“One is that someone betrayed us before going out, the second is that someone was controlled and has been lurking among us for a long time.”
Shangguan Rui said unhurriedly, “The first possibility, among the twelve people, none have a reason to betray, they were also under my long-term surveillance before, the possibility is very small, very small, but it cannot be ruled out that they were laid out by the Ouyang family a long time ago, and controlled or bought over using special methods even earlier.”
“The second possibility, in this area, to reach the initial level of seventh-grade spiritual power realm, those who can control slaves are only your grandfather and Ouyang Shuo.”
“A seventh-grade spirit controller can only control one slave, Ouyang Shuo as the head of the Ouyang family, is very likely to choose to control the strongest person that can be controlled as a slave, as a strength to protect the clan, just like your grandfather, the one controlled is a battle-powerful triple martial emperor.”
“Logically speaking, Ouyang Shuo should not go to control a sixth-grade spirit controller as a slave.”
“We have also secretly investigated, and the one Ouyang Shuo controlled as a slave is also a triple martial emperor powerhouse.”
“But Ouyang Shuo is old and cunning, it cannot be ruled out that he cooperated with that triple martial emperor to cover people’s eyes and ears.”
Shangguan Rui analysed methodically one by one, “In this competition, the most powerful in our Shangguan family is Shangguan Yu, and you, in the line of the great elder where Shangguan Yu is, the Ouyang family has an opportunity to infiltrate, Shangguan Yu’s strength must have been exposed to the eyes and ears of the Ouyang family.”
“And our line is almost airtight, it is very difficult, very difficult to infiltrate, only through controlling slaves or controlling spirits, controlling spirits has already been ruled out, for Ouyang Shuo to specially control one person to infiltrate among us is also possible.”
“And if one of these people is really controlled as a slave, then Ouyang Shuo should not look upon a fifth-grade spirit controller, even a sixth-grade initial spirit controller and sixth-grade intermediate spirit controller would not catch his eye, the most likely is the two strongest people in your team.”
Shangguan Rui continued to analyse, “Liu Ze, I saved his life, treated him with sincerity and kindness, he is loyal to our line, his entire family old and young are under my protection, every time he returns from going out, he voluntarily lets me perform controlling spirits to spit out the truth, Ouyang Shuo cannot possibly control Liu Ze as a slave, once I perform controlling spirits and it fails, he would be exposed.”
Once someone is controlled as a slave by a spirit controller, in their spiritual consciousness, there is the spiritual consciousness of the spirit controller who performed the controlling slaves integrated into it, it is impossible to perform controlling spirits or controlling slaves again.
Unless the spirit controller who re-controls slaves or controlling spirits has strength far superior to the spirit controller who first performed controlling slaves, reaching the level where they can directly control slaves or controlling spirits the spirit controller who previously performed controlling slaves.
“And the other sixth-grade advanced spirit controller is Shangguan Xi.”
Shangguan Rui continued, “Shangguan Xi is your maternal great-uncle, under normal circumstances, he would not betray us, and precisely because of this, it would not make us suspect him, I cannot perform controlling spirits on him, and he cannot possibly voluntarily let me control spirits, so if Ouyang Shuo chooses, the most likely is Shangguan Xi.”
Upon hearing this, a shocked expression appeared on Shangguan Tong’s face, she absolutely could not imagine suspecting her maternal great-uncle.
However, under her father’s methodical analysis, the most suspicious person turned out to be her maternal great-uncle.
Her father’s reasoning was so sound that she had no reason to doubt it at all.
This also made her admire her father even more.
“Father, then why not hurry and monitor the maternal great-uncle, in case he escapes and goes to the Ouyang family to report the news of my breakthrough, it would be troublesome.” Shangguan Tong said hurriedly.
Shangguan Rui shook his head, with an air of having the situation in hand, “Before you returned, I had already sent people to wait at any time for your return, preparing to monitor each one of you, as soon as you stepped into the family, someone was already monitoring, Shangguan Xi cannot escape, nor can the others.”
“I will also let their activity range be reduced, after such a thing happened, they themselves should understand.”
