Shocked! The Young Master's Petite Darling Is a Master of Mysteries-Chapter 433: Exploiting a Loophole

Xia Mian felt she had discovered the truth.

However, she completely had not expected that Su Yu and Qin Xiang would be so oblivious, assuming that the Beast Taming Clan would not take further actions after their initial failure, and thus they had completely ignored the clan’s every move!

"What about Shu Dao Temple?" Xia Mian raised her hand to rub her forehead, feeling that the disciples of Yukun Mountain, having followed such a sect leader and survived until now, truly was no easy feat.

"Shu Dao Temple?" Su Yu looked utterly baffled, turning to Qin Xiang, "Did he return?"

Qin Xiang shook her head in confusion, "I don’t know!"

Hearing this, Xia Mian couldn’t help but frown, "He didn’t return?"

She had clearly sent Shu Dao Temple back first, and only after Xia Zhun appeared did she follow closely, so how come Su Yu now said he hadn’t seen Shu Dao Temple?

Instinctively, Xia Mian felt something was amiss, but for the moment, she couldn’t put her finger on it.

"Grand Ancestor sent him back?" Qin Xiang sensitively noticed something was wrong.

Xia Mian’s questioning must mean Shu Dao Temple had returned to the Mystical World before Grand Ancestor.

But now, they had never seen Shu Dao Temple at Yukun Mountain at all!

"Send someone to find him." Xia Mian narrowed her eyes, a cold gleam flashing in her gaze.

"Yes!" Su Yu dared not delay.

Shu Dao Temple was his most relied-upon disciple, and also the one his daughter Meng Meng cared about most. If something happened, neither of them would feel good about it!

Su Yu immediately dispatched people to search around Yukun Mountain, determined not to leave any nook unchecked.

Meanwhile, Xia Mian also sent word to the Divine Clan, asking them to help find the person.

She was certain that Shu Dao Temple had arrived in the Mystical World.

Yet, from the moment she entered the Mystical World until now, she had not sensed Shu Dao Temple’s presence!

Either Shu Dao Temple encountered trouble and was hidden, or he met with some misfortune...

Though their time together wasn’t long, Xia Mian did not want him to lose his life senselessly because of the task she assigned.

The Divine Clan received the message through Xia Weizhang, who had had some interactions with Shu Dao Temple and thought well of him.

Knowing that Shu Dao Temple was working for Xia Mian, Xia Weizhang dared not slack and immediately arranged for the Divine Clan to search for Shu Dao Temple’s whereabouts.

Because of Shu Dao Temple, the whole Mystical World was practically turned upside down.

Oddly enough, even after the Divine Clan and Yukun Mountain combed through the Mystical World, Shu Dao Temple remained unfound.

Upon receiving this reply, Xia Mian’s expression turned extremely grim.

The exit and entrance of the Space-Time Gate were respectively set in the Divine Clan and the basement of her and Lu Zechuan’s Riverfront Villa.

Shu Dao Temple should have traveled smoothly from the Lu Family Villa basement to the Divine Manor, so why had he mysteriously vanished?

As Xia Mian pondered over this mystery, Xia Weizhang brought crucial information; the Divine Clan guards at the passage hadn’t seen Shu Dao Temple emerge from the passage recently!

Could it be that Shu Dao Temple was harmed while inside the passage?

Xia Mian tightened her lips; she had not noticed any flaws while passing through the passage herself, but now, she began to doubt her confidence.

If there were no flaws, how had Shu Dao Temple vanished without a trace?

Without much thought, Xia Mian chose to return to the passage to look for clues.

If she couldn’t figure it out, she’d have to see for herself.

She couldn’t believe anyone could harm someone right under her nose!

Before heading to the passage, Xia Mian instructed Su Yu and Qin Xiang to be fully prepared because the Beast Taming Clan wouldn’t give up. When she returned, they would have to take down the Beast Taming Clan!

Xia Mian was never one to take things passively; if the Beast Taming Clan insisted on causing trouble, then might as well eliminate them altogether.

After that, Xia Mian returned to the Divine Clan and entered the Space-Time Gate again.

This time, she didn’t rush but slowly searched for potential flaws within the Space-Time Tunnel.

Yet, after traversing the passage ten times back and forth, she didn’t find a single flaw.

Xia Mian frowned deeply, feeling very uneasy.

No flaws, so where could Shu Dao Temple have gone?

Xia Mian simply sat cross-legged in the passage, not in a hurry to leave, just quietly observing the environment inside.

The Space-Time Tunnel she had developed was incredibly sturdy; unless someone with profound knowledge of the Space-Time Gate got involved, no one could exploit it.

Xia Mian spent a whole day and night inside the Space-Time Tunnel.

Finally, on the second day, she heard a strange noise coming from a distance within the tunnel.

This sound didn’t resemble normal tunnel traversal; more like someone was drilling a hole above the tunnel, trying to enter through it.

With alertness in her eyes, Xia Mian used a Concealing Talisman on herself, hiding her form.

Just as Xia Mian concealed her form and erased her presence, a hole appeared above the Space-Time Tunnel.

Then someone fell in from above!

Upon seeing the newcomer, Xia Mian squinted her eyes.

The person appeared to be "Shu Dao Temple," yet wasn’t Shu Dao Temple.

Clad in Shu Dao Temple’s guise but lacking Shu Dao Temple’s soul!

Shu Dao Temple had been impersonated!

No wonder she couldn’t find Shu Dao Temple anywhere. It turned out he had been ambushed and then impersonated!

However, this Space-Time Gate cultivation method was a secret art unshared by the Wood Clan.

How had this intruder breached her Space-Time Tunnel and exploited it?

Xia Mian had a lot of questions, and she didn’t like guessing around.

So she unhesitatingly moved forward to capture the fake Shu Dao Temple.

The fake Shu Dao Temple, seeing Xia Mian appear, even pretended familiarity, smiling brightly and calling her "Grand Ancestor."

But Xia Mian didn’t buy it at all; she promptly subdued him and took him out of the Space-Time Tunnel.

Unsure if the intruder had any accomplices, and to prevent any more from exploiting the tunnel, Xia Mian temporarily closed the Space-Time Tunnel after leaving it.

Instead of taking him to Yukun Mountain, Xia Mian took the captured person to the Divine Clan.

At first, Xia Weizhang was delighted that Xia Mian had found Shu Dao Temple, but seeing her expression, he realized something was off.

A quick thinker, Xia Weizhang immediately guessed what was happening, "Is he fake?"

Xia Mian gravely nodded, "Yes."

The fake Shu Dao Temple had drilled a hole in the Space-Time Tunnel and fell down from it.

So had the real Shu Dao Temple been forcibly taken away the same way?

Concerned for Shu Dao Temple’s safety, Xia Mian wasted no time bringing the impostor to the Divine Clan’s interrogation room.