I'm not a fortune teller.

Chapter 108: Keep pretending!
It is common knowledge among the aristocratic families in Beijing that the Qi family has been blind for three generations.

Ever since the emergence of the genius Qi Shangshu, the Qi family seemed to be cursed. Their descendants either had no obvious spiritual talent, or had some talent but were restricted by some evil spirit.

Qi Zheng belongs to the latter. He was tested to have amazing transformation aptitude since he was a child, but he accidentally got the Nine Nether Girl while refining evil spirits.

The Nine Nether Girl was too powerful, and as a result, he was too young to devour other evil spirits. Once he did, the Nine Nether Girl would digest it without hesitation, thus resulting in a waste of precious evil spirit seeds.

However, his cultivation speed was far behind the growth speed of Jiu Nether Girl, which resulted in him being in his thirties but still possessing the evil spirit of Jiu Nether Girl.

Being invincible within three meters and below the Grandmaster is his only pride. Although this pride seems like a joke most of the time, it is the only thing he has left.

I never thought that one day, even this little thing would be trampled down and nothing would be left.
"Let's go, Master Qi."

Zhang Rui patted the dazed dude on the shoulder and said softly.

Qi Zheng turned back blankly, looking at Zhang Rui who was unharmed, and then looked at everything around him that was frozen. And the Nine Nether Girl who had trapped him and helped him for many years disappeared without a trace!
He didn't know what the other party had done, why the Nine Nether Girl disappeared, why the Nine Nether Girl was useless to his ability, and why the other party would use the Nine Nether Girl's power. No.
Qi Zheng looked at everything around him that seemed to be completely frozen, and his three views were shattered.

Is this the true power of the Nine Nether Girl?

"Aren't you afraid, Lord Zhang?" Qi Zheng asked, barely maintaining the last bit of his energy.

"What are you afraid of?" Zhang Rui asked without turning his head.

"With such a large number of casualties, aren't you afraid of being punished by the officials?"

"So Master Qi also knows that using this technique in public will lead to condemnation from all officials?" Zhang Rui laughed. "I thought you were really crazy. It seems that this world has not yet fallen to the point where people like you can get away with massacres."

As he spoke, he waved his hand lightly, and countless ice sculptures around him recovered visibly, and the terrifying cold air that froze the sky and the earth gradually dissipated.

Qi Zheng's worldview was shattered again
It was the first time he knew that living things frozen by the Nine-Nether Lady could be restored?

"This is impossible."

"Don't easily classify things that you can't do as impossible." Zhang Rui turned around and smiled and said, "Is it possible that you can't do it just because you are too weak?"
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"Qi Zheng lost?"

Imperial Palace: In the imperial study, the emperor was not surprised when he read the memorial after hearing the report from the spies below.

Although Minister Qi's silly grandson has some powerful means, he can only deal with insignificant characters. However, this kid named Zhang has proved that he is not an insignificant character, both in his performance in Huashi and in Beihai.

"Defeated." The guard in the shadows said in a low voice: "Defeated quite thoroughly."

Following this narration, the emperor put down the memorial in his hand, with a look of surprise in his eyes: "He stole the power of the Nine Nether Girl?"

"Not only that." The guard lowered his voice and said, "In his hands, the Nine Hells Girl is obviously a hundred times stronger than the one from the Qi family. The ability to freeze Qingfeng Tower instantly made Mr. Ye feel threatened. The key is that the other party made it look like a piece of cake and was able to restore the affected people. This is an ability."

"How to say?"

"Conservative estimate. Nine ministers level!"
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"Master, do you see it clearly this time?"

Outside Qingfeng Tower, Lu Sheng looked at the traces in disbelief. Everything in front of him showed that what he had just seen in the distance was true. The man surnamed Zhang took away someone else's magic with his bare hands and exerted an unprecedented effect!
Qi Zheng has been the host of the Nine Underworld Lady for thousands of years. The technique that was recorded as useless was the result of many years of experiments by many sorcerer families, but it was obvious that this result was wrong. It was obvious that all the hosts in the past thousand years had not found the true use of the Nine Underworld Lady, but the one in front of him... knew how to use it!

An area of a hundred feet in radius was instantly frozen. If this power could be developed further, it would become a top-level killing weapon on the battlefield.

"How old is he?" Lu Sheng still didn't quite believe it.

A boy in his early twenties has such terrifying psychic powers?

The power of the ritual ultimately depends on the psychic energy burst of the sorcerer. The scene around him is obviously at the Jiuqing level, but a Jiuqing in his early twenties?
Are you kidding me?
"It's really unbelievable." The old Minister Shen of the Shen family was also surprised after receiving the news.

