n Head Lu sighed again before withdrawing a few documents from the bangle.


    "This is why the n has been losing business in the past few months… she has been leaking our trade invoices. Even the prices that we setpetitively were revealed beforehand which let outpetitors get an advantage and price it just below ours." n head Lu said.


    The other elders heard it clearly, and their faces fell. They knew that while the n was fine despite the losses as it had only been a few months, this situation could have gotten quite bad had this not been found out quickly.


    n Head Lu looked at Shirong for a bit before speaking.


    "I couldn''t see anything that showed her backer though. Does young master have any idea?" n Head Lu asked.


    Shirong had seen the contents of the ring and knew that there were only a few things that incriminated Elder Pei for betraying the Lu n, but there wasn''t anything specific that could point to her backer.


    His gaze went to the cracked teleportation talisman that was lying beside her, and he picked it up. He probed the talisman, but couldn''t figure out much from it. Most of the formations had been destroyed after its use, and the rest of them were now fading away as well.


    It wouldn''t be long before the talisman would only be an unless piece of metal.


    "I can''t tell which formation master made this talisman. The main formations are already destroyed and the runes cannot be deciphered now." Shirong said.


    "Is that so… that''s a shame. But fear not! The Lu n will get to the bottom of this, I promise you." n Head Lu stated.


    Shirong nodded his head in acknowledgment and was about to turn to leave when he suddenly felt somethinging from the Immortal Crystal armament. It was some information, and it wasing through the connection he had with the immortal weapon.


    His vision went nk for a bit before some unknown memories yed in front of his eyes. For him, it was as if an hour had passed, but only a couple of seconds had passed in the real life.


    Shirong''s vision returned, and he looked at the Immortal Crystal Armament with aplex expression.


    "So you are willing to help me like this too… almost as if you can read my mind…" Shirong muttered to himself.


    "I know who''s behind Elder Pei." Shirong suddenly said.


    "You do?" n Head asked for confirmation.


    He didn''t know how Shirong suddenly knew more about it but he didn''t show his doubt here.


    "Yes… I was able to recall certain clues that link them." Shirong made up an excuse.


    "Alright, we shall discuss this in some ce more private." n Head Lu suggested.


    Shirong nodded, and the two of them went to the mansion. The elders were instructed to take care of the situation for now and also to make changes to their trade practices imminently since they had found out about them being leaked.


    Shirong and n Head Lu sat at a table and the old man asked him to speak.


    "I used a soul searching technique on her," Shirong spoke.


    "WHAT!" n head Lu shouted in shock.


    "Young master, that is a forbidden technique!" n head Lu warned.


    "I know… but the one who makes the rules can also bend them. Don''t be so na?ve n head Lu, you know it does not matter to us." Shirong said.


    n Head Lu went silent and nodded his head as he realized that it was fine as long as no one else found out. There were far too many factors that yed into this and they needed to be careful.


    "Young master, what kind of a soul searching skill did you use? I didn''t see you using it." n Head Lu asked feeling a bit confused.


    "At first I wasn''t sure that the skill would work, and I didn''t get the information straightaway. Seems like using it on dead people is not effective and thus I didn''t get it properly." Shirong lied.


    "I see… that does make sense. Well, what did you find out?" n Head Lu replied.


    "The one behind Elder Pei is minister Du Yang." Shirong revealed.


    "Minister Du Yang? Of the Royal Court?" n Head Lu asked for confirmation.


    "Yes him. It seems like he has a particr interest in your n''s workings. I could not find out why as there were no memories rted to that in Elder Pei''s memories." Shirong answered.


    "Thisplicates it now… why would a minister of the royal court take interest in our workings? And why would he dare to slight you, Young master?" n Head Lu questioned.


    "That''s where the intriguing part is. They were not intending to particrly harm me, you see. They were spying on me to find out more about me so that the Minister could take advantage of itter on.


    They have been informed that I will be visiting the capital soon and they will need to host me. Of course, they wouldn''t let go of this chance to curry favor with my n." Shirong said with a chuckle.


    "So the only reason why Elder Pei was running away was because of my n?" n Head Lu wondered.


    "No, I doubt that. Even minister Du Yang would not give a teleportation formation like that to anyone willy nilly. Like I said the soul searching method is not fully urate and the information is likely to be iplete.


    I suggest you do an investigation of your own and verify it. I''ll inform my n of this too and we''ll see what happens." Shirong replied.


    "I understand." n Head Lu said.


    "I''ll wait till the tribtion tform ispleted then," Shirong said and left the hall.


    After Shirong left the hall, a pissed-off expression appeared on his face.


    "So even my brothers wish to battle for the position of the Heir, huh? Well… since you all want to do it this way, I''ll dly oblige." Shirong said, recalling the information that he had not told to n head Lu.