After speaking, Shangguan Rui instructed Shangguan Tong again, “Of course, after all, there is no evidence, we will not move him for the time being, in the future, you should not show any suspicion either.”
Saying so much was actually Shangguan Rui cultivating his daughter.
It was just that his daughter was far from as intelligent as him, and learned too slowly.
Upon hearing this, Shangguan Tong nodded solemnly to Shangguan Rui.
“By the way, that Lin Xiao, was he the one you found to compete on behalf of our Shangguan family?” After finishing this matter, Shangguan Rui asked again.
Shangguan Tong nodded, “He is a Yuan cultivator, his aura shows no signs of instability, it seems he did not pile up his strength with pills, his strength is not too weak, and he also knows defensive martial skills, somewhat extraordinary, I want to let him compete with Wen Ruo to try, perhaps he could defeat Wen Ruo.”
Shangguan Rui also nodded in satisfaction, “On this point, you did not do wrong, you go and test his strength, confirm he did not pile up with pills, then let him go directly into the arena.”
“Then what about Wen Ruo?” Shangguan Tong was somewhat puzzled.
“Wen Ruo has disappeared, possibly the news leaked and he fell victim to the Ouyang family’s poison hand, or it could be that opponents of the Wen family secretly obstructed, the head of the Wen family has already come to apologise.” Shangguan Rui said.
Although the Shangguan family could protect those who act on behalf of the Shangguan family or their families, it cannot guarantee complete protection for those who have not yet entered the arena.
After all, before entering the arena, with only nominal protection from the Shangguan family’s reputation, and before selecting the candidate, the Shangguan family does not need to expend too much energy to protect the other party.
Moreover, the distance between the Wen family and the Shangguan family was not close to begin with, Wen Ruo went out on his own, the internal struggles of the Wen family itself, the overt and covert fights with enemies, etc., they could not reach that far.
And in fact, Wen Ruo did suffer a blow from the Jiang family, but what they did not know was that the one who truly dealt the poisonous hand to Wen Ruo was Lin Xiao.
A slightly shocked expression appeared on Shangguan Tong’s face, in this way, that Lin Xiao did not need to compete with Wen Ruo at all, he could directly enter the arena.
In this area, there were hardly any youths with too high talent, those under twenty-five who reached the fourth or fifth level martial monarch realm were very hard to find.
Fortunately, she had pulled in Lin Xiao.
Otherwise, their Shangguan family might not have been able to find someone with some strength to supplement.
At this time, Shangguan Rui said to Shangguan Tong again, “By the way, let me perform controlling spirits on you once, just in case, after all, this time your whereabouts were leaked suspiciously, you are the hardest to control as a slave, and also the easiest to become a target, if you were controlled as a slave, it is what I am most unwilling to see.”
Shangguan Tong nodded, letting her father perform controlling spirits on her, she had no objection.
This was also a means of her father’s protection for her, a means of protection for the family, in front of her father, she had no secrets to keep, and had been controlled spirits many times.
After Shangguan Tong agreed, in an instant, Shangguan Rui directly performed controlling spirits on Shangguan Tong, and soon withdrew his spiritual consciousness.
“No accident!” Seeing that Shangguan Tong was not controlled as a slave, Shangguan Rui finally felt relieved, and said to Shangguan Tong, “Tong’er, you can go and test Lin Xiao’s strength now.”
Shangguan Tong nodded, “Alright, daughter will go now.”
With that, Shangguan Tong left the room.
Looking at Shangguan Tong’s departing figure, Shangguan Rui sighed deeply, “Tong’er, you are still too naive, in fact, your grandfather did this for a reason.”
“If you win, it is fine, if you lose, you will have to marry into the Ouyang family, to plan for the Shangguan family.”
“As a father, I should not do this, nor am I willing to do this, as a grandfather, he should not do this, nor is he willing to do this.”
There was guilt in Shangguan Rui’s expression, “However, for your grandmother, for your mother, to prevent more people from the Shangguan family dying at the hands of the Ouyang family, your grandfather and I can only make this choice.”
Finally, Shangguan Rui’s face regained its confident look, his eyes filled with intelligent light, “Moreover, I also believe that this time, our Shangguan family will surely win.”
What he referred to was not just this competition.
