Chapter 40

Except for the Han Wang, the others in the court had not seen Su Xuan's previous scene of summoning ghosts and gods.

So Su Xuan's words were actually an explanation for the Han Wang.

Su Xuan pinched unique hand seals, and as his hand seals solidified.

In an instant, an inexplicable wind blew up.

This wind did not know where it came from; it was cold and eerie, a true eerie wind.

Under the gusts of eerie wind, combined with the blue-green smoke lingering around Su Xuan's body, some officials with smaller courage were already trembling slightly.

Ji Wuye and Zhang Kaidi were staring fixedly at Su Xuan.

Following the summoning of wind and rain that day, Su Xuan once again displayed mysterious methods before everyone.

This time it was the art of communicating with the netherworld!

If the summoning of wind and rain that time still had a slim possibility of being attributed to coincidence, then could Su Xuan succeed in this art of communicating with the netherworld? If he were a fraud, would he reveal any clues?

Ji Wuye suddenly hoped incomparably that Su Xuan was a fraud.

Zhang Kaidi, although he advocated Confucianism and respected ghosts and gods while keeping them at a distance, at this moment, hoped that Su Xuan could really summon ghosts and gods, subsequently point out Jade Tiger, and successfully topple him.

Even if that military pay was not hijacked by Jade Tiger, it didn't matter.

After learning that the ghost soldier hijacking was man-made, within a short time, Zhang Kaidi had probably guessed who was responsible.

Counting through the State of Han, there was only one person capable of replacing 100,000 taels of gold in military pay with Water-Dissolving Gold.

That was "Ji Wuye." Jade Tiger was Ji Wuye's person and possessed vast wealth; if Ji Wuye took that military pay, then using Jade Tiger's family assets to compensate for it was a reasonable thing.

"It, it appeared..."

Just as the heads of the civil and military factions, Zhang Kaidi and Ji Wuye, were each harboring their own thoughts, someone spoke abruptly.

In an instant, everyone saw bursts of black mist appear, and then... a hideous ghost shadow appeared before everyone's eyes.

The other party was wearing old and decaying armor and looked like a soldier in his lifetime, but if one looked closely at his true face, it made one feel extremely disgusted.

The other party's face was rotten beyond recognition, with a few pieces of rotting flesh hanging on it, as if they would fall off at any moment, and finger-thick maggots were crawling around in it.

"Ugh..."

Someone started retching the moment they saw the appearance of the ghost.

People in the military, because they had killed enemies on the battlefield, were slightly better off.

But some people with weak psychological quality still turned pale after seeing such a hideous ghost shadow.

On the throne, where had the Han Wang ever seen such a scene?

His courage was not great to begin with.

After seeing the appearance of the ghost, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he was about to vomit.

Fortunately, Su Xuan noticed everyone's performance, and in order to prevent the ghost's image from scaring everyone, he flicked his sleeve, and suddenly, a burst of black mist surged, covering the ghost's face.

In this way, everyone didn't have to look at his disgusting face and felt slightly more comfortable, but thinking of the hideous ghost face they had seen earlier, everyone still felt disgusted.

"The ghost has been summoned. If anyone has any questions, just ask him directly!"

Su Xuan said to everyone.

Thinking of the ghost's image when it appeared earlier, everyone felt fear in their hearts; how could they dare to step forward and ask the other party about the military pay?

Zhang Kaidi, as the Chancellor of the State of Han, although he also feared ghosts and gods.

But in the end, he chose to stand out and asked the ghost summoned by Su Xuan: "The military pay, was it really not hijacked by you?"

"Gurgle, gurgle..."

A burst of inexplicable sounds came from the ghost's mouth.

Zhang Kaidi and the people behind him were stunned upon hearing this; what dialect was this?

It wasn't the language of the State of Zheng either!

They couldn't understand it at all.

Ji Wuye was terrified that Su Xuan had really summoned a ghost and secretly pondered countermeasures.

Although he knew well that the disappearance of the military pay was not the work of ghosts and gods, and in fact, there were no ghosts and gods from beginning to end; the ghost affair was entirely concocted by him.

But the key was that he couldn't say such things.

Once he said it, wouldn't it confirm that he was the mastermind behind the military pay disappearance case?

If he let Su Xuan's lie continue, especially now that the ghost had really appeared, under the eyes of everyone, even if the disappearance of the military pay was not the work of Jade Tiger, through the ghost's mouth, it would make the matter seem like solid evidence.

When all is said and done, it was because the cause of this matter originated from the ghost soldiers hijacking the military pay; since everyone firmly believed that the disappearance of the military pay was the work of ghosts and gods at the beginning, then now that the ghost had appeared again, everyone could only choose to believe.

Or deny the earlier behavior of determining that the disappearance of the military pay was the work of ghosts and gods.

People cannot deny themselves.

Especially these people in the court hall; they were all respectable people.

So, they could only think of ways to expose Su Xuan's lie from other angles.

Upon hearing the sound from the ghost's mouth, Ji Wuye immediately had an idea.

"It seems this ghost doesn't understand human language!"

So what if it was a real ghost?

If it couldn't speak human language, it meant it couldn't point out Jade Tiger.

Su Xuan said calmly, "Humans have human language, and ghosts have ghost language; this is the difference between humans and ghosts. If the General wants to understand the ghost's words, there is actually a very simple way."

Ji Wuye said with a cold face, "You wouldn't want me to die and then turn into a ghost to converse with him, would you!"

Once these words were spoken, many of Ji Wuye's faction looked at Su Xuan with unkind eyes.

Su Xuan was not nervous and shook his head, "General, what are you saying? I just wanted to say that if you want to understand ghost language and converse with ghosts, you just need to go outside, dig up some soil, and eat it."

"Hmm, especially the fertile soil near the latrine—that works best!"

Although Su Xuan's words were not asking Ji Wuye to die, asking him to eat the soil from a latrine was still a great humiliation to him.

What kind of twisted logic was this? To converse with ghosts, one actually needed to eat soil?

Ji Wuye obviously hadn't watched Uncle Nine's movies and was immediately furious.

Just as he was about to lose his temper, Su Xuan spoke again: "Since I have summoned the ghost, how could I not know that ghosts don't speak human language? Although everyone doesn't understand what he is saying, that is not important; writing is also a way of communication!"