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Chapter 170: A True Chess Player: (Part )

"Hey? Are you awake?"

Minister Shen, who had been on guard for the entire day, now had gray hair and his voice was so hoarse that it was almost inaudible.

Shen Yuan nodded slightly, looking very weak.

"Okay, okay, I'm glad you woke up."

Minister Shen, who had experienced many ups and downs, was choked up at this moment. He wanted to hold Shen Yuan's hand, but then he remembered that the other party now had a prosthetic limb. He was afraid of making the other party more sad, so he took his hand back unnaturally and said quickly: "Rest well. The Yin spirit in your body has been temporarily dealt with. Don't worry about anything now, just rest and leave the rest to Dad."

Shen Yuan shook his head weakly when he saw this, and then the corners of his mouth twitched very weakly.

Without a tongue, even lip reading would be extremely difficult.

Minister Shen couldn't bear to watch this, but he didn't stop the other party because he knew his son had a strong character.

"What about her?"

After barely understanding what his son meant, Minister Shen quickly asked, "But the girl who saved you?"

Shen Yuan nodded.

"She left after saving you, and told you to take a good rest and leave the rest to her."

Shen Yuan shook his head again: "Call her over, there is information."

Minister Shen was immediately embarrassed: "That girl's origins are mysterious, and I don't know how to contact her."

Shen Yuan looked at his father and said with difficulty: "Little sister."

Minister Shen was stunned for a moment, then reacted immediately and asked, "Are you sure?"
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"Father." Shen looked at him cautiously: "I really don't know"

"Your elder brother has become like that, why are you still not honest?" Minister Shen glared and said, "Do you know how dangerous the situation is now? The clues your elder brother got at great pains must now be given to a capable and trustworthy person, otherwise he would not insist on it. The situation in the capital is now more critical than that of Lord Hongzhi. If we are not careful, I am afraid that the Shen family will not be able to escape unscathed!"

Shen gritted her teeth when she heard this: "Father can't solve it?"

Minister Shen was stunned when he heard this and couldn't help but sigh.

The fact that his son didn't give him the clues directly meant that he had determined that he couldn't solve the problem. This made him feel very helpless. Since when had he become unable to even protect his own child from the wind and rain?
However, it also proved that the situation was indeed critical. Although he had resigned from the post of Nine Ministers, he was the Minister of Justice for many years. Among the sorcerers at the Nine Ministers level, his ability was also among the best. As a result, Shen Yuan actually felt that his participation was useless.

What exactly is the enemy in the dark?
After seeing her father's expression, Shen knew the result immediately. She turned around, picked up the scroll and said, "I'll go to my brother."

As expected, the woman was called by the maid.

Minister Shen was completely certain this time, and wondered why the mysterious woman had any connection with the girl? And what was her relationship with his son Shen Yuan?
What should the Shen family do this time?
"Are you looking for me?"

Zhang Rui felt helpless when he saw Shen Yuan again. If he were to ask who in the capital could best recognize his identity, Shen Yuan, who possessed the Eye of Pluto, would be the most likely choice. But now that the other party has lost his eyes, it stands to reason that he should not be able to recognize him, right?

But when Zhang Rui saw the smile on Shen Yuan's face, he knew instantly that this guy had recognized him.
Damn it, do you want to kill the Shen family?

"It was the Qin family who took action." Shen Yuan seemed to have gotten used to using lip reading without the help of his tongue.

Zhang Rui nodded: "I roughly guessed it."

"Behind the Qin family, there is an old god from the underworld!"

"The underworld?" Zhang Rui took a breath. He had actually guessed this.

The reason why he hasn't joined the game yet is that he is in the Qin family.

"My grandfather was obsessed with unsolved cases and was once involved in a strange case, which was the battle in Beiyou."

"The Northern Campaign?" Zhang Rui was stunned, then suddenly thought of something: "Are you talking about the battle in which Yuchi Peng and His Majesty turned the tide?"

Back then, Yuchi Peng and the emperor pieced together an isolated city and a few thousand cavalrymen, and then they wiped out Northern Liao's 100,000 elite cavalrymen and hundreds of thousands of troops. Until now, Northern Liao has not recovered. Today, His Majesty has gained a certain amount of political capital from an unknown prince because of that battle, and then he turned things around step by step and finally sat on the throne.

Zhang Rui knew that the case back then was that Chun used plague to cause the tragic deaths of a large number of soldiers.

But now it seems that this is not necessarily the truth.

Northern Liao is a country that can compete head-on with the Central Plains. Is there no powerful sorcerer in the country?

[Tsubaki]'s ability is very strong, but she is very fragile. If she is found by a top-level warlock, she will be deprived of it quickly. That battle is definitely not as simple as she thought. "What happened back then?"

