Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)-Chapter 947: The Simplest Deductions Often Only Require Immortal Consciousness

Chapter 947: The Simplest Deductions Often Only Require Immortal Consciousness

Having learned from the experience of Lu Yang inquiring about the culprit’s identity while she herself remained ignorant, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy constantly scanned the Moon Laurel Immortal Palace with her immortal consciousness, vowing to find the culprit and salvage her dignity.

Fortunately, I’ve finally found a lead.

Just as I thought, as long as I, Huang Doudou, take charge, there’s no uncrackable case!

“Who? Bai Ye?”

Hearing the Everlasting Immortal Fairy’s sudden injection, Lu Yang found himself unable to utter the words “Palace Leader Luo,” which had been on the tip of his tongue.

“Immortal Fairy, next time, could you please share what you saw earlier?!” Lu Yang refused to believe the Everlasting Immortal Fairy hadn’t noticed anything amiss before Bai Ye started dosing the moon laurel trees.

Besides, even if it was Bai Ye, how did she manage to break the medicine repository’s great array?

“Isn’t the principle to catch the culprit red-handed? I only suspected her before; what if I had wrongfully accused that lass?” Having studied law alongside Lu Yang for so long, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy had developed quite a legal mindset.

“Senior Brother? Senior Brother Lu Yang?” Lan Ting noticed that Lu Yang had suddenly fallen silent in the middle of his analysis. Puzzled, she waved her small, fair hand before Lu Yang’s face, finally jolting him back to attention.

Lu Yang realized that he was in the middle of analyzing the case; it wasn’t the time for bickering with the Everlasting Immortal Fairy.

“Come, come, come, let me take charge of this!” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy felt that since she had uncovered the truth, she should be the one to reveal the answer! 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

How could Lu Yang be a match for the Everlasting Immortal Fairy? In an instant, his body was taken over.

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy adopted an expression as if she had just woken from a dream. “Ah, I’m here, I’m here. Where did I stop just now?”

“You just said ‘The perpetrator is none other than Luo...’ and then you stopped talking.” Lan Ting looked at “Lu Yang” with a peculiar expression, though she concealed it well.

Why does it feel like Senior Brother has become a different person?

With her extensive experience taking over Lu Yang’s body and playing as him during their time in the imperial city, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy now mimicked him with remarkable accuracy; she didn’t even refer to herself as “this immortal” anymore.

“What I meant to say just now was ‘The perpetrator is none other than the delicate and fragile Bai Ye!”

“Lu Yang” declared with confidence, “Criminals often return to the scene of the crime. If I’m not mistaken, she is currently at the moon laurel grove—the thirtieth tree in the twelfth row!”

Lan Ting was befuddled. How did Senior Brother Lu Yang deduce such a precise location? Did I miss some steps in his reasoning just now?

Just as I thought, I can’t keep up with Senior Brother Lu Yang’s thought process.

And most importantly...

“Who is Bai Ye?” She had never heard of such a person in the Moon Laurel Immortal Palace.

“You don’t know her? She comes to me every night to listen to stories,” “Lu Yang” said with a hint of resentment in “his” tone.

If not for that little lass occupying Lu Yang’s nights, Lu Yang could have spent the whole night playing snowball fights with me.

“Goes to you every night to listen to stories?” Lan Ting grew increasingly alarmed. Who is this person, skipping cultivation to secretly visit Senior Brother and get a jump on me?

“Wait, wait,” Lu Yang couldn’t help but interject from the mental space. “How could Junior Sister Lan Ting not have heard of Junior Sister Bai Ye?”

This makes it seem like I’ve been telling stories every night to someone who doesn’t exist—it’s terrifying.

“She’s something like an incarnation of the Moon Laurel Tree Ancestor, probably a secret within the immortal palace. It’s perfectly normal for Lass Lan not to have heard of her.” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy revealed Bai Ye’s identity, as if the Moon Laurel Tree Ancestor was some insignificant figure.

“Moon Laurel Tree Ancestor?!” Lu Yang was flabbergasted.