His eldest son, Shen Yuan, was the thirty-second sorcerer of the Nine Ministers. That was not only the result of the family's huge resources and cost, but also an unrepeatable adventure. Back then, Shen Yuan was dragged into the ruined underworld and accidentally obtained some memories of the national underworld god: [Judge]. This is how he replaced the former Dali Temple Minister and became one of the Nine Ministers.

This experience cannot be replicated, even if the Jiang family exists, they can only watch. Even if Zhang is from a powerful hidden family, he should not have enough resources to support such a young generation without entering the world for many years.

Could it be that the young man had an even more exaggerated adventure than Shen Yuan's?

"What do you think?" Minister Shen asked his proud eldest son.

"The Qi family has caused a big trouble." Shen Yuan said calmly: "Before, whether it was the Huashi incident or the Beihai incident, that person did not show direct strength, but now, he has proved his strength at the level of a Nine Ministers, and this time Qi Zheng killed people in public and threatened the court officials, so the other party has absolutely legitimate reasons to attack."

"The Qi family has no successors, and has been the target of many aristocratic families. This time, if Uncle Qi still wants to protect Qi Zheng as he did before, the Qi family will probably be in big trouble!"

Minister Shen nodded: "Your Majesty will not miss this opportunity."

Minister Qi has been abusing his power for many years, and his family is in a state of turmoil. Unfortunately, none of his descendants are up to par. The more people he offends now, the greater the revenge the Qi family will suffer after his death. This time, one is a rising star from an aristocratic family with unlimited potential and the ability to become a minister in his early twenties, and the other is an old tiger who is on the decline and struggling madly. Your Majesty naturally knows what to choose.

"But if this happens, the political situation will be unbalanced." Shen Yuan frowned.

In the capital, the eight great families are checking and balancing each other. The rising star force headed by Minister Wei has not yet grown to the point where it can resist the eight great families, and the Qi family is the head of the other four great families. Once something happens to the Qi family, the entire force will inevitably be reshuffled. If you want to maintain balance, you can't let one side dominate.

The four major families headed by the Jiang family have been suppressing the other side for hundreds of years. If the Qi family falls again, even if the Jiang family is seriously injured now, the situation will become one-sided.

"So," Minister Shen said dimly, "I'm afraid the moves against us will come soon."
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"Brother Wei, did you see it clearly?" Gong Tianyang stood on the opposite building and took a deep breath.

Wei Jiaming nodded slightly. Only from a close distance could he feel the terrifying methods of the young man. It was not uncommon for a sorcerer to take someone's spell with bare hands, but it usually happened when the gap between the sorcerers was too big. Although Qi Zheng was not good enough, he was close to being a first-class sorcerer in terms of his spiritual energy.

Even I don't dare to say that I can take away the opponent's magic, let alone a dangerous magic like the Nine Nether Girl's.

That would be fine, but the power that the other party exerted after mastering the Nine Nether Girl was far beyond anyone's imagination!
What kind of family can cultivate such offspring without having access to worldly resources?
"Do you think he can be won over?" Gong Tianyang whispered.

"I don't know about that, but we are his best choice."

The sorcerer forces in the court are now divided into three factions: the Jiangnan faction headed by the Jiang family, the Xijing faction headed by the Qi family, and then the new power faction headed by himself.

As they had barely squeezed into the Nine Ministers' family thanks to a coup a hundred years ago, they had struggled mightily to resist the other eight families over the past hundred years. Even if His Majesty was willing to support them, it seemed a little too forced.

It even came to the point where they had no choice but to marry into a warrior family.

With the power of the two departments of army and household, coupled with the military families of the north, such a high configuration can only allow them to barely maintain, which shows how powerful the other families are.

And if they could have a third Nine Ministers family emerge, the situation would improve a lot.

The older generation of aristocratic families are very xenophobic, especially towards reclusive families like theirs. For Zhang Rui, uniting with them is the best option.

Hong Lie frowned.

This kid is so powerful. It seems that the danger I felt at the palace gate was not an illusion.

But such a powerful sorcerer couldn't prevent his own daughter from being murdered back then?
Is he deliberately standing idly by or is the evil spirit too powerful?

It seems like I have to find an opportunity to have a good conversation with that guy to see if I can get any clues.
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Under the attention of all forces, Zhang Rui escorted Qi Zheng and headed towards the Dali Temple step by step.

No one knew how scared he was at this moment. If he had made a wrong move in the previous confrontation, he would have been smashed to pieces.

But he had no choice but to take the risk. The opponent had already tested him on the face. If he did not fight back with thunder and lightning, even if he escaped this time, there would be ten or a hundred times in the future.

It is important to strike once to prevent a hundred blows from coming. This is the principle taught to them by the great men of previous lives.

So this time today, he must be strong. He needs time so much. Even if the outside world mistakenly thinks that he is at the level of Jiuqing, he has to pretend to be so!

(End of this chapter)