Chapter 4459: Interrogation and Ridicule

The light of the Barrier shimmered, and soon he was teleported outside, arriving at the main hall of the Nether Ghost Mansion.

As soon as Xiao Fan reached the main hall, he saw a group of high-level members of the Nether Ghost Mansion gathered around…

"Ghost Wood Envoy, you're back!"

"Did the Ghost Lord tell you about what happened outside?!"

"Ghost Wood Envoy…"

"…"

The group of upper-echelon members treated Xiao Fan with great courtesy, each of them staring at him with burning gazes.

Xiao Fan was taken aback; he had been the Ghost Wood Envoy before, but these people had never been this polite to him.

Their unusually polite behavior made Xiao Fan feel surprised and instinctively wary, fearing they might be trying to use him as a scapegoat.

"He didn't. What happened?" Xiao Fan asked curiously.

"Sigh… The Heavenly Court has started a war, and… our people have suffered heavy losses." A high-level member of the Ghost Mansion shook his head helplessly.

"Heavy losses? How did that happen?" Xiao Fan was puzzled. "The Heavenly Court shouldn't have that kind of strength."

"This… it all started with Lin Tuo…"

Back then, Xiao Fan had captured Lin Tuo and sent him back to the Ghost Mansion, after which Lin Tuo was kept under strict guard.

Naturally, the Ghost Mansion had also thoroughly investigated whether Lin Tuo's remnant soul was genuine to avoid being tricked… After layers of inspections, they confirmed that Lin Tuo's remnant soul was indeed real.

Afterward, the Heavenly Court began to use various means to interrogate him, but because there was a Restriction on Lin Tuo's remnant soul, they didn't dare use methods that were too aggressive.

Coupled with the fact that Lin Tuo's mouth was sealed tight, they had no way at first.

Fortunately, the Ghost Mansion later came up with a solution: using an ancient Formation that could forcibly extract the information they wanted from Lin Tuo's mouth.

Because of this, the Ghost Mansion learned about the Heavenly Court's deployments, as well as the locations of many small gathering points and their main base in the outside world.

They weren't careless either; they first sent people to attack those small gathering points with lightning speed and found them all to be real.

Then, without hesitation, they immediately launched an attack on the Heavenly Court's main base.

The result… all the Ghost Mansion experts who participated in the attack, except for those who had reached the Emperor Lord Realm, were completely wiped out.

This was a scheme by the Heavenly Court, using Lin Tuo as bait to deal a heavy blow to the Ghost Mansion.

When they realized they had been deceived, they planned to torture Lin Tuo's remnant soul, but it turned out that Lin Tuo's remnant soul had actually vanished.

The Ghost Mansion had been played from start to finish!!

Undoubtedly, there was a mole within the Ghost Mansion, and a major one at that.

Therefore, everyone in the Nether Ghost Mansion was now under suspicion.

It was also because of this that the Ghost Lord had sent Xiao Fan over.

Xiao Fan had been with the Ghost Lord all this time, so he couldn't possibly be the mole.

For this reason, even though Xiao Fan hadn't fully earned the Ghost Lord's trust, the Ghost Lord had no choice but to send him to investigate the mole.

"I see… Who had contact with Lin Tuo during that time?" Xiao Fan asked.

Xiao Fan had wondered before why Lin Tuo had allowed himself to be handed over to the Ghost Mansion; as it turned out, it really was the Heavenly Court's plan.

Furthermore, the Heavenly Court's plan was incredibly vicious. If Lin Tuo had revealed the gathering points and the main base right after being captured, the Ghost Mansion certainly wouldn't have believed him.

Instead, Lin Tuo endured until the Ghost Mansion let down its guard, believing that he had finally broken and confessed only because of their ancient Formation…

All these factors combined led to the Ghost Mansion being trapped… and Lin Tuo had played them miserably.

Fortunately, he had been taken away by the Ghost Lord; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to clear his name even if he jumped into the Heavenly River.

"Many people had contact… including all of us." A high-level member of the Ghost Mansion said with a grim face and a heavy voice.

"What did you do when you were in contact with him?!" Xiao Fan asked.

"What did we do? Nothing much… just interrogation and ridicule…"

"Who set up the ancient Formation used to investigate Lin Tuo's memories?!" Xiao Fan asked again.

"It… it was me." A golden-haired old man sighed and spoke in a low voice.

This person was named Shou Jiang. He had been an Elder in the Nether Ghost Mansion for hundreds of thousands of years, remaining loyal throughout, and was quite knowledgeable in the Dao of Formations.

"Where did the Formation come from?" Xiao Fan asked, his eyes fixed intently on Shou Jiang.