He suddenly recalled that Bai Ye had given him a pouch of moon laurel flowers to snack on. Could Bai Ye have plucked them from herself?

The Everlasting Immortal Fairy didn’t care about Lu Yang’s reaction for now. As the only person in the Moon Laurel Immortal Palace who knew the truth, she felt that her intellect had reached a transcendent realm. She was determined to capture Bai Ye in one go.

“Let’s put this aside first. We’ll go after Bai Ye now!”

With a wave of her hand, the Everlasting Immortal Fairy led Lan Ting at a brisk trot all the way to Luo Hongxia’s cave abode.

Xiao Yangzi currently has no cultivation. Even if we find Bai Ye, he can’t catch her. We’ll need Luo Hongxia, this defeated opponent, to assist.

But then again, even if Xiao Yangzi still has his cultivation, he probably can’t catch Bai Ye either.

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At the moment, Luo Hongxia also had three spirit fruits laid out before her as she pondered which one represented the thief who stole the medicinal ingredients.

Hearing a knock, she opened the door, but saw no one.

“Here, here.”

Luo Hongxia looked down and spotted two little tykes.

“Shifu, Senior Brother Lu Yang has deduced the culprit’s identity! It’s a little lass called Bai Ye. She is about my height and is in the moon laurel grove right now!”

“Who is Bai Ye?” Luo Hongxia had never heard of the name either.

But her expression quickly turned serious. Now is not the time to mull over Bai Ye’s identity. Since we have traces of the culprit’s whereabouts, the most important thing is to go to the moon laurel grove and catch her!

“Let’s go!”

After Luo Hongxia soared into the air, she noticed her two companions missing. Looking down, she saw the two little tykes frantically trotting toward the moon laurel grove.

She landed and tucked one under each arm before speeding toward the moon laurel grove again.

“Let’s go!”

Carrying the two burdens didn’t slow Luo Hongxia in the slightest. She even thoughtfully enveloped them in transparent shields to protect them from the biting wind.

Flying over the moon laurel grove, she indeed spotted a petite figure pouring something into a pit beside a moon laurel tree, muttering something under her breath.

“Thief, take this!”

Luo Hongxia dropped the two little tykes and attacked fiercely.

With the help of the shields, the two bounced a couple of times upon landing and came to a stop safely.

Seeing Luo Hongxia strike, the petite figure cursed inwardly, Oh dear! She was too engrossed in her experiments on the moon laurel trees and momentarily failed to detect Luo Hongxia’s arrival.

The petite figure seemed to have no intention of fighting. She turned and fled with such speed that only an afterimage remained, her true form having teleported to some unknown location.

Even with Luo Hongxia’s sharp vision, she couldn’t track the petite figure’s movements. She expanded her spiritual consciousness to search, but found nothing.

Recalling the petite figure’s face, she furrowed her brows. “An unfamiliar face. Could it be an outsider?”

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“What a close shave. Little Luo almost caught up to me.” The petite figure leaned against the Moon Laurel Tree Ancestor, panting from fright. She still couldn’t figure out how Luo Hongxia had discovered her.

It was as if she knew exactly where I would be; her targeting was remarkably accurate.

“Heh heh, trying to run? Do you think you can escape?” A childish laugh sounded from behind the petite figure, startling her into spinning around.

“Who’s there?!” She was certain that with her spiritual consciousness extended, she would have detected anyone approaching.

And how did this person know I’m here?

“Lu Yang?” the petite figure exclaimed in surprise. How could it be Lu Yang?

“Lass Bai Ye, come back with me obediently and admit your mistakes.” The Everlasting Immortal Fairy smirked smugly. No matter how fast Bai Ye is, how could she outpace my immortal consciousness?

Caught red-handed—a meritorious achievement!

The petite figure snorted coldly. “I’m not Bai Ye. I’m Bai Ri.”[1]

Within the mental space, Lu Yang vaguely remembered hearing this name somewhere and started.

“Bai Ri... Why do I recall that the founder of the immortal palace, the Moonchaser True Person, was called Bai Ri?”

1. “Ye” means night, and “ri” means day. ☜