Divine Brilliance

Along with the cold scoff, Xuan Shu suddenly walked behind Zong Shou. His knife-like gaze sweeping all around.

Luoshi instantly held his breath whilst Xie An furrowed his brows. After scoffing, they took a few steps back.

Forcing back the 2 of them, Xuan Shu didn’t give Zong Shou a good expression, his face was extremely ugly.

When Zong Shou saw that he felt like it was a huge waste. Xuan Shu was a huge bother.

On the side of Zhao Yanran, she said deep in thought, “You did that on purpose?”

Zong Shou smiled, not acknowledging but also not denying it. Just as he was prepared to enter meditation once more, a red glow suddenly flew down from above. After circling for a while it headed right towards Xuan Yunlan.

“It finally came!”

Zong Shou’s eyes instantly lit up. Not waiting for that red swift bird to land by her side, he reached out to grab, holding the bird in his hand.

But he saw that the bamboo tube below was quite heavy. It was obvious that there was so much information that it brought over. Which was why they didn’t use the faster message talisman but used this red swift bird instead.

Inside it, there were a total of ten over pieces of silk paper that had many closely packed words. Zong Shou lit a flame to take a look.

The 1st was regarding the landscape nearby to Helian Iron mountain. With just a look, Zong Shou’s eyes lit up.

“This Helian Iron Mountain was 30 miles away from Dali Riverside? Looking at the landscape, it should be 120 feet below sea level…”

When the 2 ladies heard that, they both exchanged glances. So what if it was near Dali Riverside? So what if it was below sea level? They didn’t know why Zong Shou would feel so excited.

Following which Zong Shou exclaimed, “We have already bought over the complex official of Helian Iron Mountain?”

He knew that the so called complex official referred to the official in charge of safety and making arrests. The complex official of an iron mountain had a heavy responsibility—they were in charge of all the troops within the entire mountain.

He couldn’t believe that the common people’s path could bring such a person over.

“It is useless!”

Zhao Yanran shook her head helplessly, “This person had many matters that our common people path found out. We controlled him 2 years ago. However, it isn’t of much use so Tailing Sect won’t care at all. Before we came, the master told me that it is easy to save the people. What was tough was to flee. As long as we common people path act, those Tailing Sect people will chase us all the way.”

When Zong Shou heard that, he was unsurprised. He also didn’t have a depressed expression. Following which he flipped the next few papers which were information regarding Tailing Sect and that Han King as well as their recent actions.

“…2 months later Han King will be moved back to the capital?”

“I have also heard about this matter!”

The person who answered was Xuan Yunlan. After all the foundations of Qingyin Sect were in the central continent, as such they were much clearer about things here.

“That emperor of Great Shang for some reason had never decided on a crown prince, sending all the of age princes to take charge of the land. This Han King was supported by Tailing, Hanshan, and Daoming Sect. These few days he was doing so well, many successive wars in the western region. It was said that the court admired him and wanted to move him to the core area to take charge of the ministry of justice…”

Zong Shou smiled—this ministry of justice wasn’t a good role to do.

Based on the records he had on the silk paper, it revealed the real reason that Han King was ‘promoted’ to enter the capital.

With the support of a few large sects, he had a few large wars with the western region.

However, he didn’t make much progress and wasn’t able to wipe out a country—he couldn’t even occupy a land. Each time he mobilized troops it would reach 4 million. These weren’t the normal nobodies of Donglin cloud continent but true elites. Even Gantian Mountain had only 400 thousand of such troops that could be discussed in the same vein.

In the end, not only did they suffer heavy casualties, the number of military resources they used up was in the tens of millions.

Even with how rich the central dynasty was, they couldn’t afford it. A year ago someone sent up a letter to complain that he was focusing too much on the military which affected the finances of the people.

This was why rather than say that the Great Shang dynasty’s important officials had high hopes for him, it was more of a demotion in actuality—to first place this Han King out of contention.

Following which Xuan Yunlan said, “This Yuan Jiuchen’s promotion is to take over Han King’s provincial military governor position. This person is the top, right-hand man of the Han King, so only by passing the troops to him could the Han King be at ease to enter the capital…”

Right-hand man? That might not be the case!

Zong Shou continued to flip and not long later he saw a copy about the Liao King. This was one of the younger ones out of the princes, he was ranked 9th.

His experiences were normal and uninteresting, like that of a normal prince, not normal but also not very outstanding. After he was sent to the north to take charge of the Liao land, he seemed quite intelligent, organizing the troops and amassing their strength. It caused the barbaric tribes of the north to be unwilling to go down south. His results were much more beautiful than what the Han King had experienced.

A moment later, Zong Shou’s gaze was focused on a line of words.

…Yuanchen 6th year 3rd month, the 9th prince was out touring the mountains. On the way back he lost his way and only returned 10 days later.

Taking a close look for a moment, like he wanted to magnify those normal-looking words and take an even closer look.

