Chapter 80 Third Hall’s Secret Trial (3 Updates)

Third Hall dark chamber.Shushing sound—

Shushing sound—

A woman leaned over, taking notes of something.

"Are you a demon?"

"...No." —Lie.

"Second question, do you know Shuang Xuyao?"

"I don’t know!" —Lie.

"Have you been cursed by a demon?"

"...Yes!" —Lie.

This was recorded.

Suddenly, the woman stopped writing.

She stood up and respectfully bowed to the three seated high up in the front.

"Lords of the Third Hall, Ding Hui asks, shall we continue? According to the agreement, she wants this person."

Three people on the high seats.

One tasting tea.

One reading books.

One with eyes closed, resting.

"No need."

The tea taster put down his cup and stood up to leave.

"Let her do as she pleases."

Closing the book, that person looked out of the window.

"...Continue."

The one resting slowly opened his eyes.

With the tea taster gone, the other two remained seated high up.

Interrogation room.

"They said to continue," Ding Hui said with a smile.

Li Baizhen seemed thoughtful, trying to fathom the thoughts of those lords.

After a moment, he asked.

"You killed the Hidden Light Demon a few days ago..."

At this moment, Fang Yu’s palms were sweating.

Since entering the room, this cursed candle has been flashing red light.

Enough already! You’re just a broken candle, acting like a lie detector!

Even if Li Baizhen didn’t explicitly say so, Fang Yu could see how dire his situation was.

Damn it!

Didn’t Yue Guang say he had switched the item? This damn thing hardly looks like it’s been switched!

Fang Yu was so lost in his wild thoughts, he barely heard what Li Baizhen was asking.

He felt he must do something, or he was truly doomed.

"Lord Li Baizhen, I..."

"Shush—"

Li Baizhen raised a finger to his lips.

"You may not ask questions; you can only answer. Otherwise, the interrogation ends now."

The interrogation ending now would clearly be very bad.

Seeing that Fang Yu complied, Li Baizhen asked again.

"A few days ago, when you killed the Hidden Light Demon and saved the Foolish Underworld folks, were you instructed by Shuang Xuyao?"

"No!"

Fang Yu answered decisively.

But at the same time, he suddenly realized something.

That was that Shuang Xuyao, damn it, must have betrayed the demons.

Wasn’t the plan to elevate status by killing demons Shuang Xuyao’s own doing? Now that Li Baizhen knows about this, it means Shuang Xuyao has confessed everything!

Li Baizhen looked towards the candlelight.

The anticipated blood color did not appear.

He then glanced at Ding Hui, who smiled and nodded slightly.

Li Baizhen slightly frowned; this outcome was a bit different than he expected.

But the question’s direction might be what those above wanted to see.

Thinking it over, Li Baizhen asked again.

"A few days ago, during the fight with the Hidden Light Demon, were you cursed by a demon?"

"No!"

The candlelight remained unchanged.

Sincerity, the ultimate technique!

"Then how did you manage to survive decapitation?"

"Because..." Fang Yu started, then suddenly thought of something and changed his mind: "...that is my secret."

The candlelight remained unchanged.

Li Baizhen smiled.

Grown quite fast.

Interrogations were never that simple.

Or rather, such answers are precisely what interrogators grapple with.

"Shuang Xuyao had a plan to infiltrate by killing a demon to elevate his status among humans. What you did that day nearly matches this; do you know about this?"

"...I do."

The candlelight remained unchanged.

But Li Baizhen didn’t even need to look at the candlelight.

"Did you do this for him?"

"It was all a coincidence."

The candlelight remained unchanged.

Li Baizhen’s brows furrowed.

If that’s the case, things were getting complicated.

Li Baizhen looked towards Ding Hui.

Ding Hui shook her head slightly.

Are the people above not responding?

Then...

"Are you a demon?"

"No!"

Blood light, fills the room.

Damn!

Broken candle, don’t let me catch you, I’ll break you into eighteen pieces and stomp on you!

Li Baizhen seemed to have anticipated this, as this question was asked before.

So, he immediately asked the next question.

"Are you human?"

"Yes!"

The candlelight... remains unchanged.

At this moment, Li Baizhen suddenly stood up, looking at Fang Yu with surprise and skepticism.

Ding Hui’s cheeks, filled with an excited flush, eyes spirited.

If the artifact is not malfunctioning.

Then the person before him is judged by the artifact to be both a demon and a human!

Third Hall’s darkroom.

"Are you a demon?"

"No!" —— Lie.

"Are you human?

"Yes!" —— Truth.

High above in the hall.

The cultivator of Yangshen Hall has stood up.

The scholar looks surprised.

The two exchanged glances.

Finally, the scholar wrote two characters on the white paper.

"Amnesty."

Pen drops, the scholar nods slightly at his colleague and then walks out.

"Sending off Lord Juanan Hall Master!"

Lady below bows and sends off.

"Set this person’s identity information at top-secret level."

"Place the person by Li Baizhen’s side; this person is of great use."

The Yangshen person, leaving these words, also strides away.

"Sending off Lord Yangshen Hall Master!"

Interrogation room.

Ding Hui received the information.

Opening his eyes, looking towards Fang Yu with a hint of regret.

"It’s over."

"What?"

Fang Yu was stunned.

"What?"

Li Baizhen was also taken aback.

Ding Hui whispered a few words into Li Baizhen’s ear, and Li Baizhen’s eyebrows relaxed.

After their quiet discussion, Ding Hui suddenly blew out the candle.

The candlelight extinguished.

The room plunged into darkness.

Li Baizhen stood up.

Took a few steps.

Creak.

The previously vanished door was opened by him.

Light shone in, Fang Yu felt as if transported to another world.

Is it... is it over?

Why??

Fang Yu was confused.

However, regardless, this meant that his identity in the Foolish Underworld was cleansed!

Holy shit!

Thinking this, Fang Yu felt his every action become more righteous.

He seemed to hear a triumphant background music in his ears ’The light of righteousness shines on the earth!’

"Let’s go, I know you have many questions, we’ll talk as we walk."

Li Baizhen spoke.

Ding Hui walked ahead of Fang Yu, stopped suddenly at the door, blocking the way.

Fang Yu confusedly stopped, only to see Ding Hui turn around, suddenly reaching out towards Fang Yu’s face.

The cold touch made Fang Yu instinctively want to step back, but he forcefully restrained himself.

This amused Ding Hui, who giggled again.

"Too bad, you would have been mine."

With that, Ding Hui grabbed Fang Yu’s right hand, raised his sleeve, and pressed her finger on Fang Yu’s forearm skin.

"What are you going to do..."

— Zzz —

Ding Hui’s finger slid upwards!

Like a surgical knife, it directly carved open Fang Yu’s arm skin, creating a long laceration, and blood began to emerge.

Fang Yu: !!!

As if a stress response.

Rustle—

Almost the moment the blood emerged, a large amount of white Bone Powder spilled from the pores of Fang Yu’s arm, quickly covering the wound and forming a small piece of Bone Armor.

This startled Ding Hui.

Snap!

At this moment, Li Baizhen suddenly reached out and grabbed Fang Yu’s arm.

"So it’s you!"