Chapter 1552: Inference
The masked woman couldn't speak, so she could only blink desperately.
Duan Qing's expression softened slightly when he saw this, and he put the masked woman down with a thought.
The masked woman coughed dryly for a while, then stared at Duan Qing with lingering fear, hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke.
"I'm looking for something I lost!"
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After listening to the masked woman's story, Duan Qing fell into deep thought.
According to the masked woman, in order to murder a senior fellow student from the same sect half a year ago, she used a trick to lure the fellow senior fellow apprentice to this place, launched a sneak attack, and after a battle, successfully killed the fellow senior fellow apprentice and destroyed his body. Leave in a hurry.
But not long after returning to the sect, the masked woman discovered that one of her treasures had been left behind, and she wanted to come back to retrieve it, lest anyone find out that she had killed her fellow sect brother.
However, considering that the sect had already discovered that her fellow disciple was dead at that time, in order not to arouse suspicion, the masked woman did not act immediately. Instead, after almost half a year, after the news had passed, she quietly left the sect and came here to prepare to find him. Things that I have lost.
Thinking of this, Duan Qing calmly looked around the mountain col where he was, feeling a little uncertain.
According to what the masked woman said, she was the one who attacked and killed him in this mountain col, and he succeeded after a fierce fight.
Logically speaking, there should be traces of battle left here!
But... this mountain col looks like no one has ever done anything here.
None of the weathered rocks were damaged, and there were only the footprints of the masked woman on the flat sand next to them... All this shows that not only has this place not been devastated by the war, but no one has even been here before!
Is the masked woman lying, or is there something hidden?
Duan Qing looked at the masked woman who was as silent as a chill, lowered her head and pondered.
As if she had guessed what Duan Qing was thinking, the masked woman hurriedly patted her chest and promised: "The sun and the moon can serve as a guide. If there is even a hint of lies in the little girl's words, she is willing to be punished by God and die, and she will never be reincarnated!"
After thinking for a moment, Duan Qing gently waved his hand to the masked woman, indicating that she could leave.
As if she had been pardoned, the masked woman immediately left with a lot of gratitude.
"Thank you, senior, for sparing this little girl's life!"
Staring at the masked woman's leaving figure, Duan Qing sighed helplessly.
There are always people like this in the world. Even though they are hateful, they have no enmity against him after all, so he is too lazy to kill more people.
Moreover, the masked woman did not lie to him.
In front of him, a stranger, this person even talked about murdering his fellow disciples. There was no need to make a fuss about the details of the murder place.
Counting the time, Wu Ji disappeared only about three months ago, and this person committed the murder half a year ago.
This person should have nothing to do with Wu Ji's disappearance.
Seeing that the masked woman's figure had disappeared into the sky, Duan Qing was ready to leave without intending to stay any longer.
At this moment, an idea flashed in Duan Qing's mind, and he froze on the spot. After a few breaths, he looked around again.
Is it possible for anyone other than people from the Tianji Sect to do this kind of thing?
After thinking for a moment, Duan Qing suddenly took action and punched in front of him, easily shattering the space. Then he moved his feet and escaped into the turbulence of the void.
Everything as far as the eye could see was empty, without anything.
In order to further confirm, Duan Qing immediately set off to search in the turbulent void.
After spending a lot of effort and searching the surrounding area for thousands of miles, Duan Qing still found nothing.
After Shattering the Void and returning to Xilaixing, Duan Qing breathed out softly.
It's exactly what he thought!
Xilaixing...has been tampered with!
Even though Xilai Star is a deserted planet with few people, it is not so clean. Not only are there no traces of human footfall around the teleportation array, but even the turbulent void is extremely clean!
And according to what the masked woman said, she had clearly killed someone in that mountain col just half a year ago, so how could it be that all traces of the battle had been cleaned up?
Judging from Duan Qing's knowledge, to be able to erase all traces of activities in such a large area without leaving a single flaw, the person who does all this must be strong enough to at least be in the Dao Zhen Realm and have good experience in the application of Dao Principles. It's already perfect.
Of course, people from the Tianji Sect who can go back in time can also do it, but considering that the Tianji Sect has been destroyed, it is not very likely that it was someone from the Tianji Sect who did it.
Therefore... the person who has specifically cleaned up this Xilai Star is most likely a person with a high level of cultivation, at least the Taoist Realm.
With so much power, why would he go out of his way to clean up a useless Xilaixing?
It was done within the last six months.
In such a situation, Duan Qing could not think of any other possibility besides deceiving others.
What on earth did this great power do on Xilaixing that required such careful cleaning up of traces?
Obviously, there is only one answer!
Wu Ji!
As a Taoist disciple of the Soul Searching Sect, Wu Ji would definitely not want others to know who did it if someone really captured Wu Ji on Xilaixing.
Even a behemoth like the Zuo Shen Sect could not easily bear the wrath of the Soul Searching Sect.
In this way, it makes sense that the people who took action took so much trouble to clean up the battlefield!
The most important thing is that if Wu Ji really was captured on Xilai Star, it would be completely consistent with the information collected by the Soul Searching Sect.
With Wu Ji's strength and the fact that he was busy going to the Fairy Star to report the news at that time, it was absolutely possible to teleport directly from the Tianji Star across several planets to the Xilai Star for transit.
It is precisely because of this that no one has ever seen Wu Ji outside of Tianji Star.
Even if other people saw it, they would probably be killed by the person who did it!
The more Duan Qing thought about it, the more he felt that this possibility was very high, and he was a little excited.
The person who took Wu Ji away was too cautious. He cleaned up the traces so thoroughly, but he didn't expect to reveal a flaw.
After the excitement, Duan Qing couldn't help but sighed deeply.
If his speculation was correct, who was it that chose to take Wu Ji away on Xilai Star, and for what purpose?
Thinking further, did the person choose to take Wu Ji away on Xilai Star by chance, or did he do it intentionally?
There is no clue to these questions at present.
It is not easy to track down the person who took Wu Ji away and find Wu Ji by following the clues!
For some reason, Duan Qing felt that there was something behind this matter.
The people who have the power to capture Wu Ji and clean up the people on Xilai Star are definitely not something he can contend with in his spiritual transformation realm.
For the next investigation, it seems that he still has to rely on the two giants, Zuo Shen Zong and Souhun Zong.
Thinking of this, Duan Qing immediately left Xilai Star and headed for Tianji Star.
Before coming, he had agreed with Zuo Zicong to meet in Shangyuan City on Tianji Star.
Zuo Zicong should be here soon.
Sure enough, not long after Duan Qing was teleported to Shangyuan City on Tianji Star, he received a message from Zuo Zicong through a spiritual talisman, informing him to meet at an inn in the city.
According to the location provided by Zuo Zicong, Duan Qing rushed all the way to an inn in Shangyuan City.
It is unknown whether Zuo Zicong has traced any useful information by using the resources of Zuo Shen Zong.
Thinking of this, Duan Qing unconsciously quickened his pace.