I'm not a fortune teller.

Chapter 114 Shen Yuan (Part )

"Miss Murong, can you really beat Yunzhou Wu Mu?"

In Shen Ling's boudoir, Murong Yunji sat beside her meditating. Facing this woman who was monitoring her, Shen Ling did not feel any repulsion, but was very excited instead.

Various problems followed one after another.

"I don't know. It depends on the timing." Murong Yunji closed her eyes and meditated. She was not disgusted by the little girl's chattering questions. In her memory, there seemed to be a time when there was also such a little girl who liked to chatter beside her and ask her all kinds of questions out of curiosity.

But that period of time happened so long ago that she had forgotten what the little girl looked like.

"What do you mean by choosing the right time?" Miss Shen asked curiously, "Does it mean that we can't win if the timing is wrong?"

"The timing is wrong, so naturally we can't win." Murong Yunji said honestly.

Today, her strength has not even recovered one percent of what it was back then. The warriors in today's world are not simple, especially the grandmasters, who seem to be comparable to herself in her peak period back then. With her current physical ability, there are many top warriors today that she cannot beat.

With my own realm, if the timing is right, a half-step grandmaster can be killed, but if the timing is wrong, even a second-grade warrior can kill me.

"Are you that kind of assassin?" The little girl suddenly became interested: "The kind of assassin who would flee thousands of miles away if he missed his target?"

"You said you read too many books." Murong Yunji rolled her eyes at the other person.

"Then, then, what are you? Why are you able to hide in the painting? Are you a painting spirit?"

"I guess so." Murong Yunji did not hide it.

This little girl knows a lot of Zhang Rui's secrets. If she leaks any of them, Zhang Rui will be in disaster now, so one or two more won't make a difference.

"Then you..." The little girl was about to ask again, but Murong Yunji suddenly interrupted her: "I was almost discovered by your brother when I came here. This is the first time that a warlock could detect me in advance. Your brother is not simple."

"Of course!" Shen Ling was immediately proud when talking about his elder brother: "Let me tell you, my brother is amazing. There are not many people in Beijing who are more amazing than him!"

"I can see that." Murong Yunji nodded: "Your brother's eyes are very unusual."

This time it was Shen Ling's turn to be surprised: "How did you know?"

"You can tell."

Shen Ling was silent for a moment. Even the elders of the Jiang family could not tell what was special about his elder brother's eyes. In the whole capital, only his father and himself knew that his elder brother's eyes were special!

"If I'm not mistaken, those eyes are from the underworld, right?"

Murong’s words completely made Shen Ling lose her composure. She just thought that the other party was bluffing her, but now it seems that the other party actually knew it?

"What else do you know?" Shen Ling asked curiously.

"Eye of Hades!" Murong Yunji opened her eyes and looked at the other party: "I am not wrong."

Shen Ling: “.”

I really know!!
People only know that Lord Wei from the Ministry of War has inherited the legacy of a top hermit family: the Ghost King Arm, also known as the Pluto Arm, which is rumored to be the right arm of the Pluto in the underworld. But almost no one knows that his brother also has the body of the Pluto.

It was his eyes.
"How did he get it?" Murong looked at Shen Ling and asked calmly.

Shen Ling pursed her lips. Although she had not had much contact with the woman in front of her, she knew that although she seemed easy to talk to, she was not. Just like now, if she did not answer her question, the consequences would be serious.

"Ten years ago." Shen Ling took a deep breath and finally told the secret. The other party already knew her eldest brother's trump card, so the origin of this trump card was not important to her.

"My eldest brother is involved in a case. It is said that the case has clues from the underworld."

"The underworld?" Murong frowned. "Is your brother deliberately looking for the underworld? Why?"

Even in his own era, all major sects were very secretive about the existence of the underworld. That was an era when everyone was pursuing immortality, and everyone was extremely sensitive to the underworld. But in this age of the Dharma Ending Age, there are actually people who deliberately go looking for the underworld?
"Because my grandfather disappeared in a case related to the underworld."

"Grandfather?" "My grandfather is so powerful!" Shen Ling said excitedly, "He was the youngest of the Nine Ministers back then, and was more popular than the Jiang family. But I didn't expect him to be involved in a case for no apparent reason and disappeared without a trace."

"Your brother's eyes are the result of deliberately looking for the underworld?"

"That's not very clear. I only know that it seems that my grandfather left some clues for my eldest brother, which led to him getting such a pair of eyes. After that, my eldest brother's spiritual power soared, and he was chosen by the Dali Temple's national guardian Yin God, which made him the youngest candidate for the Nine Ministers."

