Having cultivated myself into an immortal, all I want to do is raise female disciples.

Fan Luokui is a person with a strong sense of self-respect.

She is also a person who pays great attention to etiquette. Unless she encounters a particularly noble person or is required to perform certain formalities, she will never kneel.

but now……

She knelt on the ground like a puppet, her knees completely embedded in the ice, her eyes wide with discontent and fear. This irresistible force rendered her unable to even speak.

With just one sentence... he made a Transcendent Realm expert kneel down.

"So, let's clarify our thinking, shall we?"

Yunping continued with his roguish smile, and that sinister smile, which seemed to come from nowhere, pierced Fan Dongyin's heart like a sharp sword. For the first time ever, a trace of fear appeared on Fan Dongyin's usually calm and composed face.

Faced with this young man, how could he, the dignified Palace Master of the Northern Ice Palace and a cultivator in the Void Realm, be afraid?

He didn't believe it; he couldn't believe such a fact!

However, Yunping extended one finger—

"So, the first question!"

"Besides Yin Hanxuebing, who else could have poisoned Yang Xinkui's daughter, Fan Luokui?"

……

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned his head and looked at his apprentice, Ye Yuchan.

The girl in the black and white maid outfit was stunned by his gaze for a moment before she realized that he wanted her to answer for him.

What... this teacher-questioning-student-answering format?

Ye Yuchan cleared her throat, trying to suppress her inner unease, and answered softly.

"And... Palace Master, and that old man you're stepping on, and a whole host of people who can get close to her."

"Yes."

Yunping then extended his second finger.

"The second question is—even if Yin Hanxue really did poison Yang Xinkui, even if she knew that Yang Xinkui would choose to break through, there is still a possibility that Yang Xinkui would succeed in breaking through. When the poison is cured, she would still be in danger of being discovered. Why would she take this risk?"

This question is a little difficult. Ye Yuchan thought for a moment and then tentatively asked.

"If Yang Xinkui was her favorite disciple, she wouldn't have wanted to kill her without any conflict. Besides, it would be too risky to do it this way. So the possibility that the murderer is Yin Hanxuebing is not high."

Before the words were finished, the woman, who was the epitome of perfection, spoke up.

"The murderer interfered when Xin Kui was breaking through, ensuring that she would definitely go mad from the cultivation."

……

Yun Ping glanced at the Silver Cold Snow Ice that Ye Yuchan had just finished replenishing, but said nothing.

He then raised his third finger, symbolizing the third key question.

"The third question—if the murderer is not Yin Hanxuebing, then what was the murderer's motive for killing Yang Xinkui?"

"...Take power." Ye Yuchan answered without the slightest hesitation. She already had the answer in her heart: "Kill the former palace master and take power when the Northern Ice Palace is in chaos."

The fourth finger—

"The fourth question: If Yin Hanxuebing were present, she would definitely have a way to help Fan Luokui detoxify. However, Yin Hanxuebing was not present and secretly left. So here's the problem: the entrance to the deep ice cave is protected by a restriction. Yin Hanxuebing was being hunted, so her movements had to be secret. But the restriction allowed someone to know she had left. Only someone who knew Yin Hanxuebing had left could have taken this opportunity to poison her. So who is that person—"

The answer is obvious, isn't it?

Ye Yuchan looked at Fan Dongyin, whose face had turned dark, and after a moment of contemplation, slowly closed her eyes.

Yes, it can only be him.

"The current Palace Master of the Northern Ice Palace is Fan Dongyin."

……

Speechless.

Fan Dongyin couldn't utter a single word.

He remained silent, not even glancing at Fan Luokui, whose heart was already in turmoil, nor at Yin Hanxuebing, whose face was filled with disappointment and melancholy.

Instead, he stared at the young man in front of him with unparalleled anger and annoyance!

"So what? Can you convict me based solely on these facts? Can you say that I poisoned my daughter and killed my wife?"

"What, isn't this enough? Do you really want me to drag the Snow Shadow Team into this too?"

"!!!"

Fan Dongyin stared at Yun Ping in disbelief, as if trying to see even the slightest bit of deceit in his eyes.

Unfortunately, he failed.

Yun Ping sneered, "I asked an old friend before, and I heard that when the Snow Shadow Team was still around, they were quite active for a period of time. During that time, they cleaned up all the neighborhoods, big and small, in the Northern Ice Palace. But after you took office, you abolished the Snow Shadow Team, right?"

Fan Dongyin's expression was cold. "I gave the order? Only the Palace Master can mobilize the Snow Shadow Team! I was just Xin Kui's guard at the time, I didn't have that authority at all."

"Heh." Yunping couldn't help but sneer. Even now, he was still pretending. "But you are also his husband."

"so what?"

"Ice Cold Order".

