High Martial World: I Gain Passive Skills Daily-Chapter 232 - 143: Disciple Cang Xing, Paying Respects to the Martial Saint! (Triple Merge)
Inside the Imperial Palace.
After Wenxian issued the decree to seal Zangfeng State and besiege the rebel army led by Wen Chi, he dismissed the other officials.
Only the corpse controlled by Huangfu Yan and Wenxian were left staring at each other.
Wenxian sat on his throne, leaning back, and his furrowed, angry face relaxed, suddenly appearing somewhat weary.
His sharp eyes pierced through the study window, looking towards the distant, invisible Grand Ancestral Temple.
Wenxian suddenly spoke in a tired, hoarse, and old voice:
"Uncle, tell me, why would the Saint help Wen Chi? Clearly, I am the rightful ruler, I am the royal power. The Yang Kingdom has worshipped her for so many years; the Saint should be preserving my reign."
Huangfu Yan’s own sister, the Chief of the Divine Farmer Bureau, is the mother of both Wenxian and Wen Chi, which is one of the ties that keeps the Divine Farmer Bureau loyal to the Yang Royal Family.
And the private relationship between Wenxian and his uncle Huangfu Yan is quite good, to the point where Wenxian even refers to himself as "I."
The Civil Servant below picked up his own head, turned towards the window, narrowed his eyes, and said:
"Your Majesty, a Saint is still a person. The so-called ’Saint’ transcends all beings, but is not flawless."
"If Your Majesty knew the ’path’ of Saintess Wang Shu, you wouldn’t be surprised why she acted as she did."
Wenxian was stunned, then sat upright: "What is her ’path’? Uncle never told me about it."
Wang Shu has been meditating in seclusion in the Grand Ancestral Temple for many years, and rarely takes action. Even the Yang Royal Family’s records and understanding of her are nearly vague.
Naturally, few know what her ’path’ is.
Huangfu Yan said: "’Affection.’"
"She watches over the Yang Kingdom out of ’affection’ for the Grand Ancestor. Now that she has intervened... perhaps Wen Chi has somehow stirred her ’affection.’"
"Her intervention is her way of practicing her ’path’ and has nothing to do with the Yang Kingdom, with you, or with Wen Chi."
"Moreover, she hasn’t truly intervened this time; she just gave Wen Chi a test."
Huangfu Yan looked up at his nephew:
"Similarly, this is also a test for Your Majesty."
Wenxian’s pupils contracted, and he immediately understood:
"Zangfeng State is the testing ground!"
Huangfu Yan chuckled: "It might also be... a hunting ground."
"Wen Chi’s prey is the Elixir of Longevity, while our prey is Wen Chi."
Wenxian said in a deep voice, "We must not let Wen Chi obtain the Elixir of Longevity; otherwise, Saintess Wang Shu might truly intervene, and then... who could withstand it?"
The Saint is a mountain weighing down above.
Capable of blocking storms and shading a nation, but also able to crush everyone beneath.
Huangfu Yan said in a deep voice, "There is one more thing I haven’t had the chance to report to Your Majesty, but the current shift in events forces me to."
He paused, then said:
"The secret realm within the Yong’an River has already closed, and those who obtained the ’Retrospective Bell’ from within... are not from the Divine Farmer Bureau."
..." Wenxian’s face darkened.
If not for the fact that it was his own uncle, he would have already grabbed something nearby and thrown it over.
The secret realm in the Yong’an River was only discovered in the past few months and can almost be traced back to the period of the Human Emperor.
The source of the secret realm’s formation is precisely a miraculous Spiritual Treasure named the ’Retrospective Bell.’
This object holds great Divine Power, capable of tracing back life and death, revealing the liminal state.
In short, it can recall the dissipated souls of the deceased from the world between heaven and earth back to the human realm for personal use!
Upon such a treasure appearing within the Yang Kingdom, the Divine Farmer Bureau naturally would not let it slip by and immediately sent people to guard and investigate.
The flood anomaly in Yong’an State was caused by the emergence of the ’Retrospective Bell,’ causing all the state’s river water to flow in reverse.
This reverse flow was not a mere change from west to east into east to west.
Rather, it was from the ground to the sky!
Nearly all of it converged above the secret realm!
Yet how could the sky possibly hold up several million tons of river water?
Thus, the dams burst, and the waters flooded a thousand miles.
Such a disaster occurred.
But due to the secret realm’s unveiling, the Divine Farmer Bureau wished to prevent this treasure from falling into other hands, and the Yang Court did not want to attract the prying eyes of other nations.
Thus, they decided to initially block the news from Yong’an State, and the Court temporarily withheld relief silver.
Suppressing the news of the secret realm’s emergence to its smallest possible influence.
As for the countless victims from the disaster, the dead and the injured, the destabilizing factors that might arise?
No matter, simply unleash a few murderous demons that wreak havoc for a while.
These ordinary people would then immediately realize whom they should rely on and would beg the Court to have the Divine Farmer Bureau take action.
Wenxian originally thought it wasn’t a big deal.
But now, after so much effort, and with nothing gained... Wenxian felt somewhat embarrassed.
Wenxian forced a smile and said, "Uncle wouldn’t be truly fond of joking with me, would he?"
The corpse controlled by Huangfu Yan blinked and said, "It’s certainly not a joke."
With a darkened face, Wenxian asked, "Then why do you bring this up now?"
Huangfu Yan replied, "Isn’t Your Majesty curious about who took the ’Retrospective Bell’?"
Wenxian, extremely frustrated, laughed: "Uncle, are you really keen on me holding you accountable for your incompetence?"
Huangfu Yan said, "It was the last survivor of Su Yu."
Wenxian was taken aback.
The last survivor of Su Yu could only be one person, the exiled Princess Su Huaiying who fled to the Yang Kingdom.
A few days ago, she entered the Yang Kingdom, but soon disappeared without a trace.
The relationship between the Yang Kingdom and the Zhou Kingdom is not good, even somewhat tense. Although there is a chance the Elixir of Longevity might be with her, it’s uncertain, and naturally, no effort is made to help the Zhou Kingdom catch her, so they left it alone.
