The Demon King is an Idiot [BL]-Chapter 116: The target was Jie Fu Lian
"To enjoy the look on his face," Hua Tianshu spoke up as he looked at the distressed face of the corpse, "He was murdered for revenge and the murderer wasn’t satisfied with just killing the man. The murderer wanted to make sure that this man’s corpse was preserved well so that the murderer could look at it and feel a sense of enjoyment."
"Enjoyment?" Jie Fu Lian repeated, cringing as he looked at the haunting face of the corpse that had its mouth wide open, almost ripping apart.
Who in the hell would enjoy looking at this...?!
"We weren’t wrong about Heaven’s eye," Hua Tianshu sighed as he spoke up, "Heaven’s eye was the culprit behind Bai LiuXian’s murder."
Jie Fu Lian nodded his head.
"But he wasn’t related to the master of curses," Hua Tianshu pointed out as he added, "He wanted you to take the blame for Bai LiuXian’s murder but he never wanted to kill you."
"Huh?"
"I thought the Jin Sect covered up the truth because they wanted to protect Heaven’s eye but that was not the case."
Jie Fu Lian’s eyebrows creased together in worry as he heard this and he had a feeling that he would not be enjoying what he was going to hear next.
"The Jin Sect didn’t cover it up to save Heaven’s eye. Their target was Jie Fu Lian. It didn’t matter who killed Bai LiuXian." Hua Tianshu muttered out, worriedly looking at Jie Fu Lian.
Jie Fu Lian gulped as he heard this and took a step back as he spoke, "That’s impossible..."
Hua Tianshu didn’t give a verbal response to that and only stared at the man.
"Jin Long was the one who headed that investigation," Jie Fu Lian pointed out, sounding a little desperate as he tried to argue, "There is no way he would try to do that. He has no reason to."
"Do you still believe him?"
"..." Jie Fu Lian wanted to say that he trusted the man but at the same time, even though he opened his mouth, he could not give a response since he wasn’t sure of it himself.
"The master of curses was working with someone from a powerful sect and they wanted to kill Jie Fu Lian. The Master of curses is connected to Jin Shifeng and we all know that Jin Shifeng is Jin Long’s wife. At this point, it would be foolish to believe that Jin Long is innocent."
Jie Fu Lian looked down with a deep frown as he heard this. Even if Hua Tianshu hadn’t pointed it out, he could still put the pieces together.
Jin Long was an extremely suspicious suspect and Jie Fu Lian already knew this, but he didn’t want to believe that Jin Long was the culprit behind his death.
There was simply no reason for Jin Long to kill him.
"We have been going after the wrong person," Hua Tianshu added with a sigh as he shook his head in disappointment, "Heaven’s eye is not connected to the Jin Sect at all."
"What... What do we do now...?" Jie Fu Lian slowly asked, feeling a little too surprised to think straight.
Hua Tianshu opened his mouth to say something but before any words could leave his mouth, he heard the ringing of a bell and he immediately entered a daze.
Once again, he heard the voice of Wang Zexian who was using the voice transmission bell.
"Um... Heaven’s eye told me to give you a message. He said: You are right, we are unrelated. All the best in finding the master of curses. You might want to be a little careful. If he finds out who Jie Fu Lian currently is, he would definitely try to kill him again."
When the message was over, the ringing of the bell disappeared and Hua Tianshu returned to his senses.
"Another message...?" Jie Fu Lian questioned, looking at Hua Tianshu with a worried expression.
Hua Tianshu gulped as he looked back at the man and spoke, "I just got a message from Heaven’s eye. We were right. The two are unrelated."
"You know Heaven’s eye?" Jie Fu Lian questioned, feeling shocked.
"He’s watching us," Hua Tianshu gritted out as he looked around in suspicion, "He has been monitoring our every move."
"Huh?"
Hua Tianshu suddenly turned to glare at the demon as he asked, "Who are you?"
