Chapter 1429: Furious

He still had some plans later, and this Heavenly King Scale might come in handy. "No problem." Weng Xing summoned the Heavenly King Scale and handed it over without thinking, "You are our brothers' benefactor, you can have whatever you want!"

"I'll return it to you when I'm done." He Lingchuan examined the Heavenly King Scale in his hand. Although this thing was called a "scale," it actually looked more like a dry tobacco pouch. The main body was a long silver rod, carved into the shape of a python. The open snake mouth was actually the feeding port, and there was a small upward-curved hole at the snake tail at the other end.

There were knobs and scales on the python body, which could be used for precise measurement and timing—it could be customized to explode up to three hours later at the longest.

The prepared explosive pills would be pushed out from the snake tail, and the size wasn't much bigger than a pill that would choke someone.

Such explosives were small, portable, and concealed. No wonder Weng Xing could use it to scare Little Peach Shanzhuang.

"I heard this is a treasure from the medieval period, a unique piece." Next, Weng Xing explained how to use the Heavenly King Scale.

Like all high-grade magic treasures, it had infinite wonderful uses, but the usage method was simple and clear.

He Lingchuan only needed to try it twice to master the trick.

He put away the Heavenly King Scale and asked the two again: "You kidnapped Qian Yu, didn't you ask about Xue Zongwu's information?"

He sent the Nightmare to question Qian Yu, and what he asked most in detail was Xue Zongwu's habits. The crouching beast on his armor was a gift from a small foreign country to General Xue. Although the demon soul was still in its infancy, the flame it sprayed was enough to turn two living people into ashes in the blink of an eye.

"How did you know..." Weng Xing was greatly surprised, while Weng Su was somewhat embarrassed, "We didn't ask so meticulously. We only asked about Xue Zongwu's itinerary."

Now that he thought about it, his plan was full of loopholes. Being able to successfully take revenge and leave Little Peach Shanzhuang alive, the two of them were truly lucky.

He Lingchuan stood up.

The questions were asked, and he should go.

Weng Xing saw that he had the intention to leave and was anxious: "Benefactor, we are truly useful, please accept us!"

He Lingchuan walked from the rockery to the wall in two steps and looked down from above: "You two do whatever you want. If you still want to follow me in three months, or are still alive, come to Giant Deer Port."

Weng Su's eyes lit up: "The board at Giant Deer Port?"

"You know?"

"People in the Jianghu all know." Weng Xing grinned, "That's a good place to exchange news."

He Lingchuan smiled slightly: "In three months, I'll return the Heavenly King Scale to you."

He stepped back, and his figure disappeared from the wall.

Weng Su jumped over to look, and behind the wall, it was empty, without a single shadow.

"Benefactor is gone." Sure enough, the Great Emperor Jiuyou comes without a shadow and goes without a trace.

Weng Xing laughed happily: "Brother, am I dreaming?"

*Slap*, Weng Su slapped him on the neck: "Does it hurt?"

"It hurts! It seems it's true, we can join... in three months."

Weng Su also made a *shh* sound with his finger on his lips, just like the Great Emperor Jiuyou.

The Great Emperor Jiuyou had left, and the barrier naturally disappeared, so they still had to guard against walls having ears.

He then placed a barrier before shaking the wine gourd on the ground.

Fortunately, there was still wine: "Come, continue to be happy and continue to drink!"

Celebrating success, shouldn't it be for three days and three nights? Not to mention they saw the Great Emperor Jiuyou again and saw the dawn of joining the Black Armor Army.

"Respect to the Great Emperor Jiuyou!"

"Respect to joining the Black Armor Army in three months!"

Weng Xing laughed a few times before asking him: "Then what should we do in these few months?"

"Didn't the Great Emperor Jiuyou say, do whatever you should do."

"Then what exactly should we do?"

"Kill some more bad people, save some more good people."

Weng Xing scratched his head: "Then can we still borrow the name of the Great Emperor Jiuyou?"

When this question was asked, there was a moment of awkward silence.

They had imitated the Great Emperor Jiuyou only once or twice, but they ended up imitating the real person, and even saved them.

Too embarrassing.

"Why didn't you ask the Great Emperor Jiuyou himself just now?!"

"I forgot."

"I reckon the Great Emperor won't object! Otherwise, why would he plan to recruit us?" Weng Su tilted his neck and took a gulp, "Do you know why the Great Emperor Jiuyou doesn't recruit us now, but wants to wait another three months?"

"Why?"

"He still has to examine us." Weng Su said solemnly, "So it doesn't matter whether we use the Great Emperor's banner or not, but for the next three months, the two of us must perform well."

Just as the Weng brothers were drunk and dreaming, and the Yangshan merchant team was walking slowly toward the capital of the Yao Nation, the news of Xue Zongwu and Qi Yunsheng's deaths exploded in all directions, dropping a thunderbolt in the hinterland of the Yao Nation.

Late at night, in the Imperial Study of the Yao Nation's palace, after the messenger Blue Bird had been there.

A clattering sound came from outside the door, and something was smashed into the corner of the room, exceptionally crisp, and the palace servants outside the door also trembled.

Could it be the jade-carved lychee that the King loved?

*Thud*, another piece, this time it should be a purple copper paperweight. The green jade bricks dedicated to the Imperial Study should have an extra dent.

"Someone, someone!" The King of Yao's gloomy voice came from inside, "Who is on duty in the palace tonight?"

According to the rules of the Yao Court, ministers had to take turns on duty in the palace to deal with emergencies.

The palace servants all responded tremblingly: "It, it is Lord You Rongzhi."

"Call You Rongzhi to me!"

Heavenly might is hard to withstand, the palace servants crawled away; in less than a quarter of an hour, You Rongzhi rushed over.