"I see." Murong nodded. "No wonder your elder brother seems to want to deal with Zhang Rui. If I'm not mistaken, it's because of the case on his way to the capital, right?"

"Do you know about that case?" Shen Ling smiled brightly: "Tell me about it too. Look, I've told you so much!"

Murong Yunji looked at the other party and said, "What's the point of telling you if you can't tell your elder brother?"

"I want to know too, and why can't I tell my elder brother? Can't we try another method?" Shen Ling smiled slyly, "Master Zhang said that as long as I don't leak any information about him, nothing will happen, right?"

"You don't seem afraid?" Murong Yunji was a little curious.

"Why are you afraid?" Shen Ling smiled; "The palace was so chaotic at that time. If Lord Zhang wanted to, he could kill me and no one would know his background. But he didn't do it when the opportunity was the best to kill me. He even wasted a powerful person like you to monitor me. This proves that Lord Zhang is a good person at heart."

Murong Yunji sighed when she heard that. Even such a little girl could see that the guy was a sheep with a hard mouth but a soft heart. She really didn't know how he would survive if his true identity was exposed in the future.

"The case we returned to Beijing for is very special. You just mentioned that your grandfather also disappeared because of a case related to the underworld. With such great power, a sorcerer of the Jiuqing level could disappear out of thin air. Maybe it is really related to the thing we encountered."

"What is it?" Shen Ling asked nervously.

"If that's what you're saying, that thing is an old god!"
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As night fell, because the Spring Examination was approaching, the business of the major restaurants was not very good. Most of the children of civil officials in the capital were preparing for the exam, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites were busier than dogs. The children of the major sects and military families had to stay in seclusion in preparation for the exam, so they rarely went to the brothels to drink.

But today was an exception in Jinque Tower. A group of candidates who were obviously dressed as scholars held a banquet here the day before the Spring Examination. Their behavior was particularly inappropriate at a time when most candidates were preparing hard for the exam.

At this time, the host of the banquet was waiting for someone in the highest-standard private room in the Golden Sparrow Tower.

"Do you think he will come?" One of the hosts of the banquet was the Minister of Revenue Gong Tianyang.

"I don't know." Wei Jiaming shook his head: "Although this guy is young, his style of doing things is hard to figure out. Apart from the kid from the Shen family, he is the second young man I can't figure out."

"Speaking of the kid from the Shen family," Gong Tianyang whispered, "According to intelligence, he has already targeted the group of surviving scholars in the temple. If those scholars were not candidates preparing for the imperial examinations and were protected by the Ministry of Rites, he would have been ready to interrogate them long ago!"

"Humph!" Wei Jiaming snorted coldly upon hearing this: "The Shen family's grandfather and grandson are really good-looking. With such a family background, they are interested in some unsolved cases. In order to deal with that old thing, the master took the risk of being exposed and reluctantly took action. Now that Shen Yuan has those eyes, he is more troublesome than his grandfather back then!"

"It's only a few days." Gong Tianyang said with a smile, "I really don't believe that a yellow-haired boy could find out something in just a few days!"

"Don't be careless." Wei Jiaming shook his head. "I was careless back then and underestimated the Shen family. That's why I was tricked by old man Shen and even lost the Eye of Pluto. Now that the master's great cause is about to be accomplished, I must not be careless at all. Often, it is because of a small loophole that a great cause can fail."

"That's right." Gong Tianyang nodded: "So, winning over Zhang Rui is also to eliminate the last trace of threat?"

Wei Jiaming nodded: "Although he used tricks that day, Zhang did manage to escape the disaster from Queen Ghost Phoenix. It would be best if we could win over such a person to avoid trouble. It would be best not to become hostile in advance unless it is absolutely necessary."

"I have a feeling that if Zhang becomes hostile, he will be more troublesome than the old man from the Shen family back then!"

"What about Shen Yuan?"

"Let him check it out. This Spring Examination is a good opportunity to get those eyes back!"

Just as he was talking, there was a knock on the door outside.

"Come in."

The door opened, and a gray-robed butler came in. He performed a formal Confucian salute to the two men, and then said, "Sir, Sir Zhang is here!"

"Okay!" Wei Jiaming and Gong Tianyang smiled when they heard that.

The fact that this Zhang came here represents that he is still able to judge the situation. If he can stand on the side of himself and others, it will save a lot of trouble and will also be the best move for them to deal with the Shen family!

(End of this chapter)