"No one knows what happened back then. My grandfather was also very curious, but after all, he was just an official in the Ministry of Justice. It was impossible for him to go to the north to verify the truth. But then something extremely strange happened."

"what's up?"

"One hundred thousand heads were originally the glory of the northern soldiers, but after being transported to the capital, they disappeared innocently."

"One hundred thousand heads disappeared together?" Zhang Rui probably thought of something.

"More than 100,000." Shen Yuan shook his head. "After that, my grandfather went to the northern border and found that the bodies of hundreds of thousands of Northern Liao soldiers on the border were missing. Such a large number of bodies would be burned in order to avoid plague, but Youzhou said that the bodies disappeared before they could be destroyed. The disappearance of hundreds of thousands of bodies caused an uproar at the time. Many supporters of the eldest prince and the third prince took the opportunity to accuse the Yuchi family and the current His Majesty of claiming military merits and faking a great victory."

If Northern Liao had not suffered such heavy losses, and if the Yuchi family had not recovered most of Northern You's land, perhaps Your Majesty could have been accused of this crime.

"Then what?" Zhang Rui roughly guessed what happened after hearing this.

The so-called Yin Feng Niangniang in the temple was able to use the Yin God to raise corpses. If she had existed many years ago, it is very likely that the hundreds of thousands of Northern Liao warriors were...
"My grandfather was attracted by this case and investigated it all the way. In the end, he found some very strange clues, and even some ancient temples in the capital."

"Ancient Temple" Zhang Rui thought in his heart.

Although this world is controlled by sorcerers, people still believe in gods. For example, the ancient Buddhism and Taoism still worship the righteous gods in their doctrines. It is said that the Jin Dynasty tried to stop this, but it caused multiple riots and eventually gave up. However, it required that no large-scale followers should be organized. Even the Buddhist and Taoist representatives such as Tianyi Sect and Longxiang Temple were more like a gang organization with strictly controlled numbers of members.

The ancient gods worshipped by the people, especially in the capital, are only allowed to be worshipped after repeated confirmation that they are not some kind of evil gods, such as the Wind and Rain Dragon King, the God of Wealth, the Goddess of Childbirth, etc.
These gods all have an indeterminate history, but after it was confirmed that they were useless mythological figures, the court eliminated its vigilance.

And if there is a problem with the ancient temple, it means that the so-called inspection at that time was not successful, and the things that the people of the entire imperial city worshipped were real. If this is the case, it would be very scary.

When Minister Shen encountered such a case, it was no wonder that even one of the Nine Ministers would get into trouble.

"What did your grandfather find out?"

"Empress Tianfeng."

Zhang Rui took a deep breath and found that it was true.

The god of rain in the north, and actually the lord of drought, the ghost phoenix that connects yin and yang, and the leader of the Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts: the Ghost Phoenix Goddess!

"There are three chess players!" Shen Yuan used all his strength to tell the result of his investigation.——
"Chess players. There are three!"

In the dark corner of a certain noble family, the head of the family is playing chess with the real Lord of Painting Spirit.

“Your Excellency, do you mean a chess player who can play against you?
"The Qin family was the first to make a move. They probably made some moves before our great ancestor started his family. Back then, the Li family's great ancestor and I felt that there seemed to be changes in the world. Some dormant ancients were awakening. The Yin gods that are guarding the Great Jin Dynasty now, including the Four Spirits, are all monsters that were awakened by the sudden surge of spiritual power."

"Most of them come from the underworld!"

"But only two of the Yin Gods who guard the country have the rumored Yinsi background."

"That's an official position." The Lord of the Painting Spirit said dimly, "The judge and the one in the Ministry of Justice are both gods of the underworld. But the role of the underworld gods back then was not only to maintain yin and yang and help people reincarnate, but more importantly, to suppress evil spirits. The most vicious and difficult evil spirits in the world were all suppressed in the underworld."

"You mean, most of the Yin Gods that guard the country today are the evil spirits that were suppressed by the Yin Gods back then?"

"What do you think?"

"Who are the Qin family members?"

"I can't guess. How can we, the younger generation who have only lived for a thousand years, know all the secrets of the underworld? But it is definitely a very troublesome existence. Judging from the current situation, it is likely that it is preparing to cause trouble."

"Who's the second player?"

"Of course it's his Li family!" The Master of the Painting Spirit sneered, "Li Qingtian is not taking advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos. He seems to be feared by the Li family, but in fact he is the last resort of the Li family. The emperor transferred him to the capital in advance, and there must be a big plan. This world competition is definitely not simple."

"I see. Which side do you think is more dangerous?"

The three major chess players have all made their moves, and the situation in the capital will soon be decided.

"Either side is dangerous, but the one that makes me most unsure is the newly emerged force."

"The new force that has emerged. You mean?"

"Behind that woman, there might be a fourth chess player that I can't imagine!"

(End of this chapter)