Seeing this, Flender quickly stepped forward to explain.
"No, no, respected Poison Douluo Your Majesty, Xiaogang absolutely didn't mean that. He was just afraid you might misunderstand and wanted to learn about the circumstances of the matter from you."
Seeing Flender's explanation, Dugu Bo snorted coldly and withdrew the pressure on the Grandmaster.
Meng Bei didn't pay much attention to the Grandmaster's disheveled state.
He was more concerned about how Tang San had become an evil soul master.
So he asked Dugu Bo.
"Grandfather-in-law, what exactly happened with Third Brother? How did he become an evil soul master?"
Upon hearing this, Dugu Bo answered irritably:
"How would I know the specific details? It was a red-robed bishop from Spirit Hall who led people to capture him on the spot while this boy was committing crimes. When Spirit Hall was about to escort him to the Slaughter City, I encountered them on my way here. Considering you had some friendship with him, I put aside my dignity to ask for him. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother with him!"
Upon hearing this, everyone looked at Tang San with surprise.
What Dugu Bo said was reasonable and well-founded. Could it be that what he said was true, and Tang San had really become an evil soul master?
Meng Bei thanked Dugu Bo even more:
"Thank you, Grandfather-in-law, for your concern."
Dugu Bo simply hummed indifferently without saying much.
At this time, Tang San had also been freed from his restraints by everyone.
He got up from the ground somewhat disheveled. Looking at the concerned gazes in everyone's eyes, Tang San lowered his head in shame.
The Grandmaster and others quickly asked Tang San:
"Xiao San, is what Poison Douluo Your Majesty said true?"
"What exactly happened? Did Spirit Hall frame you?"
"Those things definitely weren't done by you, right?"
Question after question came at him, and Tang San's head hung lower and lower.
Finally, having no other choice, he could only answer in a low voice:
"What Poison Douluo senior said... is true."
Upon hearing this, for the Grandmaster and others who trusted Tang San the most, it was like a bolt from the blue.
The Shrek members all found it unbelievable.
"What!"
"How is this possible!"
"Why, why kill people!"
Tang San lowered his head in extreme guilt and said:
"I didn't intentionally want to kill people. My things were lost, I just wanted to investigate, but they all wouldn't cooperate with me..."
Upon hearing this, the Grandmaster said with red eyes:
"Even so, you can't kill people! Just for some things, you killed so many people. What things were so important!"
After hearing this, Tang San stammered and couldn't speak.
He didn't want to reveal information about the immortal herbs, so in the end he only reluctantly said they were some medicinal herbs.
But what Tang San didn't know was that Meng Bei had already told everyone about the immortal herbs. So after Tang San mentioned the herbs, everyone's expressions changed.
Dai Mubai immediately stepped forward excitedly and pressed:
"It's those hundred medicinal herbs you picked from Xiao Bei, right?"
Tang San looked surprised: "How do you know?"
Upon hearing this, everyone immediately fell into chaos.
Tang San's herbs had actually been stolen, which meant everyone's days of anticipation had come to nothing.
For a moment, everyone surrounded Tang San, some disbelieving, some questioning. The scene became chaotic. Meng Bei even felt that if not for their past friendship, they might strip Tang San naked to find traces of those immortal herbs.
He didn't disturb Tang San and the others, but separately took Ning Fengzhi and others inside to talk.
During this, he also told Dugu Bo about the immortal herbs and informed him that the toxins in Dugu Yan's body had been cured.
At the same time, the news that Ning Rongrong's martial soul had evolved was also told to Ning Fengzhi.
After learning this news, how happy everyone was needn't be mentioned.
But where some are happy, others worry. Tang San at this time was extremely troubled.
Facing everyone's questioning and accusations, he really couldn't handle it.
However, after a series of questioning and conversation, he roughly figured out the situation.
That is, after he left, Meng Bei and others consumed immortal herbs and their soul power broke through.
And precisely because of this, everyone in Shrek believed that the hundred herbs he took away all had the same effects. Now that he had lost these hundred herbs, everyone became so anxious.
After figuring out the cause of the matter, Tang San thought repeatedly and soon discovered the suspicious aspects of the situation.
That is, he had already taken away all the immortal herbs. Only Dugu Yan on Meng Bei's side should have broken through from consuming immortal herbs. But according to everyone's description, Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong had also achieved breakthroughs.
This inevitably aroused Tang San's suspicion.
Meng Bei's explanation to everyone was that he gave Rongrong and Xiao Wu immortal herbs that Dugu Bo had left behind before.
But Tang San didn't believe it. Based on what Dai Mubai and others said, he calculated that the day Ning Rongrong and others broke through was exactly the day he was ambushed and knocked unconscious. How could there be such a coincidence in the world?
From this, Tang San deduced that the person who knocked him unconscious that day was exactly Meng Bei.
He had always had two doubts in his heart.
One doubt was: how did the person who stole his immortal herbs know that what he carried were immortal herbs?
Very few people knew about this. Previously, Tang San thought he had revealed something when passing through the town, attracting attention, which led to the robbery.
That's why the later incident of Tang San massacring various soul master families in the town occurred.
But strangely, Tang San had continuously investigated several nearby families over these days, even using Tang Sect torture methods to torment people to death, but ultimately couldn't get any useful information.
Now it seemed that if this matter was done by Meng Bei, then this first doubt could be explained.
Secondly, the second doubt: the person who stole his immortal herbs clearly had the ability to kill him, but only knocked him unconscious!
This was something Tang San had never understood.
Now it seemed that if this was done by Meng Bei, then it could be explained.
It must be that Dugu Yan's absorption of the immortal herbs was much faster than he had expected, causing Meng Bei to learn about the herbs' effects earlier.
So Meng Bei regretted giving these immortal herbs to him.
Therefore, Meng Bei later followed the traces of his departure, found his hiding place, and stole the immortal herbs.
Tang San felt he knew the truth of the matter and immediately his eyes turned red.
He suddenly roared:
"Meng Bei, Meng Bei!"
The angry voice startled everyone.
"What's wrong?"
Everyone asked in confusion.
Tang San then angrily voiced his suspicions.
After hearing this, everyone was shocked.
Flender repeatedly advised:
"Xiao San, we can understand that you lost your precious medicines, but you can't make accusations about things without evidence!"
But Tang San said:
"I have evidence. Didn't Meng Bei say he still has two herbs left? All my herbs were unique treasures of heaven and earth, each type only had one plant. Have Meng Bei take out those two herbs in his hands for examination. If they match the herbs I lost, then this matter was undoubtedly done by him!"
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