"Very smart, Yang Wei." Elder Shan clapped her hands as she praised Yang Wei's intelligence.
Yang Wei twitched his mouth at her compliment.
'Anyone with a brain cell can guess it easily.' Yang Wei exclaimed inwardly but smiled brightly on the surface.
"Thank you for the praise, Elder Shan." Yang Wei said as he cupped his fist.
"Tch, can't you do better in acting?" Elder Shan pouted as she saw through his fake sarcasm.
"I thought I was doing pretty good imitating you." Yang Wei shrugged.
Elder Shan ignored his teasing as she walked forward and took a seat down.
Afterward, she snapped her finger and the room became isolated from others.
Yang Wei glanced around suspiciously as he wondered why he was dragged into this secretive room.
"It seemed like being a witness for testimony is just a facade for others." Yang Wei muttered in a low tone.
"Indeed, the testimony was merely a facade so that you wouldn't look suspicious to others." Elder Shan confirmed his thought process.
Yang Wei sighed softly as he took a seat down. "Why am I being brought here in such secrecy?"
The room turned silent, and Elder Shan started rubbing her chins, seemingly in deep thought about how to process her explanation.
Clearly, she wasn't prepared in her thought about how to explain things to Yang Wei.
"Did you forget your goal in bringing me here?" Yang Wei asked when Elder Shan stopped speaking for the last few minutes.
Elder Shan laughed bitterly as she nodded her head.
"Can't blame me when those perfumes emitting from your body are so strong?" Elder Shan shoved the blame onto Yang Wei.
"I had washed my body multiple times so there's no way you can smell the perfume still." Yang Wei retorted as he defended himself.
However, the next moment, his face turned ashen when he realized what he had just uttered in front of her.
"Hehe, I knew it." Elder Shan raised her hand and pointed at Yang Wei.
"I knew you had been sleeping with Su Mingxia and you just had to go and admit it yourself." She added.
"You were guessing it previously?" Yang Wei asked in a dumbfounded tone.
Elder Shan was extremely confident when she said that he had been sleeping with Su Mingxia so he didn't expect she was merely guessing.
Sometime later, Elder Shan regained her composure as she winked at Yang Wei.
Yang Wei ignored her flirting technique as he decided to stay cool and calm from her misleading words.
"Anyway, the reason why Elder Jing and I order you to come here secretly without letting the others know is that we'll have to investigate something." Elder Shan turned solemn as she began to explain the true motive.
Yang Wei's demeanor changed as well as he asked her, "Could it be related to Tang Xin?"
"Yes, according to the interrogation about Qin Xiaobo, the modified pills he obtained were actually from one of the elders in our sect." Elder Shan revealed a shocking truth.
"W-Wait a minute, didn't Elder Jing say Qin Xiaobo brought the modified pill from someone in the alchemist guild?" Yang Wei quickly added.
The reason why Elder Jing left the sect to the alchemist guild despite the current lockdown was to meet up with Tang Xin's former master.
Elder Shan smiled as she flicked her hand at Yang Wei. "It seems like your brain is working fine since you managed to understand my words. Yes, Elder Jing was meeting with Alchemist Guo, and don't confuse him with Elder Guo."
"Why would I be confused about them?" Yang Wei raised an eyebrow. "Alchemist Guo's name has a different writing character when compared to Elder Guo's name and they have different meanings as well."
"Just making sure, Yang Wei." Elder Shan laughed.
"People have sometimes confused those two since you probably didn't know this but Elder Guo was an alchemist." She added.
"E-Elder Guo was an alchemist?" Yang Wei became alarmed as he questioned this statement.
He had met with Elder Guo once and there were never any lingering herbs around him that indicates he was an alchemist.
Usually, when a person is an alchemist, they would have the smell of medicinal herbs because they had been dealing with them through a cauldron.
Thus, Yang Wei found it hard to believe that Elder Guo was an alchemist.
"I know it's hard for you to believe but Elder Guo is indeed an alchemist and used to work under Elder Jing." Elder Shan said.
Elder Shan then turned around and grabbed a few files for Yang Wei to look over.
"Take a look at these names and their affiliation." She instructed.
Yang Wei nodded his head.
After spending a little over an hour going through the files, Yang Wei's expression turned grave as he realized this incident was getting bigger.
The modified pills had been around for a while already and Elder Jing was lucky enough to catch one of the disciples using it.
Yang Wei closed the files as he looked at Elder Shan.
"Our sect has been targeted by Tang Xin's lackey and they have been distributing those modified pills." Elder Shan said as she drank a cup of tea.
"How many disciples in the Feather Wind Sect have been using those modified pills?" Yang Wei decided to ask her.
"So far we have detected around 13 disciples, with most of them being an inner disciple." Elder Shan replied as she stared at Yang Wei.
"Currently, our sect is in a dire situation. We'll need to find all the disciples who were in cahoots with Tang Xin as we cannot imagine the consequences when Tang Xin decided to show himself."
Yang Wei was speechless as he understood her meaning.
"To prevent Tang Xin's scheme from succeeding and rooting out the traitors in our sect, I have been tasked to investigate this as an inner disciple, right?" Yang Wei then said as he held a complicated expression.
They were giving him a very burdensome task to accomplish.
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