A long while later did Zong Shou heave a sigh.

The history books of the future didn’t lie. There was such a matter.

Everything that happened during the god-emperor era was confusing. He knew that 12 years later this Liao prince was made crown prince and that high spirited Han King ended up in house arrest.

As for Yuan Jiuchen, for some reason not only did he not lose his position, but he was instead promoted and heavily trusted.

This thing might have some chance of succeeding.

Closing his eyes to rest up, Zong Shou thought about it following which he smiled towards Xuan Yunlan, “Yunlan I have 2 more things to instruct. I heard that this Liao King likes to tour and reveal troops? Can you ask the sect to send a few seniors over for an assassination?”

Xuan Yunlan was startled, her first thought was that Zong Shou was crazy. It wasn’t like the common people path had never assassinated a prince, but every time, the central dynasty would crazily counter attack, even the righteous sects would work together.

Now that the spiritual wave was about to arrive, at such a time, to make the common people path the target of everyone would cause them irrecoverable losses.

Furthermore, she couldn’t tell how the death of the Liao King would link with the death of Yuan Jiuchen.

When Zhao Yanran heard that, her brows furrowed. However before she even asked, Zong Shou smiled, “Naturally we won’t want to kill this Liao King. We just need to force out that Taiqing Chengfeng sword. Don’t tell me that your Qingyin School can’t do that? Although I don’t have any proof, it wouldn’t matter to have a try. Let’s set the time to 2 months later, 10 days before the Han King gets appointed…”

Hearing that last sentence, Zhao Yanran and Xuan Yunlan’s expressions changed. They both couldn’t help but stand up.

“You mean Tailing Sect and the Liao King…”

Before they completed their sentences, they saw Zong Shou place his fingertip on his lips. With a “shush” he made them keep quiet.

Xuan Yunlan stopped speaking, seeing that the people around all looked over, they sat back down, her petite face was dark and uncertain.

“I would tell the sect about this. However, I still need 2 Seven Spirit Sect seniors to act. Rather than using force, it is better to charm their senses.”

An impressed expression appeared in Zong Shou’s eyes, all of a sudden he forgot that the methods of this ‘demon path sect’, Qingyin School and Beautiful Demon Sect were much stronger than others.

“The second matter that I want help with is that 2 months later, I want to personally meet that Han King…”

That Zhao Yanran and Xuan Yunlan instantly frowned. They first found the matter inappropriate, but then, their expressions turned back to normal.

Since he had already had plans on the side of Liao King, then it was expected that he meet the Han King, there was nothing dangerous about it.

All of a sudden she felt a little disbelief. If it was as what Zong Shou expected, then the matter that bugged the common people path for close to 20 years would be easily solved.

Not only could it cause that Yuan Jiuchen to die a terrible death, but they could also let Tailing Sect taste how it felt like to be plotted against.

Xuan Yunlan clenched her fists tightly to suppress the excitement in her heart. Zong Shou’s words naturally didn’t have any evidence but if they carefully deduced and guessed then there was a 90% possibility.

If not she wouldn’t have sought help from the sect so easily.

Originally she didn’t have much hope when she came over but now it seems like a little stimulation by Zong Shou, there was a 70% chance of winning!

As expected from the wise ruler who inherited the throne as a kid and wiped out many cities, shocking a continent.

Legend had it that the sky fox race was crafty. Now it seemed like the truth!

“Within the common people path, secrecy is difficult with so many people sharing it. There might be hidden chess pieces from Tailing Sect. To have more confidence regarding that matter we need to keep it a secret! Both of you don’t keep your hopes too high…”

Zong Shou himself only had 20% confidence. He only planned according to the historical reports that he saw in the last life. As such, his confidence wasn’t as high as that of Xuan Yunlan.

Whilst he said that he thought about whether or not any areas needed perfecting.

Following which he felt like there was an aura silently getting close to them from below.

Just as Zong Shou tried to sense it, numerous sand and dust particles rose up. A giant worm suddenly charged out from the sand, a full 400 feet long body suddenly opened its mouth. Inside it was filled with sharp teeth which bit towards Zong Shou.

“Sandworm?”

“There are such worms near the border of Guangling Han Ocean? It’s grade 7…”

“Tanqiu isn’t dodging. Don’t tell me he was scared silly?”

“I want to see how without our help he would be able to deal with it.”

The people around all smiled as they discussed but no one seemed like they were about to help Zong Shou deal with this sandworm.

Zong Shou shook his head, Hanxi who was within his sleeves had already woke up, even the lightning winged flood serpent was ready to go.

However, in the next moment, he shouted, “Mysterious dragon!”

A red-colored giant sword suddenly slashed down, the aura was similar to the hundreds of common people mysterious dragon warriors. The aura it gave off was that of a grade 8 one, just one sword slashed the body of the sandworm into 2!

The sword flashed as the remaining part of the sandworm was cut up into pieces.