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Chapter 857: The Shadow of Dijing

Zhou You made a big fuss, and a few days later, Fulushan went on a mission to get the official result.

After Zhou presented the life-claiming flower, Concubine Mei ground the flower juice and successfully blended it into a fragrant scent to present to Lord Feng.

The emperor was very pleased and gave out generous rewards to all levels of officials. Zhou You also received a share and was promoted to the rank of Captain of the Imperial Guards.

'Qianxiao' Zhou Daqian officially took office and became one of the senior officials under the 18 generals in the Forbidden Palace, managing hundreds of subordinates.

At first, some people always thought he was a member of Zhonglang Zhou's clan. After all, they all had the surname Zhou, right?

Later, word spread that this Zhou was not that Zhou. He was the eldest son of the Western Clan of the Zuofu Zhou family and the adopted son of the great master Zhou Nanwang.

Especially since he had just made some achievements, his name had become known to Lord Feng and Concubine Mei, and he was a popular young actor.

This time, the Imperial Guard General Zhou had no way to pursue the matter, and had to accept the promotion order from Zhou You, the "Thousand Schools".

"You still have to thank the Eighth Gentleman for this matter. His people have contributed a lot behind the scenes!"

When Ao Donglai, who was speaking, saw Zhou You again, the relationship between the two was reversed.

A few months ago, when Zhou You first stepped into the Jitian Palace, he was just an ordinary guard with a title. He was a hundred lieutenant, but today, he is still a hundred lieutenant, while the other party was promoted to a thousand colonel.

Such an astonishing promotion speed only happened to Zhonglang Zhou before, but I didn't expect there would be an exception today.

Therefore, he specifically told Zhou You about the various undercurrents behind this matter.

The Eight Gentlemen took advantage of this incident and pushed Zhou You to be promoted to the rank of Qianxiao, allowing him to occupy a position in the Imperial Guard.

The investment and transactions of political alliances are among countless similar things.
Zhou You is one of us, so pushing him to a high position is an investment. If anything happens in the future, wouldn’t it be more reassuring to let him handle it than to let others do it?
"I understand. I will go to thank the Eight Gentlemen on my day off!"

On the first day off after his promotion, Zhou You went to thank the Eight Gentlemen.

The Eight Gentlemen were very polite to him and called out many of the guards on duty. These were his men in public, and now they were all under the command of Captain Zhou You, becoming an independent force.

Not to mention usurpation, other gentlemen do the same thing. All the other thousands of officers and lieutenants are more or less close to some gentleman.

It’s just that Zhou You is a little special. He is not Zhonglang Zhou, but a die-hard member of the Eight Gentlemen, which makes the other gentlemen jealous.

"Qianxiao, the man you killed outside Fulue Mountain was named Shang Huzhen, and he was born in 'Xiao Shang' in Youfu."

There is a noble family in Dijing, which is called "Da Shang and Xiao Shang" for historical reasons. They are divided into two branches like the Zhou family, namely the Da Shang family of the left mansion and the Xiao Shang family of the right mansion.

Shang Huzhen was born in Xiaoshang, Youfu. His family could not be compared with the Western Clan of Zhou, so he had no desire for revenge.

However, Shang Huzhen was fighting on behalf of the disciples of Tiannan Divine Sword, and his fellow disciples behind him would definitely not let it go.

Tiannan Divine Sword is the benchmark of Dijing. His disciples form a huge group with a high degree of overlap with the two families in Dijing.

After Zhou You took office as the chief of the Qianxiao School, he got to know many of his own people through the introduction of the Eight Gentlemen.

These guards had extremely well-informed information channels and brought him many secrets.

For example, the sects of Tiannan Divine Sword.

Well, when Zhou You first heard about the descendants of the Tiannan Divine Sword, his first reaction was that this was an enlarged Jueguang Sect.

The Tiannan Divine Sword relied on recruiting disciples and passing on the sword skills to gather the younger generation of the aristocratic families and unite them under the banner of loyalty to the feudal lord.

