Transformation Diagram: Starting as a Skinny Dog-Chapter 450 - 293: Ten Messages
In the dim underground chamber beneath the Qiu Dragon Martial Meeting.
Guan Hongluan slightly opened her eyes. She had long suspected who had kidnapped her.
She realized this during the time when Tang Yulin accompanied her to Baojiao County. It was clear that the family’s plan was to prevent Tan Chongrui from successfully implementing reforms in Baojiao County. If successful, it would start a reform movement throughout the Qiu Dragon Mansion, even spreading to You State and the Capital.
This movement, once started, would become an unstoppable force, aligning with popular sentiment. It would affect the interests of many stakeholders, not only shrinking their Marquis of Han Shou’s Mansion interests but also the interests of more nobles and aristocrats.
Therefore, her master, Tang Yulin, followed her to thwart the reform plans of Tan Chongrui and Qin Yuxian. At crucial moments, they might even resort to extreme measures against Tan Chongrui, the Imperial Commissioner.
However, as someone who was specially tasked with guarding Tan Chongrui, Qin Yuxian was undoubtedly smart, taking precautions in advance and staying close without leaving Tan Chongrui’s side.
The chaos that erupted in Baojiao County that night was understood by her to be an opportunity. Master Tang would seize the chance to make a move. Only she hadn’t anticipated that the opportunity they saw would actually turn into an opportunity for Qin Yuxian, who used this chance to kidnap her.
Over the past two to three months, Guan Hongluan had been secretly held by Qin Fang, but nothing else was done to her. She realized that either Qin Yuxian’s group was cautious, or they had other plans for her.
However,
Guan Hongluan never expected the person walking down from the underground chamber would be this ’acquaintance’ not yet twenty years old. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎
"Is it you?"
She couldn’t help but lose her composure, then sensed the imposing presence of Chen Ku approaching step by step, which felt like the vast sea, even giving a sense of being suppressed by an array, and instantly gasped, exclaiming once more:
"You’ve entered the Sixth Realm of Array Veins, and even formed an Array Eye?"
Although she couldn’t specifically perceive what Array Patterns were engraved inside Chen Ku, as the little Princess of the Marquis Mansion, she had seen many experts and naturally had a broad perspective. Just by sensing briefly, she felt the strong presence of array patterns on Chen Ku.
"It seems that the Commandery Princess is doing well these past two or three months." Chen Ku smiled, his tone very calm.
Qin Fang hesitated to look at his young master uncle. He didn’t really want to openly expose their identities.
After all, kidnapping the little Princess of the Marquis of Han Shou’s Mansion was no trivial matter.
But Chen Ku had a different thought. He was more aware; if kidnapping the Marquis Mansion’s princess was a great crime, then kidnapping the Imperial Commissioner Tan Chongrui was an even greater crime.
He bet that the Marquis of Han Shou’s Mansion wouldn’t dare make this matter public.
Moreover, they probably had suspicions about Guan Hongluan’s whereabouts but were not entirely sure. Since everyone had their own understanding, it wouldn’t be brought to the surface, and if it really were, it would be even more disadvantageous for the Marquis of Han Shou’s Mansion.
What kind of concept is kidnapping an Imperial Commissioner?
Is the Marquis of Han Shou’s Mansion planning to rebel?
"I didn’t expect your talent to be so great." Guan Hongluan felt somewhat in disbelief at Chen Ku’s rapid cultivation progress, but what she most wanted to ask was another question. With a cold tone, she said, "Brother Chen, how did you become involved with Qin Yuxian?"
"Why must the Commandery Princess ask such a redundant question? At the time, Senior Brother Qin wanted to take a disciple on behalf of his master, everyone knows about this."
Chen Ku didn’t say much else to Guan Hongluan, and said:
"Now that things have come to this, the Commandery Princess also knows why you weren’t harmed. My senior brother’s intention is simple; he just wants to use you to exchange for Lord Tan."
"Exchange for Tan Chongrui?"
Guan Hongluan thought to herself, as expected, Master Tang succeeded, but she gave a cold smile and said:
"How do you know that Tan Chongrui is at our Marquis Mansion? And how do you know? Is Tan Chongrui still alive now?"
"Honest people don’t speak in veiled words. That Tang Yulin kidnapped Lord Tan right before us... As for Lord Tan’s life and death, I believe, even the Marquis Mansion wouldn’t dare to harm the Imperial Commissioner." Chen Ku calmly replied.
If kidnapping an Imperial Commissioner is a serious crime, then killing one would be undoubtedly declaring rebellion.
Guan Hongluan was slightly silent. Regarding major family affairs, she didn’t know much, but she could be sure that the family’s kidnapping of Tan Chongrui was only to reach some consensus with the people behind him. It wasn’t for Tan Chongrui’s life. If they wanted to kill him, they would have done it on the spot, not kidnapped him.
After a moment of silence, she slowly said: "I don’t know Tan Chongrui’s whereabouts. You might want to contact my family to see if they’re willing to trade Tan Chongrui for me."
While she knew she was very doted upon within the family, she lacked confidence that the family would disregard the bigger picture and protect her when involving major reform policies affecting the family’s interests.
Especially since she knew that having the Marquis Mansion intervene in and even obstruct this reform was backed by forces from the Capital.
A certain true royal relative.
"We will start preparing to inform the Marquis Mansion about this situation. The reason we came here is simply to inform the Commandery Princess so that you can be ready. If your family is willing, you should be free in just a few days."
Chen Ku finished speaking.
