149: Confusing right and wrong

"What do you mean!?"

Elder Ouyang's heart trembled as he feigned confusion and questioned.

Liu Jiangyi shrugged, "If you confess now, perhaps they might spare you, but if you remain unrepentant, then you'll lose face."

"What exactly are you talking about, kid?" Dai Liu said unhappily, "There's clearly nothing unusual on the ground here, and we haven't sensed any compartments below."

"What are you going crazy for?"

"Exactly! What are you going crazy for?" Elder Ouyang was already a bit nervous.

Liu Jiangyi came straight here the moment he entered.

This gave him a somewhat bad premonition.

"Heh heh, he won't shed a tear until he sees the coffin!"

Liu Jiangyi didn't bother to say more, forming his right hand into a palm and slamming it towards the ground!

Boom!

With a loud bang.

The floor instantly shattered.

A half-meter deep pit appeared, and within it, a horizontal stone door was revealed!

The stone door was carved with Formations to conceal its Qi and reinforce it.

Even when seen with the naked eye, one still couldn't sense the Qi of this stone door!

Hiss!

The moment they saw the stone door, everyone gasped!

"This... what's going on?"

"Damn! There really is a hidden layer underground!?"

"We didn't sense anything at all, how did this kid manage it?"

"Elder Ouyang! How do you explain this!?" Dai Liu's face turned cold.

Elder Ouyang had clearly been deliberately concealing this hidden layer just now.

If he wasn't guilty, why would he hide it?

Elder Ouyang was terrified to the extreme in his heart, but his face still feigned ignorance, "This... Oh dear! Look at my memory!"

"Right, right, right, when this Immortal Cave was first built, I did make a hidden layer to store treasures, but later I found it wasn't very useful, so I buried it when I renovated."

"It's been more than ten years in a blink of an eye, I've completely forgotten about it."

"Heh heh, really?" Liu Jiangyi sneered, "It's understandable that Elder Ouyang is getting forgetful in his old age, but shouldn't you open this stone door and let everyone take a look?"

"I... I already said I forgot about the existence of this stone door, so how could we remember how to open it?"

"You don't remember?" Dai Liu and the others' expressions changed.

This lie was a bit too crude.

"No matter! Nothing is impossible to open. Since Elder Ouyang has forgotten, why don't we trouble Elder Dai and the others to help open this stone door?"

"No! Absolutely not!"

Elder Ouyang shouted, "This stone door is extremely sturdy. If it's broken, my main hall won't be safe, then where will I live!?"

"No matter!" Dai Liu already had deep suspicions.

He stepped forward, "If we open the stone door and find nothing inside, then this old man will give you his Immortal Cave."

"You!"

"Elder Ouyang! The situation is very unfavorable for you right now. If you continue to obstruct, we will have no choice but to report this matter to the Sect Master!"

Sect Master?

Then he would surely die!

He dared not speak further, feigning anger, "Alright, alright! You can smash it if you want, what am I afraid of when I'm upright and open?"

"Dai Liu! Remember what you said, if there's nothing here, your Immortal Cave will be mine!"

Elder Ouyang's confident demeanor indeed made Dai Liu and the others hesitate for a moment.

But the arrow was already on the string and had to be shot.

Dai Liu gritted his teeth and strode to the stone door.

He formed his right hand into a fist and slammed it down fiercely.

Rumble!

A loud bang erupted, shaking the main hall and causing much dust to fall.

However, the stone door only showed a slight crack and was not broken open at all.

Elder Ouyang's heart was in his throat.

He kept praying for the stone door to hold up.

However!

He still overestimated the stone door.

Thump, thump, thump...

After more than a dozen punches.

The stone door finally couldn't withstand the immense pressure and shattered with a crash!

The moment it shattered.

The Qi of the enlightenment stone rushed out.

Everyone looked inside.

Sure enough, they saw a white, palm-sized stone lying quietly within.

"An enlightenment stone! It really is an enlightenment stone!"

"Damn! Elder Ouyang, I didn't expect the enlightenment stone to really be stolen by you!"

"You, Elder Ouyang, as the Grand Elder of our Immortal Sword Sect, actually committed such a despicable act of framing and slandering, you are dead!"

The Elders immediately roared in anger.

"No! Impossible! How could the enlightenment stone be here with me?"

"No! This is completely wrong! This is a setup, it must be this kid who deliberately placed the enlightenment stone here to frame me!"

"Exactly! This is a setup, just think about it, I myself forgot about this treasure vault, and none of you could sense it. If I had secretly placed it here, with this kid's strength, how could it be that you couldn't find it, but he could go straight to this place the moment he entered?"

"This must be because he knew the matter was exposed, so he immediately hid the enlightenment stone here to deliberately frame me!"

"Despicable! You're so damn despicable!"

Liu Jiangyi: ???

What the hell?

Even at this point, he could still jump up and bite back?

This old guy really is shameless, isn't he?

However!

Elder Ouyang's words actually made Dai Liu and the others hesitate.

"This... what Elder Ouyang said seems to make some sense."

"Yeah, we couldn't find this place, how could he?"

"Something's not right, this is indeed very strange."

"..."

Seeing that Elder Ouyang was about to distort the truth again, Liu Jiangyi smiled.

In fact, Liu Jiangyi had long anticipated this.

At this moment, Dai Liu questioned Liu Jiangyi, "Do you have anything to say in defense of what Elder Ouyang said?"

Liu Jiangyi said proudly, "Does this even need defending? Couldn't anyone with a brain see that he's lying at a glance?"

Whoosh!

Dai Liu and the others' expressions changed.

What does that mean?

Saying that they had no brains?

Liu Jiangyi, holding the tsar bomba, was naturally not afraid.

He didn't leave directly but looked for the enlightenment stone, also to prevent Gu Qingyun from being disheartened.

Otherwise, if Gu Qingyun thought he had deceived him again, he would definitely give up completely.

After all, Gu Qingyun was his savior.

Without Gu Qingyun, Liu Jiangyi would have certainly died in the dungeon.

So he couldn't ignore Gu Qingyun.

Liu Jiangyi glanced at Elder Ouyang and said, "Since you all insist on me saying a few words, then I'll explain it to you properly."

"First, I would like to ask you all, how long did it take you to discover I killed someone and then capture me?"

"Uh... less than an incense stick's time?" an Elder said.

"Exactly, less than an incense stick's time!"

Liu Jiangyi said, "The location where I killed someone is not far from the mountain gate, but it's very far from here. Even if I ran at full speed to the mountain gate, it would take roughly an incense stick's time, and I was captured by you at the mountain gate in less than an incense stick's time."

"So I want to ask you, could I have had enough time to run here to frame Elder Ouyang, and then run to the mountain gate to be captured by you, all in less than an incense stick's time?"

Everyone nodded in agreement and looked at Elder Ouyang.