……

Yun Ping chuckled and pointed to the dimly lit token at Fan Dongyin's waist. "Your wife's Ice Frost Token has always been with you. With this token, you can naturally order the Snow Shadow Team to do anything."

Upon hearing the Ice Cold Order, Fan Dongyin quickly covered the token at his waist.

This guilty conscience, in Yunping's eyes, was already a sign that the game was over.

Yes, it's over.

But Fan Dongyin remained defiant, "Heh, what's wrong with me having the Snow Shadow Team secretly eliminate some useless trash that's harmful to my Northern Ice Palace?"

"Is that so? Is that all? Then why..."

"In the three years after the Snow Shadow Team disbanded, all the members of the Snow Shadow Team...died tragically?"

Yes, Yunping had previously asked Fang Qingzhu for a list of Snow Shadow Team members.

He searched them one by one and found that, except for Hu Xiaolin, all the other members of the Snow Shadow Team were dead.

Moreover, they all died in very unexpected ways, the kind of deaths that wouldn't seem strange to anyone.

Seeing that Fan Dongyin suddenly stopped speaking, Yunping continued with a smile.

"I guess you don't want this to be publicized, but unfortunately, we were lucky enough to save a member of the Snow Shadow Team who almost lost his life. His existence has told us a lot."

"At the same time, I also noticed that there is a very deserted dead street in your North Ice Palace. I heard that you moved them to a certain secret realm because you were investigating the whereabouts of the murderers who were chasing Yin Hanxuebing?"

"Heh, if I'm not mistaken, you refined them all, didn't you? Along with those people the Snow Shadow Team killed back then..."

Fan Dongyin maintained his cold expression, but at this moment, he was already finding it difficult to stand.

"What are you saying? I don't understand."

"It's okay if you don't understand, as long as you see the facts—"

"What do you mean?"

"It doesn't mean anything."

Yunping spread his hands, finally revealing his playful expression.

He pointed coldly to the storage ring on Fan Dongyin's right hand, his steady voice echoing in the ice cave.

"I just want you to take everything out of your storage ring and show it to everyone."

"Check inside to see if there's anything you refined using the blood and essence of ten thousand people, intending to use it to seize the Silver Cold Snow Ice Divine Soul and break through to the Saint Realm yourself..."

"Blood Spirit Artifact".

118. Say that again, you son of a bitch, who?

Blood Spirit Magic Artifact.

It's important to understand that the most powerful energy sources for living organisms are often not borrowed from the outside world, but rather the energy they possess within themselves. To elaborate further, this is what is frequently mentioned in the cultivation world—

Essence and blood.

Not only do demons have essence blood, but cultivators also have essence blood, and even the weakest mortals have essence blood, only the quality varies.

The magical artifacts forged from these essences of blood are called Blood Spirit Artifacts.

Such magical artifacts are often inhumane, or rather, extremely cruel and bloody. Although the three great heavenly domains of this world are particularly loyal to power and almost disregard ethics and morality, blood spirit magical artifacts are still something that most cultivators despise.

Logically speaking, only cultivators blinded by power or born demonic cultivators would likely choose to refine blood spirit artifacts.

That's why even Ye Yuchan, Yin Hanxuebing, and the others standing by couldn't help but be unwilling to believe Yun Ping's words. If the dignified master of the Northern Ice Palace, the pinnacle of power in the Far East Snow Plains, was researching such heretical and evil practices...

The consequences are beyond description.

It's a complete reversal of right and wrong!

However, Yunping's words were so confident and assertive, as if he had already seen the Blood Spirit Artifact.

—That's true.

Yunping's divine sense had already quickly swept over Fan Dongyin's storage ring, and he had taken in everything that was contained in the huge space inside. Among them was a bead that was frantically emitting a bloody and foul smell.

If he didn't have solid evidence, he wouldn't have used such a confident tone to expose Fan Dongyin's conspiracy.

"What's wrong? Are you scared?"

Facing Fan Dongyin, who remained motionless and made no move to admit guilt, Yun Ping slowly stood up and casually kicked the unconscious old man on the ground to the side.

He crossed the icy river and stood before Fan Dongyin, confronting him.

"If you're scared, why don't you just confess?" Yun Ping stared at him expressionlessly. "I don't really want to cause trouble in a place like this. Besides, your cultivation level is only at the Void Transformation stage. You're nothing compared to Yin Hanxuebing. So don't even think about struggling, okay?"

These words sounded like contempt.

But in reality, Yunping really didn't want to cause any more chaos. Fan Dongyin had no chance of winning at the moment. His scheme had been foiled, and he was no match for the unharmed Yin Hanxuebing.

This is an attempt to persuade, or rather, to persuade someone to surrender.

Fan Dongyin remained silent. He could feel the terrified and incredulous look in his daughter's eyes from beside him.