Once, I wanted to be a good person

"The grudges between you should only be about the assassination a few days ago, right?"

"For the sake of one assassination, he is willing to become a divine fiend just to throw mud on you?"

"Does that make sense?"

The Blue Blood Venerable's expression froze, then hurriedly said, "As I just mentioned, the Garo that returned to the Outer Realm this time is likely not the real Garo, but rather a mysterious person who can transform into him."

"In other words, today we saw two Garos in total. The Garo who turned into a divine fiend is the real Garo, but the one holding the auction was a fake Garo."

"And because he didn't need to become a divine fiend himself, the cost of framing us was very low."

Upon hearing the Blue Blood Venerable's words, the Deep Red Venerable slowly shook his head, "Blue Blood, the Garo now is the same Garo from the previous auction."

With that, seeing the puzzled look on the Blue Blood Venerable's face, Deep Red walked over to Dahei Jialuo, lifted his clothes, and pulled out a treasure from a pocket inside.

It was a cylindrical treasure resembling a fire strike. Deep Red showed it to the Venerables, "This is the Divine Fire Box. It still carries the aura of the Spotted Whale Venerable, so it proves that it is the one just handed over to Dahei Jialuo by the Spotted Whale Venerable."

Following these words, the Venerables buzzed with astonishment.

In truth, many Venerables were still skeptical of the Blue Blood Venerable's "mysterious person hypothesis."

After all, Venerables are the most powerful beings in this world, and if a creature were strong enough to deceive all Venerables and accomplish so much, it would likely be close to or have already attained godhood.

And if such a creature possessed that kind of power, why wouldn't they simply crush the Blue Blood Venerable and his companions directly?

Moreover, the Venerables have lived for thousands of years and have never heard of anyone capable of impersonating a demigod, let alone using the unique divine skills of a demigod or summoning the secret realms of a demigod. Thus, they were all the more doubtful of the Blue Blood Venerable's speculation.

However, there were indeed many suspicious points about Dahei Jialuo's return, which is why many Venerables chose to temporarily believe the Blue Blood Venerable's words.

Now, with the Deep Red Venerable proposing a new line of reasoning that sounds more plausible than the Blue Blood Venerable's, most of the Venerables immediately turned their support.

At this moment, seeing the Divine Fire Box found on Dahei Jialuo by the Deep Red Venerable, the Blue Blood Venerable's expression also became somewhat grim.

He wanted to claim that the Divine Fire Box might have been planted by the fake Garo, but… there were simply too many presumptions in his restored truth. He knew that even if he made such a rebuttal, no one would believe it.

So, he could only keep this explanation suppressed in his mind, and instead, he raised his own doubts. He said, "Deep Red, assuming everything you said is true, then why would we create a bunch of fake absolute pinnacle divine fiends? Why attack Garo in broad daylight?"

"Why not take the Divine Fire Box when you know it exists? And why not intentionally create a spatial disturbance to make the whole incident seem more real?"

The Deep Red Venerable apparently already had a cohesive, self-consistent line of reasoning. So, upon hearing the Blue Blood Venerable's words, he smiled confidently and said, "I'll answer your questions one by one."

"First, as to why you made fake absolute pinnacle divine fiends."

He answered his own question, "It's simple. Because you wanted the God-Sealing Talisman, but didn't have enough absolute pinnacle divine fiends."

"The God-Sealing Talisman can have the greatest impact in your hands. So, to obtain it, you had to fabricate a batch of absolute pinnacle divine fiends and forcibly bid for the talisman paper."

"According to this logic, your strong killing of Dahei Jialuo becomes very reasonable."

With that, Deep Red glanced at the Venerables below and said, "Everyone should remember when Garo was ambushed, right?"

Immediately, a Venerable below replied, "When he was about to inspect the absolute pinnacle divine fiends!"

Deep Red nodded in satisfaction, "Exactly! Garo was attacked when he was about to inspect the absolute pinnacle divine fiends."

"So, it's very simple: you attacked him entirely to prevent the incident from being exposed."

"For this, you had even pre-prepared a narrative, mixing truth with falsehood, all to divert everything to a nonexistent mysterious person."

Saying this, Deep Red Venerable became increasingly enthusiastic. Just like Fang Ze's mouthpiece, he continued,

"And within this entire setup, the Divine Fire Box is your biggest flaw."

"Not only did you not expect Garo to demand the Divine Fire Box, but you also didn't expect us to rush in so quickly, leading to you having no time to transfer the Divine Fire Box."

"Thus, it became the most important piece of evidence."

"You didn't want to hide it; you simply didn't have the time!"

"Moreover," the Deep Red Venerable paused here, then said resolutely, "your entire hypothesis also contains a major flaw: given that you think the mysterious person chose to frame you because of the assassination a few days ago, how was he certain he could frame you?"

"You have to understand, this was a public auction! How could he possibly have foreseen that you would win the bids and prepared in advance?"

"You cannot possibly claim that this mysterious person has grievances with all Venerables and originally planned a random attack, can you?"