The demon looked to be a little clueless as he heard this question but he could feel the intense killing intent reflected in Hua Tianshu’s eyes and that made him instinctively take a step back in fear, "I-I’m just a poor old demon who wanted to help you."
Hua Tianshu’s eyebrows creased together and he reached out his hand to grab the demon’s neck. Without holding back his strength, he almost choked the man to death as he spoke, "You are the only one here with us. If you aren’t working for Heaven’s eye then who is?!"
The demon’s face quickly turned white and he frantically moved around, trying to say something but being unable to voice out comprehensible words.
Hua Tianshu squeezed the demon’s neck even harder and the demon’s eyes almost rolled back to his head when Hua Tianshu suddenly let him go.
"Speak or I’ll kill you right now," Hua Tianshu pulled out his sword as he threatened.
Jie Fu Lian also looked at the demon with a frown.
"I-I swear on m-my life! I don’t know h-him and I don’t work for him!"
Hua Tianshu gritted his teeth and pushed his sword closer to the demon’s neck, lightly grazing it.
"I-I’m telling the truth! I really don’t know him! I’m completely innocent! I heard that someone was looking for the art of controlling spirits and thought I’d be able to earn some money!"
Hua Tianshu didn’t seem to have been convinced by these words and it looked like he was seriously going to kill the demon.
"He’s probably telling the truth," Jie Fu Lian suddenly sighed as he spoke up, saving the demon’s life, "If Heaven’s eye is in the mortal realm, there is no way he can deliver a message to him without a voice transmission bell."
"T-That’s right! It’s impossible! It’s impossible!" The man bobbed his head up and down frantically as he stuttered out.
"But there are only three of us here," Jie Fu Lian spoke up as he continued, "If he isn’t working with Heaven’s eye then who is?"
Hua Tianshu and Jie Fu Lian looked at each other before they turned their heads to look at the burnt corpse in unison.
"Ah!" Jie Fu Lian exclaimed softly, immediately understanding how Heaven’s eye was able to spy on them.
A corpse puppet infused with ghost Qi had a special feature. Anything and everything that the puppet saw or heard would be conveyed to the owner of the puppet.
Not only was this corpse being preserved using Ghost Qi, but it was also acting as a spy for Heaven’s eye.
"It’s holding something," Hua Tianshu pointed out and Jie Fu Lian nodded his head as he agreed.
The corpse had its arms crossed in front, covering its chest and although it was a bit hard to notice, one could see that it was holding something behind its crossed arms.
It was a thin book.
Jie Fu Lian carefully reached his hand out and pulled the thin book out of the corpse’s hold.
The book had not been burnt but since it was being held by the burnt corpse, it was covered in ashes that made it impossible to clearly see what was on the cover.
Jie Fu Lian patted the dust away from the top and with his eyebrows creased together in worry, he opened the book and looked at it with confusion clearly visible on his face.
"What is it?" Hua Tianshu raised an eyebrow as he asked.
"Nothing," Jie Fu Lian honestly answered.
"Huh?"
Jie Fu Lian turned the page to Hua Tianshu as he repeated, "There’s nothing inside."
Hua Tianshu’s eyebrows immediately creased together and he frowned as he looked at the empty pages of the book. He snatched the book away from Jie Fu Lian’s hand and quickly flipped through it with desperation, but every single page was blank.
Hua Tianshu closed the book and tried to rub the black soot away from the cover page. The cover did not have any words written on it but there did seem to be a picture painted on it. However, the picture was made with black ink and had already been mixed with the soot and could hardly be distinguished.
Hua Tianshu held the book up and looked at the demon as he asked, "What is this?"
The demon shrugged his shoulders as he honestly replied, "I don’t know."
"Is it for us?" Jie Fu Lian side-glanced at Hua Tianshu as he asked.
"It might be," Hua Tianshu sighed.
Jie Fu Lian frowned as he heard this and curiously looked at the book. Although it was faint, he could sense that the book was infused with demonic Qi.
