Chapter 289.2: Early Summer Snow
Speaking up till that point, Cang Jian turned his gaze to look at the young lady. “Phoenixes are all able to resurrect and as the Scarlet Gold Fiery Phoenix stands at the pinnacle of them all, it could not possibly die so easily. But the moment you appeared, its remnant consciousness suddenly dispersed and disappeared. What do you think that tells us here?”
Qing Yu smiled at him. “What does it tell us?”
Seeing that she was still persisting in acting innocent and completely clueless, the contempt in Cang Jian’s heart increased as he opened his mouth to say: “It tells us that there could only be two reasons for that. First, you are the Scarlet Gold Fiery Phoenix’s Master, but that is not possible at all. Because everyone knows that this divine beast came to acknowledge its Master five hundred years back, and its Master was the G.o.dly lord’s youngest daughter, but she has gone missing for a very long time and is nowhere to be found.”
“Second, you and the Scarlet Gold Fiery Phoenix share some kind of special link, that made it trust you fully, or could it be…..”
Cang Jian paused for a moment and then leaned in slowly towards the young lady. Right in front of her face that showed a faint indiscernible smile, he gave voice to the suspicion he had held for a long time: “That you are actually somehow related to the G.o.dly lord’s youngest daughter, the Eleventh G.o.ddess who disappeared from the Divine Temple back then.”
“I had the fortune to see this particular G.o.ddess once in the past, and I must say that the young Miss Yu Qing’s eyes really look startlingly alike to the Eleventh G.o.ddess’…..”
Previously, hadn’t Qing Luo Yan transferred this young lady to serve at her side because she looked so much like that person in order to test her?
Unfortunately, after such a long time, not only had Qing Luo Yan not found anything suspicious about the young lady, she had come to trust her fully instead. When Cang Jian lost favour with Qing Luo Yan, he came to receive scorn and contempt from people who even tried to hit him when he was down. But he still managed to calm himself down and found that many things about the young lady did not seem right.
Just the single fact how a weak and frail young lady from one of the lower realms could come to fare so well in Cloud Heaven like a fish to water was already unbelievable enough.
He thought that after saying all that, he would see another expression on the young lady’s face like panic or shock, and would lose her calm.
However, Qing Yu merely quietly waited for him to finish, before she reached her hands out to clap a few times, before saying to him with a bright smiling face: “I had thought that the Grand Priest was the best at deciphering such astronomical phenomenons in the night sky and would be able to predict whether it’s a sign of blessing or calamity. Never did I expect the Grand Priest to possess such a fertile imagination as well, to come up with such a fascinating story, which makes me can’t help but hold newfound respect.”
The lifted corners of Cang Jian’s lips that carried a tinge of mirth then froze in place, the look on his face suddenly looking horribly ugly.
It seemed like he had not expected that after being so blunt and straightforward with his words, that the young lady’s face could still remain unchanged, and to blatantly deny everything. If he had not discovered clues and telltale signs before this, he would have been completely taken in by the young lady’s exquisite acting here.