He saw two palace servants kneeling on the ground cleaning up porcelain and jade fragments, and the King of Yao sitting behind the desk, cold as frost. Under the illumination of the fluorescent spores, the wrinkles on his face seemed deeper.

"Your Majesty?" You Rongzhi had accompanied the monarch for twenty years and saw at a glance that the King of Yao was trying hard to suppress his anger.

"Urgent report from Mang Continent." The King of Yao went straight to the point, "Xue Zongwu and his master Qi Yunsheng were all assassinated and died at Little Peach Shanzhuang. The murderer is the leader of the Black Armor Army who has been appearing in the central and western parts of the Flash Gold Plain!"

You Rongzhi was stunned.

No matter how calculating he was, he was still so stunned by this news that he couldn't speak for a long time.

Xue Zongwu died? That arrogant murderer, actually died under someone else's butcher knife?

He had such a day? And Qi Yunsheng, the helmsman of the Qi family, was also not a good person. This master and disciple were together; if it weren't for mobilizing a large army, You Rongzhi could hardly imagine who else could finish them both off together.

Now, this person had appeared.

He noticed that the King of Yao described the murderer as the "leader of the Black Armor Army," rather than the "Great Emperor Jiuyou" rumored by the world.

The King of Yao jumped words from his teeth: "A murderer hiding his head and showing his tail, actually dares to call himself 'Great Emperor'!"

You Rongzhi hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the news must be verified. The leader of the Black Armor Army, who only operated abroad in the past, actually killed people in the home of General Xue's father-in-law. This matter is truly suspicious!"

"There are over a hundred eyewitnesses, including the guards of the Qi Mansion and the elite soldiers brought by Xue Zongwu!" The King of Yao pointed at the case, and the palace servants passed the intelligence to You Rongzhi, "One or two might see wrong, but over a hundred people see wrong together?"

You Rongzhi took it with both hands and read it quickly, the more he read, the more shocked he became.

After the incident, Mang Continent didn't dare to neglect, erupting with the highest administrative efficiency in history, while sending people to chase the murderer, while filing a case for investigation, summarizing dozens of testimonies before reporting to Heavenly Water City.

These testimonies had many details, among which there were several prominent common points: the Black Armor Army only came with three people, two of whom lured General Xue to chase toward the north, and the leader wearing a dragon-head mask only then appeared.

General Xue fought fiercely with the dragon-head mask in the burning great hall for a while, was defeated, and was beheaded on the spot in front of his subordinates.

Xue Zongwu was one of the rare fierce battle marshals of the Yao Nation, having experienced multiple attacks and repeatedly completing counter-kills, which he personally enjoyed talking about. The Great Emperor Jiuyou could actually kill Xue Zongwu in a head-on battle, and his martial power was so high that it was tongue-wagging.

As for Qi Yunsheng's death, there was no testimony, because the eyewitnesses were all dead. At present, Little Peach Shanzhuang had retrieved the thirty-some corpses from beneath the North Mountain cliff, and Mang Continent was inviting a coroner to perform an autopsy.

Where on earth did such a strong person pop out from?

Flipping two more pages, he saw the part about the dragon-head relief in the case statement. This was almost the Great Emperor Jiuyou's exclusive anti-counterfeiting mark of "arriving and striking," which You Rongzhi had also heard of.

Mang Continent was closely monitoring the situation of the dragon-head relief. If it disappeared three days after the incident, then it could basically be determined that the murderer was the leader of the Black Armor Army.

This team fought under the banner of acting on behalf of heaven and killed many evil people. But in You Rongzhi's view, in the past, it was all small trouble happening outside the Yao Nation, and the locals just listened to it as gossip and laughed it off.

Who would have thought that the Black Armor Army wouldn't make a move in the Yao Nation, but once they did, they finished off Xue Zongwu! Although it was calculated by intention, Xue Zongwu was definitely not a good target, with strong martial power, meticulous mind, abundant Yuan power, and tens of thousands of elite soldiers under his command.

They insisted on setting the target as Xue Zongwu, and insisted on choosing the location in the Yao Nation. This was to tell the Yao Nation: I can!

I can kill whoever I want, even the high officials and marshals of the Yao Nation! The King of Yao realized this point, which was why he was so angry that his hands shook: "There are so many officials in the Yao Nation, why did he choose Xue Zongwu!"

He didn't kill the easy ones, nor did he kill the waste, but insisted on breaking the sharpest knife in his hand!

And insisted on choosing it before his fifty-ninth birthday celebration.

To say the other party wasn't targeting him, even ghosts wouldn't believe it.

Xue Zongwu's death, You Rongzhi could think of a lot of bad influences.

First, every spring and summer, the Luodian Nation in the north would start making trouble. Xue Zongwu guarded the northern border for many years, using thunderous means and a resounding reputation to deter the Luodian cavalry, saving the Yao Nation a lot of trouble.

With Xue Zongwu dead, who would guard the northern line?

Secondly, the military power in Xue Zongwu's hands was an important reliance for the King of Yao to confront the Qingyang Supervisor. Now that this position was vacant, while Qingyang's pressure was greatly reduced, she wouldn't sit idly by.

Thirdly, the Xue family and the Qi family were deeply rooted in the Yao Nation. With such a crashing collapse, how many chain reactions would it cause? You Rongzhi didn't dare to think more.

The forces that the Xue family had offended over the years were too many. With the sudden disappearance of the Dinghai Divine Needle Xue Zongwu and Qi Yunsheng, how many people were queuing up to settle accounts with the Xue family, the Qi family, and the related households under their hands?

The Yao Court wouldn't be peaceful later.

And these were all excellent situations that Qingyang, the Supervisor, could utilize.

"Investigate, must find the murderer for me!"

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