Chapter 947: Simple Reasoning Often Only Requires Immortal Consciousness

Having learned from the experience of Lu Yang asking who the culprit was while she herself remained clueless, the Immortal Fairy used her divine consciousness to sweep the Immortal Palace every moment, vowing to find the culprit and redeem her pride.

Fortunately, she had finally found a clue.

As expected, whenever she, Huang Doudou, took action, there was no case that could not be solved!

"Who? Bai Ye?"

Hearing the Immortal Fairy suddenly chime in, Lu Yang found himself utterly unable to utter the words "Palace Master Luo" that were already at the tip of his tongue.

"Fairy, could you please state what you see a little earlier next time!" Lu Yang simply refused to believe that the Fairy had not noticed anything fishy before Bai Ye drugged the laurel trees.

And even if it was Bai Ye, how had she breached the grand array of the medicine storehouse?

"Isn't the emphasis always on catching the thief with the loot? This Immortal was only suspicious before. What if I wrongly accused the girl?" Having studied the law with Lu Yang for so long, the Immortal Fairy had developed quite a legally-minded way of thinking.

"Senior Brother? Senior Brother Lu Yang?" Discovering that Senior Brother Lu Yang had suddenly stopped talking halfway through his analysis, Lan Ting was exceedingly bewildered. She waved her pale, delicate hand in front of Lu Yang, finally snapping him back to reality.

Lu Yang realized that he was currently analyzing the case, and that now was not the time to bicker with the Immortal Fairy.

"Step aside, step aside, let this Immortal handle this!" The Immortal Fairy felt that since she was the one who discovered the truth, she should be the one to reveal the answer!

How could Lu Yang possibly be a match for the Immortal Fairy? In an instant, his body was possessed.

The Immortal Fairy assumed an expression of suddenly waking from a dream: "Ah, I'm here, I'm here. Where were we just now?"

"You were just saying 'The culprit is precisely Luo...', and then you went silent."

Lan Ting looked at Lu Yang with a peculiar gaze, though she concealed it well.

Why did it feel like her senior brother had suddenly become a completely different person?

Possessing long-term experience of possessing and playing Lu Yang in the Imperial City, the Immortal Fairy now mimicked Lu Yang flawlessly, even refraining from referring to herself as "this Immortal."

"I was just saying that the culprit is precisely the fragile and weak Bai Ye!"

The Immortal Fairy said with absolute certainty: "Culprits often return to the scene of the crime. If my predictions are correct, she is currently right by the thirtieth tree in the twelfth row of the laurel forest!"

Lan Ting listened in utter confusion. How on earth had Senior Brother Lu Yang deduced such a detailed location? Had she missed some steps just now?

Was she truly still unable to keep up with Senior Brother Lu Yang's way of thinking?

And most importantly...

"Who is Bai Ye?"

She had never heard of such a person existing in the Immortal Palace.

"You don't know her? She runs over to my place every single night to listen to stories." The Immortal Fairy's tone carried a hint of resentment as she spoke.

If it weren't for this little girl Bai Ye occupying Lu Yang's nighttime hours, Lu Yang could have played snowball fights with her all night long.

"Running over to your place every night to listen to stories, Senior Brother?" Lan Ting grew increasingly astonished. Who was this, abstaining from cultivation in the dead of night to secretly steal a march on everyone else at her senior brother's place?

"Wait a minute, wait a minute. How could Junior Sister Lan Ting have never heard of Junior Sister Bai Ye?" Lu Yang could not help but ask within the spiritual space.

This makes it seem like I'm telling stories to a non-existent person every night, which is quite terrifying.

"An existence like an incarnation of the Ancestral Laurel Tree is probably a secret in the Immortal Palace. It's only normal that the girl Lan hasn't heard of her." The Immortal Fairy revealed Bai Ye's identity nonchalantly, as though the Ancestral Laurel Tree were some trivial, insignificant figure.

"The Ancestral Laurel Tree?!" Lu Yang was greatly shocked.

He suddenly remembered that Bai Ye had given him a bag of laurel blossoms to eat for fun. Could they have been plucked by Bai Ye from her own body?

