Ye Ling sensed with his divine soul that among the Red Dust Pavilion cultivators rushing to reinforce them was Bai Xiaosheng!
With the unexpected appearance of someone, Ye Ling lowered his eyelids, his mind racing.
He still needed to use Bai Xiaosheng to find Ye Feng. If anything went wrong here, given Ye Feng's vigilance, that fellow would definitely hide again.
After that, it would be much harder for him to find Ye Feng.
Although Ye Ling had modified Bai Xiaosheng's memory that day, making him unable to recall what happened that night, Bai Xiaosheng was considered a core member of the Red Dust Pavilion. Moreover, Ye Ling had been placed on the "Immortal Ranking" by the Red Dust Pavilion, so Bai Xiaosheng knew Ye Ling's appearance.
Currently, Ye Ling was impersonating Kong Xuhan with his original appearance. He could fool these Red Dust Pavilion members who had never seen him in person, but as soon as he met Bai Xiaosheng, his disguise would be immediately exposed!
However, at this moment, it was too late for Ye Ling to modify Bai Xiaosheng's memory.
No one knew how many of the cultivators who came with Bai Xiaosheng had seen Ye Ling's photograph.
Furthermore, the Immortal Ranking was also a contradiction.
No one would believe that Kong Xuhan would look exactly like a strong individual on the Immortal Ranking!
"Alas... the consequences of my high-profile actions back then are catching up."
Ye Ling patted his head and sighed, feeling quite troubled.
If it weren't for the series of events that occurred in Dao City, he wouldn't have to worry about being recognized now.
Seeing the change in Ye Ling's expression, Ye Yi couldn't help but ask with concern, "Mr. Kong, are you feeling unwell?"
"It's nothing, just that the acupuncture earlier consumed a bit more energy," Ye Ling said without batting an eye, lying effortlessly.
However, Ye Yi had no suspicion of Ye Ling at this moment. He instructed a few physicians, "You few, take Mr. Kong down to rest."
The physicians quickly responded, "Yes!"
This Tongtian Tower was an internal affair of the Red Dust Pavilion. Even though Kong Xuhan had joined the Red Dust Pavilion, he hadn't officially joined yet, so it was not appropriate for him to be overly involved in this matter, otherwise, it would easily draw trouble to himself.
Coincidentally, Ye Ling was also feeling unwell, and Ye Yi had an excuse to send Ye Ling away.
Ye Ling was already worried about how to avoid Bai Xiaosheng and his group, and Ye Yi's words perfectly solved Ye Ling's dilemma.
Without any hesitation, Ye Ling directly agreed to Ye Yi and followed the physicians out of the room, heading to the resting area.
The physicians who were following Ye Ling were filled with excitement. As soon as they entered the resting area, they wanted to ask Ye Ling for advice on medical skills.
However, before they could speak, they directly fainted and lost consciousness.
Ye Ling moved the physicians onto the bed and probed Bai Xiaosheng's group with his divine soul, his eyes growing deeper.
"How should the next events be resolved?"
"Currently, the only method is memory modification. Either I transform into Kong Xuhan's appearance and change Ye Yi's perception, or I have to modify the memories of Bai Xiaosheng's group."
"However, there are large groups on both sides. Whichever group's memories I modify, it will be quite troublesome."
"Moreover, if I excessively modify Bai Xiaosheng's memories, it might cause deviations in his memory, making it easy for people to notice something is wrong."
"In addition, there are likely many high-ranking officials in the Red Dust Pavilion who know me. If I continue to disguise myself with my true appearance, I will eventually be exposed..."
"One lie can only be covered by another lie. This way, it will eventually be exposed. The meeting between Bai Xiaosheng and Ye Feng is the main event. If this matter of Kong Xuhan disrupts the plan there, it would be a loss outweighing the gain."
"If I want to continue disguising myself, I would have to impersonate Kong Xuhan, then modify the memories of Ye Yi and others, and also destroy the surveillance in this branch. Even the Sun family has a large group of people whose memories need to be modified..."