Qin Fang unexpectedly looked at this little Master Uncle. He originally thought that Chen Ku had some other plans for coming here, but he hadn’t expected that he was just chatting idly with Guan Hongluan.
He, however, did not know.
Chen Ku seemed to be chatting idly with Guan Hongluan, but in fact, he had secretly taken a top-grade spirit medicine and silently activated the transformation into the Six-Eared Macaque, using his ears to listen to information related to Guan Hongluan, Tan Chongrui, and the Marquis of Han Shou’s Mansion.
After Chen Ku’s several experiments, the Six-Eared Macaque’s innate divine ability had been basically confirmed: all ’information’ within a thousand-mile radius, whether spoken by people or certain events that had occurred, would be converted into six levels of messages within the Six-Eared Macaque’s ears.
It completely matched some legends of the Six-Eared Macaque, being good at listening, knowing the past and future, all things are clear.
So, within a thousand-mile radius centered on Qiu Dragon Mansion, there were almost hundreds of thousands of different messages, including past ones, present ones, and some special truths and intelligence, collectively forming a ’world of messages’ that only the Six-Eared Macaque could hear.
Since Chen Ku had promised Senior Brother Qin to rescue Lord Tan, he couldn’t break his word, but the difficulty of accurately listening for information related to Tan Chongrui and the Marquis of Han Shou within thousands of messages was indeed very high.
Thus, he had to engage in close contact with Guan Hongluan to accurately listen to information related to the Marquis of Han Shou’s Mansion, effectively screening out the ninety-nine percent of irrelevant messages.
At this moment, under the silent and effective activation of Chen Ku’s innate divine ability ’Six-Ear Listening,’ he could accurately hear several white messages on Guan Hongluan in front of him, which was already a considerable level.
These white messages entwined with each other and extended towards other directions of messages. Like a tangled ball of yarn, but compared to this tangled ball, within the thousand-mile radius of Qiu Dragon Mansion, all messages seemed like a heavenly net.
Clearly, all the messages within this tangled ball were relatively accurate messages related to the Marquis Mansion, with large and small color variations.
In the tangled mess, the top-grade spirit medicine that Chen Ku had taken in advance allowed him to choose to listen to one green message and ten white messages, adhering to the principle of trying to gather as much intelligence related to the Marquis of Han Shou’s Mansion as possible, he listened to ten white messages at once.
[Guan Hongluan’s grandfather—Marquis Guan Yanbing broke through to the Eighth Realm, Marrow Cleansing, twenty years ago but has been hiding his strength, pretending to be old and weak]
[Guan Hongluan’s grandfather Guan Yanbing is already two hundred and three years old this year. In his early years, he followed the Founding Ancestor in battles, leaving many hidden injuries that damaged his foundational lifespan. If he cannot succeed in ’Blood Exchange,’ he has less than three years of life remaining.]
[The Marquis of Han Shou’s Mansion has privately recruited a group of retainers over the years, accumulating five Seventh Realm retainers, Tang Yulin being one of them.]
[The Marquis of Han Shou’s Mansion arranged a marriage for Guan Hongluan early on. The other party is the Little Prince from the Feather King Mansion in the Capital, named ’Yang Xi.’]
[The Marquis of Han Shou’s Mansion assisted the Feather King Mansion in seizing one of the Hero King Treasure Vaults forty years ago, which was originally overseen by Sheyue Heavenly King of the Four Great Heavenly Kings.]
[The reform policy originated from Cabinet Minister ’Zhang Xiaoting’ among the four elders of the Cabinet in the Capital, a leader in the literary world. Tan Chongrui was his student disciple and was recommended as the reform imperial envoy of Baojiao County]
[Marquis Guan Yanbing led twenty thousand new troops, attacking Baojiao County for seven days without success]
[When Marquis Guan Yanbing broke the Incense Fire Golden Light Array of Baojiao County, he was struck by the Incarnate Body of the God of the Yellow Heaven at the Array Eye]
[Little Prince Yang Xi arrived at Qiu Dragon Mansion three months ago and is currently in the new army of Han Shou Marquis, investigating the whereabouts of the Hero King Treasure]
[Tan Chongrui is detained in the military camp of Han Shou Marquis and guarded by two Seventh Realm retainers]
In Chen Ku’s mind, within the Transformation Diagram, the avatar of the Six-Eared Macaque with white ears moved ten times in a row, using the primordial qi of a top-grade spirit medicine to extract ten white messages from the tangled information behind Guan Hongluan.
Each one contained an enormous amount of information.
This point was evident from when Chen Ku first heard a white message involving the Incarnate Body of the God of the Yellow Heaven; the white messages, although only fifth-level, already involved very important layers of intelligence.
"These messages..."
Chen Ku quickly digested the content of these messages.
"Little Master Uncle? What’s wrong?"
Qin Fang noticed Chen Ku’s momentary distraction.
Chen Ku glanced at him and said, "It’s nothing, just that from today onwards, Guan Hongluan will be taken over by me. You first need to deliver the news of ’hostage exchange’ to the Marquis of Han Shou’s Mansion."
"And then?" Qin Fang’s eyes flashed as he asked, "Do we need to do anything else?"
"Nothing else for now. I’ll send you updates later, just act as I instruct." Chen Ku finished speaking and said, "Now, I’ll take her away first."
Guan Hongluan saw Chen Ku walk into the underground chamber and immediately stood up, furrowing her brows as she asked, "Where are you taking me...?"
Buzz!
Her words were cut off as Chen Ku’s overwhelming spirit pressure subdued her, while simultaneously sealing Guan Hongluan’s acupoint, and secretly took her out of the underground chamber.