However, if people’s hearts are united, the heavens can be moved; if people’s hearts are not united, it is only natural!
The legitimate sons of the noble families from different camps directly brought factions and conflicts into the sect, causing a mess. Shang Huzhen and Mu Xiangtong belonged to the same faction, which was severely damaged by the demise of the Mu family.

As the culprit, Zhou You is also the target of their revenge. However, Zhou You is not an ordinary person, so there is no hope for a sneak attack or assassination. The only hope is a fair challenge.

The guards under his command reminded Zhou You that the threat from the Tiannan Divine Sword was easy to deal with, but the key point was to guard against Zhonglang Zhou.

The senior positions in the Imperial Guard have always been the private domain of Zhonglang Zhou, and few outsiders have gotten in.

Zhou You killed Zhou Yazi and seriously captured General Zhou. In the future, he would have to serve under him, which was a crisis.

According to everyone, Zhonglang Zhou's clansmen have always been known for their greed, and their obsession with external things is deeper than anyone else.

The imperial guard general Zhou was also greedy, but he was not greedy for money or material things. What he was greedy for was power.

The palace guards hold great power and have the power of life and death, no one can stop them!
As the highest-ranking and most powerful member of the Zhonglang Zhou clan, he no longer cares about ordinary material desires. Only power is worth pursuing.

Zhou You went against his arrangement and forcibly took away the post of Qianxiao, which was tantamount to snatching food from a tiger's mouth and undermined his "power".

Therefore, the person Zhou You offended was Zhou, his immediate superior, the general of the imperial guards.

"Eighth Gentleman means that he will support you officially, but you have to take care of some minor details on your own!"

The Eight Gentlemen value talents like Zhou You very much and try their best to support him to gain his current position.

Zhou You thought for a moment, then looked at the guard in front of him and said, "Please tell the Eight Gentlemen a message for me."

The guard in front of him was obviously specially arranged by the Eight Gentlemen to serve as a channel of communication between the two parties.

In this case, why not lay a foreshadowing!
"Just say that when I was confronting Zhou Yazi earlier, I suddenly thought of someone, the Grandmaster of the Mu Clan, Mu Baikou."

The guards were confused and told the Eight Gentlemen the message as it was.
As a result, the guard who delivered the message disappeared on the same day, and his family simply erased the name, and no trace of this person was found from then on.

One of the Eight Gentlemen told Zhou You, "Don't ever mention this again!"

Sure enough, Zhonglang Zhou’s story was very deep, and the Eight Gentlemen also knew a thing or two about it.

Zhou Zhouyou's words were a test. He seriously suspected that Zhou Yazi was the incarnation of a certain master or powerful warrior of the Mu clan, so he mentioned the only person he knew, Zong Mu Baikou.

Mu Baikou died under the siege of Haidar and the Lian family's master, and his body disappeared.

It is very strange that his whereabouts are unknown. The body of a great master is so precious, how could it disappear?

If it is true as Zhou You expected, there is an assembly line hidden in the dark world of Dijing, which mass-produces members of Zhonglang Zhou's clan, and the raw material is the corpses of warriors, then everything makes sense.

As for why Zhou Yazi is so powerful in martial arts?

Of course, it is because of the loss that occurs during the transformation between life and death, which causes the realm to fall.

The Eight Gentlemen were obviously unsure how much Zhou You knew, but considering that he was a thousand-man colonel and all his colleagues were Zhonglang Zhou, it would not be difficult for him to see the clues, so they deliberately eliminated the future trouble and sent someone to warn him.

There are many private matters in the palace. It is okay to know certain things, but don't talk nonsense, otherwise you will put yourself in danger.

As for the little guard who 'sealed' his mouth, he was also a legitimate son of an aristocratic family, with a status comparable to Liu Fengji, but he disappeared from the world without a trace, and from now on there is no written record or oral tradition about him. He completely vanished without a trace.

(End of this chapter)