"Tsk... have both sides fallen into a dead end?"
Ye Ling sat on a chair, tapping the table with his index finger, weighing the pros and cons of both sides.
After all, impersonating Kong Xuhan was an accidental event. Ye Ling had only gone along with the flow to reach this point, without sufficient time to make thorough preparations.
It was quite normal for a hasty plan to encounter unexpected issues.
What Ye Ling had to do now was either to complete this plan so that the matter of Kong Xuhan did not conflict with Bai Xiaosheng, or to make a choice between the two and abandon one.
"So much has been done for the matter of Kong Xuhan. If I give up halfway, I'm still a bit unwilling..."
Ye Ling's divine soul scanned Bai Xiaosheng and the others who had entered the Tongtian Tower room. He couldn't make up his mind for a moment, so he concealed his figure and returned to the Tongtian Tower room, to act according to the situation.
After all, regardless of whether Ye Ling continued to impersonate Kong Xuhan or abandoned this plan, the people in the Red Dust Pavilion research branch needed to be dealt with.
His going there now was not wrong.
As long as he hadn't met Bai Xiaosheng's group, things wouldn't get out of control.
As Ye Ling once again headed to the Tongtian Tower room, he also took the opportunity to go to the surveillance room and completely destroy the surveillance from this period, delaying the time for this plan to be exposed.
...
In the room where the Tongtian Tower was located.
A large number of Red Dust Pavilion cultivators were gathered.
Bai Xiaosheng looked at the shattered Tongtian Tower with a gloomy expression, then glanced at Ye Yi and the just-awakened Lei Luo, and asked in a deep voice, "What exactly happened here?"
"Why was the Tongtian Tower destroyed? And where did the Source Spirit go?"
Bai Xiaosheng's status was clearly above Ye Yi and Lei Luo. Ye Yi dared not retort and quickly said, "Your subordinate only just learned that the Tongtian Tower was destroyed. The only person at the scene was the unconscious Lei Luo. The specific situation has not yet been investigated."
Seeing Ye Yi shift the blame to Lei Luo, Bai Xiaosheng also glared at Lei Luo with a gloomy expression and questioned, "You explain to this Lord what happened here?"
"Also, why are you here?"
Lei Luo had just woken up and was still somewhat dazed. Upon being questioned by Bai Xiaosheng, he suddenly jolted, not knowing what to say.
Although the struggle between the hawk and dove factions within the Red Dust Pavilion had reached a fever pitch, and it was an open secret that both sides would resort to underhanded tactics, the Red Dust Pavilion officially prohibited internal members from killing each other.
Doing something was one thing, but if Lei Luo admitted now that he came to kill Ye Yi, the situation would be different.
Lei Luo was covered in sweat and trembled, saying, "Reporting to sir, I, I..."
"I am asking you!"
Bai Xiaosheng sternly questioned Lei Luo, "What exactly happened here!"
Lei Luo trembled and quickly said, "I accidentally saw a mysterious person invading our research branch, so I followed him and discovered that the mysterious person wanted to destroy the Tongtian Tower!"
"I wanted to stop him, but I didn't expect that mysterious person to be too strong. I... am no match."
Lei Luo only remembered that he came here to kill Ye Yi. Other matters were quite vague. He didn't even know why he was lying there. In his panic, he could only make up a story.
"Mysterious person?" Bai Xiaosheng frowned slightly, "Do you know who he is?"
Lei Luo dared not say that he knew nothing. In his haste, he remembered someone who was very popular on the Red Dust Pavilion forum recently and decided to shift the blame to him first. He directly said to Bai Xiaosheng, "It, it's Ye Ling! He said his name is Ye Ling!"
Ye Ling, who was secretly watching from the side, suddenly heard Lei Luo utter his name and almost spat out a mouthful of blood!
Damn it!
This works too?