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The woman in green said respectfully, "Peak Master, several disciples have arrived outside the hall. They said you sent them."

Upon hearing this, Celestial Venerable Tianyu frowned slightly. When did she send someone to Tianyu Palace?

However, she was curious to see what those people were doing in her palace, so she transmitted her voice to Wei Pengtao and the others outside, saying, "Come in."

Upon hearing the telepathic message from Celestial Venerable Tianyu, Wei Pengtao and the others hurriedly entered the main hall. After entering, they immediately knelt on the ground. Wei Pengtao then took the initiative to say, "This disciple deserves to die a thousand deaths. Please punish me, Celestial Venerable Tianyu."

Wei Pengtao wasn't stupid; he knew that begging for mercy at this point would likely be useless, so he simply chose to retreat as a strategic move.

Upon hearing Wei Pengtao's words, Celestial Venerable Tianyu frowned slightly. She didn't know what had happened, but the fact that the other party had taken the initiative to confess meant that these people must have done something to offend Celestial Venerable Peak.

Celestial Venerable Tianyu coldly said, "Continue."

Wei Pengtao continued, "We shouldn't have listened to slander and attacked Chen Lu."

Upon hearing this, Celestial Venerable Tianyu was even more puzzled. These disciples killed Chen Lu?

If that's the case, then why did they come here? If they killed Chen Lu, the first thing these people would do is flee Tianyu Peak.

After all, Chen Lu was Xu Jingshu's Daoist partner. As Xu Jingshu's nominal master, she couldn't possibly do nothing after learning that Xu Jingshu's Daoist partner had been murdered. She would definitely find the murderer as soon as possible, deal with the murderer, and give Xu Jingshu an explanation.

Instead of running away, these people came to me to confess their crimes. Did they think I wouldn't kill them?

Thinking of this, Celestial Venerable Tianyu released his divine sense to investigate the place where Lu Chen lived, and found that the other party was completely unharmed and had nothing to do with him.

Since Chen Lu isn't dead, these people have even less reason to come here and confess their crimes.

Immortal Venerable Tianyu then asked, "Since you know that attacking Chen Lu is a grave crime, why didn't you run away, but instead came here to confess your sins?"

Wei Pengtao said, "Chen Lu said you sent him a message, asking us to come to Tianyu Palace."

This……

When did she send a telepathic message to Chen Lu?

Immortal Venerable Tianyu instantly understood what was going on. It was likely that Chen Lu, seeing that he was about to die, had used a clever trick to deceive the group, claiming that their actions had been discovered and using his name to make them come to him to confess their crimes.

Celestial Venerable Tianyu chuckled, "Xu Jingshu's Daoist partner is quite shrewd."

Indeed, with her divine sense at the Immortal Venerable level, she only needed to scan the entire Tianyu Peak to know everything that happened there. However, she did not release her divine sense to investigate Tianyu Peak at all times.

When cultivating, she would withdraw her divine sense to avoid being disturbed by trivial matters, so she was unaware of what was happening on Tianyu Peak at that time.

At this moment, Celestial Venerable Tianyu snorted coldly, and a terrifying pressure descended instantly, pressing Wei Pengtao and the others to the ground, rendering them unable to move.

"Since you know you deserve to die, then I will grant your wish!"

Upon hearing Tianyu Immortal Venerable's words, Wei Pengtao and the others felt a surge of despair. Before they could react, their bodies were frozen by the cold aura emanating from Tianyu Immortal Venerable, and then they vanished into specks of light.

However, a few orbs of light remained in the air; these orbs were the souls of these people.

At this moment, Celestial Venerable Tianyu raised her hand, and the souls of those people flew into her hand. Then she used the Soul Searching Technique on these people and instantly understood what had happened.

To her, a Celestial Venerable, a few Golden Immortals were no different from ants; killing them was no big deal. Moreover, these people dared to attack Xu Jingshu's Daoist partner. If something happened to Xu Jingshu's Daoist partner, causing a rift between Xu Jingshu and herself, then the Holy Maiden in Xu Jingshu's womb would probably be dissatisfied with Tianyu Peak when she grew up.

Therefore, these Golden Immortals deserve to be killed.

From Wei Pengtao's memories, Celestial Venerable Tianyu learned that someone had given him some cultivation resources and then lured them to assassinate Chen Lu. However, the person who found Wei Pengtao was wearing a mask, and even Wei Pengtao and the others did not know who that person was.

The trail ends there.

Although it is unknown who commissioned Wei Pengtao and his group to kill Chen Lu, Celestial Venerable Tianyu also knows that it is most likely the work of other peaks.

Clearly, some peak masters were jealous of finding another holy maiden, so they wanted to kill Xu Jingshu's partner to ruin their relationship with her.

Originally, she didn't have a good impression of Chen Lu. After all, in her opinion, Chen Lu was just a celestial being who was not good enough for Xu Jingshu.

Even if she doesn't like him, she can't let him die on Tianyu Peak. No one can say for sure how deep Xu Jingshu's feelings for Chen Lu are. If Xu Jingshu loves Chen Lu deeply, and Chen Lu dies, then Xu Jingshu will definitely resent Tianyu Peak and her, her master.

Thinking of this, Celestial Venerable Tianyu's figure instantly disappeared from the main hall. When he reappeared, Celestial Venerable Tianyu had already arrived at the courtyard where Lu Chen lived.

At this moment, Lu Chen was sitting in the courtyard, meditating and cultivating. He was thinking about who wanted to kill him.

The fact that Wei Pengtao and the others left proves that killing him was most likely not Tianyu Immortal Venerable's intention. If Tianyu Immortal Venerable had really given these people a death order, they would definitely have killed him without hesitation.

When they heard that Celestial Venerable Tianyu was looking for them, they were all terrified and turned pale. They left immediately, which meant that someone outside Tianyu Peak wanted to kill them.

Lu Chen wondered if someone had discovered that he was Xu Jingshu's Daoist partner and wanted to kill him so that Xu Jingshu and Tianyu Peak would become enemies.

Just as Lu Chen was lost in thought, he suddenly sensed a powerful aura appear before him. Lu Chen immediately opened his eyes and saw that it was Celestial Venerable Tianyu. Lu Chen immediately stood up, bowed, and said, "Greetings, Venerable One!"

Celestial Venerable Tianyu gave a cold "hmm," then asked, "How did you know that disciple's name was Wei Pengtao?"

After examining Wei Pengtao's memories, Celestial Venerable Tianyu became somewhat curious about the matter.

Even she, the peak master of Tianyu Peak, didn't know Wei Pengtao's name before she conducted a soul search on him, while Chen Lu, who had been cultivating here all along and had never had any contact with Wei Pengtao, directly called him by name.

Importantly, Wei Pengtao and the others also wore face masks to prevent divine sense detection, so that Chen Lu could still call out their names.

The most important reason why Wei Pengtao and others believed Chen Lu was that he called them by name.

Lu Chen replied, "This disciple knows some divination techniques and has been able to deduce the identity of that disciple."

Celestial Venerable Tianyu wasn't too surprised by Lu Chen's answer. For someone skilled in divination, deducing a person's identity shouldn't be a problem.

If Wei Pengtao and the others hadn't been feeling guilty and were frightened by hearing her name, they probably would have been able to guess that Chen Lu knew divination techniques if they had calmed down and thought about it.

(End of this chapter)