Chapter 217: Covert Investigation

“Lin Haochen! How could this be?” Mu Yanxi was startled, but she continued to poke the mechanical spider with her sword. Remembering what she had just done, she felt embarrassed and angry.

“Just because you’re a Young Master, does that give you the right to stalk and peep? Just because you’re the son of the Chairman of Yangxin Hall?!”

“Wait! I really didn’t mean any harm! I just heard Miss Shangguan report some secrets to me. I felt she was holding back and didn’t finish, so I followed her.”

“I really didn’t know the actual person in the know was you!” the mechanical spider explained while holding up its shield.

“So you’re saying that when we were cultivating together, you were watching from the side? Is that right?!” Mu Yanxi was still furious.

Seeing that her sword couldn’t pierce the mechanical spider’s shield, she switched to other magical arts and divine abilities to attack it, but still couldn’t break through the thick shield.

“No, I didn’t look at anything improper. I directly turned off the surveillance eye. I swear to heaven, I didn’t see a thing!” Lin Haochen said confidently.

“You closed your eyes and didn’t watch? Then do you dare swear that you didn’t listen?” Mu Yanxi was still irate.

“To be honest, I did listen. After all, I was afraid that during your double cultivation you might reveal some clues that I would miss, so I had to listen.” Lin Haochen said honestly.

“For Yun’er’s honor, you should just go die!”

Mu Yanxi said angrily. She herself only felt a bit embarrassed, but thinking that he had heard Shangguan Yun’s ecstatic scream during her climax, Mu Yanxi wanted to chop the mechanical spider and Lin Haochen into pieces.

“Miss, please calm down. You can’t break this shield. This is indeed my fault. If chopping up the mechanical spider will make you feel better, then after I finish asking my questions, I’ll deactivate the shield and let you tear the mechanical spider apart. How about that?” Lin Haochen asked.

Mu Yanxi realized that she really couldn’t break this shield. The shield was at least nascent soul level defense. She couldn’t even unleash a core formation level attack. Even if she hacked at it for ten years, she wouldn’t be able to break it.

She was forced to stop and asked, “Even if I chop up this stupid spider, what use is it? You’ve already violated Yun’er’s and my privacy! What you saw and heard can’t be erased from memory. How do you plan to compensate Yun’er and me?”

“Miss, you have a point. How about this: I’ll compensate each of you with 100,000 spirit stones, totaling 200,000 spirit stones, as an apology to you two ladies. Is that acceptable?” Lin Haochen asked.

Mu Yanxi was stunned for a moment.

She had originally intended to scold Lin Haochen for being shameless, stalking and peeping, and trying to brush her off with money.

But on second thought, being followed and peeked at wouldn’t actually cost her anything. The most embarrassing thing was that he almost saw her cultivation, but it hadn’t started yet.

Since it hadn’t started, it was as good as not seeing anything!

What did 100,000 spirit stones mean? It was almost ten years of her family’s income. It would be enough to pay back all of Mu Yanxi’s surgery and tuition fees to her parents, with a large surplus left over.

For Mu Yanxi, who was desperately short on spirit stones right now, this was almost impossible to refuse.

And Lin Haochen was offering 200,000 spirit stones as compensation—what incredible generosity!

But then again, he was willing to let Mu Yanxi destroy a 300,000 spirit stone mechanical spider to vent her anger, so why not compensate her with 200,000 spirit stones?

“Hmph! At least you show a bit of sincerity. Fine, I’ll listen to what you want to ask. But first, you need to explain your own situation clearly, otherwise I won’t answer any questions.” Mu Yanxi put away her sword.

The mechanical spider also deactivated its shield, and Lin Haochen’s voice came out:

“This goes back a few days. Several medical incidents have occurred successively at the Spiritual Moon Sect. It’s not just the physical enhancement injections; even the basic elixirs for refining divine sense and strengthening constitution have had problems.”

“Reports say that the disciples of the Spiritual Moon Sect are panicking. If this gets out, it could seriously affect Yangxin Hall’s medicine business.”

Mu Yanxi’s heart stirred.

She only knew of two incidents: one she had witnessed herself, and one she had heard from Shangguan Yun. It seemed there were actually more than just these two, but the Spiritual Moon Sect had suppressed them.

“Huh? Several incidents?”

“So, my father gave me a task: to come to the Spiritual Moon Sect for public relations, and along the way investigate the truth behind the medical incidents.”

“But public relations was the main focus, and investigating the incidents was secondary. Whenever I go out, a crowd follows me. The Spiritual Moon Sect also sends out teachers and students to give me a grand welcome. There’s no way I can investigate properly like that.” Lin Haochen continued.

“I see. No wonder you agreed to stay and accept their hospitality. So you’re just here for public relations. Is the Spiritual Moon Sect’s hospitality enthusiastic?” Mu Yanxi asked with a sneer.

Public relations was just about restoring the image, at the end of the day just making the Spiritual Moon Sect have a better impression of Yangxin Hall. That was too simple.

This Young Master of his could just walk around the Spiritual Moon Sect a few times, sprinkle some spirit stones and medicines, and these young ladies would be completely infatuated, their fondness for Yangxin Hall growing day by day.

But in essence, this wasn’t solving the problem at all, just covering it up. Those substandard smuggled medicines would still ravage the bodies of low-level disciples.

Perhaps the big shots at Yangxin Hall didn’t care about these things. All they cared about was whether the medicines could be sold.

“Too enthusiastic. A group of beautiful women singing and dancing. I finally understand why the Spiritual Moon Palace’s assisted cultivation is so famous. Unfortunately, I really can’t handle it.

Especially when the headmaster even proposed having some female disciples come to serve me in bed. I rejected all of them. Now I’ve locked myself in my room, and only then dared to contact you.” Lin Haochen said with a wry smile.

“Oh? Why refuse? Isn’t that a good thing? If you double cultivate with a few female disciples, you can experience the effects of the Spiritual Moon Palace’s assisted cultivation more deeply. Why still come and stalk me to contact?” Mu Yanxi asked with a cold sneer.

It seemed that only now did Lin Haochen detect the sarcasm and mockery in Mu Yanxi’s tone. He quickly said:

“I didn’t think that way. I really came here to investigate the truth. But I’ve always been in the spotlight, so it’s completely impossible to conduct an investigation. I can only symbolically ask those involved about the situation.”

This also explained why Lin Haochen went out of his way to question the irrelevant first-year students, because they were all witnesses.

He wasn’t here for public relations, not to say some pretty words to suppress the dissatisfaction and resentment among the low-level disciples and stabilize Yangxin Hall’s reputation.

“Just when I was at my wit’s end, Miss Shangguan suddenly came to me, hinting that she knew something and wanted to talk with me alone. So we went to a bedroom with a forbidden ward activated, and even communicated through telepathy.”

“She said she saw two transaction scenes at the public bath, and found someone secretly selling Yangxin Hall’s medicines.”

“She also saw someone administering medicine for body tempering even before the body tempering class started. The case of fainting in class that you saw was caused by that.”

“But I judged that she wasn’t telling the whole truth. To be honest, there have been quite a few people before who obtained cheap medicines through internal channels to sell privately, but our Yangxin Hall’s medicines all have safety inspection guarantees. They basically won’t have problems.”