The Immortal Fairy paid no heed to Lu Yang's astonishment for the moment. As the only person in the Immortal Palace who knew the truth right now, she felt her intelligence had reached a transcendent state beyond the material world, and she wanted to capture Bai Ye in one fell swoop.

"Let's not chat about this for now, we're going to pursue Bai Ye right away!"

With a grand wave of her hand, the Immortal Fairy led Lan Ting in a brisk jog all the way to Luo Hongxia's cave dwelling.

Little Yangzi was currently completely devoid of his cultivation realm; even if he found Bai Ye, he wouldn't be able to catch her. He needed the help of Luo Hongxia, his defeated opponent.

But then again, it seemed that even if Little Yangzi still possessed his cultivation realm, he wouldn't be able to catch up to Bai Ye either.

At that moment, three spiritual fruits were also placed before Luo Hongxia as she pondered which spiritual fruit had stolen the medicinal herbs.

Hearing the knock at the door, she opened it and looked out, seeing no one.

"Down here, down here."

Luo Hongxia looked down and saw two little tots.

"Master, Senior Brother Lu Yang has deduced who the culprit is! It's a little girl named Bai Ye, about as tall as me, and she's right inside the laurel forest!"

"Who is Bai Ye?" Luo Hongxia had never heard of this name either.

However, her expression quickly turned solemn. Now was not the time to investigate who Bai Ye was. Since there was a trace of the culprit, catching Bai Ye in the laurel forest was the most important matter!

"Let's go!"

Luo Hongxia soared into the sky, only to find two people missing from her side. Looking down, she saw the two little tots jogging desperately in the direction of the laurel forest.

Luo Hongxia landed, tucked one under each arm, and once again sped through the air toward the laurel forest.

"Let's go!"

Carrying the two burdens, Luo Hongxia's speed was not a single bit slower than usual. She even considerately enveloped them in a transparent shield to prevent the cold wind from rushing in and damaging their bodies.

Flying over the laurel forest, she indeed spotted a petite figure pouring something into the pit of a certain laurel tree, muttering to herself.

"Thief, take this!"

Luo Hongxia tossed the two little tots aside and struck out fiercely.

Thanks to the shield, the two bounced twice on the ground and landed smoothly without suffering any fright.

Seeing Luo Hongxia make a move, the petite figure thought to herself that things were bad. She had been so engrossed in her experiment on the laurel tree that she had failed to notice Luo Hongxia's arrival in time.

The petite figure seemed to have no intention of fighting; she turned and fled, her speed so fast that she left a afterimage in place, her true form instantly moving to parts unknown.

Even with Luo Hongxia's eyesight, she could not catch up to the trace of the petite figure!

Luo Hongxia spread her divine consciousness to search, but found absolutely nothing.

Recalling the face revealed by the petite figure, her brow furrowed tightly.

"A face I have never seen before. Could it be an outsider?"

……

"How close, how close. I was almost caught by Little Luo." Leaning against the Ancestral Laurel Tree, the petite figure panted heavily from fright, thoroughly unable to fathom how Luo Hongxia had discovered her.

That manner of hers made it seem as though she knew she was right there; her target had been extremely clear.

"Hehe, trying to run? Can you run away?" A childish laugh rang out from behind the petite figure, causing her to spin around violently in fright.

"Who's there!"

She was certain she had spread her divine consciousness; if someone approached her, she should definitely have been able to perceive it.

Moreover, how did the other party know she was here?

"Lu Yang?" The petite figure was astonished. How could it be Lu Yang?

"Girl Bai Ye, obediently come back with me and admit your mistake." The Immortal Fairy smiled triumphantly. No matter how fast Bai Ye's movement speed was, could she possibly outrun her immortal consciousness?

Caught red-handed with the loot, a magnificent achievement!

The petite figure gave a cold snort: "I am not Bai Ye. I am Bai Ri."

Inside the spiritual realm, Lu Yang felt a faint stir of memory, as if he had heard the name somewhere before, and a sudden shock coursed through him.

"Bai Ri... why do I recall that the founder of the Immortal Palace, Master Chuiyue, was named Bai Ri?"