flipped his fan to a side "they may not have a watch on us but they always emphasized us untamed wild beasts in every summoning held by the Authorities"
Ji Fen gave a weird smile "then it's much better if that they think of us like the wild beasts since the raw predator instincts of a wild beast in danger, is not accounted in their view"
Jin Qiang "Jin Fen don't make any move until we decide on a strategy, a blind battle is nothing but making trouble for ourselves"
Bai Qiuran "in the game of chess, playing as a chess piece or as a player has to be decided themselves, so try making a move on their own people in open, the traitors may not necessarily be formed from the start, they can form when the time is right" oozing his aura,
Bai Qiuran is very close to losing his sanity in the countless games these officials were playing in his life, his disciples, his people, his daughter. Choices of choosing people close to him as the chess pieces for their game.
he had enough of this nonsense he decided to make every one of them pay for all this stench of bloodthirst they created, he would make sure to make them question their choices, Bai Qiuran's eyes held the same emotion that he had when he first turned for revenge.