Duan Guihong didn’t beat around the bush and said directly: “It was Fu Tingyi.”
“
Like a heavy hammer falling from the sky, it smashed the Jing Ning Marquis into the ground. Fu Shen was completely stunned, raising his voice in disbelief: “Who?”
“Ying Guo Gong. Your third uncle.” Duan Guihong finally shocked Fu Shen and for some reason seemed a bit pleased, “Didn’t expect that, did you?”
“He… all these years, his pursuit of immortality was just a cover, and he was actually in contact with you privately?”
Though shocked, Fu Shen’s mind was still sharp. With Duan Guihong’s hint, he could roughly piece together the whole story. His frequent visits would not raise suspicion. The white dew powder and smoking tools needed could first be sent to Fu Tingyi and then passed on. As a Taoist priest, frequent contact with the southwest would easily expose him, but for the Ying Guo Gong mansion, this was nothing…
No wonder Yan Xiaohan and the others could never trace the source of Pure Yang Taoist’s drugs.
“Your third uncle has been laying low for years,” Duan Guihong said. “I contacted Uncle Ran after you went to the Northern Frontier.”
Fu Shen, unusually angry, said with a gloomy face: “If he wants to lay low, he should just cultivate his immortality! Why get involved in these messy affairs? What thick-headed foolishness, or is the Ying Guo Gong mansion not collapsing fast enough?”
“Jing Yuan,” Duan Guihong said calmly, “You think like everyone in the capital, believing he is where he is just by being born into a good family, right?”
“What do you mean!” Fu Shen said angrily. “No one’s stopping him from cultivating immortality! I finally got the Ying Guo Gong mansion out of trouble, and he’s rushing to jump into the fire. Is he addicted?”
“Once an epidemic spreads, it cannot be controlled by human power,” Duan Guihong said with a bitter smile. “The same goes for Qiu Ye Bai. Even if I stop it from spreading further from now on, what has already been released will continue to reproduce. It’s too late to try to cut off the source now.”
