Chapter 861 Narrowing the Scope

According to common sense, Lu Yu is not the most suitable candidate to investigate the traitor. With his ability, it would be a better choice for him to hide and refine a few furnaces of elixirs and quietly manage and develop Yudie Peak.

But the problem is that, firstly, there is a shortage of materials at present. Even if he wants to refine elixirs, he can't refine high-level elixirs. He can only refine some low-end elixirs.

Secondly, it is very difficult to find the traitor. One move will affect the whole body. At this time, only a barefoot lone man like him, who has no excessive involvement with any party, can do it quickly.

Thirdly, because the traitor is directly investigated by the ancestor Yunxiao.

Although he has never met the ancestor Yunxiao, he has always been taken care of by him, otherwise he would not have been treated like this in the Dali Sword Sect today.

Moreover, when he broke through to the Guihai Realm that day, his mind and consciousness directly broke through the Nine Heavens and were intercepted by many Tiangang Realm tyrants. Thanks to the cover of the old ancestor Yunxiao, he was able to reach the starry sky. Just for this favor, he could not ignore this matter.

It was easy to make this decision, but it was helpless to implement it in practice.

All the information he had at this time was that there was a traitor among the high-level officials of the Dali Sword Sect, and the traitor was also proficient in the "Xiao Zhoutian Dao Ji Jing" and had assisted the Wuya Immortal Pavilion in testing the formation that specifically restrained the Xiao Zhoutian Mystery... It was conceivable how difficult it would be to lock the identity of the traitor with this little information.

But there was no way, since it had been decided, it had to be done no matter how difficult it was...

So after Lu Yu made this decision, the first thing he did was to go directly to the Sutra Tower and ask Master Hailing to provide him with a list of all the masters of the "Xiao Zhoutian Dao Ji Jing" that had been read.

"Here, this is the list you need. In the past thousand years, the list of all the people who have read the "Xiao Zhoutian Dao Ji Jing" is here."

Master Hailing took out a thick stack of documents and threw it in front of Lu Yu, which immediately raised dust in the room.

"Why are there so many?" Lu Yu said in surprise while using his hands to disperse the dust around him, "Didn't I say that only records above the level of True Masters are needed? Did you bring the records of True Disciples and Deacons?"

Master Hailing glanced at him and said, "These are the records above True Masters... Even if they are True Masters, they can't start learning the "Small Zhoutian Dao Ji Jing" after becoming True Masters. Most of them have started trying to practice this technique since they were True Disciples..."

"And the process of their practice of this technique is not achieved overnight. They often read it over and over again, reviewing the old and learning the new. The one who read it the most times has read it more than 500 times in total... This is the normal process for ordinary people to practice the techniques of the Dao."

The implication is that Lu Yu's previous experience in practicing the Star Sword Technique is not applicable to ordinary practitioners. How can someone directly comprehend the Dao method that has been lost for thousands of years after just reading the general outline of the catalog once?

Lu Yu shrugged and said helplessly: "Too many, I didn't expect there would be so many... Please help me identify some more, at least those seniors who have passed away don't need to be considered for the time being."

So, the two of them worked hard for another afternoon, and finally got a brand new list, which was all the existing real masters who had read the "Xiao Zhoutian Dao Ji Jing".

There were a total of 89 people on the list, which accounted for more than half of the total number of real masters in the Dali Sword Sect.

"In fact, your list is very inaccurate..."

Master Hailing said: "For example, although I have read it seven times, I have never mastered this technique. In addition, some people have mastered this technique, but they finally comprehended the secret of the small Zhoutian. This is also the case..."

"So, your list is still very inaccurate..."

Lu Yu said: "There is nothing we can do about it. We can't exclude people just because they have read it less times, right? What if the traitor is also a rare genius who has successfully practiced it after only reading it once?"

"Besides, the traitor will not shout everywhere that he has realized the secret of the small Zhoutian. It is very likely that no one knows that he has mastered this secret, and only this list has relevant clues."

Master Hailing nodded: "What you said makes sense..."

Then Lu Yu directly crossed out more than a dozen names on the list.

Master Hailing saw that these people were seriously injured and were receiving treatment in the sanatorium. This was as it should be. It seemed that the traitor, knowing that Wuya Immortal Pavilion had such a powerful weapon, would not take the initiative to offend the other party and put himself in a desperate situation...

To put it another way, if the traitor really had such an IQ, then they would have saved themselves a lot of trouble.

Next, Lu Yu thought about it, and with a big stroke of his pen, he crossed out more than a dozen names.

These dozen people were all in key positions in Dali Sword Sect, such as Zhu Ge Lao who was in charge of the Tiangong Treasure House and Master Mao Ye who was in charge of the Hate Water Sword. If these people were also traitors, then the damage caused to Dali Sword Sect would be far more than that, so they could also be excluded.

But there are still more than 60 people on the list of 89 people, even after these two eliminations. Such a large range is impossible to lock them.

So Lu Yu split the list again and divided it into three parts.

Master Hailing really didn't understand this operation, and couldn't help asking: "Why is this?"

Lu Yu explained: "This is the movement trajectory of all the powerful masters on the day when Master Tianmiao was captured. The first part followed you to Huiyue Bay, the second part followed us to the Golden Rooster Islands, and the last part either stayed in Dali Sword Sect or wandered outside and did not return, and did not participate in the events of the day at all."

As he said, Lu Yu picked up the first part of the list again, and there were only less than 20 people left on the list.

A gleam of light flashed in his eyes, and he emphasized: "I seriously suspect that the traitor is likely to be among them..."

Master Hailing was stunned and asked: "Why?"

"Intuition."

Lu Yu answered briefly.

After a pause, he explained: "Master Hailing may not know that when we attacked the fleet of Yuhai Xianzong that day, we used a special combat skill. At that time, the strength of more than 60 people was combined into one, and we could temporarily be said to be in sync with each other..."

"In this process, as the main attacker, I took charge of the overall situation, but I did not find any suspicious situation, so I think the possibility of the insider in the second part is not very high..."

"As for the last part, they are all people who were not very active in this incident. I think as an insider, he should not be so derelict in his duty... So, after thinking about it, I still think that the list in the first part is the most suspicious!"

"Of course, all of this is just my guess. The truth of the matter can only be determined after investigation."

Master Hailing was amazed.

Although all of this is just speculation, it has narrowed the scope to more than a dozen people, giving a clear direction to the originally clueless matter.

"Then how do you plan to start the investigation?" Master Hailing asked.

Lu Yu looked at the list in his hand, exhaled and said: "Let's start from Tianxiang Peak!"

"After all, as the commander-in-chief at the time, Master Zifu must have a different pattern and vision. I wonder what he thinks of this list..."